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Speaker 1: I don't know if there's a position on the field

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Speaker 1: that's any difference from down to down than the inside

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Speaker 1: backers in this league nowadays, And it's almost like you

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Speaker 1: can play for a completely play with a completely different

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Speaker 1: prototype player on one down and then the next down

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Speaker 1: you could bring in almost like a line in hockey.

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Speaker 1: It's completely different. Do you feel that over the years

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Speaker 1: and how do you adjust to that while trying to

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Speaker 1: figure out which players fit your system best? Well? I

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Speaker 1: agree with you on that especially. I mean to find

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Speaker 1: a three down linebacker is a hard thing now. You know,

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Speaker 1: you're trying to get the guys who can do it all.

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Speaker 1: Can be physical, verse to run, can make all of checks,

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Speaker 1: can handle everything, can play in space, can cover, man

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Speaker 1: com blitz you know, and obviously it's a good tackler.

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Speaker 1: Those things that you know all in one package are

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Speaker 1: harder to find nowadays. But as we go forward with it,

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Speaker 1: we're trying to use everybody's skills on on the entire

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Speaker 1: team with so if somebody's better in coverage and somebody's

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Speaker 1: better verse to run, we're trying to mix and match. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're not gonna be perfect with it all, but you're

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Speaker 1: trying to get the guys to kind of execute the

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Speaker 1: best they can. Yea. Not only do you have tay

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Speaker 1: uh and uh and pretty cool using my mind, Carter,

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Speaker 1: but you have a lot of young kids. You have

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Speaker 1: X and you have um, what do you call it? Right?

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Speaker 1: I mean, how are they picking up compared to the

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Speaker 1: other young players. All those guys have done a nice job.

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Speaker 1: All young guys have done come in and done nice job. Mentally.

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Speaker 1: They're they're handling the workload, you know, the capacity of

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Speaker 1: the or the volume of our playbook and everything else

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Speaker 1: we're putting it in. So it's been a real pleasure

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Speaker 1: to have see those guys respond to that. How much

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Speaker 1: mentally can you give Connolly in that spot, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: if he's not out there with one of the veterans,

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Speaker 1: to see one of those guys that can kind of

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Speaker 1: handle you know that. That's what it's all about right now.

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Speaker 1: Find out how much all these guys can handle, not

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Speaker 1: just Ryan, but all the guys, um, everybody out there

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Speaker 1: has gotta be We gotta find out what they can handle,

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Speaker 1: how much they can handle, and what they can execute,

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Speaker 1: you know. So it's important to keep giving them more

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Speaker 1: and more and again as well. As you guys know,

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Speaker 1: we all went through the first week, so it's been

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Speaker 1: four days and everything. But now we're excited. We're we're

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Speaker 1: excited as coaches getting to the second week because now

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Speaker 1: to see these guys kind of handle more and more

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Speaker 1: of the workload our playbook and then see him get

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Speaker 1: out and the feel and continued executed, that will be

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Speaker 1: a good test. I guess the reason why I asked

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Speaker 1: it that way is the idea that you know, you

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Speaker 1: have some veterans here that will run your huddle. I

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Speaker 1: meanj has done it before, obviously Alec, but there are

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Speaker 1: some younger guys here that are kind of paired with

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Speaker 1: those veterans at times. Is a guy like Connie specifically

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Speaker 1: ready to kind of be the guy that could run

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Speaker 1: the huddle? Well, we're gonna find that out. That that's

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Speaker 1: we're gonna find out right now. You know, as we

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Speaker 1: as we continue on. It's the same thing like kind

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Speaker 1: of with Tay when Take came in. You didn't want

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Speaker 1: to try to, you know, overload them with too much stuff. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, having Tree out there obviously is a benefit.

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Speaker 1: But then now as these guys come along, we're just

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Speaker 1: gonna try to find out, you know which guys can

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Speaker 1: handle more and more, just trying to keep feeding them

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Speaker 1: so there will be purpose period where oh yeah, we

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Speaker 1: want to see what those guys can do. I don't

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Speaker 1: want to see what they can do, how they stand

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Speaker 1: on their own two feet. Knock against uncial Tree was

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Speaker 1: he wasn't very good in coverage, but you know he

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Speaker 1: had a very productive year last year. Was it just

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Speaker 1: something not tapped in him? Or what do you attribute

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Speaker 1: that to? And what can he build on? And as

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Speaker 1: a coverage linebacker? Well, I think like everybody tries to

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Speaker 1: improve on everything that they did last year. I mean

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Speaker 1: Tree had five interceptions last year, you know, and that's

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Speaker 1: in coverage. You know, he came back in better shape.

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Speaker 1: He's worked at things where he felt like he he

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Speaker 1: struggled that last year. He took it personally and he's

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Speaker 1: worked at all the things. But all these guys are

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Speaker 1: trying to get better at every phase in the game

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Speaker 1: because they get they're gonna need it. They need to

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Speaker 1: be good at all of them. What is uh what

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Speaker 1: do you j sort of fitting? I mean, you know

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Speaker 1: we see him he starts with the ones, but then

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Speaker 1: your nickel so much where does he right well, he's

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Speaker 1: you know, he understands the nickel game. He can play

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Speaker 1: the nickel game. It's you know, he's strong, he's physical.

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Speaker 1: It is to run. He's gotten better against the past.

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Speaker 1: We're seeing him move better even in this preseason camp.

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Speaker 1: So we're excited just to see everything that he's doing.

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Speaker 1: And you know, as it continues on, it kind of

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Speaker 1: plays itself out through as we get into the games,

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Speaker 1: as as everybody knows. Going back to the conversion question

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Speaker 1: safety the linebacker, is it easier to convert from safety

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Speaker 1: to linebacker because you're maybe going forward a little bit

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Speaker 1: more than you are at safety. Well, obviously, going forward,

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Speaker 1: you you're moving from a person who's probably should have

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Speaker 1: a little bit technically, have some more speed in that sense,

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Speaker 1: and you're moving forward. It's harder for guys who maybe

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Speaker 1: playing linebacker to go back to another position now to

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Speaker 1: be harder. So it's it's fair, you know, it's it's

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Speaker 1: again it's mental. You know what, what can they handle mentally?

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Speaker 1: How can they adjust to it and can they handle

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Speaker 1: all the rigors of that position.