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Speaker 1: Hey, good morning, Brian. How are you morning about. I

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Speaker 1: want to ask you about Miles Bryant. We've seen a

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Speaker 1: snap count increase the last couple of weeks and obviously

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Speaker 1: made a great play on that throw the other night.

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Speaker 1: What have you seen from him going back to training camp,

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Speaker 1: but especially as the season has gone along in terms

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Speaker 1: of his improvement and ability to contribute. Yeah, I'm glad

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Speaker 1: you asked about him. He's he's been great, you know,

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Speaker 1: even before training camp, going all the way back to

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Speaker 1: the spring. He uh, he's worked really hard, you know,

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Speaker 1: to learn the off learn the defense, to learn about

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Speaker 1: opposing offenses, to study up and you know, been a

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Speaker 1: really good student of the game. He's you know, embraced

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Speaker 1: whatever role we've given him, you know, as a DV

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Speaker 1: who's moved around to play different positions. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: really instinctive player, who's who's done well within the opportunity

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Speaker 1: he's been given. And that's what it has led to him,

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Speaker 1: you know, being in the game. So I was happy

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Speaker 1: for him to have paid off for him to make

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Speaker 1: a great play like that. Another guy I want to

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Speaker 1: ask you about is a veteran in his first year here,

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Speaker 1: and he's strong phrase throughout the year in Adrian Phillips,

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Speaker 1: and in particular about his durability. I know that, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's listened as a safety, but he's playing like a linebacker.

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Speaker 1: And the other night, yet report at halftime that he

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Speaker 1: was questionable with a hand injury, and yet the first

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Speaker 1: series of the second half, there he is out there

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Speaker 1: putting his body, you know, into the fray. After three

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Speaker 1: quarters of the season, working with him, having seen what

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Speaker 1: he you know, how he prepared for the season during

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Speaker 1: training camp. Are there any other are there? Do you

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Speaker 1: run out adjectives, you know, describing a guy like that

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Speaker 1: in terms of the toughness and the reliability and how

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Speaker 1: much in particular did it mean for him to answer

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Speaker 1: the bell the other night in that second half, continuing

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Speaker 1: to play through you know, whatever he's dealing with. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I have kind of run out of adjectives. He's uh,

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Speaker 1: he keeps um, you know, going over the top after

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Speaker 1: describing him every week, but he uh, yeah, he's been awesome. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, he you know, showed good you know, toughness

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Speaker 1: leadership came back on Thursday night after the injury, you

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Speaker 1: know which I don't think he even blinked twice about um.

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Speaker 1: And he's been a very very valuable member of the

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Speaker 1: defense all season, you know, UM playing in you know,

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Speaker 1: different roles on you know, early downs, on third down,

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Speaker 1: and it's been extremely valuable for us to have him

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Speaker 1: out there. You know, very instinctive player, UM. Great uh,

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Speaker 1: great communicator, you know, great veteran leader who you know

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Speaker 1: knows how to prepare well every week and is passing

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Speaker 1: on some of that knowledge to the younger, younger guys

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Speaker 1: in the room and you know, like Kyle and h Miles,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's been you know, he's been a

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Speaker 1: great influence on the defense this year and it's been

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Speaker 1: great to have him. Well, one more to follow up

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Speaker 1: on that, what what can you give us an example

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Speaker 1: of little or an idea of some of what you've

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Speaker 1: seen in Kyle and Miles that reflect what advice or

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Speaker 1: what they've even observed from Adrian. By example, I would say,

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Speaker 1: you know, the just weekly film preparation. UM. You know,

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Speaker 1: Adrian will come in with stuff every week that he's

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Speaker 1: seen on film and um, just by his own study

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Speaker 1: of the opponent and bringing up with the coaches. You

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Speaker 1: know that a little tendencies he's seen or you know, um,

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Speaker 1: ways they they align different players and you know, stuff

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Speaker 1: like that, um to be a number of different things,

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Speaker 1: but it uh, you know, I think that's just shed

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Speaker 1: some light to the younger guys on you know, how

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Speaker 1: much time he puts in every week, and I think

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Speaker 1: that's motivated them to the same. And I think they've

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Speaker 1: also you know, learned a lot from him watching him,

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Speaker 1: you know, in practice and in the games every day,

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Speaker 1: UM about how important it is, you know to follow

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Speaker 1: your player, and you know, especially in his own coverage.

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Speaker 1: You know, Adrian's you know, very good about um, you know,

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Speaker 1: having his having his weight down and you know, making

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Speaker 1: good breaks on on the quarterbacks reads. And I think

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Speaker 1: the young guys have have learned that. Thank you, Brian,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Ye. Next question, Phil Perry, and I'd

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Speaker 1: ask anybody else to raise his hand if you have

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Speaker 1: a question for Brian. And Brian you mentioned how um,

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Speaker 1: you know, Miles has has really been willing to take

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Speaker 1: on whatever role you guys have thrown at him. And

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Speaker 1: I'm just curious You've got you know, two rookie defensive

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Speaker 1: different roles and milds and Kyle, how impressive have you

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Speaker 1: been everything they've been able to handle, especially given you

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Speaker 1: know it's the rookie year, but it's also been a

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Speaker 1: weird year or two where where time has been limited

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Speaker 1: and things have been virtual as opposed to in person.

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Speaker 1: How impressed have you been by those guys and the

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Speaker 1: number of things they've been able to do. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: very imprusted close to them, and I was, you know,

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Speaker 1: attribute that, like I said about Miles earlier, but it's

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Speaker 1: um you know, applied the Doug as well, right, attribute

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Speaker 1: that to their work. You know, going back all the

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Speaker 1: way to the spring when we were virtual for a

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Speaker 1: long time there. I couldn't come in until training camp

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Speaker 1: and start working on the field, but they were working

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Speaker 1: very hard in the spring to learn the defense and

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Speaker 1: they get paid off long you know, in training camp

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Speaker 1: when I finally got out on the field and in

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Speaker 1: the season when we had them have had them play

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Speaker 1: different roles and you know, if they didn't him at

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Speaker 1: themselves so that work early on and truly learned the

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Speaker 1: whole big picture of the defense, um, then I don't

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Speaker 1: know if that would have been possible. So you know,

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Speaker 1: all the correct goes to them for UM, you know,

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Speaker 1: doing it the right way, you know, since the beginning,

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Speaker 1: and you know, learning as much as they can as

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Speaker 1: quickly as they can. And we've they appreciated that coaching them.

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Speaker 1: And Brian also wanted to ask you. You know you

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Speaker 1: mentioned um kind of run out of adjectives to describe

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Speaker 1: Adrian fills this guy I'm about to ask you about.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure the guy you talked about a lot too,

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Speaker 1: But Devin McCourty was nominated for the Walter Peyton Man

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Speaker 1: of the Year Award this week, and so I just

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Speaker 1: wanted to ask you as somebody who obviously spends a

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Speaker 1: lot of time with them. Now, UM, maybe how you've

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Speaker 1: seen him him rub off on he may put his

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Speaker 1: coaches too, that that he spent a lot of time

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Speaker 1: with that's that's and off the field award really I know,

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Speaker 1: but um, how much of what you all see from

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Speaker 1: him is is impactful? Yeah? I been greatly impacted by

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Speaker 1: Devin personally. UM, you know, going all the way back

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Speaker 1: to when he um joined the team as a rookie.

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Speaker 1: You know, I was just a kid, you know, UM

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Speaker 1: in training camp and uh spring OTAs and Mini Campum.

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Speaker 1: But he's always been UM, you know, great influence on me.

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Speaker 1: You know, when he was a younger guy. He became

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Speaker 1: a captain early on, and that's always a great you know,

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Speaker 1: indicator of someone who with UM great leadership to take

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Speaker 1: a role like that so quickly. UM know, his like

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Speaker 1: you said, his you know, that's a off the field award.

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Speaker 1: And I think his UM leadership extends off the field

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Speaker 1: for sure. People see what he does out there, UM,

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Speaker 1: outside the building, and you know, I think it inspires

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Speaker 1: the rest of us to UM approach life in the

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Speaker 1: same way, you know, trying to help people out and

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Speaker 1: help out causes that we believe in. And it's been

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Speaker 1: it's been great being able to be in the same

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Speaker 1: room with him consistently this year, and it's been a

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Speaker 1: great opportunity for me to learn from him, probably more

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Speaker 1: so than he's learned from me, to be honest. It's

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Speaker 1: been around so long. Great, Thank you Ryan. Yeah,