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Speaker 1: Hey, Steve, how are you doing. I'm good, How are

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Speaker 1: you good? Thanks? I'm just wondering, UM, looking ahead to

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Speaker 1: the weekend matchup with the Packers, the threat Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 1: poses for your secondary Um. Yeah, just getting started on

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Speaker 1: those guys this morning. UM. He poses a big threat.

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Speaker 1: UM obviously as an elite passer, but UM also as

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Speaker 1: a runner and it's been in plays and UM can

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Speaker 1: throw the ball over the field very accurately. He poses

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Speaker 1: a great challenge. We're looking forward to it. Are you

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Speaker 1: if I could just follow up? Are you expecting him

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Speaker 1: to be as mobile as he has been in the

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Speaker 1: past given this problem, you know, problem with the knee. Uh?

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Speaker 1: Does he seemed in the past game to have been

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Speaker 1: as mobile? Uh? Do you know do you see him

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Speaker 1: moving around a little more? Uh? Yeah, I think he Uh,

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Speaker 1: I think he looks just fine and uh, I think

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Speaker 1: he'll be uh, he'll be ready to go Sunday night.

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Speaker 1: I'm definitely not underestimating him or his abilities, and I'm

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Speaker 1: sure he'll be ready to go. He's proven that over

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Speaker 1: a long long period of time. My next question me

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Speaker 1: Mike Reese. Right, thanks, Stacy? How good afternoons? He is

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Speaker 1: just thinking back to Devin mccordy's interception return last night,

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Speaker 1: and the speed that he showed on his return stood

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Speaker 1: out to a lot of people. And I'm curious, like,

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Speaker 1: is that's something you've seen for years or does the

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Speaker 1: speed even still take you aback when you see Um

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Speaker 1: you know how he built it up like that? Uh? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know. Um, I've seen Devin run like that a lot. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know. The first player that comes to mind, Uh,

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Speaker 1: obviously not a good one of him making the play

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Speaker 1: on the Kansas City kickoff return. Um running that down. Uh,

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Speaker 1: but Devin's always had tremendous speed and uh, tremendous desire. Um.

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Speaker 1: You could tell as soon as the ball got in

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Speaker 1: his hands he wanted to get to the end zone. Um.

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Speaker 1: It was a great play by him. And uh yeah

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Speaker 1: he turned on the jets and uh didn't look like

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Speaker 1: any good's catching him. His brothers. His brother was gaining

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Speaker 1: on him a little bit, but I don't think he

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Speaker 1: would have called him That's right. Yeah, it looked like

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Speaker 1: almost like a competition there on the on the return. Devin.

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Speaker 1: Um his leadership as well. I just had the position

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Speaker 1: coach for that group. How does his leadership help you?

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Speaker 1: You know, just in terms of leading that group yourself. UM. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've been extremely fortunate to uh always have Devin in

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Speaker 1: my room and um I've always been on on this

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Speaker 1: team with Devin, so um uh yeah, I can't can't

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Speaker 1: say enough of the amount of leader shift that he

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Speaker 1: brings to this team and in so many different areas

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Speaker 1: on the field, off the field, in the meeting room, um,

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Speaker 1: in the weight room, walters, and then obviously on the

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Speaker 1: practice field. Um. You know, he's a guy who's been

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Speaker 1: around for a while. He's done a lot of things

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Speaker 1: at a very very high level for a for a

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Speaker 1: long period of time. And if I was a young player,

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Speaker 1: I would want to follow his lead as well I

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Speaker 1: do as a coach. So um yeah, I think everybody

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Speaker 1: looks up to Devon in one aspect or another. Next question,

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Speaker 1: Michael Jack, Thanks Stacy, Steve. Can you hear me, yes, sir? Okay? Um,

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Speaker 1: when you're when your group is facing a quarterback like

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, Um, is there any emphasis on being sure

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Speaker 1: of your fundamentals and telling the guys don't try to

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Speaker 1: do too much? Um, don't think that you have to

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Speaker 1: overplay particular um play just because it's Aaron Rodgers back

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Speaker 1: there throwing the ball. You know where I'm going with this?

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Speaker 1: Um yeah, I mean every play, Um, every play UM,

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Speaker 1: in order for it to see a good play starts

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Speaker 1: with good fundamentals. Um. So each week and each play

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Speaker 1: is there's an emphasis on good fundamentals. Um. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: really matter who the opponent is. Uh, it always starts

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Speaker 1: with your own game and your own individual technique. So UM,

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Speaker 1: if you don't have good fundamentals, regardless of who you play,

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Speaker 1: usually those players don't turn out too well for our

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Speaker 1: and um so UM, I always try and stress uh fundamentals,

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Speaker 1: especially as a season moves forward. Um, practice time cuts

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Speaker 1: down a little bit, So always try and keep us

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Speaker 1: stress on fundamentals regardless of your plan. But UM to

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Speaker 1: your point, absolutely, you gotta keep counting it in their

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Speaker 1: head uh, fundamentals and techniques and and if I can

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Speaker 1: follow up real quick, have you seen um progress in

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Speaker 1: that regard from the unit as a whole as the

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Speaker 1: season has gone on. Yeah? Absolutely, Like I said, UM,

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Speaker 1: we try and put a put an emphasis on it

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Speaker 1: every day. UM. Oh yeah, it would be doing my

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Speaker 1: job if it wasn't improving. Thanks ju, thank you, Phil

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Speaker 1: Perry followed by Doug Kine. Go ahead, Phil, Thank Steve.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you something else about the pict

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Speaker 1: last night. Devan said after the game that he and

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Speaker 1: Katrick chung Um had a little exchange when they saw

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Speaker 1: the formation and they had an idea of what they

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Speaker 1: quarterback into making that throw. Um. It seems like a

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Speaker 1: lot of information the process and a lot to communicate

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Speaker 1: before the ball is snapped there from the point they

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Speaker 1: see the formation to when it is snapped. How often

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Speaker 1: do those kinds of exchanges happen between those safeties? They've

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Speaker 1: obviously played a lot together, and I guess what is

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Speaker 1: to say about um their ability to process information quickly

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Speaker 1: that they had yesterday. Yeah, I mean that's a that's

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Speaker 1: a testament to those guys recognizing something on the field

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Speaker 1: and doing something about it. Obviously making a productive play

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Speaker 1: for our team out of that. And uh, kind of

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Speaker 1: a follow up on the fundamental question communications, one of

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Speaker 1: the one of the most important fundamentals that we have here.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you don't know what to do

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Speaker 1: without being fold Uh, what to do so getting everybody

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Speaker 1: on the same page. There's really nothing more important than

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Speaker 1: communication to know what techniques, what fundamentals apply to that

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Speaker 1: on the same page. So, UM, yeah, I absolutely try

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Speaker 1: and stress communication with those guys. Not that I had

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Speaker 1: anything to do with that play, but that was all them.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I always try and reinforce communication makes it

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Speaker 1: a lot easier on the field when when you talk

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Speaker 1: through it and uh and can work it out that

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Speaker 1: way instead of just trying to greet each other's mind

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Speaker 1: and guess what the other person's going to do it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Last question for Steve ballcheck will Steve, just

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Speaker 1: Pat playing down near the line of scrimmage, Devin playing

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Speaker 1: have to have versatility as a as a positional coach

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Speaker 1: as well. Um, I don't know, I've never really I've

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Speaker 1: never really thought about it like that. I guess it's

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Speaker 1: kind of uh all I've really known. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: I just just try and teach these guys to be

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Speaker 1: better football players. Um, you know, safeties can wind up

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Speaker 1: all over the fields. Windbackers, uh, you know, all positions,

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Speaker 1: they can wind up anywhere. So um, just good fundamental

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Speaker 1: football techniques. Um they apply to all players, regardless of

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Speaker 1: where you want. UM. So I mean I try and uh,

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Speaker 1: that are more applicable to certain position rooms that don't

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Speaker 1: always come up for this safeties and implement those into

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Speaker 1: into the safeties games. But at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: you know, you just got to be able to make

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Speaker 1: the plays when when they come your way and hope

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Speaker 1: that the uh the techniques that you've taught to guys

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Speaker 1: can apply to that situation. UM. Yeah, I mean, versatility

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Speaker 1: is a huge part of football, and you need to

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Speaker 1: be able to handle different situations and different plays, different

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Speaker 1: uh different adjustments. So I mean it's absolutely important to

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Speaker 1: be versaily. You want to be a pigeonholed into one position.

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Speaker 1: But UM, I don't know, I don't know if I've

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Speaker 1: ever thought of it as being a non versail or

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Speaker 1: versatile coach, but uh, it's definitely important, and I definitely

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Speaker 1: try and stress the important and versatility. I haven't really

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Speaker 1: thought about it and I at the other side of it.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Steve, Thank you, Steve, thank you,