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#UNC wide receiver Jordan Shipp at a press availability in Charlotte on Thursday morning
Jul 24, 2025
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I like
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I like them.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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You don't want your wide receiver
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wearing glasses, right?
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No, no, no. If anything contact, nobody
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would know.
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So, what's it been like being coached by
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coach Bellich? And how has he as far as
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being relatable? How has he been
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relatable to you guys?
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It's It's been great. I've enjoyed
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everything about it. Um I've learned so
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much just from the spring. Um we watch
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film every day as a team and then we
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also uh split up into position groups.
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We have a great uh position coach, coach
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Gary McGee is a great coach. I even uh
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have watched film with um our um
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quarterback's coach and the OC coach
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Kisses. I've watched film with them, but
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also I've watched film with uh Steve
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Bellich, Brian Bichc. I've done some
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stuff with Mondo, our DB's coach. And um
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just the thing that Bichc brought to us
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is just it's a blessing. We have so many
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great coaches and so many great just
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people overall. And then in uh terms of
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being relatable, he's um coached at the
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highest level. He's coached the greatest
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players of all time. So, it's just like
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you want to do what he's telling you to
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do. There's no need to even try and go
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against it. It's worked for so many
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people, so why wouldn't it work for me?
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So, I mean, I feel like it's just the
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trust factor that a lot of us have in
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him, and it's just like whatever he
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tells you to do, we're willing to do it
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for him.
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How do you feel like you've grown during
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your time at UC?
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Um, I feel like I've grown a lot. Um,
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the biggest thing I would say is I've
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grown in my faith a lot. Um last year
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going into uh camp I had a a shoulder
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injury and it kind of messed with my
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mental a lot and I was able to um our
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chaplain Mitch um he he really picked me
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up a lot and I've grown in my faith uh
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like huge and that's the biggest thing
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I'll say that's um driven me to just
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being um just a better guy on the field
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and also off the field just going to
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church on Sundays. We have a Bible study
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on Wednesday Wednesdays as a team. And
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um I would say that's the biggest thing
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cuz um my faith carries like I said on
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the field and off the field just living
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for uh my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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So I'll say that's the biggest way I
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feel like I've known.
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What was it like for you going through
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this spring where obviously you know
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kind of new plays, new teammates, some
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guys that even were in the spring, you
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know, maybe left, you get new guys now.
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Just what was it like for you adjusting
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to, you know, maybe the style offense
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that you guys were looking at doing? Um,
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I feel like the adjustment I feel like
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it was it was kind of a big adjustment,
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but also they kind of like eased us into
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it. You know, we had um meetings where
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we go over the uh play slowly before we
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went out there and run and we'd have
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walkthroughs and stuff like that and um
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some stuff with the coaches. So, I feel
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like it was definitely an adjustment,
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you know, but um I feel like we're um
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we're we're going to be pretty good
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going into this year. I feel like uh
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offensively I like what we're doing. Um
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we're doing a lot of different things.
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Uh, big shout out to Coach Kens and
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Coach Bich as well. But, um, I feel like
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we were we'll be pretty good
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offensively.
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You mentioned Kens who was, you know,
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here last year. Like, do you notice like
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similarities from last year's to this
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year's as far as the style of
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Uh, of course, a little bit. But, um, I
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feel like it's definitely Coach
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Kitchen's offense. He's definitely like
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he's he's made it his and um, like I
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said, just I got the utmost trust in
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Coach Ken. So, I feel like whatever he
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calls, we were ready to run it.
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You've seen the work that Max has put in
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to try to come back from that injury. I
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know it's an open quarterback battle,
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but what what have you seen from what
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he's been able to do and and what kind
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of inspiration maybe do you take from
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what he's put himself through?
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Um, resilience. Max is it's hard to come
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back from that injury. And the fact that
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he's back running with us, he's he's not
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only is he back running with us, he's
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back competing with us during
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conditioning. Like Max always was a
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competitor and now he's back 100%. He's
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right back exactly where he was last
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year. He's back competing. He's not
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missing any throws. He's being the Max
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Johnson that everybody knows. So, I feel
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like just for Max, man, it's just he's
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come such a such a long way and um he's
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just been he's been amazing. He's been
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amazing and uh train he's done a lot of
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stuff in the training room and the
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weight room, getting a lot of his
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strength back as well. So,
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what are your impressions of Gio and
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working with him and what kind of
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quarterback would you say he is?
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Uh Gio's a great guy. I've um I've
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gotten close to Gio in a very short
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time. U we talk every day, even uh over
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this break, we've talked every pretty
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much every day. We've been training
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together. We've been doing a lot of
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stuff together. But um off the field,
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Gio is a great guy, man. He's somebody
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that I can um spend time with, somebody
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that I talk to a lot. Even if a lot of
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time we talk, it's not even about
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football. It's just we want to have a
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great relationship and that starts with
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just knowing each other off the field.
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So, I feel like Gio's a great guy. And
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we talk about on the field. I mean, the
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numbers do talk to him. There's no need
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for me to really talk more about what he
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can do. We all know what he can do. He's
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a great athlete. He's great with the
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ball in his hands. He's going to put you
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put you and your team and your program
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in positions to win. So, I'm u excited
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to be able to have the opportunity to
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share the field with him. He's supposed
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to be here, but but he's not on this
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last list. You know what's going on?
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What is that?
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Gio, you're supposed to be here.
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Oh, Gio is here.
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He's just not on the press conference
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list.
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Yeah, he's here.
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When you hear that that you guys have
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sold out all your games, I mean, you've
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been around the program, the excitement
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level around it. Are are you seeing that
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in your daily life? Are you hearing from
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people? Like, how can you judge that
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that excitement level?
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Um, really, I feel like there's a lot of
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noise going around. You know, when you
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get the greatest coach of all time, it's
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going to be a lot of buzz going on, but
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that's not really what we're worried
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about. all worried about just getting
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better every day and just staying where
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our feet are and really just just
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growing together as a team. So, I mean
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feel like it's great for the hype. It's
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great for the program of course, but I
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mean like I said, we're focused on
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winning games and whoever's there is
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there.
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Is that hard to do?
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Um de definitely, but I mean I feel like
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it's just it's you got to stay focused
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and I mean you're going to have
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distractions no matter what you're
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doing, no matter what your profession
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is. So, it's just a just the maturity
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level just to know like we can't go play
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TCU tomorrow. We can't play them until
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September 1st. So, why are we looking
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that far? Let's focus on us getting
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better and what we're doing every day.
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Last one.
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Oh, thank you. Along the lines of what
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you're talking about with Gio and trying
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to get to know him in a short amount of
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time, how have you seen him try to
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understand the playbook? Uh cuz I mean
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he hasn't even had practice yet
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technically like what do you see from
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him in terms of trying to get to know it
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on the run here cuz it's you know
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Gio's adjusted amount of time.
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Yeah, he's adjusted very well. Gio has
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um there's a lot of times like I said we
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we'll watch film together. me and him
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will watch film oneonone, watch film
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with other receivers and we'll watch
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film with the coaches as well. And um in
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terms of learning the plays, he
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processes stuff so quick and then he's
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able to call stuff out and he's like,
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"Well, if you see this, this is what I
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want you to do." And now it feels like
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we're going back and forth and not
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really like an argument, more just like
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two football players just talking about
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what we both want to do. Cuz I mean, I
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need him just as much as he needs me.
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And I feel like we're going to we bounce
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we balance off each other perfectly and
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we just uh the same thing with Max as
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well. Really, same thing with all the
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quarterbacks. All the quarterbacks. We a
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lot of us, we all watch film together
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from uh Bryce Baker to Max to DJ to Tori
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to uh everybody. Gio will be in there.
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All of us would be just watching film
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together. We like to do stuff as a group
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instead of being singled out. So, I feel
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like he's um grasping the playbook well
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because a lot of us are helping him out
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as well, but he's also pointing stuff
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out to me that I maybe I didn't
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recognize in the spring. He's like,
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"Well, if I see this, maybe I want you
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to do this." And I'll be like, "That
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makes sense and I can do that."
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Do do y'all just to follow up real
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quick, do y'all try to get out there on
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the air and do stuff, too?
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Of course. We throw We throw often. We
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uh we throw often. Um as you know, Gio's
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left-handed and that's a little bit of
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an adjustment, but I mean, I've made
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sure like I've made him let him know
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that like I want to throw as much as we
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can just so I can make sure that we're
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both as comfortable with each other as
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we can be. And as for uh Max as well,
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he's a left-handed quarterback, too. So,
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just um you know, we just want to throw
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as much as we can just to make sure
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we're all on target cuz I mean, you
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never know who's going to be out there.
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You never know what could happen. So,
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just want to have chemistry with all the
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guys. Never know. Y'all might see me at
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quarterback.
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just coming up, you know,
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he threw a pass
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