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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone. I feel like I haven't seen you guys

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Speaker 1: coming down. I know there are a lot of unknowns

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Speaker 1: right now, whether we're talking about the draft or free agency,

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Speaker 1: but today is really about the new coaches, and you know,

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Speaker 1: we'll have our coordinators up here to kind of speak

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Speaker 1: to you guys, and I don't know if Stacey told you, guys,

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Speaker 1: but afterwards, the rest of our new coaches. I think

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Speaker 1: we have seventeen new coaches. They will come down and

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Speaker 1: hopefully well get a chance to really vibe and connect.

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Speaker 1: They know that, you know, our relationship with the media

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Speaker 1: is very important. Stacy and Aaron have done a good

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Speaker 1: job explaining it to those guys. But at the same time,

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Speaker 1: I think there needs to be a good relationship between

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Speaker 1: the two groups and hopefully, look, I'll try to make

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Speaker 1: myself available as much as possible, But at the same time,

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Speaker 1: today is really just about the new coaches and the coordinators.

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Speaker 2: The process it's like for you and how happy are

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Speaker 2: you with the staff that you haven't Yeah, the process. Uh,

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Speaker 2: it was definitely a learning experience.

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Speaker 1: I've interviewed people in the past before for other jobs,

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Speaker 1: but this one was a little bit different. But it

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Speaker 1: was it was exciting, and I felt like I learned

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Speaker 1: a lot. I learned a lot from the coaches that

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Speaker 1: had a good sense of what we're trying to build here.

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Speaker 1: But it was it was good. It was good.

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Speaker 3: I had this job now for a month, month and

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Speaker 3: a half. What's been the biggest surprise.

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Speaker 4: For you so much?

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Speaker 1: The biggest surprise for me really has been the lack

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Speaker 1: of true football tape I had an opportunity to watch

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Speaker 1: right now as a head coach, it's kind of a

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Speaker 1: little bit different. Right now, we're trying to continue to,

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Speaker 1: also get into some of the things we want to

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Speaker 3: From the coaches you didn't hire, what were a couple

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Speaker 3: of those things.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to get into ex's and

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Speaker 1: o's honestly, not today, but it was it was mainly

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Speaker 1: about x's and o's and how the those guys their

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Speaker 1: leadership philosophies and and things like that. It wasn't it

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Speaker 1: wasn't anything like groundbreaking, but at the same time, there

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Speaker 1: were little nuggets that I took away. Surprise trust health

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Speaker 2: The ed coaching experience.

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Speaker 1: It was very important. It was very important for me

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Speaker 2: Uh, it's been great.

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Speaker 1: And honestly, I have relationships with coaches around the league

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Speaker 1: as well that have offered to help. You know, they're

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Speaker 1: not in the AFC, so that's a that's a good thing.

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Speaker 5: You interviewed several candidates for offensive coordinator. What did you

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Speaker 5: like about Vin Helt? And I guess Ben da can

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, you know, a VP.

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Speaker 1: I'm not exactly sure, and I don't want to get

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Speaker 1: into what happened at Cleveland, but all the people that

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Speaker 1: Obviously he understands the exits and knows of the game,

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Speaker 1: but also developing talent and really he is a relationship guy,

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Speaker 1: which I fundamentally believe is very important before you really

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Speaker 1: get into exits and those with the guys on the field.

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Speaker 1: They got to know that you care about him. And

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Speaker 1: one thing about a VP, which you guys will see

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Speaker 1: an extensive knowledge of football.

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Speaker 2: Tried to go.

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Speaker 4: Off of that.

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Speaker 5: That offensive coordinator search, at least from AFAR, seemed wide ranging.

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Speaker 4: A number of different people interviewed.

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Speaker 5: Why was it important to cast such a wide net.

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Speaker 4: For that job.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was my first time doing it. So you

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Speaker 1: I feel very good about where our staff is. Once again, look,

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Speaker 3: Obviously, you got from the defensive side, and you've schemed

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Speaker 3: I'd like to go I'd like to hire somebody from

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Speaker 2: Work for you a little bit?

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Speaker 1: You know, realistically, I'm not gonna talk too much about football,

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Speaker 1: but realistically, on early downs you're only gonna.

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Speaker 2: Get you know, so many schemes.

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Speaker 1: It's really the third down stuff that you really see

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Speaker 1: coaches start to start to shine. It was important, you know,

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Speaker 1: I will definitely learn a lot from these guys as

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Speaker 1: well as we as we prepare for the opponents going forward. Look,

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Speaker 1: High Tower, you know, he was my little brother when

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Speaker 1: he got here, one of the smartest players that I've

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Speaker 1: been around. And we've been talking about this for a while.

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Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you, We've been talking about it

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Speaker 1: for a while. High Tower has always really wanted to coach.

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Speaker 1: He was a coach on the field. Obviously, he took

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Speaker 1: it was very important. But it wasn't like a you know, yesterday,

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Speaker 1: hey man, you know you want to be my linebacker coas.

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Speaker 2: This was a this was an extensive search process.

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Speaker 1: What do you have for him, who is kind of

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, you have a guy like DeMarcus Covington who

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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden he's coaching the linebackers without

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Speaker 1: the linebacker tag. Then he's going to the front. But

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Speaker 1: he had an extensive knowledge of different position groups. And

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Speaker 1: also I would say he really helped me with the

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 1: I spent a lot of time with DC and confident

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Speaker 4: You mentioned that a number of few coaches couples with

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Speaker 1: You know, one thing we wanted to make sure of

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Speaker 1: we were thinking about what value? What value does this

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Speaker 1: role bring to the team. Now, Historically we've always had

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Speaker 1: small staffs, and I mean it's hard to get things

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Speaker 1: you know, the size. We weren't thinking. We were just

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Speaker 1: thinking about how can we make this staff as good

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Look, honestly, after talking to a lot of coaches your

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Speaker 5: How much did you rely on Elliott Wolf Trot? How

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Speaker 5: much did you rely on Elliott Wolf to help you

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Speaker 5: fill up the staff?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Elliott, he's been great. He was in all their interviews.

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Speaker 1: He definitely has a lot of contacts and resources outside

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Speaker 1: was very important for me to bring in you know,

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Speaker 1: the a VP, the mcadoo's Elliott. You know, Elliott grew

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Speaker 2: Uh as well.

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Speaker 3: Making any more additions to the coaching staff this place.

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Speaker 1: I would say it's still a process. We're still working

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Speaker 4: As your offensive coordinator, what are you expecting it of

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm expecting, you know, first and foremost, a tough team,

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Speaker 1: a tough team. And I think after that it really

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Speaker 1: We you know this is you know, even from a

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Speaker 2: I got I gotta go. A month ago, you this

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Speaker 2: So how are you.

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Speaker 1: Feeling about that that you're a month later now and

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Speaker 1: you're almost got your final coaching staff and you're ready

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Speaker 1: to move on? Yeah, I mean it feels great. It

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Speaker 1: with the coaching staff that we have. You know, after

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Speaker 1: this you'll get a chance to meet the coordinators obviously,

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Speaker 1: but also our position coaches will play a major part

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Speaker 4: Are you able to say, well, the first round is

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Speaker 1: So Shirt Brown is still on the staff, And once

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Speaker 1: again I would say, uh, the staff is still pretty fluid,

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Speaker 5: In a relationship to fire you, I'll.

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Speaker 1: Send me to the Once Elliott got here, we I

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Speaker 1: mean we hit it off the first time we really met.

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Speaker 1: He's one of those guys. He's an ego free guy.

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Speaker 1: He just wants to win football games. And that's what

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Speaker 1: that's what I live by as well.

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Speaker 2: And uh, he's been a great partner in this.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely from a team wire perspective all the way

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Speaker 1: down to the individual players. Our philosophy matches. We want

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Speaker 1: to put good football players out there that are that

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Speaker 2: He sees it the same way.

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Speaker 3: What role is Robin Lazer? What do needs is she

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Speaker 3: performing for you? She was in on at least some

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Speaker 3: of the interviews putting, yeah, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, honestly, like at this point in time, I just

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Speaker 1: kind of want to focus on the coaches. Look, we'll

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Speaker 1: really set in the place, But right now I'm focused

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Speaker 1: on the coordinators, and I think we should focus on

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Speaker 5: What attracted you to working with the Marcus Covington as

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, like I said, when I first got here,

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Speaker 1: he showed me a lot of the behind the scenes,

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Speaker 1: So it was it was a mentorship or reverse mentorship,

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Speaker 2: To look at it.

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Speaker 1: I did it on the field, but he also knew

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Speaker 1: how to do you know, the back end stuff. Look,

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Speaker 1: this is one of those guys as well. You know,

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Speaker 1: I've already talked about this being a relationship business where

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Speaker 1: he has a great relationship with the players, you know, mind, body,

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Speaker 1: and spirit. He always talks about those things, and you

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Speaker 1: can see from the development of the players in his

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Speaker 5: In recent years, more and more coaching staffs haven't been

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Speaker 5: showing up to the NFL Combine, which is going on

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Speaker 5: next week, your division being there, and because you guys

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Speaker 5: have the number three thin because this is important one

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're still working through that stuff. Look, we'll we'll

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Speaker 1: talk about it after this, after this mic is out

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Speaker 1: my face. But at the end of the day, Look,

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Speaker 1: we'll have great representation there. And I have nothing but

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Speaker 1: the ultimate faith in Elliott and his staff as well,

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Speaker 1: and also our coaches that are evaluating players both in

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Speaker 1: free agency and the draft.

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Speaker 4: What did you like about this?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: You know, the one thing I would say about a

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Speaker 1: VP is he can make the same concept look a

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Speaker 1: bunch of different ways, and that's always hard for uh,

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Speaker 1: for us on the defensive side of the ball. And

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Speaker 1: really like it depends on the players that we have

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Speaker 1: and the flexibility that he has as far as scheme

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Speaker 1: is concerned. He's been cross trained, uh, you know, multiple teams,

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Speaker 1: and I think that experience and that uh, that philosophy

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Speaker 2: I gotta get here.

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Speaker 3: Did you feel limited at all because of your lack

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Speaker 5: And is that kind of where Elliott came in and.

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Speaker 3: Made up made up to that in terms of filling

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Speaker 1: You know, what I would say is, you know, we

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Speaker 1: all have strengths and weaknesses, and we're trying to continue

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Speaker 1: to sharpen our swords UH through people and through their experiences,

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Speaker 1: and at the same time shore up weaknesses or areas

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Speaker 1: to improve. Look, I'm not going to sit up here

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Speaker 1: And Elliott's one of those guys I'm going to lean on,

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Speaker 1: and Macado is one of those guys I'm going to

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Speaker 1: lean on a VP. All those guys are guys that

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Speaker 1: I feel like I can lean on and learn a

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Speaker 1: lot as well as ownership right as well as ownership.

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Speaker 2: They've been very supportive of what we've done.

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Speaker 3: Filling out the offensive staff under Alex, did he make

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Speaker 3: recommendations or did he have power over that highing process?

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Speaker 1: I think one important thing is for offensive coordinators is

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Speaker 1: really to have the ability to have major input and

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Speaker 1: hiring their own staff. You want, God, you don't want

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Speaker 1: to have to teach your coaches as well as now

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Speaker 1: these guys are going to teach. You want them to

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Speaker 1: have a fundamental understanding of your scheme. But in saying that,

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Speaker 1: I would say it was a combination between you know, Elliott, myself,

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Speaker 1: grow and a VP to really uh nail the staff

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Speaker 1: down good all right, thanks guys, I'll see you in

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Speaker 1: what now