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Speaker 1: How is it piecing together the practice? You know, we

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Speaker 1: have a versatile group and you know, everyone's working their

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Speaker 1: however we line up, um, you know, everyone's striving to

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Speaker 1: do their best. It's always been the next man up mentality.

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Speaker 1: But we have four guys going down. That's got an

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Speaker 1: alarming to your room. I think, yeah, I mean it's

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Speaker 1: definitely not an ideal situation. But we're, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: deep room in the offensive line, and um, you know

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Speaker 1: we're gonna go had a good practice yesterday and you

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Speaker 1: board today at any spot on the line. I am yep.

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Speaker 1: That's been my role, um for for a lot of

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Speaker 1: to be here and it's a it's a great opportunity

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Speaker 1: for a lot of us to step in and show

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Speaker 1: what we can do. What was the last time you

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Speaker 1: been surprised at all? You know, just the construction of

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Speaker 1: the team call you guys could really run the ball

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Speaker 1: heading into the season. You never know obviously until you

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Speaker 1: I think it's you know, obviously it's not what we want. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, we want to be as an offensive line,

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Speaker 1: you take pride and run the ball and uh, you

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Speaker 1: know hasn't been our best performances. But you know, again

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Speaker 1: of and get a victory. How does it feel to

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Speaker 1: It felt great? You know, It's cool to you know,

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Speaker 1: playing in such a big game. Um, you know, wish

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Speaker 1: we would have pulled it out, but you know that

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Speaker 1: is you know life in this league, and when you

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Speaker 1: get an opportunity, you have to make the most of it.

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Speaker 1: And uh, you know, getting out there and playing was

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Speaker 1: you know we're gonna do it again here in a

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Speaker 1: couple of days. When you guys go through situations where

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Speaker 1: what's the biggest key to having success when you have

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Speaker 1: to have that next man up mentality? What do you guys,

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Speaker 1: we've had you know, we had a good camp and um,

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Speaker 1: you know a lot of guys obviously we've had a

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Speaker 1: you have to play your technique well and and really

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Speaker 1: it comes down to it's an opportunity for a lot

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Speaker 1: the timing styles of the year. Yeah, and I was

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Speaker 1: he was in Miami with me last year UM as well,

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Speaker 1: a good friend of mine, a great friend of mine. UM.

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Speaker 1: Excited to play against him, played agains him. Obviously he

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Speaker 1: great player for you know, six years now, UM, and

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Speaker 1: a good job. Coach Skarniki hasn't been here for a

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Speaker 1: few years, but you still see his handprint and how

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Speaker 1: you're coached and how this this coaching staff. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I owe a lot of my career to Coach Skarniki.

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Speaker 1: I would I say, I, you know, his footprint on

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Speaker 1: And I think we take a lot of a lot

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Speaker 1: what it means to be successful as offensive linement. A

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Speaker 1: it took him at all as he's sending any text

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Speaker 1: We occasionally talked, but it wouldn't be um, anything coaching wise,

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Speaker 1: Did your gut us you know, left the organization and

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Speaker 1: maybe that you appreciate more the second time around here? Well,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate an opportunity to play in this league. It's

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Speaker 1: a very finite time that we can play football. And

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Speaker 1: know great organization is an honor and um, you know,

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Speaker 1: something I take very seriously and something I want to prove,

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Speaker 1: you know, the coaches and scouts and you know everyone involved,

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Speaker 1: that I want to fight for and and and and

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Speaker 1: have a lot of fun playing with. UM. It's interesting

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Speaker 1: to see. I've had a couple, you know, rookie qubs

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Speaker 1: I think he's doing a great job. And I just

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Speaker 1: our unit be successful. Thank you. Appreciate you than thank you.

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Speaker 1: Thanks guys, appreciate seek