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Speaker 1: Coming up on the Booth Review, London. You're going to

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Speaker 1: tell us what you think of the d in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the defensive line, the big boys, they will

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Speaker 2: lead the charge to a rebap defense.

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Speaker 3: Fletch.

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Speaker 4: This is an offensive driven league with media talk about

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Speaker 4: offense and how we stave off statistical regression.

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Speaker 1: And we're all going to talk about what a successful

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Speaker 1: season looks like this year. Coming up. Welcome into our

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Speaker 1: second edition, the Week one edition, our Labor Day edition

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Speaker 1: of the Booth Review podcast. I'm bram weyitside with Big

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Speaker 1: Fletch London Fletcher. Were brought to you by Microsoft co

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Speaker 1: Pilot PC powering a Better Game. It is here. The

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Speaker 1: long off season is over Week one, London.

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Speaker 2: I can't wait. You know what, I don't think the

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Speaker 2: off season was that long, Bron. I mean, it felt

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Speaker 2: like it feels like it flew by. One minute we

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Speaker 2: were calling the game in the NFC Championship and next

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Speaker 2: thing you know, we're here ready for Week one and

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Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to seeing this defense get after the

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Speaker 2: not only the Giants, but just play all season long.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: What I've learned is I get older, is I need

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Speaker 1: more hobbies in the offseason because I get bored, so

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Speaker 1: like that's that's that's the problem. I'm hitting around like

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Speaker 1: there playing golf, So I got to take up something

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Speaker 1: here to get ready to all right, I'm ready for

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Speaker 1: the show. Yeah, all right. Let's talk about the defense

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Speaker 1: as a whole, and let's start with just the overarching theme,

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Speaker 1: which was Joe Witt dan Quinn stated on the record,

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Speaker 1: play the style as they put it, that we got

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Speaker 1: your just general thoughts stylistically, what do you expect from

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Speaker 2: I expect them to be like Joe Witt Washington playing

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Speaker 2: You go out, you draft Trey Amos, now you allow

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Speaker 2: So those guys are really excel and being able to

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Speaker 2: the von Miller. You went out and you got javon Kinlong.

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Speaker 2: You needed to get bigger in the trenches. They did that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to stay on the corners. Like I

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Speaker 2: And it is crazy that you say a liability where

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Speaker 1: I want to get into the run defense two overall,

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Speaker 2: They really do. And you know, it's a situation where

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Speaker 1: The other person off the secondary I want to stay

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Speaker 2: He is. And with Kwan his rookie year, he had

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Speaker 2: He communicates, he carries himself like a much more mature player,

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Speaker 1: All right, let me stay on the pass defense. Vers

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Speaker 1: They're gonna be more aggressive, they're going to bring more people,

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Speaker 1: They're going to try to get some game changing plays.

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Speaker 1: So as you think about like who's gonna get the sacks,

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Speaker 2: let's call it three or four guys, but around eight

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Speaker 2: or nine sacks on this defense. I think Vonon, you know,

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Speaker 1: Him, George Armstrong had a tremendous camp. We saw him

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Speaker 2: And then Bobby Bobby Wagers can get out of the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: So like, there were two things I think that they

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Speaker 2: I just think being able to play more what did

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Speaker 2: more to disruptive, playing that opponent's backfield a lot more,

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Speaker 1: Overall, I can't believe I'm saying this off of the

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Speaker 2: And it's all going to be predicated on their ability

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Speaker 2: but also when they're able to play cover too, and

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Speaker 2: they have a bunch of creative ways that they get

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Speaker 2: into your their cover two drops. It's not just your

436
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Speaker 2: traditional hey corners playing the UH the flask linebackers playing

437
00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:07,960
Speaker 2: what you call the post technique, middle linebacker run the scenes,

438
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Speaker 2: and safeties playing two D. They might have a safety

439
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Speaker 2: becoming the middle of the field run guid. They might

440
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Speaker 2: have two defensive ends drop and become the two poachers

441
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Speaker 2: they've been and rushed Bobby and stuff like that. And

442
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Speaker 2: they got a bunch of different creative ways to get

443
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Speaker 2: into that that cover too. I call it morphing into

444
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Speaker 2: that cover to coverage and morphing into your zoo reads

445
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Speaker 2: and I mean zone coverage. Even even your your robber

446
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Speaker 2: techniques where you're showing there too high shell on your

447
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:39,920
Speaker 2: you got one of those safeties kind of playing that

448
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Speaker 2: that high hole, intermediate type UH area, middle of the field,

449
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Speaker 2: reading the quarterback on, looking for endbreaking rounds, being able

450
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Speaker 2: to make interceptions and get PBUs so they're there. This

451
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Speaker 2: is having this group, this unit is going to allow

452
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Speaker 2: Joe Wick and to play the style of defense that

453
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Speaker 2: they play and play so well when they were in Dallas. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Last year, at this time when we walked into the season,

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Speaker 1: I think people were I was genuinely surprised at how

456
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Speaker 1: effective the offense was early in the year. I think

457
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Speaker 1: it's going to be the invers this year. I think

458
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Speaker 1: teams are going to be very surprised early how much

459
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Speaker 1: more effective the defense actually is going to be this year.

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Speaker 1: Everyone knows about Jayden Daniels, has expectations of Jade and Daniels,

461
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Speaker 1: the offense, all that stuff. I don't think I think

462
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Speaker 1: they're being overlooked here, and so I think that's going

463
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Speaker 1: to be an interesting part for the first month of

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Speaker 1: the season if you see a much more effective defense.

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Speaker 1: But let's turn our attention to the offense. Time to

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Speaker 1: bring in. On game day, Logan and I or London

467
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Speaker 1: and I are in the booths. Logan's down on the

468
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Speaker 1: field for this purpose of the booth review. We put

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Speaker 1: them on the bench. So we're going to get Logan

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Speaker 1: Calson from the line to get in on the offense.

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Speaker 1: He joins us from the Big Bear AI Command Center studio.

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Speaker 1: There he is, Bucket had an all. Hello, mister Paulson,

473
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Speaker 1: how are you.

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Speaker 3: I'm good guys, how are you guys doing that?

475
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Speaker 4: That was a really fun you'll listen to regarding the defense,

476
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Speaker 4: learned a lot as always.

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Speaker 2: All right, you guys doing great.

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Speaker 1: Let's get into the offense logan. Let me start just

479
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Speaker 1: kind of big picture here. Do you think stylistically that

480
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Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury is thinking with the addition specifically of tunsl

481
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Speaker 1: for the offensive line, Debo as a movable part and

482
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Speaker 1: explosive playmaker, the offense looks very different from it did

483
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Speaker 1: a year ago.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if it looks different.

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Speaker 4: I think what an addition like Deebo allows you to

486
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Speaker 4: do is emphasize stuff that you already want to be

487
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Speaker 4: good at and emphasize offensive principles that carry good offenses.

488
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Speaker 4: And what I mean by that is when you look

489
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Speaker 4: at offenses like Kyle Shanahan three years ago, like what

490
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Speaker 4: they're able to do is kind of have a low

491
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Speaker 4: average depth of target with a high separation number and

492
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Speaker 4: then a large yards after the catch number. So like

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Speaker 4: when I think about what Deebo does does so well

494
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Speaker 4: and did so well in that offense, is taking as

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Speaker 4: an example like we saw in the Baltimore game, all

496
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Speaker 4: these kind of like little bubble screens, pre snap reads

497
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Speaker 4: like where we're getting favorable numbers, we're getting nickel pressure,

498
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Speaker 4: we'll get two over two, we get one blocker and

499
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Speaker 4: then one runner, and a guy like Debo is going

500
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Speaker 4: to maximize that.

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Speaker 2: Look.

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Speaker 4: So while whoever's catching that screen in the Baltimore game

503
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Speaker 4: catches that ball for three yards, Debo can maybe make

504
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Speaker 4: it ten, maybe makes it fifteen, and all of a sudden,

505
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Speaker 4: this other element that I think is kind of important

506
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Speaker 4: in modern offenses is finding explosive plays. So the way

507
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Speaker 4: you'd characterize the way PFF characterizes that is a run

508
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Speaker 4: over ten yards and a pass play over twenty yards. Right,

509
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Speaker 4: So I think bringing that addition, because of his skill set,

510
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Speaker 4: allows you to lean more into kind of quote unquote

511
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Speaker 4: modern offensive statistical efficiency. And I know, Fletch, I said statistics.

512
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Speaker 4: You're going to freak out now.

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Speaker 3: But like that's what that's what I think this allows

514
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Speaker 3: you to do.

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Speaker 2: Look, actually, was I was. You did a great job

516
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Speaker 2: of breaking it all down.

517
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Speaker 1: I was like, you know what this is, this is.

518
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Speaker 2: Some great analytics stuff. Yeah, I was. I was okay

519
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Speaker 2: with it.

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Speaker 4: I think because you got steel coming in now, man,

521
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:06,640
Speaker 4: you're getting your gutting, you're pulled over to the dark side.

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Speaker 3: Now you're.

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Speaker 2: With your explanation of the the I guess you call

524
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Speaker 2: it the short targets and then being able to create

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Speaker 2: yack yards yards I have to catch the things like that.

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Speaker 2: That was a great breakdown explanation though, what we can

527
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Speaker 2: what we can expect from this offense, especially when it

528
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Speaker 2: comes to Debo and even probably like a guy like

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Speaker 2: the Jalen Lange as well.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's exactly right. I think when you

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Speaker 4: look at like, one of the reasons like o Z

532
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Speaker 4: was so effective in this offense last year is like

533
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Speaker 4: he's a kind of Deebo Samuel Light, right, He's got

534
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,359
Speaker 4: like this great contact balance he can kind of find

535
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 4: he doesn't run every route on the route tree, but

536
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Speaker 4: can run a bunch of them. And so I think

537
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,080
Speaker 4: you just kind of evolve that position. You know, if

538
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 4: you guys like Pokemon, he went from stage one to

539
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 4: stage two Pokemon, you know, bulbosor to blastoids or whatever

540
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Speaker 4: we're talking.

541
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Speaker 2: Get we get all kind of all kind of references.

542
00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 4: Made a record round reference, spam a red around front

543
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Speaker 4: reference last week, so I can make a Pokemon reference.

544
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Speaker 2: No, I love it. I love it.

545
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Speaker 1: It's crazy like for years and years and years, people

546
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Speaker 1: like me who never played, we used all this statistical

547
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Speaker 1: stuff to like back up our arguments or and when

548
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Speaker 1: I say it, it just makes me a football nerder. I

549
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 1: don't know what I'm talking about. Logan says that it's

550
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Speaker 1: it's all true, it's the gospel.

551
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Speaker 2: So well, hold on, hold on, holdld out, Brad. I'm

552
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Speaker 2: just so, let's here's the deal. Analytics have always been

553
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Speaker 2: a part of the game from a play calling, game

554
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Speaker 2: plan and standpoint. Like, we just didn't call it analytics.

555
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 5: We call it percentages, ortistic statistics, or we used to

556
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Speaker 5: call it a hit chart, like, hey, they're in this

557
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 5: personnel groupinge this don of distance, wherever they're are on

558
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 5: the on the football field, there's a high probability.

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Speaker 2: Let's call it an eighty percent they're going to run

560
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 2: the football. And these are the these are year three

561
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 2: top runs, especially if they get in this formation. Things

562
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 2: like that. Now they just called it analytics now, and

563
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 2: it's a great way for the nerds to all of

564
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Speaker 2: a sudden be a part of part of the game,

565
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Speaker 2: a part of a part of sports man. It's taken over.

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Speaker 2: So I'm just I'm able to really decipher it and

567
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 2: put it to my old layman's words what Logan and

568
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 2: you guys just explained.

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Speaker 4: So it's so funny Fletch gives me such a hard

570
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Speaker 4: time for all this analytics stuff. But like when Fletch played,

571
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Speaker 4: he was like the first analytics guy, right. He was

572
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Speaker 4: the guy that could remember all the first down percentages.

573
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Speaker 4: He can remember the runs they had, like and and

574
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Speaker 4: again that's what makes good players good is they're able

575
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Speaker 4: to kind of internalize and then digest that information in

576
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Speaker 4: the production on the field. But yeah, like he gives

577
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Speaker 4: me a hard time for it, but don't let don't

578
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Speaker 4: get it twisted. He was a big analytics guy before us.

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Speaker 2: He was the first I think, no way, go ahead,

580
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Speaker 2: Londed no no, no, I just and Brand and Logan.

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Speaker 2: For me, it's just I don't want the nerves to

582
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Speaker 2: take over my game. You know.

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Speaker 4: It's funny though, I was talking to my son about

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Speaker 4: this the other day, and you know, like with baseball,

585
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Speaker 4: analytics have kind of like ruined quote unquote, with basketball,

586
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Speaker 4: it's kind of ruined. I do think in some ways

587
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Speaker 4: like it's made football better, right, it's kind of diversified

588
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 4: the offenses. You see, it's kind of said, oh, you know,

589
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Speaker 4: we can't run you know, college offenses.

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Speaker 3: But it just increases offenses of efficiency.

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Speaker 4: Right, you see a running quarterback Now, I think that's

592
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Speaker 4: analytically driven in a lot of ways. Right, you see

593
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Speaker 4: kind of the advent of finding these explosive play action shots.

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Speaker 4: And then a couple of years ago, I remember FLUS

595
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Speaker 4: you were like, oh, we can't run the football. It's

596
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Speaker 4: not you know, a what is it the it's not

597
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Speaker 4: an efficient play. And all of a sudden, because they

598
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Speaker 4: can't really define why running makes it easier for the quarterback,

599
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 4: they've kind of backtracked that model little bit and you're

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Speaker 4: seeing running come back in a vogue. So I think

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Speaker 4: even though analytics are kind of infecting modern NFL football,

602
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Speaker 4: I think it's really interesting because they can't define all

603
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Speaker 4: the parameters. And that's what makes it so fun to

604
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Speaker 4: talk about analytics with regards to football.

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Speaker 1: There's too many moving parts. This isn't baseball. This isn't

606
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Speaker 1: baseball where you can run data sheet and analytic report

607
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 1: on this pitcher versus this hitter or this hitter has

608
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 1: trouble with this particular pitch in this particular location and

609
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Speaker 1: if you can execute that, you're probably going to have

610
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Speaker 1: success and start talking about launch angles something like that.

611
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Speaker 1: Every single play is twenty two people in the field

612
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Speaker 1: that all need to do the right thing at the

613
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Speaker 1: right time to make anything work. The analytics help accentuate

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Speaker 1: maybe some more tendencies that you should do or some

615
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Speaker 1: pathways to success. It still doesn't change the fact that

616
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Speaker 1: there are too many people that could either make it

617
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Speaker 1: successful or screw it up all at the same time.

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Speaker 1: But I think that's why the analytics are what they are.

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Speaker 1: And like, I've known London long enough that I know

620
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Speaker 1: like he's buying into the analytics, but in the end

621
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Speaker 1: he's like, how about I just go punch somebody in

622
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Speaker 1: the mouth and I'll show you where.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, so, yeah, yeah, Digresa. Let's talk about the offense

625
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Speaker 1: as a whole. You mentioned deebo Jalen Lane's an interesting

626
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Speaker 1: one too. We can come back to him. Let me

627
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Speaker 1: get to the run game with you, which what early

628
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Speaker 1: in the season last year was really successful. There were

629
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Speaker 1: numerous two hundred plus yard collective rush days for this team. Obviously,

630
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Speaker 1: Brian Robinson was a big change for them. We're going

631
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Speaker 1: to see what Bill is for this offense. Austin Eckler

632
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Speaker 1: comes back, as you kind of think through the run

633
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Speaker 1: game with the new offensive line and the group that

634
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Speaker 1: they have and add in Deebo to whatever degree that is,

635
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Speaker 1: add in Jayden, how are you thinking about collectively the

636
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Speaker 1: rush game this year?

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Speaker 3: That's a really good question.

638
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Speaker 4: I think, you know, obviously with the additions on the

639
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Speaker 4: offensive line Larry Tunsall, Brandon Coleman guard, and then kind

640
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 4: of the depth pieces of Wiley and Ala Griddy, I

641
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 4: think they're just again they're trying to maximize or provide

642
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 4: more clarity on the offense that they ran last year.

643
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Speaker 4: And so we talk about We've fetched I've talked about this,

644
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Speaker 4: I've talked about z Bram like the idea.

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Speaker 3: Of statistical regression in certain.

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Speaker 4: Categories, right, So like the idea that I'm not going

647
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Speaker 4: to be as efficient on fourth down this year or

648
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 4: eight percent is going to drop a little bit, Right,

649
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 4: So with defense, you see that manifesting in a you know,

650
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Speaker 4: we got to be better on first down, right, because

651
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Speaker 4: if we're better on first down, then we can be

652
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Speaker 4: more efficient on third down. And there's like a ripple

653
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Speaker 4: and a trickle down effect. I see that same thing

654
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 4: happening honestly with the offensive side of the football. If

655
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 4: we can make sure our first and second down runs

656
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 4: are even like one yard more efficient, so all of

657
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:26,840
Speaker 4: a sudden, we're in second and six as opposed to

658
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Speaker 4: third or second and seven.

659
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Speaker 3: Now the playbook opens up.

660
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Speaker 4: We increase our offensive efficiency because statistically, as we get

661
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Speaker 4: closer to that first down marker, it becomes easier to

662
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Speaker 4: get a first down. So I think that's what you're

663
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Speaker 4: looking at there, is if we can maximize the efficiency

664
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Speaker 4: of some of our runs by increasing the efficiency of

665
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Speaker 4: some of our personnel. And again, like that to me

666
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Speaker 4: is what you're trying to get to, right, if you're

667
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Speaker 4: trying to stave off statistical regression by becoming more efficient

668
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 4: running the football. So low leverage, low stress on the quarterback,

669
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Speaker 4: higher efficiency. Again, so when I got to throw my

670
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Speaker 4: pitch with Jayden Daniels, when I got to have him

671
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Speaker 4: be a here on third and five, when I got

672
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Speaker 4: to have him get a first down on fourth and two, like,

673
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 4: we've got all those plays at our disposal, because again,

674
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Speaker 4: our first time efficiency is more effective.

675
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, now let me break this down into

676
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 2: Lamber's time. We got we got better, he Jason laughing

677
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:21,720
Speaker 2: in the office line. We got better in the trench.

678
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:27,840
Speaker 2: So Larry me Tosso, now you got him excellent pass protective,

679
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 2: underrated run of blocker. But you may you move Brandon Kuman,

680
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 2: a big body, bigger body into that left guard position.

681
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 2: He's gonna roll great, be honest. He got he got

682
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 2: u banged up down the stretch and the run game

683
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 2: started to suffer a little bit, but tough as nails,

684
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:51,479
Speaker 2: really good run blocker Andrew Wiley until Sam Cosby comes back,

685
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 2: He's going to be a really good run blocker. He

686
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:56,799
Speaker 2: had he had his moment some you know where he

687
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 2: struggled little bit at times with pass pro, but as

688
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:03,399
Speaker 2: a unlocker he was very good. So now you've got

689
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 2: him in that interior running the football, I mean helping

690
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 2: run run the ball. Josh Connery, hell of an athlete.

691
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:15,800
Speaker 2: He's going to be a really good run run blocker.

692
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:20,720
Speaker 2: So all this and efficiency is one thing, and all listen,

693
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 2: but at the end of the day, we got better

694
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Speaker 2: in the damn trenches.

695
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Speaker 4: And I think the other interesting thing, I think that's

696
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 4: a really succinct way of putting in fletch.

697
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 3: And I was trying to sound smart. Yeah, we got

698
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 3: better than trenches, right, We're going to be more efficient.

699
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Speaker 4: The other thing, too, is like the type of players

700
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 4: that they've gotten, right, They've gotten more athletic people, and

701
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 4: everyone thinks so for run blocking it's this bigger, hulking,

702
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 4: lean on you type of guy. But I think with

703
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 4: this system, because of all the pulling, that athletic dexterity

704
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 4: is something that's going to make us more efficient, right,

705
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:52,240
Speaker 4: you know, Coleman pulling the perimeter. We saw how athletic

706
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Speaker 4: conor condly could be in that New England game with

707
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Speaker 4: some of that tight zone footw're getting the second level

708
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 4: outside zone. It just adds you to It allows you

709
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:01,880
Speaker 4: to be a little bit more effective with that stuff

710
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 4: and a little bit more diverse when you get those

711
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 4: athletic kind of live bodies in there.

712
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Speaker 3: So I think that's a great point by you.

713
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Speaker 2: Job wanted the best robot home preach.

714
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Speaker 3: Now now we're talking tight ends.

715
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Speaker 4: Let's get let's get that thing going right, I mean,

716
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 4: just in terms what he allows you to do.

717
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Speaker 1: Let me ask you this logan. Just because the offensive

718
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 1: line as a group essentially didn't really practice much together

719
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:27,360
Speaker 1: like the last few weeks of camp for a variety

720
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Speaker 1: of reasons. Brandon Coleman was out. I thought it was

721
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: a really good sign that he elected to play in

722
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Speaker 1: that last preseason game, as he said he wanted some

723
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Speaker 1: reps and left guards he had missed some time. Laramie

724
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:38,959
Speaker 1: Tunsell he has been dinged up a little bit. We're

725
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Speaker 1: presuming he's going to be fine, but didn't practice a ton.

726
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Speaker 1: Then when we saw him in New England joint practice,

727
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 1: he looked like Laramie Tunsseell. We're still waiting on Sam

728
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 1: Cosmy open question about who starts at right tackle to

729
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:51,839
Speaker 1: start the season, who's the right guard when we start

730
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Speaker 1: the season. As you kind of think about where this

731
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:59,319
Speaker 1: offense will go when presumably we get health back and

732
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Speaker 1: reps together, how are you thinking about the beginning of

733
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Speaker 1: the season and then what ultimately it looks like when

734
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Speaker 1: we get the gang back together.

735
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's a really good question. I think

736
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 4: it's a really good concern. On some level too. I

737
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:12,319
Speaker 4: will say I'm not concerned about Laramie at all. I think,

738
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 4: you know, I played with him in Houston. This is

739
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 4: kind of like part of his process, Like he's not

740
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:17,439
Speaker 4: super involved.

741
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 3: In the off season. He kind of trains on his own.

742
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Speaker 4: I don't have any He's played so much football, I'm

743
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 4: not worried abou him missing any time. The Coleman one

744
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 4: is interesting because he is moving to a new position.

745
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 4: He hasn't gotten a ton of reps there. I think

746
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 4: the athleticism, the length, the size, like Fletch alluded to,

747
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:33,880
Speaker 4: make me feel a little bit more comfortable. And the

748
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 4: fact that he's flanked by be Hodish and by Laramie

749
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,840
Speaker 4: Tunsel makes me think that those two veterans should be

750
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 4: able to get communicated in anything they need to get

751
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 4: communicated to him. And then I think the other thing

752
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 4: that makes me feel good, and Fletch can speak to

753
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:49,440
Speaker 4: this too, is just having backups with experience. And I've

754
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 4: said this a million times, I'm going to say at

755
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 4: a million and one. When you've got guys with that

756
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:56,879
Speaker 4: level of experience, you don't have to worry about them

757
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 4: coming in and not knowing because, again with young players,

758
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,359
Speaker 4: one of the concerns is, hey, they just don't know,

759
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 4: like how we're targeting this.

760
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 3: They don't know how we're going to block this protection

761
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:06,240
Speaker 3: versus this cross dog.

762
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Speaker 4: Right, And so when you get guys that have done it,

763
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,239
Speaker 4: They've seen a million reps, they've been in a bunch

764
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 4: of different systems. It makes me feel so much better.

765
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 4: And again, like whoever's playing on the right side, Let's

766
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:17,799
Speaker 4: say it's Wiley and Alleghretty they started last year, right,

767
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 4: so I don't need to be worried about that.

768
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 2: Right.

769
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 4: Let's say Connorley comes in, He's going to be playing

770
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Speaker 4: next to Wiley or Alleghretty who's playing a ton of football.

771
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Speaker 4: So I love that they've kind of been able to

772
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Speaker 4: bracket and kind of pair these younger players in these

773
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:31,240
Speaker 4: weaker spots with guys who played a lot of football.

774
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Speaker 1: What do you think, Lennon as they get the line together, Oh.

775
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:42,799
Speaker 2: Oh no, that's this excellent stuff. Logan did it. He

776
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:44,839
Speaker 2: did such a great job breaking it down.

777
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:47,319
Speaker 1: I didn't have anything else as speechless.

778
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's uh And I think I think what

779
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 2: they even once Cosmy comes back and we don't know

780
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:57,319
Speaker 2: when that's going to be, there may be a kind

781
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 2: of a Remember last year they were doing this kind

782
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:03,880
Speaker 2: of platoon at the tackle spole with with a Brady

783
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 2: do that this year?

784
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:06,560
Speaker 3: I don't have a good feel for it.

785
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 2: Do you think they do I'm just saying they might

786
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:12,319
Speaker 2: just to just to maybe get him before. You don't

787
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 2: want to just throw him in the fire. I don't

788
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 2: think you want to just throwing them in the fire

789
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 2: playing Hey, go play sixty five snaps a game, especially

790
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 2: if you don't have to, if he doesn't have to,

791
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 2: cause you feel really good about the guys that you have,

792
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:26,839
Speaker 2: and hey, we can we can kind of bring him

793
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 2: along a little bit somewhat slowly, so to speak, and

794
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 2: then hey, maybe we're these four games into it now,

795
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 2: he's full board. Let him go and just cut it loose.

796
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,239
Speaker 2: If that's a you know, the way they feel like,

797
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 2: I feel like doing it.

798
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 4: And he's interesting too, because I feel like and he's

799
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 4: just getting like he kind of had a slow start

800
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 4: to camp, but he's just kind of hitting this like

801
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 4: really nice growth curve. And so I'm kind of like,

802
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:53,799
Speaker 4: what's he going to be in thirteen days or you know,

803
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 4: a week when the game starts in right, Like, is

804
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:57,799
Speaker 4: he ready to go by then? And so I think

805
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 4: that's another thing that makes that situation a little bit

806
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 4: hard to read.

807
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 3: But man, I love his athleticism. I love his upside.

808
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:05,319
Speaker 4: It's just about kind of where you think he's at

809
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:06,840
Speaker 4: in his developmental curve.

810
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:07,920
Speaker 3: I guess developmental arc.

811
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're the I don't know how much the coaches

812
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 1: think about the matchups, but early, you know, this is

813
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 1: gonna be Welcome to the NFL. Like that's Brian Burns

814
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 1: came on, Thibodeau, Abdul Carter, week three is Max Crosby,

815
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:26,320
Speaker 1: Like this is these are elite of the elite defensive

816
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:30,440
Speaker 1: ends Burns and Crosby specifically that he could be lining

817
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 1: up against. So I don't know how they think about matchups,

818
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 1: but it is going to be and listen, welcome to

819
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 1: the NFL. You're going to be playing elite players. But

820
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:40,880
Speaker 1: they've got like top tier Pro Bowl, All Pro caliber

821
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:43,200
Speaker 1: at rush ends that are they're going to be facing

822
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:44,359
Speaker 1: early in the season this year.

823
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think that's obviously concerning from a talent standpoint. Sorry, Lennon,

824
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 4: I just couldn't help myself. I got superduced up there anyway.

825
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 4: Oh No, So, like like with Cliff for example, I

826
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 4: think he's shown like that's the one thing that's great

827
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:59,720
Speaker 4: about Cliffs. He's shown an ability to call a game

828
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 4: with limitations at the offensive line, Like whether it's our

829
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 4: chip packages, whether it's our kind of leaning into heavy rundowns,

830
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 4: whether it's the RPO stuff, whether it's the compilation of

831
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 4: the quick game, which Jade and Daniels we having even

832
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 4: talked about. Jay Daniels is so excellent managing because he's

833
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 4: got that quick release. So I do think Cliff he

834
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:20,280
Speaker 4: does a good job of being aware, in my opinion

835
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 4: of the thing that's the hardest to do in the

836
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 4: offense outside of playing quarterback is play offensive line.

837
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Speaker 3: So how do I make sure those guys.

838
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 4: I have to make sure the quarterback's comfortable, but I

839
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:30,840
Speaker 4: also have to make sure the offensive line is comfortable.

840
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 4: And I think you saw like they didn't. I think

841
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:34,920
Speaker 4: they went through like a couple of weeks where they

842
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 4: didn't give up a last year and you probably remember this, Bram.

843
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 4: They didn't give up a sack to an edge rusher

844
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 4: like Miles Garrett play. He didn't have a pressure and obviously,

845
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 4: like Cliff, had an awareness with the chip, help with

846
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:47,880
Speaker 4: the slide, help with the quick game of how to

847
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 4: mitigate that. And so that makes me feel very confident

848
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 4: that going into some of these matchups, it puts more

849
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:54,840
Speaker 4: pressure on Cliff, no doubt, but that we can manage

850
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 4: some of those issues.

851
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:59,359
Speaker 1: And some of that in fair enough too. Our quarterback

852
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 1: is so rich, ridiculously elusive that there were moments where

853
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 1: he escaped out of situations as well.

854
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:08,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, just real quick, I was I wasn't talking about

855
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:12,719
Speaker 2: platooning Connolly. I was talking about once Confmee comes back,

856
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 2: maybe they bring him along a little bit where where

857
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 2: it's cosme and maybe it's Andrew Wiley kind of platooning

858
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 2: at that guard spot, you know, a little bit longer Now,

859
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,239
Speaker 2: I wasn't. I wasn't talking about connedy hell Connley. I mean,

860
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 2: he's looked excellent to me. But now you you they understand.

861
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 2: You mentioned the chip packages and all those types of things.

862
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 2: And again there's also the ability the run game and

863
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 2: how that really slows down a pass rush. The I

864
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:44,360
Speaker 2: think we can be better in the screen game to

865
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:48,920
Speaker 2: running backs. We didn't really excels as much with the

866
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:51,880
Speaker 2: true screens to running backs as I'm sure they probably

867
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 2: would like to have, And maybe they're looking to really

868
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 2: wrap that up where it's not just always the bubble

869
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 2: screens that we can we can get more production out

870
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 2: of the screens to the running backs. That also slows

871
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:07,360
Speaker 2: down the pass rush and that gates some of the

872
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:09,960
Speaker 2: pressure packages and things like that by defenses.

873
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 1: I do want to talk about Jayden in a minute,

874
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 1: but one more topic before we get to him, and

875
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 1: that is Terry McLaurin, who did not practice with the

876
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 1: team throughout the course of the summer, but obviously expected

877
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:22,839
Speaker 1: to be back ramp up for the Giants and then

878
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 1: a quick turnaround to play Green Bay. He did not

879
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 1: practice with the team throughout the summer. Do you have

880
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:32,400
Speaker 1: any sense of whether that would affect the volume of

881
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 1: plays that he has used early in the season.

882
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:38,320
Speaker 4: I mean, I just think about how Dan has handled

883
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:41,239
Speaker 4: injuries so far and guys that are in return to play,

884
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:44,319
Speaker 4: and obviously this is an injury. But like he's very fastidious.

885
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:46,840
Speaker 4: We have a very excellent Chad Angle Heart shout out Chad.

886
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 4: He does a great job with him the director of

887
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:52,439
Speaker 4: kind of return to play stuff here of managing these things.

888
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:53,400
Speaker 3: They're very analytical.

889
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 4: They have greatly comprehensive test protocols. So I think they're

890
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:58,920
Speaker 4: going to be hyper aware honestly of Terry and his

891
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:03,240
Speaker 4: kind of return to the offense. And so if I'm Cliff,

892
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 4: if I'm you know, Dan. I'm really kind of trying

893
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:07,279
Speaker 4: to make sure that we kind of manage some of

894
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 4: those high speed numbers early on and kind of maybe

895
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 4: give him a package. And again, like when you think

896
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:15,400
Speaker 4: about what he brings to the offense and what this

897
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:17,360
Speaker 4: offense did so well last year was kind of finding

898
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 4: explosive plays.

899
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 3: He was a big part of that.

900
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:21,879
Speaker 4: And so how do we still kind of make sure

901
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:24,839
Speaker 4: the offense has teeth in terms of explosive plays down

902
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 4: the field early in the season. I think it's the

903
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:29,360
Speaker 4: best way is to kind of package it up, limit

904
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,360
Speaker 4: his total play volume, but make sure that we're getting

905
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:34,320
Speaker 4: impact from him in those specific moments.

906
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 5: You know.

907
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 2: The good thing is he'll have five or six practices

908
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:44,920
Speaker 2: prior to the game against the Giants, and you know

909
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 2: you can kind of logan touched on it about the

910
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 2: return to play, and they'll wrap him up, maybe push

911
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:55,320
Speaker 2: him a little bit harder early than dialing back a

912
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 2: little bit, then wrap him up a little bit just

913
00:44:57,520 --> 00:44:59,600
Speaker 2: to see how his body is responded to all those

914
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:02,880
Speaker 2: types of I don't expect Terry to go out and

915
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:08,680
Speaker 2: play nine of the snaps in the game against the Giants.

916
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:11,360
Speaker 2: I'm not sure even if he had training cap and

917
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 2: he played ninety percent of the snap just because of

918
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 2: you know, some of the different personnel groups they may

919
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 2: want to employee or deploy in that game against the Giants.

920
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 2: So can we expecting to play I would think, you know,

921
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:28,240
Speaker 2: seventy seventy to seventy five eighty percent of the snaps.

922
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 2: I think that's fair to say he can. He can

923
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 2: go out there and do that until your point logan,

924
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:35,759
Speaker 2: you're you're kind of scheming it up to where you're

925
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:38,279
Speaker 2: not going to have him running you know, eight goal

926
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:40,960
Speaker 2: balls or you know, five go balls in the game.

927
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:43,719
Speaker 2: It might be a couple of slot phase where there's

928
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 2: a deep throat it's one or two go balls in

929
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 2: a game, and a couple of slants and you know

930
00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:50,400
Speaker 2: bubble screens and things like that that he can he

931
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:51,640
Speaker 2: can excel after the catch.

932
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 4: But I think that, yeah, well, I think kind of

933
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:58,280
Speaker 4: goes back to like the debo thing. It's like again

934
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:00,920
Speaker 4: like that in terms of laying cards on the table

935
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:04,360
Speaker 4: and what this offense does well, it's terry making explosive opportunities.

936
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:06,920
Speaker 4: It's yards after the catch from Deebo Samuel, it's the

937
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 4: contested catches from Noah Brown, and so even if that's

938
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:13,359
Speaker 4: not one hundred percent, Like again, like Cliff's a smart dude,

939
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 4: he'll figure it out. But how do we make sure

940
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 4: we get like, hey, this is the play action shot

941
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 4: on third and two. We got to get Terry in

942
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:21,320
Speaker 4: here at X for this play because we're going to

943
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:24,120
Speaker 4: run this heavy play action hit this post over the top,

944
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 4: like we need him in there for that. So, like,

945
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 4: that's what I'm saying is just be selective about when

946
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 4: you're throwing your fastball. You know, it's like a picture

947
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:32,839
Speaker 4: with like a little lebow tendonitis. Right, I still got

948
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:34,279
Speaker 4: the fastball. I'm just not going to throw it as

949
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:35,880
Speaker 4: much as maybe I would normally do.

950
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:38,839
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, let me get last thing.

951
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:39,280
Speaker 2: Jayden.

952
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:42,880
Speaker 1: We haven't really addressed much on him year two, the

953
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:46,319
Speaker 1: addition of Tunsel. In my point of view, like I

954
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:48,759
Speaker 1: believe the protection is going to be better this year

955
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 1: for them. What I loved about Jayden a year ago

956
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:55,360
Speaker 1: coming in was that, you know, listen, he is an

957
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:58,440
Speaker 1: unbelievable athlete, and I think what we saw in his

958
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:04,440
Speaker 1: rookie year is his his instincts are extraordinary, and because

959
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: of that, there are these superman moments that occurred multiple times.

960
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 1: But I look at this and I go, he's a

961
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:14,040
Speaker 1: pass first quarterback kind of always was when he was

962
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:17,839
Speaker 1: coming out. And if he gets better protection and he's

963
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:20,759
Speaker 1: throwing the ball from a better pocket five to ten

964
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:23,800
Speaker 1: more times a game, we're looking at a four thousand

965
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 1: to forty five hundred yard passer this year, let alone

966
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 1: an effective runner who might not have the same amount

967
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:30,879
Speaker 1: on the ground, but that might not be the worst thing.

968
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 1: How much do you really want to expose him to

969
00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:34,719
Speaker 1: running the ball all that much? So I wonder if

970
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 1: you kind of see it the same way that I

971
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:40,160
Speaker 1: actually think his passing stats are likely with the additions

972
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 1: that they've had to take an exponential leap from where

973
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 1: they were a year ago.

974
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:48,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think when you look at again, Jane Daniels

975
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 4: is the thing that drives this vehicle here, right, And

976
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:52,719
Speaker 4: so when you look at some of the things that

977
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 4: he I want to like, it's hard to talk about

978
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:55,919
Speaker 4: this because he had such a good year, but things

979
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 4: that he's struggled with. It's throwing from an unclean pocket.

980
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 4: Like he's a good mover, but the subtlety of pocket

981
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:03,319
Speaker 4: movement is still something that he's working on.

982
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 3: When you watch it on film.

983
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:06,919
Speaker 4: Right, So what I would say is, now you've eliminated

984
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 4: the thing that kind of makes him uncomfortable there in

985
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:11,799
Speaker 4: the backfield. And again, I think you brought up a

986
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:14,359
Speaker 4: great point, like he wants to he wants to throw

987
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:15,839
Speaker 4: the football, right, I think that's one of the things

988
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:18,239
Speaker 4: that makes him specially he's a tremendous athlete that can

989
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:21,920
Speaker 4: throw the football. So by limiting again his exposure to

990
00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:24,440
Speaker 4: the thing that makes him uncomfortable, I think you should

991
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 4: see more efficiency there, right. And so yeah, I told

992
00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:29,640
Speaker 4: I absolutely agree with that take, and I just think

993
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:32,799
Speaker 4: it's just we talked about this earlier. In terms of

994
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:35,799
Speaker 4: the offense. How do you stave off statistical regression? This

995
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 4: is a big one to me because if you can

996
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 4: make the quarterback more comfortable. The other thing that I

997
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:42,600
Speaker 4: think is often overlooked here is you've made now Cliff

998
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:44,840
Speaker 4: more comfortable. And what I mean by that is instead

999
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:46,799
Speaker 4: of having to use all these chip protections, now we

1000
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 4: can get five guys into the route and Fledg can

1001
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:52,239
Speaker 4: speak to this. That puts so much more stress on

1002
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:55,399
Speaker 4: the defense. We can create, we can stretch zones more,

1003
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:58,360
Speaker 4: we can overload zones in a way that we couldn't

1004
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:01,239
Speaker 4: before all because the part better and which is again

1005
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 4: going to increase Jane Daniel's efficiency. So I think I

1006
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:05,880
Speaker 4: think the protection is a huge element. I think it's

1007
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:08,040
Speaker 4: always been a huge element, and a big part of

1008
00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:10,240
Speaker 4: it is bringing the right people in and Laramie Tunseel's

1009
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:10,560
Speaker 4: that guy.

1010
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 2: Yeah know, the the chipping and being able to get

1011
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:18,640
Speaker 2: five guys out in the route or even even four

1012
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:21,680
Speaker 2: guys out in the round says like you said, it's

1013
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 2: going to open up the zones. You know, if you

1014
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:27,959
Speaker 2: want to go to your spread package and they playing

1015
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:31,560
Speaker 2: man and man on some third and shorter situations, He's

1016
00:49:31,560 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 2: going to be able to identify the matchups that he

1017
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:36,080
Speaker 2: wants to take advantage of. Logan you you touched on

1018
00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:39,359
Speaker 2: the Hey, maybe you know, not being as comfortable when

1019
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 2: when the pocket isn't as clean. So I'm thinking he's

1020
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:45,440
Speaker 2: going to be That's one of the things they probably

1021
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 2: worked on him with so they're in the offseason, hey,

1022
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 2: because it's not going to always be clean, making sure

1023
00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:55,040
Speaker 2: he's improved in at that element when the pocket is

1024
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 2: not clean. Like you said, maybe it's a subtle, subtle

1025
00:49:57,640 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 2: side step here or there, stepping up here there things

1026
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:06,040
Speaker 2: like that Tom Brady, for he comes to mind Brady

1027
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:09,640
Speaker 2: wasn't Boba at all, but he just had this unique

1028
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 2: instinct to be able to just move to the left,

1029
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:15,120
Speaker 2: to the right, stuff like that, just to avoid the

1030
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:19,000
Speaker 2: rush and step up in the pocket deliver deliver throws

1031
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:22,960
Speaker 2: when the pocket wasn't cleaned. So that's I think with Jaden,

1032
00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:26,200
Speaker 2: there's also going to be an evolution of the offense.

1033
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:29,359
Speaker 2: They're gonna put more concepts in the passing game. They're

1034
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:32,120
Speaker 2: going to enhance that because for one, you got better

1035
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:35,880
Speaker 2: players too. This is his second year and offense, clip

1036
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:38,319
Speaker 2: is going to add more to that passing game with

1037
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:41,560
Speaker 2: more concepts to that defenses now have to deal with.

1038
00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:43,799
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think that's a great point because not

1039
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:46,759
Speaker 4: only is it you know, Jaden, but now like it

1040
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:48,839
Speaker 4: kind of to piggyback on that cliff point, like now

1041
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:51,239
Speaker 4: we can get into like it's five step from under

1042
00:50:51,239 --> 00:50:53,840
Speaker 4: center traditional drops. We're kind of attacking the middle of

1043
00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:56,320
Speaker 4: the field. And we talked about earlier how like chunk

1044
00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 4: plays in offense are so valuable and the reason that

1045
00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:01,560
Speaker 4: middle area at fifteen to twenty yard area of the

1046
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 4: field is considered such an important quarterback metric is because

1047
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:07,880
Speaker 4: it's an easy way to find these explosive chunks and

1048
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:10,040
Speaker 4: so the fact that we can protect it better if

1049
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:11,480
Speaker 4: we can get Jayden to see that area of the

1050
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:14,759
Speaker 4: field more through better protection, like, that's another way the

1051
00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 4: offense takes a step forward. So it's really like, to me,

1052
00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:22,279
Speaker 4: the Laramie tunsl addition is the move of the offseason

1053
00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:24,880
Speaker 4: because now we don't have to chip one side, we

1054
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:27,239
Speaker 4: get more guys out, we can work slides away, we

1055
00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:29,120
Speaker 4: can trust him to win his one on one in.

1056
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 3: A way that we haven't had a guy here.

1057
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:33,239
Speaker 4: And quite honestly, not to besmirch anybody else here, but

1058
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:35,279
Speaker 4: really there's only like five or six guys in the

1059
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:37,799
Speaker 4: NFL that can do that. You just say out there, hey,

1060
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:39,799
Speaker 4: win this one on one matchup, like that's what makes

1061
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:42,839
Speaker 4: him so special. And it just opens up so much

1062
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:46,760
Speaker 4: the offense because again, like getting better in the trenches

1063
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 4: is an understatement, it allows you to run the football

1064
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 4: and allows you to pass protect and that makes the quarterback,

1065
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:53,760
Speaker 4: makes the runners, makes the receivers all better.

1066
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:56,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you. The tunsl was the move of

1067
00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:59,239
Speaker 1: the offseason. The trickle down effect of them acquiring him

1068
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 1: to what it did to across the board on the line,

1069
00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:04,640
Speaker 1: to what it allows them to do. I think it

1070
00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:07,840
Speaker 1: just can't be overstated. That was the literal move of

1071
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:09,560
Speaker 1: the offseason to me. All right, before I let you

1072
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:12,920
Speaker 1: guys go, since we're here it's week one, just give

1073
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:15,319
Speaker 1: me a general sense, London will start with you. What

1074
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:18,000
Speaker 1: does the successful season look like for the Commanders this year.

1075
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:25,800
Speaker 2: Successful season looks like come on man, week one, Na man, listen.

1076
00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:32,000
Speaker 2: Successful season looks like making the playoffs, you know, winning

1077
00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:35,560
Speaker 2: ten plus games. I think that's uh. I think ten

1078
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:39,440
Speaker 2: is the is a low bar low the floor for

1079
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Speaker 2: this this group, you know, win a ten games. I

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Speaker 2: don't we we improved the rouster so much. I don't

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Speaker 2: know that we will win necessarily more games, but it's

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Speaker 2: gonna look better. And that's why I said, I think

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Speaker 2: ten is the floor for this team. Win in a

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Speaker 2: win in another playoff game, that would be a successful

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Speaker 2: season for us, and just continue to see the development

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Speaker 2: and improvement of jaded dangs and also a lot of

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Speaker 2: the young, young talented football players on this group. On

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Speaker 2: this team.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I have to agree with Fletch.

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Speaker 4: I think you know, last year there was a little

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Speaker 4: bit of serendipity, a little bit of luck to some

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Speaker 4: of the wins. Anytime you're winning one score games, you know,

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Speaker 4: eight of them in a row or whatever, it was like,

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Speaker 4: that's got to get a little Obviously, you're very talented,

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Speaker 4: you practice those situations, but you got to be a

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Speaker 4: little bit lucky as well. So I think like just

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Speaker 4: making sure you've tipped the deck in a way that

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Speaker 4: allows you to be a little bit more dominant, a

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Speaker 4: little bit more assertive offensively and defensively. You guys did

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Speaker 4: a great job talking about defensively how they can be

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Speaker 4: more efficient. We just talked about how offensively you can

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Speaker 4: be more efficient. I think, and again hopefully that manifests

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Speaker 4: into a playoff win, playoff birth, ten plus win season.

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Speaker 4: I think that those are all good metrics, but I

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Speaker 4: think just kind of being able to stave off some

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Speaker 4: of those areas that normally regress with some of the

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Speaker 4: additions and some of the schematic changes, I think that's

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Speaker 4: a successful season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the weirdest stat in the NFL is that

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Speaker 1: nobody is won the NFC's back to back keepers in

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Speaker 1: twenty part years. So if that's gonna if that's gonna hold.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to think that we're in pole position to

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Speaker 1: leap frog Philadelphia, and if that's the case, not only

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. So we have home playoff games at

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Speaker 1: least to start with. So i'd like to see that.

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Speaker 1: That would like, you know, and the Eagles have a

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Speaker 1: lot to say and Giants Cowboys too, but the Eagles

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Speaker 1: are gonna have a lot to say about that. I

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Speaker 1: would like to see what that looks like, see what

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Speaker 1: our crowd looks like in January, if we could have

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Speaker 1: a home playoff game as opposed to what we did

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Speaker 1: on the road, which is memories of a lifetime. But

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Speaker 1: I want to see it in front of our home

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Speaker 1: fans and I'm hoping that's what we get this year too.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely all right, guys. Can you imagine it's been a

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Speaker 2: we haven't hosted a home playoff game with a full stadium.

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Speaker 2: It's been quite a while, man.

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Speaker 1: You think that Yeah, the one, yeah, the one we

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Speaker 1: did where they won the nfcast at seven and nine.

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Speaker 1: There was nobody here. It was the pandemic. It was

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Speaker 1: like dystopian, dystopian world. Yeah, yeah, it was crazy, all right, guys.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait. Giants Week one packers week two, so

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have a very busy first week of the

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Speaker 1: booth review. I can't wait to do the game on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: So for London Logan, I'm Bram, we'll talk to you

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Speaker 1: on Monday. After Week one and the Giants Game Booth

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Speaker 1: Review was filmed at the Big Bear AI Command Center Studio.

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