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Speaker 1: Welcome to this special offseason. Additionally, from the Podium podcast

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Speaker 1: on Jason Gibbs, the Browns have made their hired the

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Speaker 1: new offensive coordinator of your Cleveland Browns, Tommy Reese, officially

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Speaker 1: official yesterday and yeah his introductory press conference at the

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Speaker 1: Cross Country Mortgage Campus here in Berea.

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Speaker 2: Up.

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Speaker 1: First, You'res head coach Kevin Stefanski regarding the decision to

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Speaker 1: hire coach Tommy Reese.

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Speaker 3: Okay, guys, excited to announce Tommy Reese as our offensive coordinator.

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Speaker 3: Tommy is a guy that we met a few years back,

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Speaker 3: kept a relationship, watched him from Afar as he had

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Speaker 3: his success as a young coach, and then we were

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Speaker 3: able to bring him in here last year. And really

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Speaker 3: the spent last year spent with Tommy really solidified what

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Speaker 3: I thought about him. You know, we had a process

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Speaker 3: with some really impressive candidates for this job, some smart

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Speaker 3: people that we really enjoyed getting to know, but ultimately

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Speaker 3: felt that Tommy was the right fit for this football team.

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Speaker 3: As far as play calling, which I know you guys

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Speaker 3: the right to change my mind. Okay, So excited announced

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Speaker 3: Tommy He's ready for this, been already a bunch of

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Speaker 3: meetings with Tommy, with the offensive coaches. If it feels

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Speaker 3: like Tommy's got a really strong handle on this job,

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Speaker 3: and I'm excited for him. So, without further ado, Tommy Rees.

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Speaker 1: And now your new offensive coordinator, Tommy Reese, who discussed

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Speaker 1: his vision for the offense in twenty twenty five and beyond.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, first and foremost, just want to thank Coach the Fansky,

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Speaker 4: the Hazim family, and the entire Brown's organization Andrew Berry

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Speaker 4: for this opportunity. It's one I'm gonna take great pride

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Speaker 4: in and look forward to. You know, really excited about

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Speaker 4: being able to stay in Cleveland, stay with the Browns.

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Speaker 4: And you know, lastly, thank all of you for being here,

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Speaker 4: braving the cold. And with that, I will open it

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Speaker 4: up to any questions.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I'm sure you have some other opportunities. You know,

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Speaker 5: how did it work out that you ended up staying

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Speaker 5: here and how excited are you just to be here again? Yeah,

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Speaker 5: Cleveland is where I wanted to be. You know, I

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Speaker 5: took this job a year ago, wanting to be with

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Speaker 5: Coach Stefanski, wanting to be a part of this organization. Obviously,

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Speaker 5: the fan base, you know what this organization represents, you know,

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Speaker 5: the division we're in.

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Speaker 4: All those things added up. So if this was going

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Speaker 4: to be an opportunity for me, this was the one

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Speaker 6: When you start putting the offense together for the too doctorally,

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Speaker 6: but how difficult is that not knowing who the quarterback is?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you want to build an offense that

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Speaker 4: has flexibility to be able to you know, cater to

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Speaker 4: any quarterback strengths. And that's what we're after here, and

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Speaker 4: that's what we're trying to build. And you know, we

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Speaker 4: have to be you know, malleable in our ability to

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Speaker 4: shape the offense, you know, to really highlight the strengths

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Speaker 4: of that player. And you know, I know we're going

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Speaker 4: to put a system together that's able to do that.

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Speaker 7: I mean, what role will you play in the draft

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Speaker 7: and evaluating quarterback? Will you go to the Shrine Bowl?

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Speaker 7: Will you go to the Senior Bowl?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, A lot of those conversations are still to be had. Obviously,

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Speaker 4: the evaluation process is ongoing for the quarterbacks. I'll be

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Speaker 4: you know, involved in that. You know, whether we're Shrine Bowls,

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Speaker 8: Putting a system together here. How do you envision it, Loooking?

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Speaker 8: Is it going to be similar to what was you know,

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Speaker 8: the first four years with Kevin and a VP, or

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Speaker 8: do you anticipate working with Kevin to really kind of

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Speaker 8: overhaul and put your own stamp on Thanks.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we're gonna work together. We want to

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Speaker 4: have a system that is sound. We want to have

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Speaker 4: a system that is explosive. But at the end of

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Speaker 4: highlights our players strengths. And so it's always going to

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Speaker 4: be player centric. It's always going to be in the

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Speaker 4: It's great, you know, obviously we're gonna work together. You know,

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Speaker 4: there's so much work that gets done on the front

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Speaker 4: end of things. Play calling is is just part of

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Speaker 6: Tell me, when you talk about catering the offense to

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Speaker 6: to be a million options in free agency in the draft,

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Speaker 6: So don't you need to have a system that you

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: Like a foundation of.

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Speaker 6: A system and then a quarterback fits there as opposed

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the best staffs, the best offense is

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Speaker 4: find a way to cater to the people they have. Right,

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Speaker 4: You need to have a system that is diverse enough

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Speaker 4: You don't want to pigeonhole what you can and can't

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Speaker 4: to Let's go find the best quarterback we can. Let's

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Speaker 4: make sure that he's comfortable in the system.

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Speaker 2: Tommy, what is we you speak of that quarterback? Well,

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Speaker 2: whoever it is, what's to may the one biggest trait

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Speaker 4: Yeah, at the end of the day, a quarterbacks job

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Speaker 4: seventy eighty times a game to make a decision in

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Speaker 4: a critical moment, and so I've always started with the

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Speaker 4: ability to make quick decisions and make the right decisions.

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Speaker 4: So if you said one thing over the other, I

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Speaker 10: I know you have a lot.

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Speaker 7: Of experience in different areas, but last season specifically, what

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Speaker 7: did that teach you to make you feel ready for

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Speaker 11: Go Offen, suppordinator.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think there are differences between the

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Speaker 4: you know, having been in a while back, but now

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Speaker 4: in a different role. You know, you you learn how

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Speaker 4: dealt with day to day. So I would say like

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Speaker 4: just being back in the in the flow of the

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Speaker 4: about leadership. It's about managing play players and staff. It's

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Speaker 4: about finding ways to have solutions for your players and

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Speaker 4: I just think having your you know, dipping your feet

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Speaker 6: How do you see shaping and delegating the staff and

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Speaker 6: what you mostly coach the quarterbacks.

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Speaker 4: On the day to day day. Those are all still

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Speaker 4: we have a staff that gives our players a great

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Speaker 4: opportunity to have success. Hey, you tell what you need

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Speaker 4: a quarterbacks coach and say that again.

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Speaker 5: Do you fear you need to bring in a quarterbacks coach?

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Speaker 4: You know that Again that's something as a staff we

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Speaker 4: have to evaluate on exactly how we want to play

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Speaker 4: that out. You know, certainly I'll be involved with the quarterbacks,

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Speaker 4: but again we're going to weigh all those options and

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Speaker 4: make sure it's the right fit for us.

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Speaker 12: Is you're part of the staff now in promoted obviously

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Speaker 12: for some reasons the team can use so well on offense.

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Speaker 12: Do you feel you can be objective and bring a

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Speaker 12: new luck on what went wrong and what can begin.

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Speaker 7: To fix this?

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Speaker 4: I do, yes?

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Speaker 7: Tell me speaking of making decisions quickly. Part of Jayden

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Speaker 7: Daniel's success is now being attributed to virtual reality. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: and training his mind to work faster. How do you

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we do have VR as part of our It's

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Speaker 4: part of the things that are available to our players.

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Speaker 4: You know, every individual is different on how well they

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Speaker 4: take to those things. Obviously, you know Jaden's talked about

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Speaker 4: familiar with that. I've used it with quarterbacks in the past.

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Speaker 4: We do have the ability to use that. Again, some

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Speaker 4: of that is on individual basis on how they learn.

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Speaker 4: But you know, part of our job as coaches is

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Speaker 4: that's one that we'll have at our disposal.

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Speaker 13: Tommy, what about Jalen Milraw and just how much you

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Speaker 13: process of all these courts.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I listen as a person. I have

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Speaker 4: for Jalen. Obviously we went through a h an entire

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Speaker 4: season together. When and when you're the play caller and

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Speaker 4: the quarterback, there's a great relationship there. But I'm really

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Speaker 4: not going to expand much on anybody in the draft

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Speaker 4: a lot of love for Jalen as the man he

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Speaker 4: is and wish him all the best.

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Speaker 10: You expect it to.

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Speaker 13: Be there at the I know you were ssrate, but

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Speaker 13: do you do you plan on being.

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Speaker 4: At the senior bel Again, that's up to you know,

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Speaker 4: the staff to decide how we want to delegate some

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Speaker 4: and it's a long process, so we'll have plenty of

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Speaker 11: You look at the last two years for this offense,

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Speaker 11: turnovers have been a huge issue. Like what's your plan

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Speaker 4: To solve that as of issues, Yeah, you know, I

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Speaker 4: think when your players are when the message is very clear,

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Speaker 4: when the expectation on certain plays is very clear, when

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Speaker 4: the teaching progression allows them to have confidence and play

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Speaker 4: on time on schedule, I think that helps limit those things. Obviously,

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Speaker 4: you know, interceptions pile up. We have to make sure

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Speaker 4: that there is no gray area for those quarterbacks, and

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Speaker 4: then you know, we got to preach good ball security

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Speaker 6: I mean a couple of the guys who a couple

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Speaker 6: of tight end you coach last year.

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Speaker 11: Said you see everything like a quarterback and.

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Speaker 2: Teach everything like a quarterback.

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Speaker 11: Do you think that's that's a fair assessment.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I guess that's been my lens for football

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Speaker 4: a positive, right, But yeah, I think I definitely think

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Speaker 4: that's part of it. You know. I think when you're

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Speaker 4: like I do, think it's important to be able to

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Speaker 5: Season, Tommy, because you have that unique lens. Does that

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Speaker 5: You can talk about flexibility and some dynamic quarterbacks names

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Speaker 6: And tell me, after reflecting on last season, do you

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Speaker 6: And did you know Mike Blueger before you got here?

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Speaker 6: And what do you think he adds to you?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look, I've been with Bloom now for

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Speaker 4: I think he's a great offensive line coach and a

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Speaker 6: When you took this job, you think it could lead

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Speaker 4: My only focus last year was getting ready to coach

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Speaker 7: Did you use VRT notre damer to set out Obama?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, prestat penalties were such an issue offensively last year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Look, I think a lot of clarity needs to

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Speaker 6: Pressing yesterday when he was talking about the quarterback.

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Speaker 2: Losses over turn over, I'm just following that if.

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Speaker 8: You know.

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Speaker 4: I think when you're in a high level passing efficiency,

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Speaker 11: What what ultimately dre you wanting to.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I met him a few years back,

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Speaker 4: you want to be around good people. You're you know,

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Speaker 13: Do you feel as though, since you are not that

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Speaker 4: Again, I'm not gonna talk about any of the players

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Speaker 13: In general, though, do you feel like this, I mean,

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Speaker 7: Everyone assumes the offense we'll go back to the twenty

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Mean, I think there's core principles within the system

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Speaker 11: You know, you talked a little bit about I think

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was great. I'll tell you a quick story.

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Speaker 4: effect of how you attack a defense. And you know,

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Speaker 4: we want to be have the ability to be multiple

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Speaker 4: and have different ways to present challenges to the defense.

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Speaker 10: When you think about, you know, you being here when

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Speaker 10: you were younger, alvo, other than coming in last year

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Speaker 10: Titans coach moving into this, Like when you think about

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Speaker 10: your shirt, your connection to the Browns, why is it

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Speaker 10: so being meaningful for you to step into this role.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's a large reason why, right, I mean,

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Speaker 4: growing up my dad worked for however, many NFL teams

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Speaker 4: for whatever reason, the Browns were kind of the one

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Speaker 4: that stuck, probably because I was here boots on the ground,

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Speaker 4: working training camp. You know, those were probably the years

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Speaker 4: I really started falling in love with football. And so

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Speaker 4: when I think about my early development in the game,

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Speaker 4: I early love for the game. So many of those

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Speaker 4: memories were surrounded by either being here or watching the

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Speaker 4: Browns on Sunday from home, and so you know, it

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Speaker 4: has come full circle. You know, I haven't really had

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Speaker 4: the time to like sit down and think about that,

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Speaker 4: but you know, I know it's one you know, just

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Speaker 4: you know, speaking with my brother, speaking with my dad,

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Speaker 4: Like it is a pretty cool, you know story to

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Speaker 4: you know, be able to say, Okay, well, when you

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Speaker 4: really fell in love with the game, it was in

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Speaker 4: this building, it was watching these games. Now to be

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Speaker 4: in the position I'm in is something I'm grateful for.

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Speaker 2: To mean, you talked about the work on the front

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Speaker 2: end of.

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Speaker 6: You know, before a game day and everything.

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Speaker 5: How much do you like that part of the job

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Speaker 5: and how much do you kind of hope to be

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Speaker 5: able to kind of set the table with Kevin for

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Speaker 5: everything he does.

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Speaker 3: As a play call?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean when you when you put together a

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Speaker 4: plan and then you see that plan coming to action

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Speaker 4: on a game day, that's about as rewarding as a feeling.

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Speaker 4: And when you're able to put together a plan for

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Speaker 4: your players to have success and then you're able to

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Speaker 4: see that success transpire on the field, that's about as

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Speaker 4: rewarding of a feeling you can have in sport. And

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Speaker 4: so much of that are the hours that you lead

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Speaker 4: up to the game. You know, the time you spend

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Speaker 4: in the office. You know, you sacrifice a lot in

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Speaker 4: these jobs, and a lot of it goes to exactly

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Speaker 4: what you're speaking to, And you know that's probably my

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Speaker 4: favorite part of the job is being able to sit

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Speaker 4: in there and schematically find ways to attack a team,

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Speaker 4: and then to be able to have that, you know,

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Speaker 4: come to life on game day, you know, really brings

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Speaker 4: a lot of you know, a lot of hard work

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Speaker 4: to life and really brings you know, what you're trying

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Speaker 4: to do is give your players the best opportunity to

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Speaker 4: be successful. And when you can do that, it's it's

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Speaker 4: really a gratifying experience.

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Speaker 2: I think you don't want.

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Speaker 8: To get into specifics when it comes to maybe the

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Speaker 8: quarter plans going forward here, but but you'll.

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Speaker 10: Well you'll add it.

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Speaker 8: You don't walk into a job without knowing exactly what

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Speaker 8: you're walking into. So do you at least have an

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Speaker 8: idea of what that plan might be this off season?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I you know, said here a little bit ago.

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Speaker 4: I'm really excited to get to evaluating that and see

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Speaker 4: what's out there.

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Speaker 6: What say you and Kevin see the game?

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Speaker 4: Like similarly, Yeah, I think we, you know, have different

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Speaker 4: experiences in the game. We've grown up in different systems

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Speaker 4: of the game. I think, you know, the core tenants

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Speaker 4: of what we believe in, you know, being sound and

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Speaker 4: being explosive, those things are you know, both really important

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Speaker 4: to us. But in terms of how you get there,

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Speaker 4: you know, we have similarities, but there's also going to

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Speaker 4: be things that both of us see as as new

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Speaker 4: ways or different ways to accomplish those goals, which I

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Speaker 4: think is something you want, right. You don't want everybody

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Speaker 4: to have the same idea. You know, I have a

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Speaker 4: quote in my office as we're all thinking, like no

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Speaker 4: one thinks very much, and I think that's really important

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Speaker 4: with a staff that you're able to, you know, feel

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Speaker 4: like those guys have the autonomy to bring ideas to

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Speaker 4: make the entire offense better.

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Speaker 6: Do you think you guys connected so quickly that you

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Speaker 6: know what I mean?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think there is a lot. I

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Speaker 4: think we do see a lot of things the same

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Speaker 4: way and terms of what's important in the game of football.

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Speaker 4: You know, I just think I have a tremendous amount

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Speaker 4: of respect for how he handles, you know, his job,

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Speaker 4: how he handles people, and that's something that you know,

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Speaker 4: I wanted to be a part of. And you know,

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Speaker 4: I think that's probably a two way street.

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Speaker 13: There's been more, you know, there's been such a vast

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Speaker 13: difference between supposedly Kevin's old way of doing offense and

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Speaker 13: then the new more spread RPO stuff that you guys

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Speaker 13: were trying to do at the outset last year, and

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Speaker 13: now there's all kinds of talk about they're going back

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Speaker 13: to Kevin Spansky's old offense. Is there a way to

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Speaker 13: marry those two things and to really incorporate all of

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Speaker 13: those elements into an offense and yet still also.

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Speaker 10: Have an identity?

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Speaker 4: Yes, there is. There is definitely the ability to be

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Speaker 4: multiple is something that we want. Now, what multiplicity looks

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Speaker 4: like can look like a lot of different things to

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Speaker 4: a defense, while it stays very consistent for the offensive players.

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Speaker 4: And so when I think you talk about scheme, how

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Speaker 4: you present it is what puts defense at a bind.

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Speaker 4: And so there are aspects of scheme of things that

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Speaker 4: have been done in the past, things that we did

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Speaker 4: last year that are consistent, but how we present it

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Speaker 4: presents the challenge for the defense. So the identities in

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Speaker 4: the scheme, the presentation is part of how we keep

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Speaker 4: people off balance.

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Speaker 2: Tell me how is your general offensive philosophy? Is there

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Speaker 2: a kind of a route to where that started, where

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Speaker 2: you sort of first developed it. I mean, day everybody

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Speaker 2: says there's that you know, this person.

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Speaker 6: Or that, right.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a lot of people. I would say when

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Speaker 4: I was in twenty sixteen, I got the job in

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Speaker 4: San Diego with the Chargers. I walked into that job

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Speaker 4: thinking I had pretty good grasp on football. I remember

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Speaker 4: being completely blown away by the knowledge that the coaches had,

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Speaker 4: and I would say that year from just a schematic

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Speaker 4: football standpoint, really changed the way I looked at the game.

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Speaker 4: And we had you know, Mike McCoy's our head coach,

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Speaker 4: Ken wiznen Hunt was our coordinator. Nick Sirianni was our

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Speaker 4: white hot coach. Shane Stikeen was our quarterback coach. You know,

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Speaker 4: there was a great staff of people around me that

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Speaker 4: I really leaned into and learned from. And then you know,

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Speaker 4: you add the stops along the way. I mean certainly,

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Speaker 4: you know, being under coach Saban and learning how to

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Speaker 4: how he ran his program and how you do things

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Speaker 4: day to day, how he looked at the game as

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Speaker 4: a defensive coach, like, the perspective I was able to

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Speaker 4: gain from him was something I would value my entire life,

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Speaker 4: you know, And then I'd be look, I spent nine

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Speaker 4: years with Brian Kelly as a player, as a coach,

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Speaker 4: so obviously there's things along the way that I picked

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Speaker 4: up with him offensively. So I've been fortunate to be

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Speaker 4: around a lot of great coaches, but I would point

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Speaker 4: to the year and San Diego is one that really

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Speaker 4: transformed the way I looked at football. Thank you, guys.

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