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Speaker 1: Or I joined up by Rodney Thomas, seventh rounder out

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Speaker 1: of Yale. This time last year. All right, follow me

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Speaker 1: now this time last year. Who are you getting ready for?

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Speaker 1: So let me think, Yeah, they're actually playing right now.

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Speaker 1: They just had there, so they're going in the week

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Speaker 1: three right now? Um, who do week plue? Weeks three?

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Speaker 1: It might have been Lehigh? Okay, so you're playing Lehigh.

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Speaker 1: You're just follow me now Week three of this year,

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Speaker 1: you're defending Patrick Mahomes that jumped to go from the

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Speaker 1: IVY League to defending one of the best quarterbacks in

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Speaker 1: the league, and by the way, doing it pretty well. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I was just it was real fun just to be

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Speaker 1: plays for the team. Just it's real. There's a real

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Speaker 1: nice team effort that it was. It was real nice.

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Speaker 1: I talked earlier this week with Rodney McLeod and he

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Speaker 1: was talking about how much communication was going on on

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Speaker 1: the back end because of the type of offense that

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Speaker 1: you were facing. How much has that communication been building,

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Speaker 1: not just between the Rodney Rodney tandem back there on

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Speaker 1: the back end, but across this whole secondary that created

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Speaker 1: the opportunity you had on Sunday. Yeah, for sure. We're

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Speaker 1: because we always need to make sure like a bunch

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Speaker 1: of pieces to the defense, we just all need to

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Speaker 1: make sure that we're all on the same page. We're

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Speaker 1: all playing the same cover, so you can never you

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Speaker 1: never have too much communications. So we're always just talk

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Speaker 1: can all play fast. At the end of the way,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what you've got thrown into the fire

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Speaker 1: and responded during this whole process, starting a training camp,

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Speaker 1: was never overwhelming because we have a real good room.

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Speaker 1: Everybody helps each other out as the real good veterans

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Speaker 1: like routine before practices, before games, So just picking up

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Speaker 1: rolling right away. The one thing Lay and I were

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Speaker 1: talking about is your flexibility you can play safety, your

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Speaker 1: corner in this defense. Yeah, just just want to make

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Speaker 1: Just know as much as I can know, just so

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Speaker 1: if anywhere and anybody needs some help anywhere, the coaches

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Speaker 1: feel comfortable just putting me in Gorman. You're asking about

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Speaker 1: forget that right, nothing, nohing's going to be too much

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Speaker 1: for him. Well. One of the things also noted in

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Speaker 1: you to play at such a high level that you

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Speaker 1: the amount of preparation that you've continued to put in.

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Speaker 1: What are the things that you've tried to do additionally,

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Speaker 1: for defensive coordinator Gus Bradley, what does he bringing, what's

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Speaker 1: How fun has this been? How many games with you're

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Speaker 1: keep going, all right, Rodney Thomas the second it's the

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Speaker 1: Titans as far as they're playing, Uh, they're they're a

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Speaker 1: So like not me necessarily, but it will be my

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Speaker 1: we play each other a lot, We see each other

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Speaker 1: So just looking forward to just getting that first like

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Speaker 1: the same preparation as usual, business as usual, just going

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Speaker 1: with a win. Keep rolling, Rod and keep rolling