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Speaker 1: Welcome to this Veterans Day edition of the From the

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Speaker 1: Podium podcast. I'm Gabe Kolera. We at the Browns want

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Speaker 1: to say thank you to all of our country's veterans

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Speaker 1: for your service. The Browns. We're back to work today

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Speaker 1: off of the bye week at the Cross Country Mortgage

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Speaker 1: campus as they prepare for the New Orleans Saints this

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Speaker 1: coming Sunday. On this episode, you'll hear from head coach

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Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski, wide receiver Cedric Tillman, offensive tackle Jedrick Wills,

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Speaker 1: and defensive and Isaiah McGuire. We start with head coach

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Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski, who reflected on the first half of the season.

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Speaker 2: All right, fire awing guys.

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Speaker 3: Coach update on Jeremy Jeremiah.

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Speaker 2: No update, not yet. Yeah, yeah, long term impact. Anytime

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Speaker 2: you're dealing with injuries with the neck, you're always making

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Speaker 2: sure that he's getting every possible amount of care that

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Speaker 2: he can get. But we'll really deal with that as

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Speaker 2: a day by day to day week type thing.

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Speaker 3: We haven't talked to you.

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Speaker 4: I don't think since the Darius has traded, so I

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Speaker 4: would assume that would mean Obo gets more time.

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Speaker 3: In Isaiah, that's right.

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Speaker 4: So we seen out of those two guys, especially Isaiah's playing.

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Speaker 2: More than I think both those guys have given us

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Speaker 2: some really good moments, really good reps. Obo has done

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Speaker 2: it now as a veteran for us, and you've seen it.

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Speaker 2: He's a productive player. Isaiah being a younger player, you

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Speaker 2: haven't seen it as much, but in those small samples,

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Speaker 2: I think he's done. Nice job.

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Speaker 5: Look everything down over the bye week, like you always do.

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Speaker 5: What were the conclusions that you drew or what are

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Speaker 5: things that you're.

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Speaker 3: Going to change?

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 2: There's so much mary Kay obviously that you look at

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Speaker 2: from an offense defense, special teams lens, you look at

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Speaker 2: it from a personnel lens, from a schematic lens. There's

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Speaker 2: a lot to take away, and that's our job to

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Speaker 2: figure out how to digest all of that and then

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Speaker 2: have some action items, if you will. I shared with

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Speaker 2: the team things that I feel like we should be

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Speaker 2: goals of ours going into the last eight games from

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Speaker 2: an offense defense special teams perspective, and not to get

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Speaker 2: into specifics, but there's things that we feel like we

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Speaker 2: can improve upon, and that's really the goal of certainly

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Speaker 2: in the next eight games.

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Speaker 5: Like interceptions j okay, is the only one that has one.

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Speaker 5: I mean, is that something that is at a point

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Speaker 5: of empisoide?

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Speaker 2: Certainly you want to take the ball away and we

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Speaker 2: want to and we have and that's something that we

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Speaker 2: did last year at a good clip. You also have

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Speaker 2: to play sound defense. Takeaways, fumbles, interceptions come from doing

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Speaker 2: your job and doing your job with great effort and

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Speaker 2: having eleven guys running to the ball. That's typically where

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Speaker 2: they come. What you don't want to do is go

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Speaker 2: outside the scheme in order to try to make a play,

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Speaker 2: because that's not beneficial to you either.

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Speaker 6: So we've asked you about explosive plays and in the

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Speaker 6: first half, now that you've been able to really take

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Speaker 6: some time to examine, why has it been.

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Speaker 4: So challenging for you guys to generate those?

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Speaker 6: You still don't have a play that's gone for at

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Speaker 6: least forty years. It's tough to play perfect defense. You're

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Speaker 6: gonna give up a big plays, but you're also not

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Speaker 6: generating any counter that.

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Speaker 2: I think it's obviously has a bunch of different reasons there, Darryl.

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Speaker 2: I think staying on the field converting on third downs

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Speaker 2: gives you more opportunities, more turns, but it's never one thing.

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Speaker 2: It's not just hey, our play action shots, we need

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Speaker 2: to hit them, or hey, the run game, we got

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Speaker 2: to come squirting out of there on one of those,

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Speaker 2: or the screen game, whatever it is. I really think

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Speaker 2: it's it's really everything kind of goes a little bit

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Speaker 2: to what Mary Kay was asking about with takeaways. I

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Speaker 2: think if you do your job and you don't go

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Speaker 2: searching for them, typically those big plays show up because

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Speaker 7: Just to make sure Javis Whinston is still start a quarterback?

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Speaker 2: Yes, the duration or yes, yes, duration in week to.

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Speaker 5: Week much thought or any thought at all to turning

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Speaker 7: Dorian or.

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Speaker 2: I think with all of our players, mary Kay, we're

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Speaker 2: gonna look at what we're doing and see what type

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Speaker 6: Kevin, what are you important for dwind is you guys

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Speaker 6: kind of still try him on the left.

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Speaker 2: Side or get better and playing a position he hasn't

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Speaker 2: so small improvements over time can be big improvements. That's

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Speaker 2: really where we are with him at that position and

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Speaker 2: it's as simple as footwork and the run game and

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Speaker 2: hand placement and all those type of things.

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Speaker 8: You are trying to win games.

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Speaker 6: But considering where you're at and what's in front of you.

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Speaker 8: Is is there a point where you have decided that

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Speaker 8: you'll go into an evaluation mode where you really want

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Speaker 8: to maybe take a look at some guys to evaluate.

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Speaker 6: For the future.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand the question. Goal number one through one

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Speaker 2: hundred is to win. There may be times where we

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Speaker 2: we have young players that have earned a role and

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Speaker 2: earned the ability to go out there and help us win,

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Speaker 2: but does not change the goal.

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Speaker 4: You studied the run game, what stood out to you

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Speaker 4: is wasn't good enough?

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Speaker 2: And what can be improved? Again, I think it's such

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Speaker 2: a multifaceted answer, Scott. I think bottom line is we

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Speaker 2: need to get better. We have to run the ball

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Speaker 2: way more efficiently than we are and find those explosives

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Speaker 2: in the run game. We look at it from the

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Speaker 2: schemes certainly, what are the schemes that we are having

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Speaker 2: some success in that we can lean into that we

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Speaker 2: can protect with different other schemes. If you will, there's

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Speaker 2: certain things that you do and you do it well,

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Speaker 2: then you want to also do this because it's going

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Speaker 2: to protect that whether it's a play action or those

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Speaker 2: type of things. So we need to lean into the

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Speaker 2: things that we feel our guys do best. But that

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Speaker 2: is a major point of emphasis for us that we

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Speaker 2: could self evaluation.

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Speaker 9: Like for you personally, especially being the first where you

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Speaker 9: know you're not calling plays, maybe something that you want

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Speaker 9: to focus.

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Speaker 3: On the next games.

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Speaker 2: So I think for us as coaches and players, it's

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Speaker 2: we have to do our job a little bit better

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Speaker 2: and have those small improvements that can like we were

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Speaker 2: talking about with Dewan, that can show up and the

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Speaker 2: bigger things over the course of of these games. But

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Speaker 2: just want all of our coaches the mindset to be

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Speaker 2: coach and player to just get better. And this last

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Speaker 2: week gives you an opportunity to look at everything you're

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Speaker 2: doing and talk through it with the coaches and see

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Speaker 2: if there's things that we can do better.

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Speaker 9: There won't be any major changes, but maybe any slight

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Speaker 9: tweaks throughout the week that you you know you're you're.

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Speaker 2: Looking forward to. Nothing specific to discuss the.

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Speaker 3: Left end position goes.

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Speaker 7: Do you guys see Obo as an every down left

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Speaker 7: end or would Islay McGuire start.

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Speaker 2: I think both those guys are perfectly capable. We'll work

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Speaker 2: through those type of things. But Obo has played for US,

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Speaker 2: has started for US, has played played well in his role.

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Speaker 2: Isaiah maguire a young player that we think highlight as well.

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Speaker 2: So both guys we think can can fill that.

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Speaker 3: Role quarter back.

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Speaker 5: Five interceptions last night and still win a football game.

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Speaker 5: In terms of Jamis and his interceptions and the dropped

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Speaker 5: ones and all of that, what's the philosophy or the

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Speaker 5: vibe going forward? Is he going to be on a

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Speaker 5: short lea should he continues to do that or how's

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Speaker 2: I think Jamis understands that turnover margin is so important

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Speaker 2: when you're talking about winning and losing uh these games.

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Speaker 2: So that's definitely an area that he wants to be

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Speaker 2: great at and not giving the other team even the

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Speaker 2: opportunity to be in position to make a play like that.

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Speaker 2: So it'll just be a constant point of emphsis with

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Speaker 2: all of our quarterbacks.

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Speaker 8: Mary Kay back, Jordan Hicks back this week.

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Speaker 3: I do.

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Speaker 7: The plan for Chubbs just continue as is, Yes, playing himself.

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Speaker 7: How far away do you think he is from his

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Speaker 7: former former Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I think it's it's for me, Tony. I think Nick

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Speaker 2: is getting better and better as he gets more comfortable again,

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Speaker 2: was had that extended absence. But I feel really confident

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Speaker 2: and where we are. We need to do a bit.

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Speaker 2: We talked about doing a better job in the run game.

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Speaker 2: It's really all of us. It's from the coaches to

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Speaker 2: where Nick is run game.

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Speaker 4: I get another question, Kevin. I know you change a

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Speaker 4: bunch of stuff offensively from last year to this year.

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Speaker 4: Do you feel like you guys got away from some

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Speaker 2: Or we're not doing enough well right now. So bottom

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Speaker 2: line is we have to get it fixed. Whether it's

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Speaker 2: just have to We have to do everything we're doing,

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Speaker 2: we have to do it better.

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Speaker 3: Said Toby.

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Speaker 4: In the last three weeks, you know, he really hit

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Speaker 2: Did you say said, oh yeah, okay, gotcha.

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Speaker 4: Just how much just confident wise, how much of you

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Speaker 4: noticed a difference in him day to day because of

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Speaker 2: He's having on Sundays. I think confidence with young players

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Speaker 2: be out there and doing it. So I don't think

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Speaker 2: said has ever lacked for confidence. As you see with

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Speaker 2: his role growing in the volume of targets coming his

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Speaker 2: way naturally, and you make a few plays, naturally, your

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Speaker 2: confidence is going to increase. But that's not something I

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Speaker 2: don't ever get the sense that he lacked confidence.

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Speaker 5: I asked you this since last year. Might there be

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Speaker 5: a package of plays or anything that you could find

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Speaker 5: for Dorian to do to kind of get him involved.

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Speaker 2: I think those are all things that we've talked about

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Speaker 2: in the off season or in the bye week, if

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Speaker 2: you will, so we'll see. It would have to be

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Speaker 2: dependent on what we think the defense is going to

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Speaker 2: do and if we feel like it's something that we

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Speaker 2: need we could.

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Speaker 7: You have any observations yet about the Saints.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I've watched them, but I'll really dive into

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Speaker 2: them and talk about them on Wednesday.

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Speaker 6: I just said for a second, Jamis help him though

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Speaker 6: in these first few games since since he took over

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Speaker 6: our quarterback and then having Cedric get more.

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Speaker 1: Reps and everything.

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Speaker 2: I think Jamis does a nice job out there with

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Speaker 2: like a lot of the quarterbacks do with the young

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Speaker 2: players and pulling them to the side and during a

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Speaker 2: special teams period, Hey, let's run through that route one

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Speaker 2: more time. So said, it's very responsive to that type

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Speaker 2: of coaching, whether it comes from coach Oche or Jamis

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Speaker 2: in this case.

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Speaker 7: Two games with the new play calling apparatus. Are you pleased?

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Speaker 2: So, what is this opportunity to kind of went to

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Speaker 9: Just trying to take it day by day, week by week,

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Speaker 3: So just trying to capitalize on that.

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Speaker 9: Your I mean the message is always always the same

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Speaker 3: He always tells me get open, just catch the ball.

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Speaker 8: Where have you been working?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, I think coach is just gonna continue

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Speaker 3: Just evolving as a receiver.

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Speaker 3: We gotta feel like you're oh and oh is that

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Speaker 9: That's the way I'm approaching it. Like I said, I'm

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Speaker 4: Does the startline that it's just one of nice.

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Speaker 8: Sentiships.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: Coach is just always telling me to stay in the game,

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Speaker 3: Like I said, they put me in good positions.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, you have such.

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Speaker 9: But uh, I know if I just kept working and

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Speaker 3: Kind of the emotions I guess sort of stemmed.

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Speaker 3: So I would definitely say, but as each week is

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Speaker 1: Offensive tackle Jedrick Wills spoke on his ongoing recovery from

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Speaker 3: I mean, you never know, just kind of planning whatever happened? Tops,

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Exact? And is anymore?

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Speaker 6: So?

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Speaker 9: Jim?

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Speaker 5: What do you feel like you have to do to

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Speaker 3: Me just control what I can control?

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Speaker 5: And did they what message did they give you?

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Speaker 9: No message, no message at all?

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Speaker 10: And what what's your mindset?

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Speaker 5: I mean, how do you feel about what's called just.

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Speaker 9: Staying healthy, staying ready, doing what I canus about it

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Speaker 3: At both? Yeah, I've been more both. How long did

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Speaker 5: What do you think about playing over on the right

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Speaker 3: To do that, how do you think that would do everybody feel?

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Speaker 2: News?

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Speaker 6: So what about all your interior?

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Speaker 3: No, I've I've ad I haven't done any interior yet.

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Speaker 5: Now are you upset about this or how would you

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Speaker 9: I mean, I think I think upset is uh isn't

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Speaker 3: I mean I can only do what I can do.

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Speaker 4: So how did.

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Speaker 3: You stay ready? Because I mean I know you had

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Speaker 9: I mean it, yeah, it's tough. You never know when

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Speaker 4: But just being last year on the contract, you thought

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Speaker 9: Would want you to sign you. I mean, yeah, wherever

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Speaker 9: I can play is good. I haven't really put too

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Speaker 5: Yeah, since the trade deadline just happened and this was

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Speaker 3: Deadline, did you or your agent think about asking.

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Speaker 2: To be traded.

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Speaker 3: I mean there there wasn't really wasn't enough time.

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Speaker 9: It was more just cause we get ready for that

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Speaker 3: So more this is more like being ready to play

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Speaker 9: So yeah, how they can municated it just they it

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Speaker 3: It just told me I wasn't playing, and I was it.

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Speaker 4: You started the first fifty seven games every time you

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Speaker 4: were healthy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So how shocking.

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Speaker 9: Was this to that?

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Speaker 3: I mean it was it was pretty shocked.

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Speaker 9: I mean I decided myself, like I made a bus

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Speaker 4: So I mean, do you think that they misinterpreted the

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure.

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Speaker 2: Maybe how did that feel?

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Speaker 5: I mean, did you you felt like you aggravated the

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Speaker 9: Hey, I got hyper extended on the very first play.

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Speaker 9: I kind of felt it, but we were going up

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Speaker 9: The next day, I got some treatment and stuff, and

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Speaker 9: So played out the week how it went, I wasn't

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Speaker 5: And so that didn't sit well with them that you made.

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure. I don't I don't know. I'm not sure.

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Speaker 5: How does that work between you and the docks?

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Speaker 7: Do they say hey, you're good to go and you're.

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? They just was it? I think it was Friday.

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Speaker 9: So yeah, this was probably say, uh, the Ravens game

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Speaker 3: They were just kind of asking me like what I felt?

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Speaker 3: You know, what was wrong? Do you think that maybe

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Speaker 9: Uh?

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Speaker 3: Stuff like that. But I just ended up being inactive

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Speaker 3: I learned to see one more time? Hundred? Yeah? Most definitely,

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Speaker 9: I mean, you wouldn't want to go out there and

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Speaker 9: Like I don't want to be out there the whole time,

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Speaker 3: I got to focus on my I'm man who I'm blocking.

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Speaker 9: worse knee injury? Yes, it was just cool.

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Speaker 3: Yeah it was I don't feel like I was healthy

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Speaker 5: And but I mean, did did Kevin or anybody say naw?

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Speaker 3: They just they just kind of let it go. We won.

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Speaker 9: I mean, I just told him, yeah, I'm just told

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Speaker 9: And because this was.

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Speaker 9: I mean, I don't think I would play hurt regardless

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Speaker 9: healthy enough to play, then I won't play. Dream and

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Speaker 9: the representatives having any conversations about the extensions, but me

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Speaker 3: Waiting looking forward to plan. Would you like it? I

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: So, I mean, does this felt like it almost has

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Speaker 8: a finality to it or ending.

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Speaker 10: Kind of thing?

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Speaker 9: I mean, can it either way? You never know, it's

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Speaker 9: not It's not my decision. So I just kind of

456
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Speaker 9: got to play the play the role.

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Speaker 3: That I have. You know.

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Speaker 5: What about your confidence in yourself and your belief and

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Speaker 5: your ability to be a.

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Speaker 3: Well that hasn't changed it all. Yeah, So you.

461
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Speaker 5: Still feel like you're you'll be ample left tackle.

462
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Speaker 3: When you get back out there. Yeah, it's definitely. And

463
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Speaker 3: what do you have to do and help make that happen.

464
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Speaker 9: Just staying healthy, standing in shape, whether it's right or left,

465
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Speaker 9: making sure I'm working both sides.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's about it. So are you all through now?

467
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Speaker 3: Are you yeah? Healthy?

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Speaker 5: Now?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I did. I did everything a part of today. Yeah.

470
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Speaker 3: Should when you make a decision, right, better not to

471
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Speaker 3: play like you said you were seventy percent you don't

472
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Speaker 3: feel like I can.

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Speaker 4: Help the tea.

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Speaker 3: Do you worry that that could have like long term

475
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Speaker 3: percussions for you? Like uh, people my questionnaire? Yeah, I

476
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Speaker 3: mean maybe that's always uh what do you call it?

477
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Speaker 3: A variable?

478
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Speaker 9: But I mean there's been times that I haven't played

479
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Speaker 9: in the past because of other things, Like I had

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Speaker 9: an ankle injury while I was out a couple of

481
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Speaker 9: games a couple years ago. I mean, injuries are part

482
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Speaker 9: of game. I mean they know that when they sign

483
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Speaker 9: us up. We know that when we sign up, like

484
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Speaker 9: it's a part of the game. I mean, if you

485
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Speaker 9: can't play and you're not healthy, it is what it is,

486
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Speaker 9: like do your best to get back and be able

487
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Speaker 9: to help the team where you are.

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Speaker 6: Just did they give you any pushback then when you said, hey,

489
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Speaker 6: I don't I don't.

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Speaker 9: Feel like I can go, well, earlier on in the week.

491
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Speaker 9: It was It's more like they evaluated what it was.

492
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Speaker 9: I had a lot of food in them, I had

493
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Speaker 9: to get drained, I had some swelling, I had some

494
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Speaker 9: damage in my car los and I have a bone

495
00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:09,440
Speaker 9: bruise that I've been dealing with since last year. So

496
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Speaker 9: they just kind of evaluated. I didn't practice the first

497
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Speaker 9: two days that would full speed, and then we had

498
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Speaker 9: a padded practice.

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Speaker 3: I didn't practice.

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Speaker 9: I tried to do some stuff on the Friday, didn't

501
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Speaker 9: feel good, and then they just declared me as an

502
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Speaker 9: active after that Friday practice.

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Speaker 5: Before you got injured last year, you were ranked pretty highly.

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Speaker 1: You were playing pretty well.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, So do you think that's good evidence for you

506
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Speaker 10: that you're on the track to being a.

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Speaker 3: Good pluck tap? I mean it's hard to say.

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Speaker 9: Yes, I was playing really good, but only did half

509
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Speaker 9: of the year, and then I've missed a couple of

510
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Speaker 9: games this year. I'm not starting, so I don't know

511
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Speaker 9: what other I don't know what they're what they're thinking of,

512
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Speaker 9: what other teams are thinking.

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Speaker 3: Just do what I can. It's about it. How about

514
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Speaker 3: your agent?

515
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Speaker 5: What does she what is your agent tell you to do?

516
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Speaker 9: I mean, for now, it's just stay ready hopefully I

517
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Speaker 9: can play and try to get filmed or than now,

518
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Speaker 9: because I mean last year is last year, you know

519
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Speaker 9: what I mean, So just stay ready and try to

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Speaker 9: get filmed for now and go from there.

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Speaker 3: Thus have been a complication attack or.

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Do you feel the management of injuries has been

524
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Speaker 6: what it needs to be or do you feel why

525
00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:23,000
Speaker 6: guys have had to come back a little sooner.

526
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Speaker 3: And that maybe some on the field.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, that that can definitely happen. I feel like it's

528
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Speaker 9: a little all over the place. I mean, you have

529
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Speaker 9: some guys who get it's hard because we always get

530
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Speaker 9: fed on. Like the injuries that we have is somebody

531
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Speaker 9: that's going on you can't see. So I mean you

532
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Speaker 9: have all of them. You have injuries where people are done.

533
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Speaker 9: There are injuries where they're kind of battling through it.

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Speaker 9: I mean you have injuries, like you said, like when

535
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Speaker 9: people are battling through it, they don't play well. I mean,

536
00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:47,719
Speaker 9: it's all over the place. It sucks, but it's part

537
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Speaker 9: of the game. I mean, it happens.

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Speaker 4: Did you think you'd played really well those first five

539
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Speaker 4: starters and then maybe not as well against the Bengals.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean I didn't do as good as the

541
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Speaker 9: Bengals game. I definitely get up at early on. Then

542
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Speaker 9: I had that play rob Movie assignment. I mean, other

543
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Speaker 9: than that, I feel like I had a pretty solid

544
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Speaker 9: game given the circumstances. But definitely in the first couple

545
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Speaker 9: of games, I mean I was feeling good, like I

546
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:11,760
Speaker 9: didn't have any problems with my knee. I mean I

547
00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:13,520
Speaker 9: feel like I was doing pretty fine. I mean we

548
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Speaker 9: didn't win.

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Speaker 3: I know it's a team game and things like that,

550
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Speaker 3: but refer into your question, Yeah, I think I did

551
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Speaker 3: pretty good the doue the assignment to one with Hendrickson.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, me and me and today, I mean I

553
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Speaker 9: can get into it, but yeah, that miss called miss assignment.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, when you look at a guy like.

555
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Speaker 5: Tristan WIRs, I mean, do you stack yourself off against

556
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Speaker 5: a guy like that, but you haven't had an opportunity

557
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Speaker 5: because of the injuries, do.

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Speaker 2: You feel like that?

559
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Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I would say that we were in

560
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Speaker 3: the same caliber. I mean, Tristan's a hell.

561
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Speaker 8: Of a player.

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Speaker 3: I mean he's a stud. He's a stud. He went

563
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Speaker 3: from right to left this past season, right, Yeah, I

564
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Speaker 3: mean I just try to do what I can, and then.

565
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Speaker 5: Like, was there any discussion between the two of you and.

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Speaker 4: He stepped stepped in for you.

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Speaker 9: I mean it was more discussion, Like he was more

568
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Speaker 9: surprised than anything. So just trying to help him. I mean,

569
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Speaker 9: we talk about football, we talk about real life stuff

570
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:12,720
Speaker 9: all the time, so it was just being their forum,

571
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Speaker 9: helping him when I can.

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Speaker 1: And then uh yeah, finally, defensive end Isaiah Maguire spoke

573
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Speaker 1: on his larger role with the team following a trade

574
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Speaker 1: that sent Zadarias Smith to the Detroit Lions.

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Speaker 3: What do you think about this opportunity?

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Speaker 6: Uh?

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Speaker 10: True, truthfully look, truthfully believe it's a blessing from God.

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Speaker 10: Like I said, definitely has had a journey here, but

579
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Speaker 10: also got the opportunity to learn from him, whether it's

580
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Speaker 10: on the field or off the field. So truly blessing

581
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Speaker 10: to go out there and play more.

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Speaker 6: What did you learn from him here?

583
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Speaker 10: Just small stuff when it comes to the game of football,

584
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Speaker 10: such as knowing where the center slides, going backfield formations.

585
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Speaker 10: You can diagnose some of those players before they even happened.

586
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Speaker 10: Until Quate till More plays. Honestly, it was surprising. You know,

587
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Speaker 10: you love a guy like Zee, like I said, just

588
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Speaker 10: the energy he brings, the enthusiasm he brings, also the

589
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Speaker 10: playmaking ability. But at that time, at the same time,

590
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Speaker 10: I knew I had to step up.

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Speaker 3: So for sure I know that Miles.

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Speaker 10: The biggest lesson, I'll say, the biggest lesson is how

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Speaker 10: you carry yourself on an off the field. Always hold

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Speaker 10: yourself to the professional standard, especially on the game field.

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Speaker 3: They said, I.

596
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Speaker 10: Don't need to play it with it outside the boundaries

597
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Speaker 10: of football. Hold yourself accountable, be the best team. I honestly,

598
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Speaker 10: although brought a lot of knowledge when I first came

599
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Speaker 10: in I first met him. Uh he played it with

600
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Speaker 10: a lot of great players, and he's a great player himself.

601
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Speaker 10: So small self such as key points to get off.

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Speaker 3: Whatever I may be.

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Speaker 10: Also, as I said with Ze, Backfield said things of

604
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Speaker 10: ass or past rush ability, just no stuff.

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Speaker 9: What have you learned from Jos, things coming and then

606
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Speaker 9: just kind of you know.

607
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Speaker 3: Coach you guys in continence of life, but just specifically

608
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Speaker 3: have moved.

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Speaker 10: Sure, I definitely say, just being the same person every day.

610
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Speaker 10: Also building up myself as a.

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Speaker 3: Pass rusher if I wish I could, But I.

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Speaker 10: Definitely say, just like I said, just building a whole

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Speaker 10: artillery moves when it comes to pass rushing and using

614
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Speaker 10: those things Like you said, no satch if you don't

615
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Speaker 10: have any moves, so I'll say that.

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Speaker 2: Used treated.

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Speaker 10: I just say repetition with those moves, Like I said,

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Speaker 10: you don't. You don't do something until you get it right.

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Speaker 10: You do until you can't get it wrong. And I'll

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Speaker 10: definitely say that's one thing my veteran room has definitely

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Speaker 10: instilled in me, uh, just to go out and equates production.

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Speaker 3: On the field. Yeah, yeah, a year and a half years.

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Speaker 10: I definitely say it was difficult, But I truly believe

624
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Speaker 10: that God allows things to happen in order for you

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Speaker 10: to learn something.

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Speaker 2: So in that I learned other aspects.

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Speaker 10: Of the league that's not really talking about, not a

628
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Speaker 10: lot of people talking about those that are active per se.

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Speaker 3: So in that I learn a different perspective and different appreciation.

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Speaker 3: But I also I believe that allowed that happened to

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Speaker 3: me for the future.

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Speaker 10: When I'm a veteran, you know, when I get to why,

633
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Speaker 10: I want to get to those saying the same and

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Speaker 10: I can help a younger guy that's going through that

635
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Speaker 10: to say, keep striving, keep pushing, rely on God, your

636
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:47,439
Speaker 10: family and.

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Speaker 3: Your veterans' drafted. How do you feel you play against it?

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Speaker 3: I feel like I played pretty good, I definitely say.

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Speaker 10: I mean even in college, I had quite amount of

640
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 10: TFLs And obviously the main thing is when it come

641
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Speaker 10: to stopping the run. If you want to pass rush,

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00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 10: you have to stop the run. So definitely, like I said,

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Speaker 10: that's the most important thing for us.

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Speaker 3: We hate that quality will get you on the field early.

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Speaker 3: Does there I definitely say for sure.

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Speaker 10: Like I said, I just control a lot of control,

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Speaker 10: and you know, when they put me in, when my

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Speaker 10: name's called, that's why I go out to execute it.

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