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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Command Center Podcast. I'm Julie Donaldson. We

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Speaker 1: are nearing the end of training camp week two here

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Speaker 1: in Ashford. There's a lot of excitement surrounding quarterback Carson

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Speaker 1: Wentz and Washington's various offensive weapons. London Fletcher and Santana

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Speaker 1: Moss joined me to chat with QB one about training

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Speaker 1: camp and building chemistry with his teammates. Carson, We've been

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Speaker 1: waiting to have you come join us a couple of

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Speaker 1: days now into practice, a couple of times with the

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Speaker 1: pads on not your first rodeo though, first time here

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Speaker 1: with Washington. How is this process for you? Trying to

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Speaker 1: learn a new offense, learn new guys and as camp

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Speaker 1: kind of like ramps up each day to get more familiar,

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Speaker 1: to get that chemistry down. It's fun, honestly. I mean

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Speaker 1: it's a lot of work. It's it's a grind, as

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Speaker 1: you guys know, but it's a lot of fun too.

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Speaker 1: Coming together. You're building a culture, you're building a kind

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Speaker 1: of a family. You're building that bond, and the only

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Speaker 1: way to do that is out on the field by

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Speaker 1: going through the hot mornings together, by going through it together.

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Speaker 1: I think OTAs was big and kind of developing some

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Speaker 1: of those relationships, but now this um just kind of

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Speaker 1: takes it to the next level. So it's been fun

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Speaker 1: getting to know the guys, getting to know the playbook.

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Speaker 1: Feel pretty good in a good place with it as well.

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Speaker 1: We're not gonna be perfect out there, but that's why

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Speaker 1: we're out here, you know. You're working on that chemistry,

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Speaker 1: that timing, and it's been a fun process. Everybody wants

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Speaker 1: you to be perfect though this early on, like you've

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Speaker 1: been through enough camps to understand that it does take time.

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Speaker 1: Where where are you in feeling that you're getting closer

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Speaker 1: to that? Though? Yeah, I feel good about it, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean I want it to be perfect too, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of a perfectionist. So you miss a throw,

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Speaker 1: kind of kick yourself, but it's like, hey, it's still early.

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Speaker 1: It's still early, and it's a process, so you can

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Speaker 1: you know, the mistakes that happen are often good because

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Speaker 1: you can go in there and you can watch this

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Speaker 1: can fix it and learn from those mistakes, and that's

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Speaker 1: that's normal. But at the same time, I wanted to go, well,

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Speaker 1: I want it to be perfect, and so I have

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Speaker 1: high expectations every practice and so do the guys around here,

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Speaker 1: which is really cool because we hold everybody accountable and

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Speaker 1: in those high expectations. But yeah, it's not gonna be

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Speaker 1: moment like umen right now last year going to Endy

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Speaker 1: having to play in learn that system. I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: how much you had to learn because you had the

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Speaker 1: But you're better in this game. Do you ever feel

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Speaker 1: there's going to be a time where you're more comfortable

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Speaker 1: than the other times? For our quarterbacks always kind of

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Speaker 1: you try and not be complacent. I guess you're always

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Speaker 1: trying to get better. You're always trying to learn a

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Speaker 1: As best as you can versus every single coverage, you know,

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Speaker 1: And I think this year it's been probably a bigger

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Speaker 1: transition in learning a playbook for me, different system, different style.

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Speaker 1: But the OTAs was huge for that, you know, the

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Speaker 1: last couple of years, I haven't had an OTAs with

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Speaker 1: getting around them, um was really beneficial for me. It

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Speaker 1: something that that you continue. I remember my years of

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Speaker 1: I feel like that builds a lot of chemistry. You know,

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Speaker 1: And so I've been fun developing that relationship with him.

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Speaker 1: For sure. It's definitely important to remember that it is

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Speaker 1: You're not a guy that had to play defense, but

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Speaker 1: How do you kind of uh block the noise? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know how I'll deal with it. I didn't watch TV,

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Speaker 1: I didn't listen to the radio. I did my job.

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Speaker 1: What is it takes for a guy like yourself as

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Speaker 1: I mean the same thing. You know. I don't watch

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Speaker 1: smart man. I don't listen to the radio. It's it's music,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's podcasts, it's different things. But for me,

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Speaker 1: my faith, my faith, it just keeps me grounded and

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Speaker 1: as long as I'm right with God. So that keeps

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Speaker 1: me grounding. My family, my two little girls, and I

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Speaker 1: there's no need for that. I already put a lot

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Speaker 1: them focusing. Part of part of the training cap is

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Speaker 1: the trash talk of the competitive you know spirit that

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Speaker 1: takes place between the offense and the defense. And you

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Speaker 1: mentioned whether you throw up five test stiles or five interceptions.

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Speaker 1: You threw a couple of interceptions during training camp this week.

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Speaker 1: And the defense, I know they're gonna be chirping and

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Speaker 1: doing those types of things. Are you a trash talk

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Speaker 1: I played against Tom Brady, he was a major trash talker.

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Speaker 1: Peyton Manny would talk a little bit. What's you know?

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Speaker 1: I didn't say anything. Do you talk a little trains out? Really?

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Speaker 1: I'm not really unless somebody, you know, rose me the

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Speaker 1: wrong way. And you know, you can do subtle things

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Speaker 1: some jobs, a little a little bit here and there,

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Speaker 1: maybe on the practice field, especially when a dB wants

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Speaker 1: to keep chirping, Yeah, you'll throw it at him a

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Speaker 1: little bit. But I try to just let the play

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Speaker 1: du the talking for the most part, but every now

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Speaker 1: and then you'll get into mix. Right. We kind of

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Speaker 1: always say that, come to that point, though, let me

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Speaker 1: ask me, like, where's our defense? Yeah? So far. I

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Speaker 1: mean you've got you've got some big bodies coming at you,

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Speaker 1: talking about how our secondary's communicating more and really kind

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Speaker 1: it's it's a great defense. You know. I've played against

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Speaker 1: but the guys in the trenches on the D line,

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Speaker 1: see that at practice. But I've been impressed with the

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Speaker 1: entire defense, the secondary flying around, some of those guys,

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Speaker 1: newer faces that I haven't competed against before. Been really

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Speaker 1: impressed with the way they communicate, the way they fly

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Speaker 1: mixing up back there. It's exciting to see and it's

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Speaker 1: making us a lot better because they give us a

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Speaker 1: great look. Every single time Iron Shop resigns. They're gonna

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Speaker 1: be all right. You know. We are also talking about

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Speaker 1: like durn Payne getting back there and if you want

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Speaker 1: to be like yo, dude, come on, give me give

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Speaker 1: me a secranchise, no no touching card. Look that that's it.

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Speaker 1: That said what everybody's wanting seeing. Excited to really kind

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Speaker 1: of see this, come together, to have your moment, have

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Speaker 1: your day and uh, you know, over the years we're

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Speaker 1: always kind of like it's Terry, Terry Terry. Now you

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Speaker 1: have the chance to spread that ball around. So I'm

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Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing a lot of different options out there.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be here before we know what. Folks, um,

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining us Carson for all your news and analysis.

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