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Speaker 1: Okay, Mike, you'll get off with the first question the

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Speaker 1: great Thanks Aaron DeMarcus. How are you doing? I'm doing great,

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Speaker 1: Mike doing great, excellent. I hope you're staying safe and well.

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Speaker 1: I guess the first question I have for you as

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Speaker 1: um there are some differences within the facility, but he

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Speaker 1: mentioned that a lot of your teaching has proceeded uninterrupted.

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Speaker 1: Certainly you have done a lot of it virtually. But

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Speaker 1: I'm curious from your point of view. You know, you're

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Speaker 1: defensive line. How do you how is it impacted well?

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Speaker 1: For me? You know, I would say one thing about

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Speaker 1: in our building, we always talk about versatility and being

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Speaker 1: able to do multiple things. So I would say, along

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Speaker 1: with the coaching staff, the same way we asked our

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Speaker 1: players to be versatile. Uh. You know, for me, I

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Speaker 1: have a background in offense. I played offense in college. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, coach receivers, you know, coach defensive line of

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Speaker 1: coach linebackers, jo outside linebackers. Uh so Uh. The change

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Speaker 1: for me isn't you know nothing big? It's always you know,

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Speaker 1: presents a new opportunity every year and really just you know,

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Speaker 1: looking forward to coaching the defensive line and as far

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Speaker 1: as virtually you know, for this year, and how we've

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Speaker 1: been meeting with our players and uh, you know, during

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Speaker 1: the COVID situation, it's been really you know unique and luckily,

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Speaker 1: you know, technology is twenty twenty. It's been great for

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Speaker 1: us for all to learn different teaching tools, so able

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Speaker 1: to you know, implement different things that we might not

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Speaker 1: have used, you know, in the previous years. And what

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Speaker 1: do you think of the group that you have to share?

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Speaker 1: I think you got a good group, you know. So

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Speaker 1: we got some guys that definitely hadn't played a lot

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Speaker 1: of football. We got you know, some Vendorom players coming back, uh,

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Speaker 1: djup Wise ours guy Adam Butler. All those guys already

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Speaker 1: been you know here in our program for going on

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Speaker 1: four years now, and you know they're the events now.

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Speaker 1: So it's actually a good group to work with, uh

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Speaker 1: than I have been able to uh, you know, receive

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Speaker 1: the coaching and do everything we're demanding them to. Dude,

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Speaker 1: Aaron King, I may I continue? Yeah, you could continue, Mike, okay, Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought those three guys up, DeMarcus because

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Speaker 1: UM on a team that's had a number of players

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Speaker 1: those three seem to be the guys that you can

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Speaker 1: lean on for some leadership. I'm wondering both in terms

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Speaker 1: you go about leaning on those guys. Well, I will say,

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Speaker 1: you know, within our defense, we have a number of

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Speaker 1: is our veteran players are smart and they able to

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Speaker 1: bring their knowledge to the field. So within the defensive

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Speaker 1: line room, they're able to bring their previous plan experience

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Speaker 1: a season. I'm also carry its to Marcus if when

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Speaker 1: you move as a position coach from the linebacking group

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Speaker 1: to the defensive line, does that impact what you might

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Speaker 1: ask those players? Specifically, those three players with familiarity in

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Speaker 1: h No, I think we have core fundamentals and beliefs,

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Speaker 1: and really, you know, that's the core of our defense,

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Speaker 1: and the principles and the core of the defense don't change.

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Speaker 1: No matter what position you go at. You kind of

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Speaker 1: Just like that would not be a call these days

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Speaker 1: if I didn't ask you something COVID related and defensive line.

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Speaker 1: Obviously you're in the trenches right And I'm curious if

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Speaker 1: So you know, we've done all those things, and we're

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Speaker 1: So we always talk about execution becomes game reality. So

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Speaker 1: And you know, we tell them to you know, know

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Speaker 1: do it. That's it for me and de Marcus. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thank you, thank you, Thank you guys, thank

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Speaker 1: you De Marcus. We are set