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Speaker 2: Any things stand out, well, I thought just the resilience

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Speaker 2: you know, guys stepped in, didn't bat and I worked

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Speaker 2: when they had to. And the great thing about that

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Speaker 2: this huge kind of lax feel because you know, you

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Speaker 2: put your work in and then we can make the

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Speaker 2: adjustments and feel free to run and fly around make

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Speaker 2: mistakes because we're just trying to hear to get better.

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Speaker 2: And I think this group does a very good job

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Speaker 2: of that. What's it I was gonna say early impressions

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Speaker 2: of the run game. I mean, I know, like I said,

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Speaker 2: it's really early.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think it's they know what they want to run,

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Speaker 2: and the nice thing is they're going to stick to it,

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Speaker 2: and that gives us the freedom to ask questions, work

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Speaker 2: on the techniques that they want, not be afraid to

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Speaker 2: make mistakes out here so that we can correct those.

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Speaker 2: In the film room, we can have open dialogue, talk

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Speaker 2: same page. So I think just sticking to that. It's

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Speaker 2: might not be pretty early on in games, but just

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Speaker 2: at first, so we can make those in game adjustments

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Speaker 2: of the sideline adjustments and not ride a roller coaster

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Speaker 2: at times. Can you ever be sure until the regular

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Speaker 1: Probably, you know.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of things you're not sure about until

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Speaker 2: healthy for week one or whatnot, or there's so many unknowns, right,

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Speaker 2: But it gives you the confidence when week one comes

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Speaker 2: that you've banked reps, that you've seen most every look

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Speaker 2: that you've talked about it, that we're all five on

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Speaker 2: the same page, or even Trevor of the backs are

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Speaker 2: and we have to make adjustments in game, or we

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Speaker 2: get strange looks like we've seen it before and we

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Speaker 2: and they might get us once, but we can make

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Speaker 2: those adjustments in not panic between OTAs and camp.

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Speaker 1: A couple of dozen factses with Trevor so far. What's

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Speaker 1: been your oppression is just.

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Speaker 2: Working on Yeah, I think just the confidence in the huddle.

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Speaker 2: And it's not like a you know, it's not like

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Speaker 2: a standoffish confidence or anything like that. If anyone knows Trevor,

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Speaker 2: that's not him, right, It's it's just he's got a

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Speaker 2: little moxy about him. I think it's just he's well

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Speaker 2: aged past twenty age of twenty four twenty five. Like

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Speaker 2: his his confidence in the play call, his confidence and

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Speaker 2: commanding what he wants in the huddle or on the

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Speaker 2: line of scrimmage. It permeates to the rest of the guys,

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Speaker 2: like everyone feels that. So you have a guy like

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Speaker 2: swagger about him, he does. It's that's what you need

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Speaker 2: in a quarterback. Always talk about the continuity along the

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Speaker 1: Obviously, the guys banged up this part of camp can't

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Speaker 1: get done. But when does that Does that really have

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Speaker 2: Before or Yeah, I don't know if there's a if

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Speaker 2: it's fair to put a specific timeline on timeline on

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Speaker 2: this is when you have to have something. This is football, man,

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Like, rarely are you going

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Speaker 2: So for us, we have to understand that in games,

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Speaker 2: for vice versa. So yeah, for us, we're just gonna

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Speaker 1: What do you like about what they do it? Well?

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Speaker 2: I think I thought I like the definitive rules, right Like,

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Speaker 2: football is a game of rules, not only for official sakes,

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Speaker 2: you have answers for stuff. So they're giving us answers

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Speaker 2: to things that we might see different fronts or uh,

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Speaker 2: you know, different checks to get into, which I think

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Speaker 2: is a great, great thing to have. Travis, Travis guy

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Speaker 2: runs and he's always smiling. We'll know it is. And

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Speaker 1: It's good to see.

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Speaker 2: And thoughts that if.

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Speaker 1: You've been a big help to him, like you know,

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Speaker 2: Just kind of passed on to you any that listen,

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Speaker 2: I think, uh, you know, you lose mobility as you

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Speaker 2: get older. Football is a is a very frustrating game

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Speaker 2: know it's it's I'm sitting here at year ten remembering

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Speaker 2: So just with that time, you've accrued a lot of football,

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Speaker 2: I'm just trying to give the guys confidence to go

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Speaker 1: Goal Line has been a focus to this team moving

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Speaker 1: ahead after last season. So what do you bring to

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Speaker 1: Where can this team make strides there? Well?

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Speaker 2: I think you know you can only do so much

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Speaker 2: Like you have to balance between getting those reps where

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Speaker 2: there is a certain violence and physicality to it, but

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Speaker 2: take advantage of them, and then you work on them.

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Speaker 2: Like hopefully you're better in short yards goal line at

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Speaker 2: the end of the year than you are at the beginning.

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Speaker 2: Not to say you want to be terrible at at

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Speaker 2: the beginning the year, but you know, I think coaches

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Speaker 2: have to balance a delicate line, and ours do that

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Speaker 2: pretty well. What have you seen from the distensive minement. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think Mason's got Mason's got such a bright future

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Speaker 2: of course, but you can see that he's got these

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Speaker 2: you know, he's really working some moves. And I think

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Speaker 2: your first year is such a monumental growing experience in

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Speaker 2: the football realm, right Like, so it'll just be fun

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Speaker 2: to see him and work with him as these weeks progress,

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Speaker 2: see him get better as a football player, immersed in

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Speaker 2: this Nielsen defense and come out and hopefully have a

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Speaker 2: celebration of those moments on Sundays. And yeah, the other

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Speaker 2: But I really like him, I really do. I think

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Speaker 2: he's got a bright future ahead of him. If he

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Speaker 2: gets back healthy, it'll be a fun guy to watch.

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Speaker 2: Thanks guys, Thank