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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the From the Podium podcast. I'm Jason

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Speaker 1: Gibbs here at the Cross Country Mortgage Campus in Berea.

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Speaker 1: The Browns back at practice on Wednesday. They continue to

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Speaker 1: prepare for the Bengals this Sunday. With the season starting

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Speaker 1: this weekend, the media availabilities starting to ramp up, and

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Speaker 1: on today's episode of From the Podium we hear from

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Speaker 1: four players and head coach Kevin Stefanski. All Pro running

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Speaker 1: back Nick Chubb the first to the podium today. He

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Speaker 1: talked about how talented the offense is and how the

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Speaker 1: team is preparing for a tough AFC North this season.

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Speaker 2: They could kind of your.

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Speaker 3: Overall feelings as we had in the week one, I

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Speaker 3: feel good, you know, I think we had a great

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Speaker 3: off season, a great OTAs, great training campaign, and now

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Speaker 3: was trying to put all together. What do you think

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Speaker 3: is gonna make this team maybe the best that you've

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Speaker 3: been on since you've been here.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I think just putting it all together, you know, come

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Speaker 3: out here and well we we've always had weapons since

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Speaker 3: I've been here. And think just the biggest part is

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Speaker 3: us playing together, playing that's one playing playing as a

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Speaker 3: team and Uh, everyone, you know play to their best potential.

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Speaker 5: Uh huh.

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Speaker 2: I think we've heard a lot of talk that you

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Speaker 2: would be more involved on thrved down and catching.

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Speaker 6: The ball while the backfield this year.

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Speaker 5: But you know in the past we've heard other things

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Speaker 5: too about you.

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Speaker 7: You know you and what might happen during the season.

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Speaker 8: Do you really feel like that's going to happen or

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Speaker 8: we'll just have to.

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Speaker 4: See kind of how to We'll have to see. You know,

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Speaker 4: anything can happen in the game.

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Speaker 3: We have a lot of guys who can do a

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Speaker 3: lot of different things, you know, So from me on, Wayne,

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Speaker 3: for any opportunity I can to be on the field

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Speaker 3: with my team and to get the job done.

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Speaker 9: Next some of your best games ever I've been against

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Speaker 9: the Bengals.

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Speaker 10: Wonder is there a reason for it?

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Speaker 9: Do you just super pumped up in a division game

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Speaker 9: like this, or or how do you like come it's

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Speaker 9: since then.

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Speaker 3: Eighteen See, I'll take a week by a week. You know,

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Speaker 3: it's not a certain team or anything. In my mind,

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Speaker 3: I wanna go out there. I wanna play my best

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Speaker 3: no matter who it is. And you know that's just

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Speaker 3: the biggest thing for me. It's going out there and

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Speaker 3: being at my best no matter who we.

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Speaker 7: Play, they look any different.

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Speaker 11: Obviously played the multiple times, but when you look at them,

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Speaker 11: uh prepared for this game?

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Speaker 2: Does that defense look any different to you?

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Speaker 4: I mean, for the most part, it it look the

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Speaker 4: same to me.

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Speaker 3: I mean they're you know, haveing a bunch of guys

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Speaker 3: court guys who's who they who've been there for a minute.

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Speaker 3: They all play extremely hard, they're all toe over, they're

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Speaker 3: all very smart. They do what they're told to do,

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Speaker 3: you know, So it's all the challenge is playing though.

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Speaker 2: I know we're talking a lot about the Shawn, but

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Speaker 2: what gives you the most confidence that he's gonna be

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Speaker 2: a different player than he was in those last six games?

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Speaker 3: M just knowing who the Shun is and knowing who

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Speaker 3: he's always been back when he was in high school and.

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Speaker 4: Gamesville, Georgia.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he's always been a great player and that

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Speaker 3: hasn't that hasn't changed since going through college or going

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Speaker 3: been playing in the NFL. So, I mean, the we're

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Speaker 3: all confident in the Shawn and what he can do.

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Speaker 7: What's the kids expect from this offense?

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Speaker 12: Looks?

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Speaker 3: I mean expect us uh hopefully you know, Uh, play well.

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Speaker 3: Uh go out there, execute and make you know, small

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Speaker 4: To go out there and play play together.

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Speaker 10: You know they can help you.

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Speaker 2: Who could it help you? There's more receivers on the

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Speaker 2: FEAT and makes lighter boxes for for you to run against.

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Speaker 10: How does that help you?

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Speaker 3: I mean often it's a lot of boxes. I mean

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Speaker 3: as a lot of guys we have to block. That's

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Speaker 3: I mean in that way that that would help us

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Speaker 9: And you do do you think, uh, Watson's the bread

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Speaker 9: Watson's running helps the running backs also like it does

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I guess it's hard to really, you know,

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Speaker 3: another running back. You know, you have to expect Watson

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Speaker 3: his legs and his arm in a RPO situation, any

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Speaker 12: Have you Have you ever done the option kind of

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Speaker 12: like you've been doing in training campus. Has that been

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Speaker 12: part of your positions that play the game.

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Speaker 3: It's always been something we've had in our playbook, but

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Speaker 3: we've never done it in in the game situation.

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Speaker 7: So we'll see how it does.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, there's been a lot to talk about what's

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Speaker 2: gonna look different in this year offensive week? Do you

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Speaker 2: think when we get to Week one Sunday, it's gonna

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Speaker 2: look a lot different than it has in.

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Speaker 3: The past, hopefully different in a good way. So I

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Speaker 3: would say, yeah, I think it.

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Speaker 9: The uh division is this Matthew Food, it's good. Yeah,

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Speaker 9: all four teams expect to first place. Long before you

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Speaker 9: got here. It's never been every team that's been this

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Speaker 9: good at this time.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, what do you make that the decision? Just see

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Speaker 10: the fact that you're playing through of the teams at Ashi.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be tough, but and that's what we expect

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Speaker 3: every year, no matter that they're not at their best,

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Speaker 3: they will always play us hard. So it won't be

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Speaker 3: anything different from us from that aspect. We go we

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Speaker 3: going to this game knowing what kind of about it's

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Speaker 3: what's ahead of us.

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Speaker 11: You had a career year last year, and I know

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Speaker 11: you're not someone that likes to talk about your personal

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Speaker 11: goals and then you put 'em out there. But wh

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Speaker 11: when you reflect on that, is it possible for you

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Speaker 11: to to to top how well you did play last year?

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Speaker 12: Yeah? I don't get too caught up in that.

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Speaker 3: Like you said, I mean, I take it day by day,

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Speaker 3: year by year, and I'm trying to be the best

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Speaker 3: player I can on this Wednesday, and that's that's all

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Speaker 3: that's important to me.

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Speaker 12: Did you do any different need to prepare for But

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Speaker 4: Of a different role this year in any.

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Speaker 3: Uh, I've I just I guess over the course of

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Speaker 3: I would say that, but everything else has and it

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Speaker 3: was work for me to pass.

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Speaker 12: I still do.

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Speaker 2: How about I know you've.

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Speaker 10: Always had good hands, had a chance to really show them.

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Speaker 10: Did you spend any more time on the judge.

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Speaker 12: Machine or if you want to play?

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Speaker 3: That's always been a part of my preparation, So I haven't.

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Speaker 7: Changed anything up.

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Speaker 1: Second today, QB one Deshaun Watson met with the media

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Speaker 1: prior to Sunday's game with the Cincinnati Bengals. He talked

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Speaker 1: about what it meant to be named captain and what

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Speaker 1: work he's doing to return to his elite form.

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Speaker 2: To Shaun, when you were.

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Speaker 11: Trying to decide what team wanted to be traded to.

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Speaker 10: How much was Kevin a selling point in.

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Speaker 2: His ideas for the.

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Speaker 10: Offense and ways to make you.

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Speaker 12: A better come there.

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Speaker 13: It's huge, you know at that time, you know, coming

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Speaker 13: in making that decision just now, I want to spend

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Speaker 13: my offensive knowledge something different. I think all the teams

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Speaker 13: that I was, you know, looking at, had different offenses.

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Speaker 4: That I had in Houston.

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Speaker 13: But Kevin, he came in and he was out of

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Speaker 13: all of the teams that I visit with him and

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Speaker 13: uh Ab was the only ones that really pretty much

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Speaker 13: kind of incorporate me into the offense. And then you

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Speaker 13: look at the skill guys that you know we were

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Speaker 13: thinking about getting, you know, all the things, all the

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Speaker 13: moves that we've been making before. It's something that they

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Speaker 13: already you know, told me, you know, going into that

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Speaker 4: So you know, I want to be a part of it.

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Speaker 13: I want to be uh a part of Kevin and

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Speaker 13: and what he's been building up here in Cleveland, and

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Speaker 13: I think that we can be very successful.

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Speaker 11: How has that evolved when you and Kevin back and

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Speaker 11: forth trying to figure out what the best plays, the

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Speaker 11: best offense for you, How has that evolved in.

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Speaker 2: The last eighteen months?

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Speaker 11: Or so.

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Speaker 13: Uh, it's growing. It's a growing process. It's a learning process.

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Speaker 13: It's uh, we don't continue to grow throughout the season.

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Speaker 13: You know, it's not finalized. I don't think it's ever finalized.

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Speaker 13: If you talk to the great ones that played, you know,

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Speaker 4: A very long time. I think each and every year there's.

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Speaker 13: Something that you can evolve and you can take your

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Speaker 13: been fun. It's been very exciting, and you know, I

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Speaker 13: think he's decided about you know, going into this one,

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Speaker 14: As you look where where you're at right now and

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Speaker 14: over the last months and a half, where.

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Speaker 6: Do you feel like you've you've grown and progressed the

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Speaker 6: most in in the time.

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Speaker 13: I mean everything just me as a player, me as

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Speaker 13: a leader, me as a quarterback. The knowledge of the offense, Uh,

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Speaker 13: what Kevin is thinking, what AVP is thinking, how we

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Speaker 13: wanna attack different schemes on defense, and uh, you know,

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Speaker 13: just everything you know. I'm I'm never satisfied with, uh

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Speaker 13: what I how it was a month ago. I'm never

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Speaker 13: continue to just grow and continue to learn and just

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Speaker 8: You're showing you in terms of optimism and excitement for

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Speaker 8: a season and.

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Speaker 10: Hope for or great big things to happen.

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Speaker 8: How does this season for you compared to any other

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Speaker 8: that you've gone into.

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Speaker 4: I mean, honestly, it's very similar.

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Speaker 13: I think my time in Houston we had some big,

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Speaker 13: big uh you know s I say, big goals and

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Speaker 13: and dreams that we want to do and and and

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Speaker 13: I think people realize that we can compete with with

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Speaker 13: some of the top teams because of the teams that

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Speaker 13: we had in Houston.

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Speaker 4: We had opportunities, but we didn't stay healthy a lot.

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Speaker 13: Of times and a lot of moving parts, so you

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Speaker 13: know it, of course it didn't go ourway. But I

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Speaker 13: think this year's it's a fresh year. It's a new year,

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Speaker 13: and it's a lot of uh newnesses offense and defense.

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Speaker 13: So it's very exciting not just for the fans and

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Speaker 13: in the media, but for ourselves to.

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Speaker 10: Push on along those line.

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Speaker 15: Your season opener was a wave last year because of

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Speaker 4: You know, for uh, Cleveland Browns, what.

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Speaker 10: Is your games? Lie through your games? We're against the

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Speaker 2: Captain. What does the first of all, what does that

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Speaker 13: I mean, of course it means a lot, you know,

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Speaker 4: And things like that.

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Speaker 4: I'll eat this team to, you know, hope, to a

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Speaker 2: Punch stands out to you about the UH Bengals.

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Speaker 13: Steve tips when you watch somebody UH effort execution guys

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Speaker 4: It's very smart. They don't make a lot of mistakes,

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Speaker 12: You have to be a'm you don't.

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Speaker 13: They don't give you a lot of easy uh easy

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Speaker 4: You gotta go earn it.

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Speaker 2: What did you What had your feeling so much better

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Speaker 12: Of that stuff than.

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Speaker 13: Maybe you did and you need the last year, I'd

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Speaker 12: Get show. What do you appreciate about your groups game?

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Speaker 2: For Joe for this season.

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Speaker 13: Uhipually my expectations for the season just be the best

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Speaker 9: What do you make of the fact that Bengals have

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Speaker 10: What do you make about the Sin teams match up well.

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Speaker 10: And play kicking.

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Speaker 2: Last year were lated in the year and the weather

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Speaker 8: We're going into this season, there's so many expectations for

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Speaker 12: Just be me.

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Speaker 13: And you know, I don't wanna return as a guy

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Speaker 15: So a lot of people say, can you get back

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Speaker 16: The twenty twenty You're saying, right, you wanna be federate

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Speaker 9: Course, and I know I can be those uh Houston

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Speaker 10: We're good teams. Is this team better?

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Speaker 4: Ah? I'm not gonna match the teams. We had some

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Speaker 4: This team is the new twenty twenty three Cleveland Browns.

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Speaker 13: And you're ready to take the the field and we'll

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Speaker 4: You know, towards the end of the year and how

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Speaker 10: Boy, you'd say, uh, you know on the rbos and the.

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Speaker 13: Uh, I'm just decided to go out there and play

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Speaker 10: And you're talking about as running in every game.

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Speaker 12: I know, but just to ken get getting cutting on

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Speaker 13: Of course, I mean, every every opener is gonna set

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Speaker 13: And a lot of things happen in the NFL, but

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Speaker 4: That's all I can really, you know, speak on that.

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Speaker 8: Can you relate to me what uh Joel must be

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Speaker 11: Coming it's an opener.

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Speaker 13: it just depends on what they've been working on with him.

449
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Speaker 13: But as far as you know, going against our defense,

450
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Speaker 13: I can't give out the tips and q's that's crazy.

451
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Speaker 4: So I just hope you ready for sure, but you

452
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Speaker 4: know it's Joe Burrow, so he's gonna be good.

453
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Speaker 1: Linebacker Anthony Walker Junior was up next the captain, talking

454
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Speaker 1: about how good de Shawn Watson has looked in practice

455
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Speaker 1: and how he is feeling after his major offseason surgery.

456
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Speaker 10: Did you get to the place where you needed to

457
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Speaker 10: meet social season?

458
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Speaker 7: I hope so I am. I'm ready to go for.

459
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Speaker 11: He just never been through an injury like this one before.

460
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Speaker 11: For how believe during that you feel and it could

461
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Speaker 11: enough play setting into Week one.

462
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Speaker 2: To go out there.

463
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Speaker 5: Yeah, obviously first major injury for major surgery that I

464
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Speaker 5: went through. You know, it just feels good to be

465
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Speaker 5: back out there with the guys. Uh long road, but

466
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Speaker 5: happy to be in this place that that I'm at mentally,

467
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Speaker 5: physically inspirational.

468
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Speaker 2: Nervous is not having played the preseason at the first

469
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Speaker 2: game action is going to be.

470
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Speaker 7: I've been playing football since I was four years old.

471
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Speaker 5: I'll get that first hit in and I'll be good

472
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Speaker 5: to gourgeous.

473
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Speaker 14: You know, thinking back to that September night last year

474
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Speaker 14: to now just everything the ups and downs, I mean,

475
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Speaker 14: is it kind of a borings you think back moment.

476
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Speaker 5: That would be a little similar moment back on the field,

477
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Speaker 5: you know, obviouly when I got heard and you know

478
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Speaker 5: last year around this time, So not thinking about that

479
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Speaker 5: too much right now. You know, obviously got a huge

480
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Speaker 5: game ahead, big, big, big time opponent, divisional opponent, and

481
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Speaker 5: that's that's what my focus is right now. Browns four

482
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Speaker 5: and one.

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Speaker 9: How do you explain that the best quarterbacks CHAMPI with

484
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Speaker 9: your gas two years about your match up with better

485
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Speaker 9: against them.

486
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Speaker 10: Than other teams.

487
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Speaker 5: That we've executed pretty well those last couple of those

488
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Speaker 5: those games against them. As you go back and we

489
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Speaker 5: watched the film, we had really good communication execution in

490
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Speaker 5: those games.

491
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Speaker 7: Obviously the sense of awareness kind of goes up. We

492
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Speaker 7: just need to be able to have that for all

493
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Speaker 7: opponents and not just Isn't it the whole thing?

494
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Speaker 15: It's been the most important addition to this defense last year.

495
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Speaker 7: Uh, I say, every piece, every piece matters.

496
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Speaker 5: You know, each person has bought you know, their own

497
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Speaker 5: their own personality to it.

498
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Speaker 7: Starting with Jim Schwartz all the way down to some

499
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Speaker 7: Areas to.

500
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Speaker 5: Shelby to DT to all those guys, they've all bought

501
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Speaker 5: something that we really need to this defense. So, uh,

502
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Speaker 5: I can't pick out one person, but I think as

503
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Speaker 5: a unit, we've all we've got better.

504
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Speaker 11: Anthony, Just the challenge you're facing the Spanals offense. You

505
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Speaker 11: yourself spent the offseason rehabbing plus learning the new defense,

506
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Speaker 11: and right out of the gate you get a guy

507
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Speaker 11: out of a burrow with Mixing and those three wide receivers.

508
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Speaker 11: If you could touch on the just the overall challenge

509
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Speaker 11: of facing that prolific of an offense just right.

510
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Speaker 10: Out of the game.

511
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the NFL hits you fast, right, So you know,

512
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Speaker 5: they're not going to make excuses for us that we

513
00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:16,040
Speaker 5: got a new defense that you know, players haven't whatever,

514
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Speaker 5: that I haven't played. They're not going to make any

515
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Speaker 5: excuses for us. So we're not going to make it

516
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Speaker 5: for ourselves. We have to execute our game plan that

517
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Speaker 5: we have obviously going up against a talented group headed

518
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Speaker 5: by you know, Joe Burrow, and we gotta be ready

519
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Speaker 5: to play.

520
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Speaker 7: On Sunday number four from the start this year.

521
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Speaker 12: What does that mean?

522
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's huge.

523
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Speaker 5: You know, just his his personality, his his leadership has

524
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Speaker 5: been on full display this whole offseason, all training camp.

525
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Speaker 5: You know, a lot of guys in the offense just comfortable,

526
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Speaker 5: uh with him, and you know he's running the show.

527
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Speaker 5: So just to have that, you know, that guy, you know,

528
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Speaker 5: the franchise quarterback, you know, leading the show from right

529
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Speaker 5: from the beginning's.

530
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Speaker 12: Huge for us.

531
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Speaker 2: What do you expect from him on the field this season?

532
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Speaker 5: I told him he looks like his old self, the

533
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Speaker 5: guy that I had to play twice a year in Indy,

534
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Speaker 5: you know, back to just controlling the whole game and

535
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Speaker 5: you know, not afraid to make a play. I think

536
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Speaker 5: that's huge for us. That's huge for our offense. What

537
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Speaker 5: do you think it me or what do you think

538
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Speaker 5: when he says, Deshaun says, I want to be even.

539
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Speaker 7: Better than I was in twenty twenty, that's scary.

540
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Speaker 5: That's scary because twenty you know, he almost beat us

541
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Speaker 5: twice by himself when I was in Indie. So you know,

542
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Speaker 5: to see him have that confidence that you know he'll

543
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Speaker 5: be even better, it's huge for us.

544
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Speaker 7: I expect it. I hope it happened.

545
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Speaker 2: Since the day you.

546
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Speaker 11: Walked in the door, you really have become one of

547
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Speaker 11: the locker room leaders, both behind the scenes and on

548
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Speaker 11: the field. Just what is it about your personality that

549
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Speaker 11: allows you to connect with your teammates so well then

550
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Speaker 11: and just naturally assume that man healthy.

551
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Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, just try to be myself. You know

552
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Speaker 7: a lot of guys you know, just you know, I

553
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Speaker 7: just be myself.

554
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Speaker 5: I do everything you know that I'm max to do

555
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Speaker 5: from a teammates standpoint, from a player standpoint, you know,

556
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Speaker 5: I never took that for granted. Obviously helps having my

557
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Speaker 5: dad as a coach and you know, teaching me since

558
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Speaker 5: you know, at the really early age you know how

559
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Speaker 5: to be professional and how to be a football player.

560
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Speaker 5: So you know, just taking that every day and you know,

561
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Speaker 5: never taking these taking a day for granted, that just

562
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Speaker 5: doing that, doing the little things.

563
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Speaker 17: Right, Anthony, there is the potential in this linebacker room

564
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Speaker 17: for a lot of turnover.

565
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Speaker 2: But you guys are basically all back.

566
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Speaker 7: I mean, even though it's a new defense.

567
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Speaker 17: How much does that help in terms of communication styles

568
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Speaker 17: and knowing one another and things like that.

569
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's the But you just hit on

570
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Speaker 5: the head communication styles. We know how each other you know,

571
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Speaker 5: needs to be talked to on the field, off the field,

572
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Speaker 5: you know, we have that camaraderie together. Obviously, adding Matt Adams.

573
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Speaker 5: I've you know, played three years with him and Indy

574
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Speaker 5: you know, a guy that you know, I know pretty well,

575
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Speaker 5: so he fits right in with our you know, everything

576
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Speaker 5: that he does. And then adding my mood another you know,

577
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Speaker 5: great linebacker. I really enjoyed the way he played this preseason.

578
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Speaker 5: I mean, I think he'll be he can. He has

579
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Speaker 5: a potential to be a start in this league, you know,

580
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Speaker 5: really really soon. So I know he's going to keep learning,

581
00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:04,359
Speaker 5: keep grinding, and when his numbers call, he's going to

582
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Speaker 5: be ready to go. So I think our room, like

583
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Speaker 5: you said, has the potential to be good. But you know,

584
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Speaker 5: we've had potential in this locker room and every position

585
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Speaker 5: for the last I've been here two years, you know,

586
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Speaker 5: So we want to transform that into you know, some

587
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Speaker 5: wins and you know, some playoff runs that.

588
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Speaker 7: Rebuilt defensive line in front of you.

589
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Speaker 11: How much if they're able to do what everyone believes

590
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Speaker 11: that they're going to be able to do, how much

591
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Speaker 11: easier does it make your job working behind them? And uh,

592
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Speaker 11: you know, free you up to make even more points?

593
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think you just said it right there.

594
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Speaker 5: Everything that you said, those guys are going to make

595
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Speaker 5: our jobs a lot easier the.

596
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Speaker 7: Whole back seven.

597
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Speaker 5: We believe that the front four the engine of our team.

598
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Speaker 5: They're going to drive us. You know, we're going to

599
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Speaker 5: go as far as they take us, and you know,

600
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Speaker 5: with the guys that we have, we're going to go

601
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Speaker 5: pretty far. So we're excited about that.

602
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Speaker 2: I was listening and reading some stuff out of Cincinnati.

603
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Speaker 2: Have they changed their run game away through last season?

604
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Speaker 2: Do you notice a big change and what kind of

605
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Speaker 2: challenges is that post man?

606
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think at the end of the day, you

607
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 7: run a football, you hand it off to the running back.

608
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Speaker 5: You know they have You know, they may have some

609
00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:14,840
Speaker 5: different schemes like every team does going to off season,

610
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Speaker 5: see what works, learn from other play callers and stuff

611
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Speaker 5: like that.

612
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Speaker 7: So I'm excited. I'm tited for the challenge. At the

613
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Speaker 7: end of the day, number nine has to.

614
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Speaker 5: Take the snap and number twenty nine, twenty eight, number thirty,

615
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Speaker 5: number twenty five has to get the ball. And we

616
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Speaker 5: have to know our fits, know our gaps, and that's

617
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Speaker 5: never gonna change in the game of football.

618
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Speaker 2: We don't knownel Is gonna play it that yet. How

619
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Speaker 2: do you guys make up for the out there?

620
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Speaker 7: I think we have a full a full dB room

621
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Speaker 7: ready to go.

622
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Speaker 5: I think, you know, guys are confident that you know,

623
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Speaker 5: whoever's on the field going, they're they're gonna make a play.

624
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Speaker 4: And we all believe in that.

625
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Speaker 15: And it looks like you were having Deshaun Watson flashbacks

626
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Speaker 15: in a couple of minutes when you watched him this summer.

627
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Speaker 2: You were seeing out there.

628
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Speaker 7: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt, no doubt.

629
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Speaker 10: For sure.

630
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Speaker 11: There's a lot of excitement around the of this offense

631
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:03,160
Speaker 11: and defense, right, and then you're starting off at home.

632
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Speaker 7: You have a divisional on it coming in. Is there

633
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Speaker 7: a point where that I could be too much? Or

634
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Speaker 7: do you look at that and you give that is

635
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Speaker 7: something that's going to pump you up for the game.

636
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:12,920
Speaker 7: Or it can almost be a distraction. I want to

637
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Speaker 7: call it a distraction.

638
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Speaker 5: It's almost like, you know, you just hop out like

639
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 5: it's like the first day of school. You know everybody,

640
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Speaker 5: you want to see what everybody has, you know, new shoes,

641
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 5: new you know, we all got new new things, right,

642
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,639
Speaker 5: you know, that's what it's exciting to open up with

643
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Speaker 5: a division opponent week one, and you know, obviously just

644
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Speaker 5: the Battle of Ohio.

645
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Speaker 7: You know, we we understand that how big that is

646
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Speaker 7: for us.

647
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Speaker 5: You know, like I said, we've been successful in the past,

648
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Speaker 5: but this is a whole new year, whole new team,

649
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:43,480
Speaker 5: both sides, you know, going after one goal and twenty

650
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Speaker 5: twenty three season, it's all about how you you know,

651
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Speaker 5: start week one, and you know, we have a huge

652
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Speaker 5: opportunity ahead of us, so we're looking for We're looking

653
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Speaker 5: at it as an opportunity, you know, to put everything

654
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Speaker 5: on full display. And it's a test for us, you know,

655
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Speaker 5: always as good as you know we think we are

656
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Speaker 5: or we know we are, and uh, you know, we

657
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Speaker 5: have a huge on it that you know could test

658
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Speaker 5: us right away.

659
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Speaker 11: We've asked you so many questions about Jim Schwartz's new

660
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Speaker 11: defense and how it's gonna separate, what's different about it

661
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Speaker 11: and whatever. Just how excited are you to finally get

662
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Speaker 11: out there and be able to just be in this

663
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Speaker 11: system now and and really get some tangible proof of

664
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Speaker 11: what the potential really is.

665
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Speaker 18: Yeah.

666
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Speaker 5: You see the players that the guys made in the preseason,

667
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Speaker 5: and I'm just on the sideline watching and I'm getting

668
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Speaker 5: like really antsy. You know, you watch the first couple

669
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Speaker 5: drives in the Washington game, the first couple of drives

670
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Speaker 5: in the case game. You just want to be out

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Speaker 5: there with those guys, you know, find around making plays

672
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Speaker 5: and that's the that's the.

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Speaker 7: Excitement around, you know, around our defense right now.

674
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Speaker 5: Everybody has the opportunity to make a play, and uh,

675
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Speaker 5: we don't care who make the play, long dies, somebody

676
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Speaker 5: make it.

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Speaker 7: And I think that's that's the testament to the defense.

678
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Speaker 7: And that's also the testament to the.

679
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Speaker 5: Guys that we have a lot of unselfish guys in

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Speaker 5: our room and the whole defensive ground.

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Speaker 1: The final player we hear from on a busy Wednesday

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Speaker 1: cornerback mj Emerson, who talked about how tough it is

683
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Speaker 1: to play against Joe Burrow and how the defense is

684
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Speaker 1: preparing for that vaunted Bengals offense.

685
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Speaker 14: You've seen Joe for a while, you know, dating back

686
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Speaker 14: to college. What separates him from you know, your average quarterback?

687
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Speaker 14: What is it that kind of is the differential difference.

688
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Speaker 18: In the ah man, He's poised under pressure. He's not scared,

689
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Speaker 18: you know, to hold the ball, so you know, he's

690
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Speaker 18: like to run around and it stan plays and he

691
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Speaker 18: takes chances, you know, and he especially his receiver course

692
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Speaker 18: pretty good receivers, you know, great receivers actually, and yeah,

693
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Speaker 18: he would just make things happen, so I would I

694
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Speaker 18: would say that would make him different.

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Speaker 12: If I don't know, obviously you're going to be matched

696
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Speaker 12: up on but like a guy like T Higgins who's

697
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Speaker 12: so big and so it's almost like a tight end

698
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Speaker 12: playing wide receiver. Do you kind of look forward to

699
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Speaker 12: matchups like that against guys like him?

700
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Speaker 18: Anybody you know, anybody whoever's my matchup, you know, whoever

701
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Speaker 18: to line up against me? You know, I'm looking forward

702
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Speaker 18: to it. T Higgins is a great receiver, you know.

703
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Speaker 18: It's a big guy. Uh, big catch raiders. Uh, likes

704
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Speaker 18: the hot point balls and they like throw a lot

705
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Speaker 18: of fifty fifty balls to him. So, uh, that'd be

706
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Speaker 18: fun and up against him, you.

707
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Speaker 2: Know, Lake Jamar, if you had a chance to go

708
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Speaker 2: against him, is it a guy that you know what

709
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Speaker 2: I mean.

710
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Speaker 12: That's one of the best in the league.

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Speaker 18: Yeah, yah, yeah, yeah, Like I said, any anybody you

712
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Speaker 18: know they're lining up against me, you know, uh, uh

713
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Speaker 18: that's the opportunity, you know, And and I'm looking my

714
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Speaker 18: tops for.

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Speaker 4: It, and I'm I'm always ready.

716
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Speaker 2: Uh do you expect Joe to be any to be

717
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Speaker 2: limited at all the fact that he has a practice

718
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Speaker 2: or didn't practice for much training camp, didn't playing for

719
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Speaker 2: season coming off that camp.

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Speaker 18: Nah, I wouldn't say so. I feel like the team,

721
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Speaker 18: you know, the Bengals, that's the quarterback one. You know,

722
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Speaker 18: they always gonna have his best interest. So if he's

723
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Speaker 18: lining up out there, you know, I to us he's

724
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Speaker 18: a hundred percent. So I wouldn't say, Nah, he shouldn't

725
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Speaker 18: have many restrictions if he lined up.

726
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Speaker 2: And we don't okay, we don't know if ben zels

727
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Speaker 2: Hen'll play yet or not. How would that change things

728
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Speaker 2: from the cornerback group if he wasn't out?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 18: Man hopes Denzel you know's playing, But same mindset, you know,

731
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Speaker 18: just going with the game plan and just just be confident,

732
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Speaker 18: you know, and what our coaches put together, and be

733
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Speaker 18: confident in our preparation and just you know, playing and

734
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Speaker 18: just win.

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Speaker 2: Take your place. Nothing as much, man, if you don't

736
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Speaker 2: have your cop three guys out there?

737
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Speaker 10: Uh not even sure?

738
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Speaker 11: Yeah?

739
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Speaker 4: Sure what the new cornerback on this team?

740
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Speaker 6: Color?

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Speaker 10: She's only been here very good?

742
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Speaker 4: Can can he get on the field as soon?

743
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Speaker 18: Can you get on the field. I mean long as

744
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Speaker 18: he's staying in his playbook. Uh, the kids, he's good,

745
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Speaker 18: you know, and uh, I feel like he's half a

746
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Speaker 18: chance and he's gonna help us out this year at

747
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Speaker 18: some point.

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Speaker 14: And so you brought you guys, ag came back and

749
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Speaker 14: he's just on the practice squad. How how much of

750
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Speaker 14: of a benefit is that that's still have him in

751
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Speaker 14: that room? So you know, there's always possibility. Is it

752
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Speaker 14: is a game day elevation that sort of thing? What

753
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Speaker 14: what does that mean for that that room?

754
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Speaker 10: Uh, that's great for us, you know.

755
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Speaker 18: Uh, just having you know, fresh legs and just having

756
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Speaker 18: guys you know that's been here, been with the team,

757
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Speaker 18: you know, and that's made plays for the Browns. You know,

758
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Speaker 18: that's on stand boys. So that's always great. You know,

759
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Speaker 18: to have AHA's back in that room with us. You know,

760
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Speaker 18: he's one of us, that's our brother. So's this just

761
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Speaker 18: happening back in there with us?

762
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Speaker 10: What type of challenges is.

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Speaker 11: Mone got your little to eat one and he's got

764
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Speaker 11: that three headed monster in his wide receiver room to

765
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Speaker 11: you don't just type of challenge of tryna slow.

766
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Speaker 2: Those three guys down?

767
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Speaker 11: Uh?

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Speaker 18: Yeah, man, those stars of the team. You know the

769
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Speaker 18: offense run throughs Uh, those four guys and you know

770
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Speaker 18: we gonna have to stop 'em to win.

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Speaker 10: So yes, sir, Uh Huh, how do you think that

772
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Speaker 10: defense came around?

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Speaker 9: It's it's a new defense, a new attitude.

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Speaker 10: Uh, how do you think it came around?

775
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Speaker 11: Uh?

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Speaker 18: Lading up to this first game, just rebuilding the standard,

777
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Speaker 18: you know, just starting from the ground up and just

778
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Speaker 18: uh building day by day, trusting each other, getting into

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Speaker 18: our playbook, getting in at that meeting room and just

780
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Speaker 18: aksing questions and just taking everything out to the field

781
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Speaker 18: man and just and just land landing each other. No,

782
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Speaker 18: you know that I won't be the reason. Make sure

783
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Speaker 18: you don't be the reason. Then we got each other

784
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Speaker 18: to the end. And and that's how we know going

785
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Speaker 18: to these games and just know, nothing easy, But as

786
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Speaker 18: long as we got each other.

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Speaker 4: We good.

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Speaker 9: You know, times that when the new defense everybody says, uh,

789
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Speaker 9: it's gonna take a while, you know, is that the

790
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Speaker 9: case here?

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Speaker 10: Ah man? Take a long t What do you mean

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Speaker 10: when you say take a while.

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Speaker 12: For it to to gel to, for it to be

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Speaker 12: as strong as possible, like some type of thing.

795
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Speaker 18: I mean preparation and obviously plays and and uh time,

796
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 18: you know it. J It helps a lot with everything.

797
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Speaker 18: But right as right now going to to game one,

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Speaker 18: I'm I'm I'm happy you know where where our defense

799
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Speaker 18: is right now. And you just gotta keep trusting the

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Speaker 18: process and keep working, keep getting better.

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Speaker 2: You wranna getst the seawan All training camp with your confidence.

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Speaker 4: Level one end.

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Speaker 18: Oh man, those guys been working, you know it. We

804
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Speaker 18: been working each other, and we make each other better

805
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 18: every day. So I'm very comforting and those guys not uh,

806
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Speaker 18: not only because he's de Shaun Watson. He's a great guy,

807
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 18: great quarterback, but I mean, we just making each other better.

808
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 18: I see it every day, you know, the throws he

809
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:52,720
Speaker 18: make and and how our looks, n our looks help him,

810
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 18: you know, just just feeding off each other, you know,

811
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Speaker 18: and just bringing each other along.

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Speaker 4: One day.

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Speaker 18: We might start start off slow, but they bring us along,

814
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Speaker 18: or they start off slow, we bring them along, you know,

815
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Speaker 18: just having each other back. That's what it's about, you know.

816
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 18: So Sunday, you know, we're going to be right to

817
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Speaker 18: cheering those guys on.

818
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 4: Watching them makes the players.

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Speaker 1: Head coach Kevin Stefanski the last to talk to the

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Speaker 1: media today. He discussed the latest injury updates and gave

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Speaker 1: us a preview of Sunday's game against the Bengals.

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Speaker 12: This is great to get in front of our fans

823
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Speaker 12: in week one. We're looking forward to that. And then,

824
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Speaker 12: like I mentioned, really really really good football team. It's

825
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 12: some great players, some great coaches. I have a ton

826
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Speaker 12: of respect for Zach and all his coaches and what

827
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Speaker 12: they do there. So we'll have our hands ball. As

828
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Speaker 12: you know, it's a really good football team offense, defense,

829
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Speaker 12: and special teams. Obviously, defensively they do a lot. I

830
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Speaker 12: think Lou does an awesome job making life hard on

831
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Speaker 12: an offense and does a nice job of mixing coverage

832
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Speaker 12: in front and you name it. So good players at

833
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Speaker 12: really every level of the defense. Offensively, a great quarterback

834
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Speaker 12: with some very very very good skill guys that everybody

835
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 12: knows can be dangerous when they get the ball in

836
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Speaker 12: their hands. Arv Smith I was with their tight end.

837
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Speaker 12: I know first year for IRV, some new players on

838
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Speaker 12: the offensive line. Brought on some really good players in

839
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Speaker 12: the offensive line, so uh I I know they uh

840
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 12: fit well into what they're doing. The special teams coach

841
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Speaker 12: Simmons always does a really nice job having a sound

842
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Speaker 12: uh attack with some again very good football players. So

843
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 12: we know what's at stake. We we know the challenge

844
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Speaker 12: in front of us, and now the focus really goes

845
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Speaker 12: to Wednesday and and getting our work done here on Wednesday.

846
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Speaker 12: But with that, I'll take any questions Kevin.

847
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Speaker 10: Uh didn't Zeld back on the field today?

848
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Speaker 11: What do you need to see how to.

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Speaker 14: Be a little the next couple of days as he

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Speaker 14: progresses through the quota protocol.

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Speaker 10: Where you were to be clear?

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Speaker 12: Yeah, like you said, Chris, progress through the protocol. It's

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Speaker 12: as simple as that. Uh. Really make sure that he

854
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 12: hits all the benchmarks and then we'll go from there.

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Speaker 10: It's the last protocol.

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Speaker 12: Uh, it's part of it, but last first, it's part

857
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Speaker 12: of it.

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Speaker 10: Given you talking with to Sean, what do.

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Speaker 12: You think is the hndset is? Yeah, I think we've

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Speaker 12: you guys, we've talked about the Sean a lot, uh

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Speaker 12: since the spring. I don't think his mindset has changed

862
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Speaker 12: one bit. He's he's a locked in football player, I think,

863
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 12: eager to get out there on the field and and

864
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Speaker 12: get to work. But he's the same guy he was

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Speaker 12: uh when we started in April. Have you ever thought

866
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Speaker 12: from Sean about not too much pressure too much. I

867
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Speaker 12: think you talk to the quarterback in particular about not

868
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 12: doing too much in a given play and and knowing

869
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Speaker 12: when to ditch the ball and when to take care

870
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Speaker 12: of yourself and those type of things. But he he's

871
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Speaker 12: played a lot of football in his career. He's played

872
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Speaker 12: in a lot of big football games in his career.

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Speaker 12: So not something that I that I worry about with Deshaan.

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Speaker 11: Number saying, are you know last year? How that to do?

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Speaker 12: Not tiping this? Yeah? Hard, hard to even go back

876
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Speaker 12: to last year. I would tell you just what he's done,

877
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Speaker 12: uh to date, the work he's put in. Uh, I

878
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 12: feel really confident in that.

879
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Speaker 10: How much and the foys and the boys er price

880
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Speaker 10: some reason themselves?

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Speaker 12: W W what's it? What's uh? One more time? You

882
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Speaker 12: know how much of the us?

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Speaker 2: How do you know how much of us come off

884
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Speaker 2: to play?

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Speaker 12: You have to tune in? I guess I don't know.

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Speaker 10: What do you think they the reason?

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Speaker 12: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: What else.

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Speaker 12: Where do you see now? They've I mean that's a

890
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 12: good offensive line tony. Uh. I think Orlando Brown's a

891
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 12: really good player. As you know, he's he's really big.

892
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 12: Uh So he's a challenge to pass rush.

893
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 10: Uh I.

894
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 12: Really their whole their offensive attack is the challenge.

895
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:38,279
Speaker 14: Uh.

896
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 12: I think they do a really nice job schematically in

897
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 12: in what they do and what they ask the quarterback

898
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 12: to do. Obviously we know the quarterback can make every throw,

899
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 12: can make plays on schedule, off schedule, you name it.

900
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 12: But uh I just it's a very impressive offensive attack

901
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 12: just in.

902
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 10: Total good that's good attack.

903
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 11: So much any fast?

904
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 12: Yeah is there have to face this take.

905
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:11,959
Speaker 11: What you wanted just on top of the class school.

906
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 12: Yeah. I it's a challenge. Doesn't matter if it's week

907
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 12: one or week seventeen, it's it's a challenge.

908
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 18: Uh.

909
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:19,320
Speaker 12: You know, gym and the defensive staff along with the

910
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:22,720
Speaker 12: players understand that, uh this, you're gonna go up against

911
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:24,799
Speaker 12: really good offenses in this league. You're gonna go up

912
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 12: against really good defenses in this league. It's uh, you

913
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:29,240
Speaker 12: gotta just be a little bit better for sixty minutes.

914
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 10: Yeah, we have an uh the league's could yay, let

915
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 10: me ask you go on and make the chubb kN

916
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 10: I it's his I don't want to get away it

917
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 10: good to those seasons.

918
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:42,440
Speaker 11: But it is his role of changing uh with with

919
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 11: Deshaun a quarterback as opposed to some of the guys who's.

920
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:46,919
Speaker 10: Worked was in the past.

921
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, I don't think you change Nick Chubb's role.

922
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 3: Uh.

923
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 12: Obviously there's things that we'll do as an offense that

924
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 12: are different this year, and that's no different than every

925
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:59,320
Speaker 12: season you go into you have uh adjustments and and

926
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 12: you uh evolve a little bit in your running pass game.

927
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 12: So I think that uh may take place, but Nick

928
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 12: is certainly still a very big part of our offense.

929
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 6: What the quarterbacks that have the physical gifts that the

930
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:15,759
Speaker 6: joke has, but what separates him that puts him in

931
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:17,680
Speaker 6: that tier of quarterback.

932
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:18,400
Speaker 10: That's just such.

933
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 12: Yeah, he's a good football player, you know, just the

934
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 12: going back to is coming out of college and playing

935
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 12: in big games, playing big and big games. Uh, extremely accurate,

936
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 12: very athletic. Uh, probably more athletic than than some people think.

937
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 12: He can really make plays with his feet, can make

938
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 12: all the throws again, and I give him credit. I

939
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:40,759
Speaker 12: give their coaches credit. Th They've done a nice job

940
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 12: and in their attack and what they and what they

941
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 12: do it makes life hard on the defense. They do

942
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 12: a good job.

943
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 10: How does the tngles with the Burrow and a very

944
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:52,800
Speaker 10: good team. You know that. Yeah, rounds with five or

945
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 10: one's that team?

946
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 5: What do you make.

947
00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:56,839
Speaker 10: Yeah?

948
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 12: I mean you know this, Tony. I mean every year

949
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:01,359
Speaker 12: stands on its own merit. Every game stands on its

950
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 12: own merit. So anything that's happened before, uh, good, bad,

951
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 12: indifferent really doesn't affect Sunday at one.

952
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 11: And one is one p up that that sat the

953
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 11: games in general, it's kind of being.

954
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,360
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's it's uh a good group in there. You know,

955
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,320
Speaker 12: you talk about one, talk about Rodney Print. Some pros

956
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 12: guys that have been there, have been played in big games.

957
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 11: Uh.

958
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 12: I think you've seen one in practice ending games, make

959
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:28,880
Speaker 12: plays on the football. I think he he does a

960
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 12: he has very very good ball skills. Uh. But it's

961
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 12: when you have guys that have played in big games.

962
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 5: Uh.

963
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 12: I do think that gives your entire group uh a boost.

964
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:41,759
Speaker 12: I think it your entire group can uh lean on

965
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 12: that experience, uh throughout the season, not just Week one,

966
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:45,240
Speaker 12: I mean throughout the season.

967
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 10: Uh. Spoken Shaw's day, is that one be other than

968
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,400
Speaker 10: he was? The point if you've seen that out of this.

969
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 12: Offseason and you think you can get back that at

970
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 12: he played what we've talked about this, I don't. I

971
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 12: hope every player and every coach is trying to be

972
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 12: a better version of their past. And and that's certainly

973
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 12: for DeShawn, that's for everybody, that's for myself. We can't

974
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,360
Speaker 12: ever rest on our laurels or try to be something

975
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 12: from the past week. It's a twenty twenty three. So

976
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 12: that's uh, certainly a focus for him and for all

977
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 12: of us. Uh, you know, And and that's just a

978
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:24,399
Speaker 12: message for this team just you have to constantly get

979
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 12: better every single day.

980
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 10: You want to see ready, you guys, limited at all

981
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,840
Speaker 10: he had and he's coming to play at all.

982
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 12: Yeah, we'll see how he gets through this week. He's

983
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 12: responded with everything that we've given him. Uh So we'll

984
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 12: have a plan going into these games. But really it's

985
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:42,759
Speaker 12: based on how he's doing, how he's feeling, that type

986
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 12: of thing. Yeah, I I think you see that across

987
00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:58,320
Speaker 12: the league. Guy's coming back from injury, they have a

988
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 12: corner coming back from injury, similar injury. So these guys

989
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 12: work really hard. Uh, I think you have to. It's

990
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 12: a testament to their hard work. It's you know, credit

991
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 12: to the medical staffs and in these cases, as well

992
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 12: as getting your guys ready to roll.

993
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:12,400
Speaker 9: Uh.

994
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:15,240
Speaker 12: I don't think anybody likes to get hurt in this league.

995
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 12: But the guys that respond and and and attack their

996
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 12: rehab and and are out there with their team in

997
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 12: week one is uh always impressive for me to see.

998
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:29,279
Speaker 10: The new corn draft. Can you expected to be a

999
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 10: new game?

1000
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 12: Potentially He's coming along nicely. He did a nice job

1001
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:35,279
Speaker 12: really last week and this week and understanding what we

1002
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:38,759
Speaker 12: do so f certainly it can be part of this Yes, work, yes,

1003
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:46,760
Speaker 12: so hard. Yes, you expect he will. Yes, most curious

1004
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 12: any game the Soviet.

1005
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:56,320
Speaker 10: There certain aspect that the off sea and you are most.

1006
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 6: Excited or experience.

1007
00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:01,320
Speaker 12: There's really not specifically, Mary King. I think again, we

1008
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 12: talk about this week one gets so much attention, and

1009
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 12: rightfully so. It's it's the only one. It's the one

1010
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:12,320
Speaker 12: in front of you for a long time, but for everybody,

1011
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 12: for all thirty two teams, it's a it's a long season.

1012
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 12: You need to make sure that you really take it

1013
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:20,840
Speaker 12: in a one play at a time type of mentality

1014
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 12: when you get into these first games, because there can

1015
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 12: be a desire to do everything and we want to

1016
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 12: run this play and then we were running this offense

1017
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:30,879
Speaker 12: and this defense, and all those months workless run everything,

1018
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 12: you really can't. There's just not enough plays. So that's

1019
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:35,400
Speaker 12: over the course of the season. It really speaks to

1020
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:38,239
Speaker 12: the evolution of your schemes. But I'd say that's the

1021
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 12: biggest thing with that we've certainly messaged to our guys

1022
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 12: is not giving our players too much, because it's really

1023
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 12: it's it's one meat. Yeah, I mean you do, and

1024
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 12: I think it's every week you think about that Mary

1025
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 12: kay and and that ultimately it's our jobs to give

1026
00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:00,880
Speaker 12: our players enough where they can play fast. And I

1027
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:03,399
Speaker 12: think if you give the players too much, it's it's

1028
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 12: obviously you get guys to think too much and it's

1029
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 12: hard to think and play football. You have to be reacting.

1030
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 2: Ay uhst Hoppins historically has not Yeah, rate success from

1031
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:15,240
Speaker 2: fifty one behind.

1032
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 10: Is that does that expect how you uh.

1033
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 12: Approach at or uh? I. I think it's every player

1034
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 12: jeff in in what they're capable of and what their

1035
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 12: history is, and then it's the day of the game,

1036
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 12: how's the win, how how's he hitting them in pregame?

1037
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:34,319
Speaker 12: I think you take all of that into account. Uh,

1038
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 12: But we have a ton of confidence in industin.

1039
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 10: Love to focus on it's out assistant's regularly so long.

1040
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:43,440
Speaker 6: Assistant as mix it in that running game? How do

1041
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:46,800
Speaker 6: they utilize it in and how is it a gene

1042
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:47,879
Speaker 6: going course playing live?

1043
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 12: Yeah, they they've done a nice job again going back

1044
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:53,640
Speaker 12: to evolving, they've done a nice job evolving their run game.

1045
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 12: Uh over the years.

1046
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:55,279
Speaker 11: Uh.

1047
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 12: They're very very efficient in their run game. Uh, very efficient.

1048
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:00,880
Speaker 12: And a lot of that can be based on some

1049
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,799
Speaker 12: of their RPOs and and what they're doing in terms

1050
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 12: of reading the defense and taking what's there. But I

1051
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:09,800
Speaker 12: think Mixing is a very very big, physical back and

1052
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 12: strong and can fight for the extra yards. He also

1053
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:14,839
Speaker 12: has as we've seen, he's got good speed. He can

1054
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 12: get out in the open field. So I it's a

1055
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 12: very uh efficient and and good run attack.

1056
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 18: Yeah.

1057
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 3: You know, whether you're.

1058
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:28,240
Speaker 10: Big, you see.

1059
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:33,360
Speaker 12: Well, you know, you only see that a little bit

1060
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:34,920
Speaker 12: of a preseason game, so it's not that that you

1061
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,480
Speaker 12: can make too much uh from those. Uh, we'll see

1062
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:41,880
Speaker 12: how it goes. Well, we'll see if that changes considerably

1063
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:43,359
Speaker 12: what they do, or it doesn't change at all.

1064
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 14: Uh.

1065
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 12: You know, we have our suspicions as you go into it,

1066
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 12: But like everybody else, you you need to get in

1067
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 12: the game and see what their adjustments are.

1068
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:50,880
Speaker 11: Uh.

1069
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 12: I you know, it's a first week. In every game,

1070
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 12: the opposing side is gonna see something that they were

1071
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 12: not anticipating. That's just unscotted looks and unscottered looks, and

1072
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 12: in the first game are usually the highest of it,

1073
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:03,440
Speaker 12: as they're gonna be all season long.

1074
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:05,399
Speaker 2: Is is the be able of being meeting?

1075
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:08,920
Speaker 17: And so yes, can we talk a lot about concussions

1076
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 17: with the self tissan injuries with the MA and recent

1077
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:13,399
Speaker 17: guys and those teams, is there a been a greater

1078
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:16,880
Speaker 17: emphasis on that you guys inn your test or handstrings and.

1079
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:18,440
Speaker 12: Things like that. Yeah, I have you tried the that

1080
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:21,160
Speaker 12: nord board time. We'll get you on that after this. Uh,

1081
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 12: it's been a huge emphasis and that's really I'd say

1082
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:26,360
Speaker 12: it's both team driven and league driven.

1083
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 11: Uh.

1084
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 12: We've spent a lot of time as a league on

1085
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:34,400
Speaker 12: soft tissue injuries and a lot of really good information

1086
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 12: has been shared throughout the league. And and what you're

1087
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:40,880
Speaker 12: trying to do constantly is is get ready for the season, Uh, safely,

1088
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 12: but get ready to play football. And you can only

1089
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:46,360
Speaker 12: get ready by practicing, so you do focus on that,

1090
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:49,440
Speaker 12: and then internally, we have a a lot of uh

1091
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:53,279
Speaker 12: information on our guys. I don't understand all of it, uh,

1092
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 12: but there's smart people that do and try to use

1093
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 12: all that information to our advantage.

1094
00:44:58,120 --> 00:44:59,280
Speaker 17: Have you seen a bit of a decline?

1095
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 12: Not even turn to camp and I haven't seen the number.

1096
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:03,879
Speaker 12: I mean, we always do it a deep dive once

1097
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 12: you get out. I haven't. I don't know exactly where

1098
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 12: we are just yet. The league even does that for

1099
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:10,640
Speaker 12: for everybody, and we'll show you where you land throughout

1100
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 12: the league.

1101
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:11,400
Speaker 4: Uh.

1102
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:14,840
Speaker 12: Again, it's it's it's football. It's it's hard to predict injuries,

1103
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 12: although and I know the league's trying to, but we're

1104
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:20,040
Speaker 12: always trying to just get our work done as safely

1105
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 12: as we can.

1106
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:23,600
Speaker 10: Take a place that.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, as you know, Tony Donovan has done it for us,

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Speaker 12: has done it a at a high level. Same for Jerome.

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Speaker 12: So those are options, we have other options. It's really

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Speaker 12: gonna be based on the game plan, based on what

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Speaker 12: Bubba uh wants to do in that particular game.

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Speaker 10: Our a couple of baran or so it's pretty quiet.

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Speaker 2: It seems like he's kind of actual screwups.

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Speaker 10: Now you've seen that he was.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, I think MJ had a good rookie season for US.

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Speaker 12: I think you saw in some of those games certainly

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Speaker 12: rose to the occasion. You know, when you get off

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Speaker 12: the bus and you're a rookie corner, the opposing offense

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Speaker 12: is going after you. That's just part of the business.

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Speaker 12: So we'll see in this game how many opportunities he gets.

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Speaker 12: But he's somebody that doesn't shy away from competition, and

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Speaker 12: I do think he's got the right mindset. When you

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Speaker 12: talk about playing that position.

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Speaker 10: Two years calls very well line player here on your coaches.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, I can't get into all those specifics of that.

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Speaker 12: Obviously wish Dimitric well, I know he's down there. But

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Speaker 12: great football player, a great person.

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