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Speaker 1: Hey, Ross, how are you, Mike? How you doing? How's

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Speaker 1: your holiday was good? How was yours? That was pretty good?

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Speaker 2: You know, it was my son's first Thanksgiving, so that

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Speaker 3: You got to make sure you got a lot of

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Speaker 1: I hope, no, no doubt, definitely did.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I wanted to ask you about Taekwon a little

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Speaker 3: I know he was playing with the foot, but it

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Speaker 3: seemed like there were times at the top of his

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Speaker 3: he was taking an extra step or two. And then

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Speaker 3: it looked the same way on Sunday against the Giants.

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Speaker 3: Is that something he's coached? Is that to each his own? Like,

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Speaker 3: however you do it, you do it just as long

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Speaker 2: Nah, So I guess Washington he was a pregame workout.

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Speaker 1: He was playing.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't one hundred percent there, So that was actually

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Speaker 2: the foot that he had to cut off of when

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Speaker 2: he ran the route against Forbes on the outbreaking route,

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Speaker 2: So that was a little messed up there. And then

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Speaker 2: on Sunday against the Giants, the rock could have been better.

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Speaker 2: I mean we know that. I know that he knows

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Speaker 2: it is this something we got to continue to work

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Speaker 2: and contine to emphasize because he is a good route runner,

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Speaker 3: How difficult is it to get him to be consistent

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Speaker 3: considering obviously there's been a lot of time missed or

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Speaker 3: as you mentioned, you know, playing with the bad foot,

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Speaker 3: and that sort of limits what he can do and

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's just with reps and time and practice,

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Speaker 2: and that's the only way we can get out of

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Speaker 1: That's the way we would get better.

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Speaker 2: We just got to continue to practice and continue to

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Speaker 3: If I got you one more here, you were on

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Speaker 3: the other side of the ball at one point. What

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Speaker 3: are your impressions of drov Mayo the coach and how

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Speaker 3: he relates to his players.

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Speaker 1: No, I love drawing the man.

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Speaker 2: I worked with him in twenty twenty one and respected

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Speaker 2: he had a great career as a patriot, or respected

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Speaker 2: what he did. I mean, super Bowl champion, just I

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Speaker 2: mean he's really a unicorn. I mean, you talked about

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Speaker 2: a guy who was a first round draft pick. He

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Speaker 2: worked in after he's done, he retired and worked in

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Speaker 2: a fortune five hunter company. I mean as a high

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Speaker 2: you're talking about the dude who is just off the charts,

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Speaker 2: like talented. Just being around him, seeing how he relates

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Speaker 2: I love I love grad.

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Speaker 1: I think he's a heck of a due in the

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Speaker 3: Thanks Ron, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Mike. What's up Ross? What's up on man?

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Speaker 4: How you doing doing great? I always appreciate your insight.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for thanks for doing this and taking taking the question.

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Speaker 4: I'm curious about a play from the last game when

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Speaker 4: Pop is lined up in the backfield, are there past

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Speaker 4: protection responsibilities for him on that situation? Like what insight

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Speaker 4: the interception when he came out of the backfield.

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Speaker 2: The insight on past protection for Pop definitely not absolutely

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Speaker 2: not no past protection responsibilities right there. But you know,

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Speaker 2: the Giants, we tried, we try to get them on something.

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Speaker 2: We saw some more field that we thought would be

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Speaker 1: So sometimes you got to talk it up that link.

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Speaker 2: We had a better plan that we did on that

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Speaker 2: And what you got to move on and continue to

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Speaker 5: They're as glad you had a great Thanksgiving man.

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Speaker 1: No no doubt forre say that was yours good?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was great.

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Speaker 6: I have two kids though, six and four. It's a

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Speaker 1: Know, Yeah, no doubt, that's dope.

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Speaker 6: I want to ask you about Malie cunning him. You know,

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Speaker 5: And you know what have you noticed from him? Just

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Speaker 1: Lake is good. I mean he's all Leak's great to

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Speaker 2: For me, it comes to practice every day, I mean

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Speaker 2: practice is hard and comes in the building with a smile.

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Speaker 1: He's eager, too eager to learn, so then a pleasure

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Speaker 2: He's definitely getting better he's an improven young player, so

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Speaker 1: Good things to have before.

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Speaker 5: How difficult is this to do?

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Speaker 6: I mean, you know, you played quarterback really honestly all

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Speaker 5: How difficult of a challenge is this.

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Speaker 2: It's a big challenge because I mean, you're talking about

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Speaker 2: from A to Z through the position. So it's been

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Speaker 2: it's been a process. It's been fun, and you know

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Speaker 2: he's gotten better. The thing where you judge on rookie

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Speaker 2: And I think ever since he stepped in as one

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Speaker 1: So I'm excited to continue to work with him.

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Speaker 5: Awesome, Thanks so much, man, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 5: Two final questions, Bob so seeing all right?

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Speaker 7: Thanks Stace ay Ross, thanks for your time, Yes, sir,

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Speaker 7: and lated happy Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: Glad went well for you.

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Speaker 7: And your family, and I guess Saturday went pretty well

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Speaker 7: too for your alma mater.

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Speaker 1: Nah, Hey, dang, big time, big time on that one.

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Speaker 2: You know, I had to put on the Michigan stuff

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Speaker 2: and walk around, you know, talks physique and Sean Wade

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Speaker 7: So now that was a pretty good day, A good

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Speaker 7: day for you. And get a few Buck guys in there, right.

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Speaker 1: No doubt.

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Speaker 2: Got a couple of Buck guys, you know, hopefully they

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Speaker 1: Come tomorrow, we'll see.

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Speaker 7: I just want to ask for your general evaluation of

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Speaker 1: Of your receivers.

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Speaker 7: I mean, for a long time that was something you know,

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Speaker 7: to Edelman, A Mondola, Jacobe and down the line overall, generally,

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Speaker 2: I think there's times we've been really good. There's obviously

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Speaker 2: The number one rule we have in our room is

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Speaker 2: end of the sign it says, no block, no rock.

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Speaker 2: So we take pride in blocking in the run game,

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Speaker 2: That's a mantra in our room. So our guy does

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Speaker 2: and we take that the heart and we drill it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we emphasize it. I mean, that's a number

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Speaker 1: So something we want to continue to emphasize.

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Speaker 7: I mean, how about to throw us down the line

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Speaker 7: on on screenplays or throws of that nature. A lot

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Speaker 2: And that goes to blocking for the wide receiver position too,

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Speaker 2: because a lot of times, a couple of times DP

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Speaker 2: So but there's really selfless plays by those guys being

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Speaker 1: The guys who could do something with the ball when

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Speaker 2: So they were they were, they were positive for us,

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Speaker 1: Ross thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 5: And last question to.

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Speaker 8: Hey coach, thank you so much for your time. I

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Speaker 8: know that Taekwon Thornton has missed a lot of time.

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Speaker 8: You know, he's kind of behind the eight ball a

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Speaker 8: little bit. But in terms of his route running and

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Speaker 8: you know, the precision that we'm in, I was wondering

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Speaker 8: if it's to the standard that you're coaching it and

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Speaker 8: if not, you know, what do you help how you

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Speaker 8: help a player come along win. He's missed so much

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Speaker 8: time in an offense where you know precision really is everything.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I mean everything you said is exactly right.

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Speaker 1: I mean Taekwan second round draft pick for a reason.

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Speaker 1: He's very talented. He could run roles. He proved that

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Speaker 2: He's proved that at times in his one and a

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Speaker 2: half year NFL career. But we just got to be

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Speaker 2: more consistent with anything. And that's just not him, that's

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Speaker 2: everybody in the room. We've got to be more consistent

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Speaker 2: and Taekwon, he's a guy. He's eager to learn, he's

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Speaker 5: Thank you so much.

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