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Speaker 1: I want to ask about josh U Jake and the

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Speaker 1: traits that stand out to you with regards to him

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Speaker 1: as a pass rusher. What's made what's uh, what are

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Speaker 1: the qualities to make them an effective pass rusher in

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Speaker 1: your mind? Um? Yeah, Well, first of all, I think

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Speaker 1: Josh burns a lot more pass rushing, but um, you

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Speaker 1: know he's got a skill set. Um. You know, he's

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Speaker 1: really strong, fast, explosive. Um, he does a lot of

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Speaker 1: things well. He has a really good feel for leverage

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Speaker 1: out on the field, and um, you know, how to

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Speaker 1: take advantage of people that don't have the right leverage

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Speaker 1: zon of um, who overplay him or don't respect this

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Speaker 1: feed enough. So I think he does a lot of

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Speaker 1: things well, um to help our defense. Regarding some of

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Speaker 1: those other things, Uh yeah, how much did you get

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Speaker 1: a sense of his overall skill set coming out of Michigan.

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Speaker 1: What have you discovered in your time working with him

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Speaker 1: as well? Um yeah, I mean my first exposure to

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Speaker 1: Josh was down at the Senior Bowl last year. Ums,

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Speaker 1: kan say, I'm really in tune with uh, with all

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Speaker 1: the college players. Um during the season, I'm kind of

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Speaker 1: watch my college football in in February, but I really

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Speaker 1: got to um got to get exposed to Josh. Uh

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Speaker 1: there's a Senior Bowl. And he was a very very

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Speaker 1: versatile player, had a lot of things to like about him.

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Speaker 1: Played a lot of different positions. UM. And so you

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Speaker 1: know from that point forward, UM got team both of

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Speaker 1: some time with him there, I with the Combine and

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Speaker 1: UM until everything started uh in the spring. But UM, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he was he was a very intriguing prospect and happy

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Speaker 1: he's on our team. A couple of weeks ago, UH,

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Speaker 1: al Grove was in town to do radio color commentary

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Speaker 1: and one of the players that he noted that stood

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Speaker 1: out to him was Terres Hall and curious spend two

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Speaker 1: years working with him a lot on the practice squad

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Speaker 1: and now as a contributor on the fifty three. Uh.

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Speaker 1: How much progress has he made and what gave him

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Speaker 1: the staying power on the practice squad as many guys

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Speaker 1: could go that group of players you're in, you're out.

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Speaker 1: What kept Terres around and how it has he emerged

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Speaker 1: his contributor and defense. UM yeah, I mean going back

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Speaker 1: to two springs ago, you know, Terres is one of

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Speaker 1: our thirty guys. UM, so we brought him in, brought

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Speaker 1: him in the spring. He uh he um, you know,

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Speaker 1: was a He's a very personable guy. He's easy to

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Speaker 1: get along with. And Um, you know, from that first

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Speaker 1: first meeting sitting in there with the defensive staff, Toterres

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Speaker 1: lefting impact on us and then signed him after the draft,

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Speaker 1: and you know every day he uh, he showed a

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Speaker 1: lot of great work ethic and and those type of

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Speaker 1: qualities that UM, that you're looking for on the press

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Speaker 1: the squad all year last year obviously never got a

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Speaker 1: got an opportunity, and then continue to work hard all

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Speaker 1: all last spring, all summer this year, and um was

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Speaker 1: I can't say enough good things about Torez. He was

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Speaker 1: He's definitely one of the hardest working UM rookies last year,

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Speaker 1: if not the hardest working guy. So um, you know,

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Speaker 1: we were all really impressed with him. Um. Torres is

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Speaker 1: a great guy on and off the field, does a

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Speaker 1: does a lot for everybody in the building. Everybody respects Tores,

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Speaker 1: everybody likes Thres Um. So yeah, he's He's a great

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Speaker 1: guy to have. I'm really happy for him that he's

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Speaker 1: the to the team on the fifty three minute rolls.

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Speaker 1: He was definitely going contributed to the team on the

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Speaker 1: practice squad, but now now everybody else can see it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: one could follow up regarding the you know, the roles

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Speaker 1: player in the practice squad when he has to mimic

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Speaker 1: the other team's defense and roles you have at the

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Speaker 1: same time, can apply himself to learn what you're doing defensively?

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Speaker 1: Is that an unusual ability? Is that in common for

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Speaker 1: a guy in that situation? I mean football football, So

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Speaker 1: you know, you're definitely you're definitely playing the scheme of

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Speaker 1: the other team. But it's not like you know, you're

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Speaker 1: we're you're definitely trying to give a good look and

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Speaker 1: the opponents offense or defense does. But I mean you're

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Speaker 1: And um, you know, I always enjoyed, enjoyed working with

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Speaker 1: able to see other teams schemes and how they're how

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Speaker 1: And you Torres did a great job of that. And um,

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Speaker 1: you know, help all the other ten guys get lined

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Speaker 1: to see it. So leadership qualities like that, um, we're

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Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter what the scheme is. Football's football,

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Speaker 1: and um, good middle linebackers are able to to get

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Speaker 1: wasn't our scheme. I was impressive to watch Terres take

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Speaker 1: control of those groups. Great, Steve, I appreciate thanks, yeah,

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Speaker 1: thank you. You know it's like the last two questions

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Speaker 1: it going good? How are you good? I just I

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Speaker 1: know it's games always away now, um, it's over a

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Speaker 1: week away. Looks like you guys might be seeing a

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Speaker 1: You know, you guys in a fair number of young quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: your thoughts on that. Um. You know, honestly, I think

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Speaker 1: disguise is important no matter who you're playing. You could

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Speaker 1: I've always felt like disguise is important. Um, as long

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Speaker 1: up here your responsibility during the play, then as much

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Speaker 1: disguise as you can do as beneficial. But um, you know, whoever, whoever,

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Speaker 1: no matter who the quarterback is, that'll be a point

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Speaker 1: of emphasis to a point where it doesn't sucree yourself up.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Last question great big Art. Hey Steve, UM,

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Speaker 1: I'm just wondering when you went back in um reviewed

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Speaker 1: this film. UM, was there any theme UM as far

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Speaker 1: as the issues against the run in this game that

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Speaker 1: you identified? Uh yeah, yeah, there's a lot of things

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Speaker 1: we could have done better that I wish we had

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Speaker 1: coached better. UM. But unfortunately in this league, you don't

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Speaker 1: get any games back, so it's got to move forward.

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Speaker 1: You as a play caller in the game, I mean,

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Speaker 1: how how frustrating is it, especially a game like that

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Speaker 1: on Thursday night, UM, when you couldn't get them behind

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Speaker 1: the sticks and really, you know, get even Devin talked

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Speaker 1: about it after game where there were a lot of

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Speaker 1: calls that you guys couldn't even get to. Um. You

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Speaker 1: you know we UM, we wish we could have done

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Speaker 1: some things better. But like I said, it's it's in

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Speaker 1: the past. We're moving forward. And UM, give a lot

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Speaker 1: of credit to those guys for for how they played

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Speaker 1: the game, UM, and just got got to do a

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Speaker 1: better job going forward. Okay, say yeah,