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Speaker 1: Other than special teams, can joint practices being almost more

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Speaker 1: So those are all great opportunities for us but just

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Speaker 1: that really matters. It doesn't mean anything. This is two

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Speaker 1: and twenty two. Nobody's done anything this year. I haven't

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Speaker 1: done anything. Our team hasn't done anything. So you know,

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Speaker 1: we have to prove what we are this year. Whatever

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Speaker 1: happened in some other year, however great it was or wasn't,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter. We're not living in the past,

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Speaker 1: and it doesn't mean make any difference. We'll see what

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Speaker 1: we do this year, and that's what we're out here. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, working for I got a lot of work

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Speaker 1: everybody else on the team, and we're all trying to

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Speaker 1: get ready to play in a regular season and perform

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Speaker 1: at a high level. So I appreciate the compliments, but

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Speaker 1: really that none of that matters, not in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: That's all in past. Thank you. Well, you've talked about

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Speaker 1: Momondar's growth in past protection Mdre and even Damian with

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Speaker 1: regards to his improvement in that area. How much have

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Speaker 1: you seen from them. And how do you describe from

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Speaker 1: even year one to year two, year three in the

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Speaker 1: NFL difficult it is for running back in past protection,

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Speaker 1: well past protection in the NFL's that's a hard job. Period.

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Speaker 1: We've been fortunate. We've had, you know, one of the

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Speaker 1: some of the best third down backs that you could

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Speaker 1: possibly have, from Kevin to you know, Shane for three

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Speaker 1: years to James White. And when you look at those

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Speaker 1: very few mistakes on anything, um, assignments, execution decisions, all

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Speaker 1: of which they had a lot of. And and those

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Speaker 1: players primarily played on third down. UM. When you play

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Speaker 1: players on every down, then you know you're you're looking

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Speaker 1: at a different type of player UM and a different

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Speaker 1: set of responsibilities. UM. You know that's some some of

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Speaker 1: those are advantages for us. Uh, some of them may

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Speaker 1: not be advantages. But you know, those guys have all improved.

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Speaker 1: But you know, but it's a lot they're they're looking

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Speaker 1: at all three downs, not just really third down UM,

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Speaker 1: and so we have to you know, plan accordingly on that.

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Speaker 1: There's a running back, there's always work to do, there's

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Speaker 1: always things to improve in pass protections high on the list.

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Speaker 1: It was ABOUTE running UH and of course reading the

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Speaker 1: guys are blocking in front of you. How you know,

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Speaker 1: double teams of these two guys are different than double

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Speaker 1: teams of these two guys and things like that. So, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, they rely a lot on whatever what happens

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Speaker 1: in front of them, just like safeties do. Safeties that

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Speaker 1: and where they go, where they fit, how quickly they

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Speaker 1: they do, it's how they integrate into what happens in

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Speaker 1: where we are at that position again, very similar to

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Speaker 1: the safety position on defense. Okay, all right, thanks a lot,

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Speaker 1: thank you,