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Speaker 1: How would you describe this day for any offense? Competitive?

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Speaker 1: Very competitive? Um, you know, our first joint practice against

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Speaker 1: another team, our first time going out there and competing

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Speaker 1: against another team. So UM, you know that's what these

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Speaker 1: days are about. Competition, improving, um, getting better at all

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Speaker 1: the fundamentals, all the details collectively, individually and as a team.

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Speaker 1: So you know, we want to come out here to

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Speaker 1: compete today. We want to come out here and get better.

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Speaker 1: And you know it's it's some mentality that we have

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Speaker 1: to have every time we come out here. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we came out here and competed extremely hard, um, as

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Speaker 1: we're supposed to every time we step on the field.

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Speaker 1: We want to come out here and compete. So we'll

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Speaker 1: go in and watch the film. Um, you know, make

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Speaker 1: whatever corrections we need and do whatever we need to

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Speaker 1: come out here and have a better day tomorrow. Progression business.

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Speaker 1: Every day is a progression. Many Yeah. You know, anytime

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Speaker 1: somebody go out there and make a play and ignite

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Speaker 1: the team and you know, get everybody excited, get everybody

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Speaker 1: juiced up. You know that's what we need. We need

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Speaker 1: you guys come out here and make plays. Um, everybody

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Speaker 1: go out and do their job and execute and if

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Speaker 1: we do that, then plays are going to be made.

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Speaker 1: And it doesn't matter who makes that play as long

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Speaker 1: as all eleven guys on the field are doing their job. Um,

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Speaker 1: in order for that play to happen. You know that's

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Speaker 1: what we need. I'll let you ask him what is his

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Speaker 1: his message was. I mean, it's all competition. Um, but

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Speaker 1: you know we can't we can't can't fight in the game,

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Speaker 1: can't do it in practice. Um. As competitive as it is,

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Speaker 1: you know, we gotta play within the rules and we

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Speaker 1: gotta be disciplined. We gotta go out there and do

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Speaker 1: our jobs, and fighting is not a part of our job. So,

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Speaker 1: like I said, we can't do it in a game,

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Speaker 1: we can't do it in practice. So you know that

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Speaker 1: it is what it is all the time. Our. Um,

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Speaker 1: that's a good question. You stop me with that one. UM.

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Speaker 1: I mean again, it's just about coming out here and executing,

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Speaker 1: you know, whether it's in the run game, pass game,

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Speaker 1: special teams. Um, everybody's got to do their job in

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Speaker 1: order for these plays to be successful. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: we gotta get a hat and a hat and running game. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The guys with the ball in their hands, they got

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Speaker 1: to take the right tracks, make the right reads, um,

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Speaker 1: get the ball downhill. So it to work in progress.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna continue to work at it every single day. UM,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna continue to improve individually, collectively and as a team.

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Speaker 1: And you know, like I keep saying, every day when

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Speaker 1: we step on this field, that's got to be our

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Speaker 1: our mentality withouten we're looking at a completely new offense?

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Speaker 1: Are we looking at an OFFENSEI So you just asked,

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Speaker 1: you just told me you you do want me to

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Speaker 1: give you too much info? Right? Every year is a

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Speaker 1: new year. Yeah, new coaches, new players, new schemes, new everything. Um.

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Speaker 1: No team is the same as it was a year before,

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Speaker 1: and this year is no difference. So whatever adjustments we

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Speaker 1: gotta make, whatever we got to do as a team

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Speaker 1: to make this team this year the best team that

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Speaker 1: we can be, We'll come out here and do it

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Speaker 1: every single day, team to strength. I feel like, UM,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's up to the coaches to put together

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Speaker 1: the best game plan, UM, to put us as players

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Speaker 1: in the best position to be successful. And it's our

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Speaker 1: job as players to go out there and execute it.

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Speaker 1: So you know that's all it is. UM. You know

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Speaker 1: they put together what they think is good for us

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Speaker 1: and as an offense, and then it's our job as

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Speaker 1: players to go out there and execute it. So that's

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Speaker 1: where we are. That's what we're going to continue to do.

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Speaker 1: We're going to continue to work together, players and coaches collectively, UM,

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Speaker 1: so we can do everything we can to make this

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Speaker 1: the best team, the best offense that we can be

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Speaker 1: doing with UM. I mean, I think as an offense,

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Speaker 1: we're you know, doing everything we can every time we

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Speaker 1: can be UM. So individually, as players, we got to

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Speaker 1: to compete UM at our highest level as an offense.

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Speaker 1: So you know we're doing that every time we step

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Speaker 1: better throughout this training camp process. You know, are you

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Speaker 1: starting to see things probably if that's a part of

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Speaker 1: the process. You know, every day you come out here,

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Speaker 1: you want to get better as something. So whenever you

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Speaker 1: grind through this camp, you know there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: So every day you want to just continue to get better,

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Speaker 1: continue to improve, like getting individually and collectively as an offense.

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Speaker 1: What is you know, every time I stop in the

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Speaker 1: football field, regardless of who it's against or who's out there,

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Speaker 1: you know, my job is to be my best and

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Speaker 1: every time I come out here, I want to do

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Speaker 1: my job for myself for this team most importantly, and

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Speaker 1: you know, just come out here and be the best

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Speaker 1: player that I can be for this organization. Yeah, James

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Speaker 1: is Um. Yeah, I could stand up here and talk

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Speaker 1: all day about how great of a person and player

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Speaker 1: that James White is. Um. You know, I felt very

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Speaker 1: fortunate to spend what time I did with him and

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Speaker 1: to be able to learn under his leadership, his professionalism, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, obviously his ability to play football at a

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Speaker 1: type of person, the type of player that James White is, um.

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Speaker 1: You know, as great of a teammate and a leader

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Speaker 1: who as he was, Um you know, he's a better friend.

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Speaker 1: So again, just feel very fortunate to spend the time

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Speaker 1: about some initial thoughts on Man being one of the

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Speaker 1: and the um? You know, Kevin and Pierre are both

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Speaker 1: to work, ready to improve, and ready to come out

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Speaker 1: here and put their best on the field. And you know,

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Speaker 1: it's all you can ask from anybody on this on

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Speaker 1: this team. You know, that's our that's our objective every

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Speaker 1: single day. UM. You know, they're incredibly hard workers and

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Speaker 1: they do everything they can to come out here in

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Speaker 1: the best play and be the best players that they

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Speaker 1: can be. UM. And you know that's no different from me.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm going into my fourth year and I

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Speaker 1: still approach the game that way. So you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: hoping that if that's how I approach the game, you know,

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Speaker 1: every time I step on the field, I gotta be

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Speaker 1: at my best. And I think if everybody does that,

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Speaker 1: you know, with its offense, defense, special teams, if everybody

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Speaker 1: comes out with that mentality, we're gonna have a really

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Speaker 1: good team. Thanks Steph,