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Speaker 1: All three phases, have a lot of explosive players. Um,

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Speaker 1: they're on offense and defensively they're they're good at all

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Speaker 1: and obviously Peterson and Harrison Smith or two outstanding defensive backs.

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Speaker 1: And big punter's got a big leg backer if you

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Speaker 1: a goal kicker, explicit returners, good, good, solid schemes in

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Speaker 1: all areas. You know, Kevins does a great job for it.

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Speaker 1: With the offense, they move the ball very consistently, lived

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Speaker 1: it well and defensively, coaches on tell systems and very

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Speaker 1: very productive for a long time. Give you a lot

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Speaker 1: a good day to day and close things up Tomorrown.

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Speaker 1: About to Minnesota people, how important is today? We're just

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Speaker 1: trying to get everything in. It seems to a long day.

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Speaker 1: the biggest day, the biggest day of the week for us.

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Speaker 1: You know, yesterday was an introduction today's that is the

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Speaker 1: majority of what we're doing to Morrows situational clean up things.

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Speaker 1: And if you're on Thursday. The data when you study

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Speaker 1: How much of that studies is useful in your preparation

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Speaker 1: now or you just have to go off the games

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Speaker 1: obviously they're playing. They both things that of course, you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, in the bye week, just to get No.

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Speaker 1: more valuable for us, I would say, than the off season.

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Speaker 1: But what do you remember about Jeff O'Connell as a

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Speaker 1: young player when you draft him? I mean, a big kid,

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Speaker 1: Did you guys do any work or meet with Justin

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Speaker 1: So that's they're very, very explosive, dynamic group. But what

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Speaker 1: How difficult is he to bring down? Good? He's fast,

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Speaker 1: he's got a good balance, really good contact balance. That's

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Speaker 1: a good job backing yards after after contact. Good vision.

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Speaker 1: what they are. He said. It's mostly a zone defense

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Speaker 1: What have you seen from Patrick Peterson re watching one

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Speaker 1: him inside much if at all. Um, you know long, fast,

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Speaker 1: He's seen it all. He's seen all the routes out there.

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Speaker 1: Combinations you can mind that with a good pass rush,

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Speaker 1: time to you know, look off a lot of times

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that, but those guys are you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm definitely doing better with Harrison Smith. How frequently d

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Speaker 1: just in terms of where he shows before a snap

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Speaker 1: Um yeah, he's really good at it. He's does a

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Speaker 1: This one. He'll he'll make it pay. But he's physical player,

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Speaker 1: m certainly you know, Jefferson attracts a lot of coverage,

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Speaker 1: running game, you name it. So they're they're well balanced offense,

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