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#UNC press conference with offensive lineman Chad Lindberg
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Capital.com. Um, after uh the Cal
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Friday, do you guys feel like you have a
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good foundation to build on like good
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things that you did that you can sort of
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keep some positive momentum going in
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Virginia this weekend?
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Yeah, absolutely. I think our offensive
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line we've been building every single
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week. Um, we saw a lot of good explosive
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rushes, fuels us, fires us up. Um, I
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think we have a a lot of good things
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going and we're trying to build on it
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this week. We've strung a lot of good
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practices together and just keep going
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with it.
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Do did Gio seem he said after the Cal
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game that he was the healthiest he's
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been. Did he seem just that he had more
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pepp?
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I mean, he always comes out and
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competes. He's always been really good.
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He fires us up. Um, I mean healthier. I
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don't necessarily know, but he was
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played a good game and and was out there
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just like he he always is to us.
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Tom
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Tommy Ashley in South Carolina.
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Obviously playing center is new for you,
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but you've had Austin Blaski, y'all got
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a history there. How's he sort of helped
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you and how you kind of like at this
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point really seamlessly worked into a
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center?
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Yeah, I mean between him and Christo
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have a ton of center experience uh
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between the two of them. It's something
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that in all my years of college football
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when I'm in meetings I try to learn the
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center position because if you can learn
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center then you know all five. Um so
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I've been trying to know the assignments
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and and the mic points and all that
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there. So it was kind of an easier
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transition but then blasting Christo
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they have so much experience told me all
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the techniques I need to know the little
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tips and tricks. Um I'll do something
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wrong and then like first person that
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comes up to me is Christo telling me you
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know like this has always worked for me
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in the past. I'll go do it. It's
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perfect.
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How was the the communication side of it
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being there for you?
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Um, it was a bit of a learning curve at
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at the very first because, you know, I'm
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used to just go up there and you listen
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and you don't have to do anything. Maybe
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make a call with the guy next to you and
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go play. Um, it took me a little while
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to process, you know, get up there, see
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it, talk, get down. Then you still have
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to snap the ball in, do what you got to
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do. So, um, practice just smoothed that
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out and made it much faster. Great.
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Uh, hey Jack, great sash to Hills on
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this eye. Um, just talk to me how, uh,
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your your recruitment process came out
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with North Carolina. Who contacted you?
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What do you like about Chill so far?
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Yeah. Uh, we lost our head coach at
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Rice. Um,
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Scott Ael from Davidson came in. Uh,
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didn't necessar necessarily want to run
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the triple option. uh decided it was
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best to hop in the portal. Um I looked
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between University of Houston and here
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obviously I had Blaski here. Um someone
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that could tell me kind of the ins and
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outs of the program, not necessarily the
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new coaching staff, but you know,
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telling me a lot of good things about
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Chapel Hill, have you know, um great
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college town, great place to be, good
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weather, all that. And just, you know,
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Blaski was was big and and kind of
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putting me over the edge that, you know,
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I could come go far away from home
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again. And uh really enjoy it out here.
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may not follow up with that. I'll talk
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about Austin. What's your relationship
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been like with them? I know you guys
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played at George and obviously that was
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a huge part with your process coming
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here.
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Yeah. Uh we were freshman roommates
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there. Uh so we lived together in the
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dorms. Um I mean obviously played four
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years together there. So uh really close
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in all the meetings and all that. And
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then we went our separate ways. Um
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stayed in contact for the most part. You
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know, how you doing? How's this going?
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Um, I know when I played Charlotte uh at
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Rice last year until Blast got hurt, I
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was watching his film, so it was great
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to text him and catch up like that and
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just, you know, I mean, we've been
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friends since since freshman year of
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college.
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Yeah. On the recruitment thing, I
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wondered how much uh communication did
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you have with Michael during that
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process? What was that part of the
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process?
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Uh, I did find an agent in this in the
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portal this uh second goound. Um, he did
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most of it. Obviously on my visit I went
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and talked to him and they gave me their
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recruiting spiel and um I liked what I
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heard and I felt like I could have a
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good future here.
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Um on on Benjamin Hall obviously a big
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game you guys open lots of holes for
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him. What was it like watching him run?
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You know a lot of talk about just how
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hard he was running and obviously his
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building had
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Yeah, he's a great player. Um
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he was uh trusting us. Uh something that
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you know we build in practice. We try
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our best to to give him a great look to
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see what the holes are going to look
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like in a game and he trusted us and uh
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hit him hard and it was good to see him
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run. I love explosive rushes.
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Adam
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Chad Smith in South Carolina. Um you
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talk about taking you some time to get
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used to processing and getting down at
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center and everything. I was wondering
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if you had to do any extra work with the
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snapping because we heard that was a bit
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of an issue there in camp for you when
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you got over there. Was was there
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anything special you did to try to like
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nail that down?
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Yeah, I mean when I first was doing it,
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my snaps are all over the place. It's
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not easy to do. Um, you know, you only
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throw the ball four yards, but it's
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upside down in between your legs and you
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got to block someone. Um, I work before
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and after practice. I mean, I still do,
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especially if I feel like my snaps are
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bad at any particular practice. I'll
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grab Gio Max or any one of the
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quarterbacks and get a couple extra
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after. Um, early on I did change my
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technique from like a traditional to a
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dead ball. Um, it's been a lot more
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consistent. I'm still working on
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velocity, getting it back there. Um, but
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I'm just getting more used to it and,
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uh, thankfully I would kind of went to
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center at the beginning of camp. Um, and
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had enough time to work on it.
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Were you surprised at all that that was
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like difficult? Yeah, I mean I don't
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think I have the best arm on the team or
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anything like that, but you know, I
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would have thought that I could snap
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pretty easily, but no, it is tough. Um,
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but it's gotten a lot better for me.
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No.
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Hey, no talk 24/7. What's it like for an
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offensive lineman to block for a
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quarterback that can use his legs, turn
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negative plays into a positive, stuff
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like that? What's it like for you to
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block for someone like that?
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Yeah, it's good. I mean, it takes a lot
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of the pressure off. um you know if you
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unfortunately do have a bad block which
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you know it happens uh you know that
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there's an extra safety lever uh level
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there that he could make someone miss or
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um it just opens up a lot of
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possibilities I mean somebody has to uh
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cover the quarterback at that point too
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especially on the the extended plays
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that can turn into some of your best.
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Hey Jen,
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you just mentioned a second ago you
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changed your technique snap. Can you
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kind of elaborate on that? take us
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through what some of those changes.
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Yeah, I kind of I was holding it, you
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know, like hold it back with the laces
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and trying to throw it back there. Just
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was inconsistent with it. So now I just
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hold the tip of the ball. Um can kind of
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really feel the whole uh football and it
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just I feel like I have much more
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control.
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When did you make that change?
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Sometime it can't. Not sure.
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Noticeable difference like right away.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. I think hearing back um I saw
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there was a bowling outing the team took
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over by week and those are some
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volunteer work over the weekend. Has
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team bonding like that working new point
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of emphasis since everything has come
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out the last two weeks.
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Yeah, I mean I feel like we're all
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pretty close in the locker room. Um like
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everybody's friends with everybody. We
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all get along. Um, speaking from the
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people that I deal with the most, the
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offensive line, I think we're really
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tight. Uh, we've gone to meals together.
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Uh, and we all hang out outside of
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football. I think everybody's pretty
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good friends.
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Jeremiah.
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Yeah. Jeremiah all the way from South
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Carolina. Chad, you was talking a little
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bit about Benjamin Hall, the day that he
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had the other day. It seemed as a unit
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you guys, you know, in the in the run
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block game did kind of create more holes
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and things like that for him and for
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Goss. What do you think worked for you
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all, I guess, better than it did maybe
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in previous games as far as, you know,
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kind of helping the team have
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established the run and creating?
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I think we just strung together a couple
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really good weeks of practice. um just
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gotten used to each other uh up there
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and uh just put it all together and
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we're going to continue to build this
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week and continue to uh you know play
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our hardest this next uh Saturday
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just as you guys
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uh specifically as offensive line I
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think we did a better job at finishing
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our blocks
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uh driving people downfield,
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playing just a little bit harder, a
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little bit more with an edge. Uh
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I think we can continue to build on that
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and play even harder in the in the
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future.
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And I know that obviously not really
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pertaining to the offensive line, but
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was talking about security just as a
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whole. Um how you guys wanted to maybe
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kind of lift up maybe that um you know
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unfortunately
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Yeah, during the game we were sitting
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over on the little offensive line
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section of the bench right after it
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happened and uh Daniel King was like,
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you know, let's go lift this guy up.
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Let's, you know, tell him it's okay.
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Tell them we got him. And we all walked
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over there and uh you know, told him
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that it's all good. Like it happens.
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Obviously, we coach it and um we work on
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it to to not have it cuz it's, you know,
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ball security is job security. But, you
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know, we try to uplift our guys.
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Yeah. That was specifically.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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Yeah. I wondered about Virginia if you
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got a chance to look at them on film.
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Coach Belch mentioned, you know, how
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much pressure they get, particularly if
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you're in third and long situations.
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What have you seen out of Virginia and
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what kind of challenges they
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uh we took a look at them yesterday as
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an offensive line. Uh they do have a a
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good veteran uh group, which we have a
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veteran offensive line, so it should be
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a great matchup. Uh but they're active
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up front, good ends, good D tackles, um
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good pass rush group, good blitzes. Um
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it'll be a good challenge. It'll be a
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fun game. Anything
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else for chat? Cool. Thanks so much.
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