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Speaker 1: And we're recording. Chase Winovich joins us, we're gonna start

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Speaker 1: with Evan Lazar. You know, kouraging to be helps to

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Speaker 1: raise your hand if you want to. Hey, Chase, uh,

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Speaker 1: your last year, during your rookie year, you played a

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Speaker 1: lot in pass rushing situations, and I was just curious

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Speaker 1: how you feel it's going with, you know, maybe playing

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Speaker 1: a little bit more on first and second down this year.

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Speaker 1: I'd say things. Overall in camp, we're going pretty well. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, really it just comes down to a matter

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Speaker 1: of consistency and being able to execute. Every day. I've

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Speaker 1: played in the run game in college. This is obviously

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Speaker 1: a different game. Guys are a lot bigger, a lot stronger,

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Speaker 1: a lot faster. But I'm looking forward to the challenge

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Speaker 1: each and every day, and at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna try to prepare the best I can.

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Speaker 1: But it's up to the coaches to decide, you know,

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Speaker 1: how many players I want to play in, which in deem,

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Speaker 1: which place they want to put me out there for.

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Speaker 1: So if my numbers called, I'm gonna try to do

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Speaker 1: my assignment the best that I can. For your position

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Speaker 1: in particular, I think we hear a lot about how

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Speaker 1: a coach belt Texas stress is setting the end edge

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Speaker 1: in the running game, and just how important would you

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Speaker 1: say that is to your defense and to your role specifically.

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Speaker 1: It's vital everything. A lot of our defense relies on

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Speaker 1: the edge to be set um, you know, in some capacity,

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Speaker 1: whether it's me or somebody else. So yeah, it's it's huge.

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Speaker 1: It's a you know, definitely a key component of our defense.

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Speaker 1: I mean everything is a key component because soon as

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Speaker 1: one link falls, it's tough for the defense to recover

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Speaker 1: from that. It's not like basketball where you could have

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Speaker 1: one player do really well. It's really you know, every

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Speaker 1: every player's got to be assignment sound and execute his

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Speaker 1: assignment to the best of his ability. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: so thanks, Chase, You're welcome. Next question, Levin read, followed

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Speaker 1: by Jim McBride it Chase as you're you're I think

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Speaker 1: we're like a week away. By the way, thank you

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Speaker 1: for doing us U. Can you feel the ramp up

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Speaker 1: or just kind of the anxiousness that everybody starts to

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Speaker 1: have as the season comes along right now, I could

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Speaker 1: definitely feel it. This is always a weird time being

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Speaker 1: in the NFL because well, this is only my second year,

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Speaker 1: so I can't say always, but it's it's definitely a

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Speaker 1: weird time because you know, this weekend's coming up and

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Speaker 1: the roster is going to look a little different after

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Speaker 1: this weekend, just with the nature of the NFL and

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Speaker 1: how many transactions there are, so I think it'll really

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Speaker 1: feel like it's ramping up at you know, once that

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Speaker 1: kind of gets settled and all that gets finalized. But

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Speaker 1: for me, I'm just trying to lock into my assignment

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Speaker 1: and go out there and keep stacking days and just

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Speaker 1: no matter what is going on off the field, just

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Speaker 1: really get in and try to focus and try to

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Speaker 1: be as consistent as I could possibly be, because you

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Speaker 1: know that that's where you're going to build fundamentals and

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Speaker 1: actually be able to stack up. Like I said, those

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Speaker 1: days in those habits so when things get tough and

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Speaker 1: get you get tired, you can rely on those. So

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Speaker 1: that's what I'm really trying to focus on. Today was

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Speaker 1: a great example is rainy conditions weren't exactly the best,

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Speaker 1: but you know, we found a way to get better

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Speaker 1: and we were always looking to do that. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Next question Jim McBride, followed by Eric rou Hi Chase.

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Speaker 1: Going back to to setting the edge in the importance there,

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Speaker 1: I'm wondering what you've learned from playing with UM with

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Speaker 1: playing with John Simon. Yeah, John Simon is a bona

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Speaker 1: fide expert at setting the edge UM, And it's always

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Speaker 1: cool playing with John because I mean, he's a great

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Speaker 1: he's a great leader in terms of you know, his

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Speaker 1: wisdom first out there, i mean, he's absolutely brilliant when

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Speaker 1: it comes to football second league. You know, he's one

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Speaker 1: of those guys that you have to respect as a

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Speaker 1: fellow football player because he's a warrior. The dude goes

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Speaker 1: out there and he just battles and you could tell,

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Speaker 1: you know, his his toughness and his desire to help

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Speaker 1: the team win. And you know, it's an honor to

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Speaker 1: brain on different techniques and stuff. And yeah, it's great

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Speaker 1: have two final questions. Alex Barth followed by Steve sanjas

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Speaker 1: It Chased. I'm just wondering, now that you guys have

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Speaker 1: had some time together, you lost some key communicators defensively

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Speaker 1: in the off season where you feel like the defensive

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Speaker 1: units communication is at with the season around the corner,

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Speaker 1: so game speed is always going to be a little

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Speaker 1: different than what is going on in practice. And I think,

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Speaker 1: you know, we're definitely trying to do a job, you know,

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Speaker 1: our job, and the coaches are trying to do their

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Speaker 1: to communicate and work those sort of kinks out. But

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, we're just gonna have

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Speaker 1: to wait and see and how big season progresses. But

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Speaker 1: right now things are going smooth. I mean it, just

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Speaker 1: like I said, is one of the things we're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to see once once the first game comes around.

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Speaker 1: And then I know the coaches are doing a great job,

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Speaker 1: and you know my teammates are as well. Collectively, Um,

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Speaker 1: we're working hard, trying to do our best to make

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Speaker 1: sure the communications up to speed. Gotcha, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 1: And it looks like the final question will be Steve Sanchez,

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Speaker 1: gread see you. Thanks Stacy. How you doing, Chase, what's

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Speaker 1: up buddy? Nothing? Um, yeah, the season is coming closer

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Speaker 1: and closer. Anything that you feel that it's kind of

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Speaker 1: you know in what Alex said about your team gelling

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Speaker 1: together toward that first game. Yeah, so there's a couple

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Speaker 1: of questions there. So personally for me, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of benefits to this year versus last year. I would

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Speaker 1: of them, because there's something to be said for really

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Speaker 1: when you're a rookie, you definitely want to make sure,

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Speaker 1: you know, you're showing the respect to you know, different

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Speaker 1: uh to be seen and not heard. Whereas moving into

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Speaker 1: at least I found, uh you know, I can start

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Speaker 1: to shift, sorry to being more into that that leader

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Speaker 1: whatever things I've learned throughout my first year, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: helping some of the young guys out and um, like

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Speaker 1: I said, just so allowing the coaches to focus on

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Speaker 1: definitely wasn't the case. You know, I required a lot of,

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Speaker 1: a great job here, and we're really lucky to be

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Speaker 1: surrounded by a great staff all around and a lot

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Speaker 1: us to win very very badly. So it's a real

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Speaker 1: honor to be here. And now, do you sense that

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Speaker 1: the team is coming closer as a defensive unit each

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Speaker 1: and every day toward this first game. Yeah, the definitely

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Speaker 1: sense that we're coming closer. I think we've had a

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Speaker 1: pretty tight knit group from the GOM you know, a

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Speaker 1: lot of guys that love playing football, a lot of

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Speaker 1: great dudes on the defense. So it's a fun unit.

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Speaker 1: I'm honored to be a part of it, and i

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Speaker 1: can't wait to show show what we've been working on.

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Speaker 1: So Okay, thanks Jason, Yeah, thank you very much, Chase,

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Speaker 1: Thanks everyone,