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Speaker 1: We'll start with Mike Grease, followed by Chris Ryan. Right.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Steve Bill. The last couple of weeks, Lawrence Taylor's

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Speaker 1: name has come up just in our interviews, and I

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Speaker 1: just had a one other question on that topic. When

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Speaker 1: you think back to his rookie year, what do you

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Speaker 1: think contributed to him as simulating assimilating so quickly to

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Speaker 1: the NFL his dominance, I mean, the greatness of Lawrence

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Speaker 1: Taylor's bigger, stronger, faster, more explosive, even though I didn't

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Speaker 1: really know what he was doing instinctively as a football player.

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Speaker 1: He's at the very top of the list. And I

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Speaker 1: know it's been a while, but what do you remember

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Speaker 1: about that rookie year, Like, was there something that stood

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Speaker 1: out to you where you saw that like that resonates

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Speaker 1: with you to this day. First practice he played, and

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Speaker 1: he played on all four phases in a kicking game,

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Speaker 1: so it was hard to block on punt protection as

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Speaker 1: you can imagine. Um, we didn't use him too much there.

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Speaker 1: He was the gunner on a punt team, it was

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Speaker 1: impossible to block. He played in the middle on kickoff

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Speaker 1: return and he had some of the biggest hits I've

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Speaker 1: ever seen, and he played safety on kickoff coverage, and

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Speaker 1: you were never really concerned that they were gonna, you know,

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Speaker 1: get it too far. You know, he passed a thirty

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Speaker 1: year or whatever. So he dominated from the first day

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Speaker 1: of practice. Playoff game against Philadelphia, you know, really was

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Speaker 1: the difference in that game just on covering punts. Then,

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Speaker 1: of course, once we started doing that with Taylor, then

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Speaker 1: you know, then the Redskins did well. Monty Coleman, Dexter

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Speaker 1: Manley well, Dexter Manley first and then eventually Coleman. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: it just other teams started doing it, and so then

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Speaker 1: it was kind of almost wish we hadn't done it,

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Speaker 1: but he was. Yeah, but there's nobody that really I

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Speaker 1: could put in his category that I've coached. There may

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Speaker 1: be others that I haven't coached, but I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: he's head and shoulders above whoever the next player is.

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Speaker 1: And I've been fortunate to coach a lot of great,

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Speaker 1: great defensive players. But be about Lawrence Taylor, Now that's

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Speaker 1: a whole that's a whole different conversation. I Mean, honestly,

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Speaker 1: he could have played any position on defense except corner.

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Speaker 1: They probably could have played corner two, but safety, linebacker, inside, outside,

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Speaker 1: defensive end, defensive tackle. He would have been able to

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Speaker 1: pay played nose guarded North Carolina. So yeah, put him

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Speaker 1: wherever you want. Appreciate the follow up there, Thank you. Sure,

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Speaker 1: I love talking about Lawrence. Next question Chris Ryan Felled

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Speaker 1: by Jim mc bryan Morney Bell. How are you a

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Speaker 1: good Chris Always up for some good l T talk.

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Speaker 1: Kind of sticking along those those lines, I wanted to

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Speaker 1: ask about, um, your past defense this year, particularly the

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Speaker 1: role that the linebackers played, their flexibility, and in particular

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Speaker 1: Kyle van Noy and um, the role that he has played. Ye,

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Speaker 1: Kyle's uh. You know, Kyle is a very good pass defender. UM.

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Speaker 1: You know, watching him in college, he was he was

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Speaker 1: walked out in coverage a lot, you know for a

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Speaker 1: Jim mcbrine called by Mark Damons. Good morning, coach. I

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Speaker 1: Mark Daniels falled by Karen Greggy hit Bill. Good morning, Mark?

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Speaker 1: What asks you about Hunter? Henry and Hunter's obviously someone

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Speaker 1: the coaching staff really in every area, running game, in

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