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Speaker 1: Hello, good. How are you good? How excited you get

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Speaker 1: now that the preseason is highness need to actually get

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Speaker 1: the game plan for a specific opponent. Yeah. I think

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Speaker 1: it's always fun. That's one of the best parts of

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Speaker 1: football is getting into the xs and os and just

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Speaker 1: coming together and completing plays together, getting everybody on the

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Speaker 1: same page. So when you see a play that you

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Speaker 1: put in and it works, and that's a really good

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Speaker 1: feeling during the game because it helps the team wins.

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Speaker 1: So trying to get there. Obviously, this week's really just

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Speaker 1: focus on fundamentals and what we can do better, and

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Speaker 1: then we'll kind of get into the game plan and

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Speaker 1: all that. But it's football eleven on eleven and we

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Speaker 1: just got to go out there and execute like we

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Speaker 1: need to do. How have you felt about the progression

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Speaker 1: of this offense over the last couple of weeks heading

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Speaker 1: into now as you guys get ready for week one year. Um, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's been good. I think a lot of learning experiences

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Speaker 1: and that's always room for growth, So I think it's

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Speaker 1: been good. I think we've ironed out a lot of

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Speaker 1: things and it's good that they're happening now and I

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Speaker 1: feel confident in what we're doing. Um, we just got

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Speaker 1: to go out there and do it for sixty minutes.

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Speaker 1: And um, that's just play by play And obviously during practice,

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Speaker 1: same thing, play by play, go out there and execute it.

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Speaker 1: And um, once you turn on the game film and

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Speaker 1: you look back and there's you know, forty five fifty

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Speaker 1: good plays and you know, hopefully you come out on top.

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Speaker 1: But it's more about executing it and doing your job individually.

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Speaker 1: And we all do that. Eleven guys do it close

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Speaker 1: to write every play, then you'll have a good play. Man.

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Speaker 1: How important is it for you guys? Just simply put

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Speaker 1: up points? You know what I mean? No matter what else. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know where you're progressing, and you know it's it's

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Speaker 1: a it's a progression if you go. But just simply

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Speaker 1: putting up points, yeah, I think, Um, that's definitely a

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Speaker 1: results thing. But um, like I said, you got to

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Speaker 1: focus on what you have to do each play and

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Speaker 1: the points will come. So obviously in the preseason, you know,

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Speaker 1: it is what it is, and we're kind of past

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Speaker 1: that and we're kind of to just this week and

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Speaker 1: trying to run better plays and do things better so

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Speaker 1: that we can put more points on the board, so

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Speaker 1: that'll come. And I know, and watching tape, I was

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Speaker 1: talking to our coaches, it is a long game. Every

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Speaker 1: game is a long game, and that's a good thing

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Speaker 1: because there's a lot of plays to be had and

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Speaker 1: a lot of plays to be made. So it's good

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Speaker 1: to realize that it doesn't have to be made in

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Speaker 1: one play, and it doesn't have to be made in

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Speaker 1: twenty plays. So it happens when it happens, and you

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Speaker 1: put points up by moving the ball and driving it.

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Speaker 1: So Mack, it's obviously a game, but it's also a business.

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Speaker 1: When you get to the fifty three man roster, which

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Speaker 1: you are. Now, what's it like for the team when

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Speaker 1: you know some guys who've been giving it they're all

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Speaker 1: for months or no longer around here. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: that's part of the business. Like you said, you know,

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Speaker 1: the NFL is. You know, it's a business, and it's

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Speaker 1: different than college. You don't that everybody gets to play

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Speaker 1: and everyone that I've had a pleasure to work with

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Speaker 1: throughout my first two years really here. I've done a

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Speaker 1: great job in OTAs and summer workouts, and I've met

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Speaker 1: a lot of great people. So I know that's a

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Speaker 1: tough part of the business. But my first you know

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Speaker 1: months here, I remember meeting people and then they're not

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Speaker 1: on your team anymore. So it's kind of weird, But um,

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Speaker 1: I hope the best for all those guys aren't with

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Speaker 1: us anymore. And the guys that are on the practice squad,

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Speaker 1: I know they're happy to be back, and we're happy

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Speaker 1: to have everybody. And I feel like we have a

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Speaker 1: good group of guys that's really close knit and we

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Speaker 1: just got to keep coming together. And you know, we

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Speaker 1: have everything we need, so we just got to go

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Speaker 1: out there and do it. Man, how much of your

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Speaker 1: own personal ability to study an opponent to use that

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Speaker 1: film study will kind of help the offense along now

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Speaker 1: that you're now that that's more part of it than

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Speaker 1: training camp. Yeah, I think, like I said, I've always

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Speaker 1: enjoyed the exits and os part more than anything else.

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Speaker 1: And obviously the coaches do a great job setting up

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Speaker 1: a game plan and then going out and executing it.

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Speaker 1: I think you know, by the time you get the

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Speaker 1: game day, the goal is to all right, this is

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Speaker 1: exactly what I'm supposed to do. If this happens, What

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Speaker 1: do I do if this happens? What I do. So

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Speaker 1: you have everything played out in your head already and

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Speaker 1: then you just have to go out there and execute it.

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Speaker 1: So I always enjoy that part of it, and I

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Speaker 1: always love just seeing a game play come together, and um,

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Speaker 1: that's an important part of football. I think good teams

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Speaker 1: they take the plays in practice and they execute them

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Speaker 1: on Sundays, and you know, other teams might not do

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Speaker 1: as well at that. So we have to do that

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Speaker 1: consistent and when we get there, we'll get there. But

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Speaker 1: right now, it's just finding the plays that we can

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Speaker 1: do the best. You trust your own your own adjustment abilities,

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Speaker 1: both at the line and then over the course of

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Speaker 1: the game. I feel like that that can give the

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Speaker 1: offense that you weren't always happy within the preseason a

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Speaker 1: lift because you have the opportunity to study and to

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Speaker 1: quote it that way. Yeah, I think it's all about

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Speaker 1: your tools and problem solving, and I tend to enjoy

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Speaker 1: the problem solving part. That's the fun part of the game,

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Speaker 1: like I said, And we have good coaches that are

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Speaker 1: going to put us in a position to do that,

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Speaker 1: and we have good experience with some of the looks

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Speaker 1: we've seen you last year in preseason, so it's all

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Speaker 1: about what are my tools and how can I fix it?

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Speaker 1: And UM, that's a big thing for me, is just

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Speaker 1: being able to apply that how I know how to

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Speaker 1: do it and just play the play for what it is.

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Speaker 1: When you say that you've been able to iron things

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Speaker 1: out the offense set me you've kind of figured out

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Speaker 1: what plays work and what plays don't, and you're kind

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Speaker 1: of moving on with the ones that do. Um. I

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Speaker 1: think plays are plays, and UM, you know you could

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Speaker 1: have a bad result with one and you're like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I don't really like that one. But a lot of

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Speaker 1: times it's more about like the process of the play

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Speaker 1: and what you're trying to do. UM. So I don't

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Speaker 1: think canning a play because it doesn't work one time

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Speaker 1: in a game or practice is always a bad idea.

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Speaker 1: I think, like I always say, I just like to

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Speaker 1: know the why and when the coaches explain that to me,

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Speaker 1: and they've done a great job of explaining, Hey, this

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Speaker 1: is why we're doing this, and from there it's my

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Speaker 1: job to execute it and do a great job. And UM,

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Speaker 1: that's one of the things that I feel like we

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Speaker 1: have ironed out. It's I'm very particular about what I'm

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Speaker 1: supposed to do on each play, and all of us

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Speaker 1: are and we want to know as a receiver, where

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Speaker 1: do I line up in? What do I do? As

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Speaker 1: a quarterback? You know, what are my reads on this

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Speaker 1: specific play? So everybody has their own job, but it's

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Speaker 1: all about what do you do on that play to

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Speaker 1: make it a better play man? How much is this

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Speaker 1: week for you guys scouting? Like you mentioned fundamentals, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: how much is this an opportunity maybe review when you

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Speaker 1: guys did even going back to OTAs and training camp

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Speaker 1: before you guys dive into Miami. Yeah, I think football

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Speaker 1: is all about fundamentals, and for me that's painting my

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Speaker 1: knees and stepping up in the pocket. It's that simple,

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Speaker 1: and just going through my reads and getting the ball

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Speaker 1: to the open guy. So everybody else has a different

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Speaker 1: maybe rule or thing they're trying to work on. But

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Speaker 1: especially when you have a little bit of free time,

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Speaker 1: I guess you can call it. You want to get

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Speaker 1: better and it doesn't always have to be X's And

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Speaker 1: I was, like you said, just better at fundamentals, whether

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Speaker 1: that's running routes or blocking or tackling all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: So it's pretty simple and it's just getting really good

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Speaker 1: at that, so we can carry it on to the season.

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Speaker 1: Cool six