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Speaker 1: He thought of Eli apples to the season. He's been

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Speaker 1: uh good so far, you know, small sample size, only

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Speaker 1: two games, but uh, you know, like not only Eli,

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Speaker 1: but all our guys were just striving for consistency and

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Speaker 1: and so far he's done that. I beg him avoid

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Speaker 1: to be If he's not able to play on Sunday, well,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's this league, right, so you know, the

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Speaker 1: next man up principle, and if he's not ready to go,

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Speaker 1: then the next guy I'll step up and and go play.

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Speaker 1: You know. So a bunch of stressed as that wide

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Speaker 1: receiving corporate on a secondary and he got full of

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Speaker 1: good team if you got Hopkins, obviously Watson's a mobile quarterback. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there have two really special receivers and um, you know,

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Speaker 1: as you mentioned, Hopkins is one of the most targeted

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Speaker 1: guys in the league over the last few years and

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Speaker 1: certainly a great player, and the other guy can really

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Speaker 1: take the top off the coverage. So we'll be aware

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Speaker 1: where both those guys are. And and uh, it seems

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Speaker 1: every week in this league you're gonna get different challenges

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Speaker 1: from guys that are really elite at that at that position.

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Speaker 1: And we're fortunately we got to defend guys like that

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Speaker 1: every day, so that helps us watching watching their game

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Speaker 1: last week against the type that seemed like any chance

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Speaker 1: they got to attack vertically. I mean they're not bashful

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Speaker 1: about trying to go up the field. Does that change

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Speaker 1: anything philosophically when you're going against a team that wants

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Speaker 1: to attack you verically all the time? Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: it puts stress on on the different coverages that you're

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Speaker 1: trying to do, and you have to make sure obviously

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Speaker 1: that you're accountable for that, and we do every week,

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Speaker 1: you know, uh, and we're aware of it. But it

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Speaker 1: that are doing those type of routes. So you know,

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Speaker 1: we want to make sure that hey, fifteen, you know

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Speaker 1: he's going deep and uh and certainly ten is great

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Speaker 1: at the point of attack with the ball. So we're

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Speaker 1: aware of it and we'll our guys are we'll have

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Speaker 1: certain things that we do because it as the Norris

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Speaker 1: has given up a few deep balls. Anything you can

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Speaker 1: see there that like a common threat. I was likely too,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, well you're right couples to uh he uh

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Speaker 1: and I think that uh if you ask him and

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Speaker 1: and you know, would it be one or two things

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Speaker 1: that the line of scrimmage that he could have done better, UM,

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Speaker 1: And I think that that's what kind of got him

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Speaker 1: in a bad spot. You saw last week where he

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Speaker 1: just more of an alignment issue. So you know, we've

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Speaker 1: talked about it with him and worked on it. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's a guy that's had great success in this league

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Speaker 1: and UM is a very competitive guy. He doesn't want

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Speaker 1: to give up anything. So UM, we've been working hard

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Speaker 1: on that and he has and I think it won't

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Speaker 1: be issue going forward. When the players dealing with any

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Speaker 1: personal how do you, as a coach help them locked

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Speaker 1: back in? UM? I think always as a coach, I

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Speaker 1: think you always try to build relationships with the guys

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Speaker 1: so that I think when times get hard, both on

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Speaker 1: the field and and in life, whether it be the

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Speaker 1: coaches of the players that are going through something that

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Speaker 1: they know that you know, I have their back, UH,

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Speaker 1: And it's not it's about what's going on on the grass.

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Speaker 1: It's it's about what's going on in their lives. And

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Speaker 1: I think that UM, if they feel that and they

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Speaker 1: believe that, then it's gonna be a better relationship again

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Speaker 1: when things are rocky, both on and off the field. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And that's kind of what I've always done. And um,

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Speaker 1: you know, if if somebody's going through something, you know

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Speaker 1: it's going to be important to me because I spend more,

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Speaker 1: we spend more time as a as a staff with

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Speaker 1: these guys and we do with our own family. So

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Speaker 1: I wanted to be a relationship where they can trust

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Speaker 1: and believe that I'm I'm I care about what what's

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Speaker 1: going on with them on and off the field. Was

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Speaker 1: it a challenge to get him back up for that

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Speaker 1: game coming off the tough and day. No, Genores is

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Speaker 1: a is a professional and and uh, you know, I

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Speaker 1: think that he knows that when he steps out on

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Speaker 1: the grass, it's it's time to play football. And and

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Speaker 1: we all have things that we have to deal with

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Speaker 1: and but when we when we go and it's time

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Speaker 1: to turn on the lights, I think he knows, hey,

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's go time. So he did he did

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Speaker 1: a good job with that. Philosophically, how do you feel

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Speaker 1: about having your best cornerback travel versus just staying straight

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Speaker 1: up in your skin. I think they'll be you know,

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Speaker 1: not talking specifically about schemes. I think over the years, uh,

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Speaker 1: you can do both. There's merit to doing both. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's not something that uh um, I'm gonna say, hey,

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Speaker 1: this is what we're doing in this week. But I

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Speaker 1: think there's merit to both where you have a guy

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Speaker 1: traveling and where they just play their left and right.

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Speaker 1: So we'll we'll kind of vary that by game plan.

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Speaker 1: That's the first time talking since you added if you

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Speaker 1: guys after camp, just what are you seeing from Hamilton

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Speaker 1: and Jordan more of those guys. Yeah, so just competitive guys,

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Speaker 1: you know what, As you said, they just got here,

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Speaker 1: so we're still kind of getting a feel for what

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Speaker 1: they can and can't do and and uh, but hard

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Speaker 1: working guys that they've staying around extra you know, kind

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Speaker 1: of catching them up to speed with what our scheme

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