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Speaker 1: Our guys are coming off of uh an off day,

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Speaker 1: and so I encourage them to get back up to

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Speaker 1: to answer your questions. Look like Curtis Riley, we'll go

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Speaker 1: off with some ice on his like, um, is it

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Speaker 1: good to go today? Then we'll have to see. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's a little hamstring thing, so we'll have to see

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Speaker 1: how far how far he's coming if you can get

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Speaker 1: out here. Possibly the same thing with very Moss. Uh

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Speaker 1: no different, But I'll let you guys see if he's

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Speaker 1: out here or not. You know, we don't we don't

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Speaker 1: have much time together. And I know you guys are

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Speaker 1: out here. Well, I really I don't mean to I

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Speaker 1: don't mean to be whatever. You'll see if they're out

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Speaker 1: here or not. But um, they're they're kind of minor things.

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Speaker 1: That's the plan. As far as you know, they come

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Speaker 1: back in the day, We come back in. The dads

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Speaker 1: back a little bit. I mean, are you at the

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Speaker 1: point now when you kind of have to tame No,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna be in pads. And the idea is we've

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Speaker 1: got four days now before our next off day, So

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Speaker 1: i'd like to be in pads at least three of

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Speaker 1: those days. What did you learn from that first day

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Speaker 1: of the physicality? Well, they were physical prior to that,

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Speaker 1: so you know, I didn't actually ask him to be

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Speaker 1: any more physical. I asked him to come out here

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Speaker 1: I asked him to do. Uh. In fact, I I

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Speaker 1: gave them four words energy, enthusiasm, expertise, and execution. So

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Speaker 1: that's what I asked him, and that's that's what they did.

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Speaker 1: You have two very young defensive linements or line up

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Speaker 1: at the once right now, and you have Snacks in

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Speaker 1: the middle of that. What what what? What do you

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Speaker 1: need from him? From Snacks? Well, he needs to be

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Speaker 1: a good football player. He's got to be stout, he

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Speaker 1: needs to be be what Snacks is. I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: he's a force in the run game. He's very hard

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Speaker 1: and um, he needs to make sure he does that,

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Speaker 1: especially on first second. Now, mean, as a leader, as

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Speaker 1: a love room guy, you need it. Seems like people

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Speaker 1: respect him, but he goes there's not always one thing

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Speaker 1: to do up lest I think we talked frequently about leadership.

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Speaker 1: That's that's that's where everybody goes. I also think we

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Speaker 1: need to talk about followership. In other words, there are

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Speaker 1: some guys that are outstanding players and have been outstanding

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Speaker 1: players their whole lives, and what they want to do

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Speaker 1: we need to embrace those guys too. Now I'm not

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Speaker 1: speaking with regard to snacks, but um, you know the

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Speaker 1: leadership piece. You know, you play football and guys rise

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Speaker 1: guys to lead the team. But sometimes we don't talk

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Speaker 1: enough about the other other part of that is that

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Speaker 1: hard though? I mean because especially the young guys to

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Speaker 1: coming here, they're trying to you know, find their way

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Speaker 1: around and press the coaches. So is it hard to

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Speaker 1: not really. I think when you some function, you see

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Speaker 1: them work within the group, you see their personalities. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: your best leaders, truly are your rookies because they come

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Speaker 1: smart enough to listen, Hey I might learn something new

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Speaker 1: Who have been your leaders so far? Well, I think

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Speaker 1: the ones that we all think about you certainly the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: You know. Um, we've had guys that have stepped up.

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Speaker 1: Alec Ogiltree's in a nice job, Nate Solder, Um again

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Speaker 1: but you and I've said this before, it's probably somewhere

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Speaker 1: you don't have to be extraordinary to be a leader.

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Speaker 1: if you do that on a consistent basis. The captain, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the best Alec he can be every day. And then

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Speaker 1: all those things we just discussed. The rise to the top,

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Speaker 1: he se it seems like Dirting is flashed a little bit.

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Speaker 1: He did he did from him and uh, you know

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Speaker 1: process before you guys pick sake one, he said that

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Speaker 1: you seeing that? Because he's doing those things that we

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Speaker 1: so to me, that shows me that he understands what

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Speaker 1: he was talking about more than to have a player's

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Speaker 1: only meeting more coming this week. Well, we actually did

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Speaker 1: early early in practice. We do when we on the line.

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Speaker 1: we did. Sorry you missed it. I want to ask

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Speaker 1: you about one of the old guys, Zeke uh say

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Speaker 1: uh same. You know, he's he's got a lot of experience.

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Speaker 1: He's very very very accomplished as a long snapper, and

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Speaker 1: he's got a great way about him. Uh, he's got

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Speaker 1: we were just discussing in terms of leadership,