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sh uh one thing that M was actually just
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saying was that uh Jordan ship's going
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to started getting more involved I know
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he had the uh the 22 yard catch the
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other day or I guess last week or
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whatever um but I guess in that same
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vein how is that starting to you know
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play out as far as you know bringing him
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a I know we've talked about him a lot it
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feels like but um yeah just kind of
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how's that going along as far as about
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Jordan yeah yeah I think Jordan's shown
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that he can uh make some plays when he
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gets the opportunity I think you know
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you get into a situation where you got
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some older players um you know Nate and
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those guys and Kobe that kind of played
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in front of him that's the only thing
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that's limited his uh reps but he's
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improved I know early on in Fall Camp uh
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he got banged up a little bit so he was
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kind of slow starting the season but I
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think you'll see him uh get more
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involved as the season goes and um you
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know he's shown that he made a couple
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big catches I know yes U yesterday uh
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couple weeks ago against Georgia Tech so
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we really like him I think his future is
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really bright here and you know um you
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know it's one of those things too where
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I don't think the moment's ever too big
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for him he's pretty mature for a
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freshman I think that's a huge part of
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playing early is is you know having that
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confidence and and um he's shown that he
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does have that and uh excited about him
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for
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sure offensiv yeah I think
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you know we were really you know first
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of all getting healthy you know this
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time of year you play um seven weeks and
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you know till you have a bye so that's
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it's been good from that standpoint we
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did a lot of getting our young guys reps
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that the Jordan ships of the world and
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and those younger guys that have played
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some or spot played us some um you know
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with some injuries here and there but I
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think for us you know we're still you
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know trying to focus on the fundamental
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things you know of being consistent and
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protecting the ball which we've done a
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better job of lately um you know no
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self-inflicted wounds so to speak no no
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pre-nap penalties none of that and and
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really kind of just oldfashioned roll up
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your sleeves go to work and have three
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really good days of practice and that
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was our that was our goal I think that
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was the key and also get a head start on
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Virginia I think you always want to do
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that but you know and I think from a
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coordinator standpoint you're trying to
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look okay Virginia um this is kind of
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who they are and what they look like and
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what do we have that's um kind of our
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base base offense that we can work on
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this week blocking and tackling and
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executing and that's kind of what we did
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in those three days and then our older
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guys some of those guys got a chance to
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I think heal up a little bit and we took
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some reps off those guys look at the
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last three games am Marian aside from
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that 71 yd run hasn't had many
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explosives and I think there's 27 runs
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of one yard or less I just asked Mack
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about it he was talking about the the
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injuries not banged up the line has been
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and and you know Randy not being
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available what would you attribute that
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to the last few weeks and do you think
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the open period with getting healthier
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Maybe you're going to see something yeah
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I think I think all of it contributes
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probably I would say I would say that um
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you know he's by far the guy that that
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I'm sure that everybody when we play
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they say hey we got to do whatever we do
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to stop him which is I think allowed
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jacobe to make some plays down the field
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but I think too I think when you look at
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different you know oine play is so um
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you know they have to kind of get their
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their Rhythm together right they have to
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kind of play to beside each other and I
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think some of that is probably when you
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throw a couple young guys in there with
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Aiden being banged up and so forth but
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at the end of the day I think um you
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know we've got to do a better job of of
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of making sure that our first and second
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down plays don't leave us second long
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third long and I think that's what we
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really tried to work on the past week um
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you know he you om Marian's one of those
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guys that that he's going to draw a lot
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of attention so we got to figure out the
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best way each week I think to take
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advantage of that and that's helped us
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open up some passes down the field for
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sure play fakes and so forth but uh I
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think getting that that continuity back
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with our o line hopefully that's going
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to help us we've seen the last two games
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where how you can use Jobe that sense so
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the quarterback draws and he falls
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forward how much can can you use that
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moving forward to maybe also help Mario
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because they have to be worried more
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just not one guy but yeah I think you're
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right I think that that's a huge thing
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when a quarterback has some Mobility uh
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been spoiled around here with the last
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two guys before him that both can make
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plays with their feet and jacobe uh did
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a nice job of that last couple weeks um
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on some on some design stuff and then
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some stuff that wasn't designed you know
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when the pass protection or they cover
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pass Pro breaks down he's done a nice
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job and really what I like is that he's
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not taking a lot of sacks he's throwing
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the ball away when he should and he's
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gotten down on the ground and tried to
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avoid big hits as much as he can that's
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what you worry about some but uh he's a
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I think he's a lot better athlete than
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people gave him credit for uh he's uh
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you know he's he's a guy at this time of
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year they're all banged up a little bit
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and I'm sure he is but this this by week
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couldn't come in a better time with jul
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being out this week potentially longer
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who do you see stepping up in sort of
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the second tight end R behind Co yeah I
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think I think it's a little bit by
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committee I think this is a a big week
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for Jake I think you know well obviously
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he he's a guy that's older and has
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played some um and he's played a little
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here and there for us but I think I
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think Jake brings some some confidence
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and some stability in that room for sure
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especially when we want to be in 12
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Personnel or just to rest cop some I
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think that's huge um I think Ryan's
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another guy that that you know could
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could fill in some too as a true
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freshman um we know he's going to be
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really really good player he's really
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talented but he's Le reps have been
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limited just because some older guys in
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front but uh you know I think I think
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those two guys will have to fill that
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void in some capacity it's going to be
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really hard Bryson's a fabulous player
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and uh really brings a lot to the table
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but I think we're going to have ways
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maybe with some unique Personnel groups
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to hopefully offset that some i' silver
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lining to view this as sort of a preview
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of next year when Bryson is potentially
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off to the NFL right well maybe but
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we're trying to win every game this year
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so so uh I don't know about Silver
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Lining anytime you lose one of the best
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players in country in my mind that's
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it's not a not a lot of not a not an
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exciting thing but at the end of the day
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I'm very confident in Jake very
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confident Ryan I think those are some
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opportunities now that they'll
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get the very last of the game
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yeah I'm sure you guys when did he get
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inurance yeah it was early uh you know
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Testament to him he's tough I mean he he
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played uh basically from what I get
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understand the whole game you know um
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really with the injury and um so you
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know a test how tough he is and how much
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he wants to be on the field and uh you
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know I think I think it's one of those
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things that it's just going to take a
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little time to
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heal I don't no not
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specifically yeah I don't I don't
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believe that was it and and um I'm not
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sure sure exactly what play it's been a
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while
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so you you feel like job's done a pretty
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good job of not taking sacks but I mean
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seems like he's taking a lot of shots
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though when he's he hangs in there I
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mean he doesn't lch from getting hit in
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terms of hanging there to deliver the
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ball I mean I would think these last
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five games you want to try to keep him
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cleaner than you can is that I mean is
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that one of the big concerns with him is
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that he's taking too much definitely I
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don't want him to get hit ever but if
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you look if you watch the game whatever
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level they those guys are going to get
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hit some I mean that's part of it but uh
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we got to do our our job to limit how
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many times and uh you know there's a lot
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of things that go into that sometimes
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the ball should have come out and it
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didn't sometimes we get beat uh at a
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certain spot whether it's running back
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or line and and sometimes they they uh
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fool fool us and bring more than we than
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we thought they were bringing or
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whatever the case may be and that's why
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the quarterback it's so important for
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him to be able to operate and change the
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protections and and you know get them
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slid the right way and all those
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different things that go along with it
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and he's dramatically improved in that
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as as as much as he uh could because now
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he's just played more so he's got more
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reps and I think that go that's part of
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The Growing Experience um you know when
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you get young quarterbacks if you think
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about the the fresh not the Freshman but
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the rookies in the NFL this year Drake
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being one of them I those are the things
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that concern those guys at that level as
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well do we really want to expose this
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guy that early and you know he doesn't
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have a lot of experience and it's the
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same way in college I think uh when you
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have young quarterbacks that's important
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um and again you know um maybe the
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common fan or whatever wants to blame
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hey it's the old Line's fault that's not
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always true and uh you know it takes the
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whole unit working together that's I
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think the beauty about football is um
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it's never just it's a team game and uh
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we all contribute to that and and uh so
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hopefully that will improve um I think
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there's times too that that we have to
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throw the ball away understand the
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play's over throw it away move on play
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the next one sometimes those are the
8:38
best plays you can make hey we called a
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certain play they we didn't get the look
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that we thought we were getting so it's
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it's not a good look so let's throw it
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away and go play the next play and all
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those things are learning experiences
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for him just to follow on that are those
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when you guys are going through the film
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are those sort of the conversations I
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I'm sure you're talking about everything
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but like there are there moments that
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you're pointing out hey you might not
9:02
you didn't have to take this shot that
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you took you like actually pointing that
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out every every year I mean last year
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with Drake it was hey don't jump the guy
9:09
right run out of bounds uh slide
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whatever I mean same conversations and
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you know what's fun about these guys
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they're smart guys and as soon as I mean
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they'll watch the film before they meet
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with me and I'll get to it and oh I
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should have you know whatever so they
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they understand but again understanding
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drawing it on the board talking through
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it and then doing it when the play snap
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it's lot it's totally different thing
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the speed of the game's fast and it's a
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lot to process and uh again experience
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is a huge factor and uh he's gaining
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that experience for sure and I think
9:39
you've seen his growth if you really sit
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down and and look and study you know
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what he's done since he's been thrown
9:46
into this role here and become our
9:47
starter I think you've seen him grow in
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that area for sure M was talking about
9:51
all the injuries that the offensive line
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has had to deal with throughout this
9:55
early part of the Season plus with Coach
9:56
Clemens uh being out uh for a period of
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time
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does it feel like after the buy with a
10:02
lot of those guys getting healthy
10:03
blasing bfield that you sort of feel
10:07
like okay now like here we go like this
10:09
is what it's yeah I mean I think those
10:11
are things that come up in every season
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and you know we got we got to handle
10:13
those things and figure ways to no
10:15
matter who's available and what what's
10:17
going on it's our job to figure out how
10:19
to how to move the ball and score points
10:20
and times we've done that times we
10:22
haven't so U but you know no excuses for
10:25
us um we are glad the bye came when it
10:27
did don't get me wrong because I think
10:29
think that'll help us uh get some guys
10:31
maybe more healthy but at the end of the
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day um we got when the guys that are on
10:35
the field we got a lot of confidence in
10:36
them and uh we you know we we we
10:38
practice those guys and and anticipate
10:41
them playing well each and every week
10:42
and it's always good to have some guys
10:44
back and some more depth for sure but um
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you know I think we got to figure ways
10:48
to to use the guys we have and I think
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we'll be as healthy as we've been
10:52
obviously with the exception of Bryson
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uh going into this Virginia game your in
10:58
your pass coach
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you know I have um you know a little
11:06
little different scenario Philip lener
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and I've coached him in high school was
11:09
a tight end plate that signed at Auburn
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and U played at Auburn was a was a great
11:14
player at Auburn and uh very close to
11:17
him and his family he was dad was my
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booster club president he's got three si
11:20
he had three sisters and they babysat my
11:22
kids so very close and uh lost him in
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2014 in a in a car wreck so little
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different
11:29
circumstance from from um tyes obviously
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but yeah it's tough and um you know I
11:35
thought coach Coach Brown and Lonnie
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both you know just handled themselves um
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exceptionally well for that situation
11:42
and I know it's really hard I've had to
11:43
do that and uh anytime you do that it's
11:46
it's something that weighs on you for a
11:47
long time and uh you know young people
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you losing young people early in their
11:51
life is is really sometimes hard to
11:53
understand and uh you know I know our
11:55
team is has been a tough week on those
11:57
guys um and and our and everybody in our
11:59
program but I do think um you know it's
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something that that we can all learn
12:04
from from his example and Coach made
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that point yesterday as well as Lonnie
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and um I think he's had a huge impact on
12:10
on the Carolina
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family Le your offense through you know
12:18
prep for E the rest of season you're
12:20
also leading a lot of these young folks
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through processing this group maybe the
12:24
first time a lot of them have kind of
12:25
gone through something like this just
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Coach Brown was talking about that
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yeah I mean that's really what we're
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here for to help them grow as people and
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and and young adults and um become um
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you know become you know successful in
12:39
life emotionally um career-wise and all
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those things and I think um that's not
12:44
been lost here you know uh even since I
12:46
arrived two years ago that's been our
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Focus coach Brown's focus is to um to
12:51
really be a great positive influence on
12:53
these young people in their lives and
12:55
that's what we've really always strived
12:57
to do and have done and um so I think I
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think some people handle things
13:02
differently uh from the standpoint of
13:03
how they process things we all do and
13:06
you have to respect that and you know I
13:08
think the big thing for us as coaches
13:10
just be there for our players in
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whatever capacity they they want us to
13:14
be there and uh help them help them
13:16
understand it because uh this is real
13:17
life and uh you know football games are
13:20
are always going to be here and we want
13:22
to win every game we play but I think
13:23
preparing them for life is kind of the
13:25
number one thing we're here for what are
13:26
some of the primary challenges that UVA
13:28
presents yeah I think they're very coach
13:31
very well um very familiar they're very
13:33
sound in what they do defensively um you
13:36
know you know they have um really a
13:38
really fantastic linebacker um and
13:41
really two of them and couple really
13:43
good D linemen and it's not going to be
13:44
a matter of of um of hey you know they
13:48
they're giving you a bunch of crazy
13:49
looks I don't think and they could but
13:51
at the end of the day it's going to be
13:52
about us executing we've said that and
13:54
really being consistent and that's
13:55
something we struggle with some you know
13:57
is being consistent and playing four
13:58
quarters we made some strides I thought
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last last two weeks ago last time we
14:02
played but um at the end of the day this
14:04
is a good football team they're very
14:06
well coached um their their record is I
14:08
think four and three now and so they
14:10
they've won they've won some games and
14:11
and done a nice job and so for us I
14:14
think it's going to come down to taking
14:15
care of the football and really you know
14:17
no self-inflicted we can't have you know
14:19
false starts and penalties and so forth
14:21
and uh take advantage of every
14:22
opportunity we get in the red zone as as
14:25
you guys have gotten more and more into
14:27
the league do you find that that I
14:30
understand the size of your tackles your
14:31
offensive tackles is you know great Tex
14:34
book type size but do you think teams
14:36
have been able to use that or exploit
14:39
that in terms of like some of the quick
14:41
the quickness stuff off the edges like
14:43
it seems like those guys yeah maybe have
14:45
gotten confused at sometimes no I don't
14:48
think so I think it depends on you know
14:51
you know what what position the player
14:52
was outside or whatever because it's all
14:55
um coordinated right who blocks who and
14:57
so forth but no I think think our guys
14:59
are just continuing to grow I think
15:01
those two tackles we have they're
15:02
they're big guys and long and so forth
15:04
but at the end of the day they are young
15:05
players and they're they're trying to
15:07
figure it out as we go and making
15:09
progress I think uh you look at Howard I
15:11
thought he played one of his best games
15:12
uh two weeks ago against Georgia Tech
15:14
the last two actually he's improved
15:16
tremendously uh there's always a you
15:18
know play or two he'd like to have back
15:19
but I like his progress so I mean he's a
15:21
young sophomore as well as Trey and both
15:23
those guys are are improving each and
15:25
every
15:26
week all right let me ask about far he
15:29
been help to finally give you what you
15:32
wanted to do yeah I think so I think so
15:34
I mean I think I think um bullets DAV
15:36
onos has done a really nice job filling
15:38
in spots but you do have an older guy
15:40
there that's played some that you got
15:42
probably a little confidence that he
15:44
he's been in some games he he
15:45
understands and getting him back I think
15:47
is huge I know he was um uh you know
15:50
back last time we played and and um you
15:53
know was kind of just getting back but
15:54
we he's had a good week and hopefully
15:56
hopefully we'll see him U get some
15:58
opportunities
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all right you have a good day than you
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