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Speaker 1: How are you great? Happy Friday?

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Speaker 2: Caylevon chas On did not practice and he'll be questionable.

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Speaker 2: Carlton Davis was full and he'll be questionable. Milt Williams

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Speaker 2: was limited and he'll be questionable. Other than that, no

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Speaker 2: other injury designations. Uh t ye will be questionable.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, Okay, Karen, how.

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Speaker 2: Would you characterize the week of practice and the lead

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Speaker 2: up Sunday?

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Speaker 1: Focused? I think we've tried to to bring energy. I

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Speaker 1: think that.

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Speaker 2: Our our show teams are figuring out how they need

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Speaker 2: to practice and how they need to try to execute

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Speaker 2: to improve. That's something that we've tried to focus on

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Speaker 2: after the first couple of weeks off. You know, there's

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Speaker 2: a lot of young players that whether they're in their

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Speaker 2: first or second year, that are getting valuable reps.

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Speaker 1: On those show teams.

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Speaker 2: And I know from firsthand experience how critical those reps

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Speaker 2: are against your your frontline players, and so they are

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Speaker 2: figuring that out and that in turn leads to better practices,

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Speaker 2: more energy, and better speed. Like you mentioned Milton being

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Speaker 2: questionable for you at any more contact on what happened

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Speaker 2: this week that I'll.

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Speaker 1: Look to that.

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Speaker 2: No, it's an ankle as it's listed on an injury

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Speaker 2: report and it's limited, and I know this is the

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Speaker 2: first back, but it worked really hard, worked really hard

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Speaker 2: and his return to play in trying to maximize the

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Speaker 2: time away from the actual practice and working with our

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Speaker 2: training staff and working on with our strength coaches, and

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Speaker 2: was ready to go. And so I was exciting to

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Speaker 2: see him get out there and get practiced and defense

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Speaker 2: and the special teams and trying to see where he's at.

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Speaker 2: So we'll see how he responds in the morning, and

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Speaker 2: then we'll make a decision going forward.

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Speaker 3: He's obviously a bigger inside line actor from the others

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Speaker 3: you have on the roster. Would appeal to you when

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Speaker 2: His deciding versatility. I think he plays a good technique.

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Speaker 2: I think he can play multiple spots. I think he's

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Speaker 2: very h he's an instinctive player. I think he sees

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Speaker 2: he's a veteran player that's played in multiple spots, so

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Speaker 2: there's a versatility there. And like his fundamentals and you know,

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Speaker 2: he's done a lot of different things and other places

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Speaker 2: that he's been in here.

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Speaker 1: Well, Jared Wilson be back starting to sea.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, if you know, he's worked hard to come

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Speaker 1: Side and his play.

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Speaker 2: Then if you know we need you know, if we

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Speaker 2: need Ben or we need Vederian or we need Marcus,

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Speaker 2: those guys are ready to step in there and perform

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Speaker 2: in the game like they did, Like Ben did last week.

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Speaker 1: Drake's had some good success on third down in particular,

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Speaker 3: Success on all downs, his success on third down. What

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Speaker 3: are you seeing on that down that's that's made a.

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Speaker 1: Contribute to that. Well, it starts with protection.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if we can protect the quarterback, I would

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Speaker 2: say keeping it to third and manageable and not getting

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Speaker 2: out over our skis with the third and extra longs

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Speaker 2: which are difficult and force us to move the ball

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Speaker 2: down the field into potentially a lot of coverage, which

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Speaker 2: we've converted some of those. We've done a nice job

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Speaker 2: and thinking trying to convert some of those ball placements

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Speaker 2: critical you know, if it's if it's man putting it

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Speaker 3: What is the book Kenvill done one day Friday. It's

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Speaker 3: a lot of him showing for the.

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Speaker 1: Minute coming consistency for a young player. I think that there's.

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Speaker 2: A really unique consistency professionalism about the time that he

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Speaker 2: preparing for his matchups and his job on Sunday this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Is there anything you did different in practice to prepare

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Speaker 2: I mean, if we had somebody that could show us

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Speaker 1: So you know, it's talented.

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Speaker 2: set and understanding that defensively, everybody's at the point of

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Speaker 2: and certainly great efforts to get to the ball, and

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Speaker 2: rarely does the first guy, you know, tackle him.

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Speaker 3: Like, going back to the show team, how fine did

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Speaker 3: the details get for these guys when they're charge of

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Speaker 3: simulating a James Cook or Khalil Sekir.

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Speaker 2: Well, they meet and we do a lot of walkthroughs,

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Speaker 2: and we exchange and I really they begin to try

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Speaker 2: the week. And when the techniques are the same or

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Speaker 2: so they can go and play. And I've never been

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Speaker 2: play this or play that. Do we really know that

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Speaker 2: how they're going to react? On defense? I mean, they're

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Speaker 2: to communicate, they're going to see the ball, they're going

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Speaker 1: I'm like, how do you know where they're going to

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Speaker 2: I think we get a million cards, and that we

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Speaker 1: Wherever they are, we're going to have to block them.

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Speaker 2: And I think that's how you have to work and

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Speaker 3: How nice is it to see Rodney Harrison if he

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Speaker 2: It's been nicer to see him twenty years ago and

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Speaker 2: still be ready to play for us. But really, I

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Speaker 2: The violence in which he played with the accountability in

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Speaker 2: I always enjoyed my my six years with Rodney.

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Speaker 3: Those things he just listed up only things that are

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Speaker 3: the hallmarks or staples of your program, like how you coach?

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Speaker 1: Now? Is that a fair description? I think it's fair.

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Speaker 1: I think it's fair.

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Speaker 2: I think it's also hard to find those types of

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Speaker 2: to somebody or you. Roddy wasn't big into feelings like

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Speaker 2: he cared about winning, and he cared about you know,

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Speaker 1: It certainly didn't bother him over some things. But is

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Speaker 1: that a generational thing? I don't know what that is.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm not sure. You know, we're going to

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Speaker 2: We're going to keep searching it and keep building it

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Speaker 2: and then explaining to these guys that it's okay that

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Speaker 2: somebody who have truthful conversations and say things that you know,

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Speaker 2: when you say it to a friend, they probably take

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Speaker 2: it to heart. When you say it to a stranger,

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Speaker 2: they probably think you're full of it.

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Speaker 3: With Milton out of work on.

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Speaker 1: Our volume, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 3: Okay, when Milton is that better?

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Speaker 2: I made Josh Farmer's working extremly hard Corey Dirden, Eric Gregory.

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Speaker 2: I mean, those guys that we like in there, and

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Speaker 2: and we've gotten try to get them reps intentionally as

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Speaker 2: Mike, how poor in this continuity and when guys are

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think that that's just a the product

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Speaker 2: the continuity, that the communication is the same, that you know,

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Speaker 2: the linebackers are talking and speaking the same language. You know,

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Speaker 2: we rotate guys through practice just the same way as

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Speaker 2: everybody's communicating the same and that they're talking the same

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Speaker 2: that's going to be hard to play with the same

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Speaker 3: Like pivoting to Drake for a second. When you first

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Speaker 3: got here and the staff has leveled the development plan

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Speaker 3: for him, who will was involved in deciding these are

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Speaker 3: our priorities with Drake?

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Speaker 2: Mean me, Josh, I think you know, certainly the offensive staff.

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Speaker 2: You know that we have a lot of we have

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Speaker 2: and so I think that was a good process and

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Speaker 2: allowing you know, everybody to be heard and and talk

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Speaker 2: think is best for him.

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Speaker 1: Mike, you talk about cottonbility.

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Speaker 2: Josh talked about the connectedness of Buffalo's defense.

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Speaker 1: They've They've changed some scene over the years. There's a

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Speaker 1: lot of guys who put on a lot of football

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Speaker 1: together on both sides of all of them. How much

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Speaker 1: of that has comes from the cotton reality they've established theball.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think that they have a program in

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Speaker 2: place and they certainly have done a fantastic job of

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Speaker 2: building that.

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Speaker 1: Credit to Brandon and Sean.

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Speaker 2: Of the types of players that they bring in and

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Speaker 2: the ones that they develop, and it's very successful.

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Speaker 1: How is our energy today good? Great, Thank you guys,