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Speaker 1: Hey, Steve, I wanted to, um to ask you about

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Speaker 1: Juan Williams, who we saw play a little bit of

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Speaker 1: safety in that final preseason game. UM. Is he someone

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Speaker 1: that you've been able to work with extensively in your room?

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Speaker 1: Was that just sort of a one night thing because

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Speaker 1: it was the preseason finale? Um? And how do you

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Speaker 1: view you know, maybe his versatility moving forward? He's obviously

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Speaker 1: a young player. Uh. Yeah, we try and get the

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Speaker 1: most out of out of all our players, not just

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Speaker 1: for one, but everybody in the back end. Um, it

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Speaker 1: was just another opportunity to do, um, see what he

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Speaker 1: can do on the field. UM. We've done that with

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Speaker 1: a lot of players in the past. I'm sure we'll

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Speaker 1: do it with a lot of players moving forward. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was just uh, just trying to get him into

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Speaker 1: the game, UM, work on some different roles and uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: let him let him show what he could do. Is

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Speaker 1: there anything about his skill set, his individual skill set

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Speaker 1: thieves that you know might make him a a deconsit

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Speaker 1: at safety? UM, I'm not really sure. I mean, Joanna

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Speaker 1: is a really unique skill set. Um. He's obviously a

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Speaker 1: new player to our team, and uh, we're still trying

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Speaker 1: to figure out best role, best way to use him.

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Speaker 1: He's a he's an unique player and has a lot

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Speaker 1: of potential to be a good player. We're just trying

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Speaker 1: to figure out the best thing to do with him.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Our next question Mike Petragua, followed by Teras Soliman.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Stacy, Steve. I'm curious from your perspective how valuable

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Speaker 1: it is to have experience in the secondary, especially at

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Speaker 1: the safety position. You have plenty of players, they are

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Speaker 1: Devin Duran pat safeties who have played many, many years

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Speaker 1: in the system. How much of a value is that

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Speaker 1: to you, especially at this time of the year when

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Speaker 1: you're starting a new season. Uh, yeah, I mean it's

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Speaker 1: it's very valuable. Those guys have played a ton of

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Speaker 1: football together, They've taken a lot of snaps, built a

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Speaker 1: I mean, I just can't can't speak enough good things

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Speaker 1: to be fluid out on the field. So those guys

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Speaker 1: controlling them and communicating in the back end and if

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Speaker 1: I could follow up the intangibles they bring in terms

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Speaker 1: of the communication. I mean, obviously they've proven themselves as

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Speaker 1: but what they do in terms of their communication, how

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Speaker 1: important is that as well? Oh yeah, I mean it's

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Speaker 1: kind of like the quarterback on offense. The safeties. They

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Speaker 1: got twenty one guys in front of them, so there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of directing traffic and multiples that they have

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Speaker 1: to deal with on a play to play basis, especially

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Speaker 1: a team like Pitts or that presents a ton of

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Speaker 1: different challenges. They got a lot of priest nap and

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Speaker 1: post nap communication to make sure everybody's on the same page.

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Speaker 1: So a lot of potential variables that could happen in

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Speaker 1: front of them. And there's no coaches out on the field,

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Speaker 1: so it's there to have to sort it out. Thanks, Steve.

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Speaker 1: Next question Tera Sullivan, and I'm asking you. We don't

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Speaker 1: see a five star if you want to ask a

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Speaker 1: question on this call, high Steve. I had two questions

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Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you. Actually, first is a little

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Speaker 1: more personal, just how are you sort of enjoying your

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Speaker 1: coaching journey as it grows each year, and it seems

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Speaker 1: you have a little bit more this year, just what

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Speaker 1: you're learning about yourself or what you're enjoying about coaching

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Speaker 1: in general. Obviously with your last name, I think people

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Speaker 1: you know notice a little more what kind of coach

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Speaker 1: you are. Yeah, I'm not too worried about all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to have fun and when some football games.

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Speaker 1: I love football, have been around it my whole life.

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Speaker 1: I enjoy any responsibility i'm given, so each days a

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Speaker 1: new day, each years in new year. So I'm just

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Speaker 1: trying to work on my craft and be the best

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Speaker 1: coach I can be, regardless of what my name is.

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Speaker 1: And even surprised you so far this year is different

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Speaker 1: or more challenging or more fun. Yeah, Like I said,

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Speaker 1: That's true every year. So I'm just taking it one

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Speaker 1: gay I just wanted to answer from a big picture

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Speaker 1: perspective about your defense. Do you feel this year is

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Speaker 1: it like maybe more versatile ten other years? Like do

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Speaker 1: you feel if you had to face this defense you

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Speaker 1: you have. Yeah, I'm not really sure what the future

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Speaker 1: holds for our defense. Um, each year we just try

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Speaker 1: last year year's past versus this year. We're just kind

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Speaker 1: of worried about the team that we got right now,

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Speaker 1: and UM, we'll just try and put the best products

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Speaker 1: we can out on the field. Thanks. Next question would

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Speaker 1: be Chaos. Last question would be Bob Socie go ahead

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Speaker 1: of Zach Nice Steve. I know Obie didn't play in

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Speaker 1: the final couple preseason games, but now that he's had

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Speaker 1: kind of significant improvement from him to where he was

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Speaker 1: sort of um down the stretch last season to he

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Speaker 1: looked more more comfortable on this defense. Yeah, definitely. I mean,

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Speaker 1: like you said, a full full off season here, we

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Speaker 1: got a lot of time to or the two of

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Speaker 1: us got to spend a lot of time together, UM,

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Speaker 1: work on all the different intricacies of this defense and

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Speaker 1: uh yeah, Obie works hard and improves every day. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: And the last last question, Bob, since I thank stay,

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Steve. You were talking about communication and experience

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Speaker 1: at safety, communication throughout the second or against the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: I think no team last year in the NFL, by

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Speaker 1: and I'm discouraged from your perspective and defending against the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: Of those there are some some new pieces on that offense.

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Speaker 1: How do they stress communication and what are the challenges

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Speaker 1: of going up against them in particular? Um, Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean I think, uh, they just have a lot of

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Speaker 1: They move guys around. Um. Their players are very versatile.

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Speaker 1: They could play different spots, they could all do different things.

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Speaker 1: So in terms of communication, how we're gonna handle guys

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Speaker 1: being in different spots, what we're gonna do when players

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Speaker 1: line up differently. Obviously it's a new year. They got

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Speaker 1: a different roster than they did last year, so it'll

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Speaker 1: like I said, it'll be up to those guys on

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