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#UNC coach Bill Belichick press conference before Thursday's first preseason practice
Jul 30, 2026
#UNC coach Bill Belichick press conference before Thursday's first preseason practice
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Practice football. Football season.
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Good to always good to get started. Um,
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you know, I think
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uh um
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you know, we had a few players join us
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in June,
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um, but most of our team was here all
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spring. So, we just had a handful of
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guys. So, it's good to have all those
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guys back. It's a lot different than the
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situation we were in last year. Um, so
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we've been able to
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move ahead. Uh, we've had a good month
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of training
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uh in in June and July month and a half.
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Um but training's training and
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football's football. So, football
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conditioning's a little bit different
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from from just, you know, training
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conditioning. So, um,
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and we're excited to get started. We got
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some acclimation days uh ahead of us
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here in the beginning.
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And so, you know, we won't be getting
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into, let's say, real
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you know, a real football competitive
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situations here for a few days until we
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get past the acclimation period, you
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know, like everybody else has to do, but
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um
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uh we're underway and this is where we
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build our fundamentals and we build our
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communication um
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and, you know, get a good foundation so
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that when we are ready to to move
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forward
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uh into more contact practices and
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situational plays and things like that
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uh that we're we have a good base to
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build on on those. So, um
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and I'm excited to get started. Uh, we
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have some players that uh didn't
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participate in the spring that um
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are going to be full participants in the
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fall. We have some other guys who are
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still coming along. They're making good
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progress uh but are day-to-day and we're
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just going to monitor their their
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progress as they go, but um they're
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already been trending in in the right
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direction. They're just their various
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timetables uh depending on
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uh
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you know, how quickly they're able to
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ramp up to full speed and those again
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take that day-to-day. It's um we're not
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going to get full evaluation over today,
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of course, cuz we're not in full pads,
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but eventually we'll we'll get that. So,
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um again, the big thing here for the
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players now is to is to be able to work
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on their fundamentals and their
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uh assignments on a very basic level so
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we have a good foundation, we have good
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pillars to build on, and then, you know,
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as we get into week two and week three
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of uh training camp, then we'll really
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be able to ramp up the competition and
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ramp up the
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expansion of our scheme in all three
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phases.
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And, you know, finalize some of our
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evaluations so that we're you know,
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ready to put
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you know, the guys who have earned roles
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into those positions as we get ready for
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the opener. So,
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Again, always good to get going and a
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long way to go, one step at a time, one
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day at a time, really. That's our focus.
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It's not
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I'm not really worried about what we're
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doing two weeks from now.
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We'll take it day by day. I'm sure we'll
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have to make some adjustments along the
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way when we're moving a little faster or
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a little slower than anticipated in
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certain areas, but that's the way it
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always is in camp. So,
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we're we're ready to go, ready to
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adjust.
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Okay.
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>> We'll take a question if anyone wants to
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get us started. We'll start on the left
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here, coach.
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>> Uh it's not often that you guys play the
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same team this many times in a row.
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How are you guys going to
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>> Well, they have
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obviously they have different players.
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They have a a different offensive system
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in place, so
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but we'll get to TCU when we get to TCU.
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Right now, really, most important thing
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for us
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is the building blocks of our
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foundation.
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Our fundamentals, our you know, basic
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plays, our adjustments that'll come off
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of those. Like, those are what we need
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to get down and you know, whether they
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come up in the opener or come up in the
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second game, we know that they're going
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to be important at the course of the
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year. And it's important that we have
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those to build off of. So, until that's
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done,
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you know, it's it's hard for us to
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expand our scheme. And
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whoever we play, whichever opponent it
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is, we'll look at that opponent each
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week and
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figure out what we think is the best way
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to approach
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that team competitively and and
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hopefully, and we expect to have a good
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base and a good building blocks to be
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able to be able to maneuver
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to where we feel like it's it's our best
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competitive edge, and
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and those game time preparations.
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But if you don't have a good base, then
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when you try to go somewhere that, you
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know, you want to go, it crumbles
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because you don't have a good base to
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build on. So,
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that's right now that's where we are.
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We're in the We're in the very much in
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the building foundation [clears throat]
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phase.
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>> All right, coach.
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So, would you say that you're
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deeper and have more ready options on
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the offensive line than this time last
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year?
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And specifically,
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what do you
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>> I want to talk about
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both those.
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But, yeah, absolutely. Last year, half
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our offensive line
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wasn't even here. We didn't see them
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until June. So,
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we had one, two, three starters
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that that weren't even on campus until
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June. So,
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yeah, we're way further ahead than we
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are.
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Now again, those guys were senior type
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players, you know, Lindberg and and you
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know, guys like that that they came in
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here.
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And so, some of our players are less
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experienced, but they've been here,
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they've been in our system, and
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certainly we can move forward quicker
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with them than we did last year. Last
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year we were in evaluation stage. So, we
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were just trying to figure out who was
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going to play where. We had to make some
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adjustments in terms of position on our
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offensive line. Not saying there won't
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be some of that this year, but I think
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it'll be a lot less of it.
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>> Yes. And specifically, Aiden Field got
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hurt
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last year in the season.
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Jordan Hall
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came in and played well after that.
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Where are they at? How much What do you
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think about where they are right now?
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They have much they can
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>> Yes.
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Both those guys have worked really hard.
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I think they're both ready to go.
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Excited to see them out there.
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You know, I think both both
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are ready to compete and you know, ready
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to have a good season. So, I'm excited
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to see both of them.
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And losing Aiden in the What was second
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or third game?
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What You know, he didn't play much in
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that game. Syracuse game, but
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yeah, losing him obviously was, you
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know, didn't help us, but and you know,
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Chris Owens, the boat, you know, he
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honestly missed a whole season. So, to
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have Christo and Aiden back, even though
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they didn't play they didn't play very
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much last year, it's good to have them
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back and their voices back. Jordan, as
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you said, came on at the end of the
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season
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and, you know, played well and and has
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played well in the spring as well, so
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um you know, definitely excited to see
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how they'll play this year.
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>> Right here coach Brennan.
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Uh you mentioned you can't comment on
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Mike's situation. What is his
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responsibility
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>> That's right.
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>> What is his responsibility behind the
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scenes? Is it delegated which staff is
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to step up and how do you address the
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chain of command of the coaching staff?
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>> Um yeah, well, we're working through
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some things, you know, we're at a
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particular time of year now where there
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are certain things that are in play and
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certain things that aren't in play that
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won't happen until later in the calendar
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year or some other point, so
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um yeah, we're taking it day to day and
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and um
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you know, working through the things
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that are on the table now.
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>> Right here coach Brennan.
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>> Bill, follow up on that a little bit.
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You've talked about
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Mike White's importance to this program
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and how much he's helped you since
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you've been here. Without him here, who
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do you see for how long? Does it change
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the things that you have to handle on a
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game day?
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>> We've made a few adjustments, yeah, but
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I mean, we're, you know, we're working
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through the process.
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>> Right here on the right here.
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>> I'm done actually.
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>> All right, I've got another question.
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>> All right.
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Okay.
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>> Perfect.
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>> Um wanted to ask about Mason Humphreys
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specifically, um how do you see his game
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sort of complementing guys like Jordan
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Ship, um guys like Trajan Bandy.
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How do you see his size sort of opening
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up things for for some of the others in
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this defense?
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>> Yeah, I mean, he's he's got good size,
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good speed, he's, you know, been a
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productive player um and came in and
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showed that in the spring. Um certainly
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has, you know, earned an opportunity for
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um some playtime here. Um so there's
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Trajan, of course Jordan's already here,
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you know, he's pretty well established.
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So, we'll see how all that comes
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together. We have some other, you know,
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other guys Um, like LeCounte who was
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here last year, guys like that
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you know, we're also going to be
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competitive and we have, you know, seven
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freshmen and and you know, they
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are making good strides, of course,
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because they're furthest behind, but
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they're they're moving along. We'll see
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how quickly they move here in in August
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and in their practice season
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to compete for playing time. So, it's a
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very competitive position, but uh,
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definitely excited to continue to work
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with Mason, um, as well as Trax and the
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two two new receivers, um,
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from the portal that, you know, I think
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are going to
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give us good competition, hopefully good
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production.
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>> Who are the tight ends?
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>> Phil, the position you guys might not
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have had as much production in one
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season as the tight end spot. You guys
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bring in a couple of new, you know,
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fresh faces from Texas, and Ohio State,
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and even Jackson and Iowa State.
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Um, how excited are you for that
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position here this year and kind of what
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have you seen from them throughout the
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spring and the summer?
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>> Yeah, I mean, that room's been a total
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makeover. You you hit the nail right
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there on the head. Um, it's it's a lot
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of new players, a lot of talented
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players. Um, these guys have really
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worked hard. Excited to see this group
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come together and um,
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you know, we had more production from
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those guys in the spring than, you know,
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we had the entire year last year. So,
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um, you're right, the production from
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that position was very limited and um,
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you know, with with the players there,
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uh, it's a position that Coach Patrino
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and I both
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um,
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crave.
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Um, like the, you know, like to see
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that, you know, I've always had, um,
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good tight ends, whether you drafted
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them or I drafted them in the first or
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second round,
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uh, or whether I paid a lot of money for
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them in free agency, like, you know, Al
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Hilaire,
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Jonnu Smith, Hunter Henry, guys like
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that. It's a very important position for
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our offense. We weren't able to to
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really get much production there last
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year and, you know, I hope that that'll
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balance us out more this year, um, but
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certainly those guys are off to a good
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start. Um, Coach Pickeral, uh, Caleb's
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done a really good job with that group
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and um,
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and I'm definitely excited to see them,
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um,
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you know, keep keep going this fall, you
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know.
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>> Right next to you
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>> All right. I know you mentioned you guys
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have a certain way you guys do things
9:44
and you take it day by day, but just
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broadly, how much different do you feel
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about the team and the program going
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into this fall camp compared
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Yeah, well, I mean, we're way ahead of
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where we were last year. Again, just the
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fact that nearly everybody was here
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um
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this year through the spring, through
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the summer, you know, we're not starting
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from scratch. We're getting better
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evaluation of players
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and they're further ahead.
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I think I mentioned
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this before, but you know, we didn't
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have PRP practices last summer. We
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couldn't run player run practices. We
10:12
didn't have anybody that knew what to
10:14
do. Um,
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you know, this year that was completely
10:17
different story and the players did a
10:18
great job from what I understand when
10:19
I'm out there, but they talk about how
10:23
how good they were, how competitive they
10:24
were, what they were running, how they
10:27
um, you know, sometimes they had
10:28
questions of like, "Hey, this happened,
10:29
what should we have done here?" And
10:31
"Hey, this happened, what should we have
10:32
checked there?" That type of thing. So,
10:34
you know, I know that they're engaged. I
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know they understand what they're doing.
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We were in close to that last year. Um,
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particularly at the quarterback
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position, but it was the same thing on
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defense. Our linebackers were new.
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Um,
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you know, the graveyards coming in new
10:47
at safety. It's We just had a lot of
10:48
transition, especially in the um called
10:51
signal caller type positions. So,
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yeah, we're but it's it's much
10:56
different. And but the PRPs are they're
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not only good for the playing and the
10:59
football part of it, but it's good for
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team building, good for communication,
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good for getting to know your teammates,
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you know, besides just you know, running
11:05
sprints with them.
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>> Uh front row on the right here.
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>> Uh Bill, you mentioned the linebackers.
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Obviously, you lost both Simpson and
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Housear last season. Who Who did you see
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>> They got two.
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>> Yeah. Who did you see step up?
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>> so yeah, not to interrupt you, but um
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yeah, but let me interrupt you.
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So,
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yeah, I think we had like 4% play time
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returning
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at that position. I mean, literally
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almost none. So, yeah, it's been a total
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It's been a total makeover.
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Go ahead.
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>> Yeah, I got you. I was just going to ask
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who did you see sort of step up in the
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spring and put himself in
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>> Yeah.
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Um I mean it it was really good. We had
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several players who were here like Jake
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Bauer, like Tamir, like Jonathan,
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and they gave us good leadership and and
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were really, you know, but then we had
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the new players that came in.
11:53
You know, like like McDonald, like
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Seelmann,
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you know, and then you know, we have
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some of our freshmen like Evan Joyner
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and BQ. So, it was you know, it's really
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been a good group from top to bottom. We
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have some veteran players
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Evan Joyner is a fifth-year senior.
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Seelmann you know, played a lot of
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football at Richmond.
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And then we have again some young guys
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like Bauer,
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Evan Joyner, guys like that, BQ that
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have played, you know, almost no college
12:21
football, but they're good players.
12:23
And then you know, we have the guys from
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last year that giving us you know, some
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really really good leadership. Jonathan
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has been really good job of stepping up
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and
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Um you know, again when you're in the
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center of the defense that gives you the
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format to
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communicate with the defensive line,
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communicate with the DBs, the safeties
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and all that. So, you know, that's
12:40
that's been good. Tamir is the same
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thing. It's good to have those guys back
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and and have that
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you know,
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a good base to build from there.
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>> Right behind you David.
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>> Yeah.
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>> What
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>> [clears throat]
12:50
>> are your thoughts on Um
12:51
last year's record being what it was,
12:53
obviously turnover a lot of the roster
12:55
multiple times at this point.
12:58
Public more off-field stuff than what it
13:00
like situations with Lombardi. I don't
13:02
know if you can confirm or deny but
13:03
there are reports out there about the
13:04
CSC investigating. Just curious as you
13:07
kind of look back on this
13:08
year and a half now, has it been a more
13:10
complicated build than you expected and
13:13
how would you describe the current state
13:15
of the program?
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>> Uh we made a lot of progress and we
13:19
continue to do that. Let's keep you
13:21
know, stacking days in front of each
13:22
other. You know, the guys that are here,
13:25
you know, have worked really hard and
13:26
seen a ton of improvement from them with
13:28
the developmental program. We have a lot
13:30
of young players, we've seen them
13:31
develop, we'll see where they go.
13:33
Um, but they're, you know, they've made
13:34
a lot of progress and the younger
13:36
players that are here, you know, guys
13:37
like,
13:38
um, you know, Leroy is an example or,
13:40
you know, Jordan Shipley has only played
13:42
one year of college football. You know,
13:43
he paired his latest freshman year. You
13:45
know, guys like that, um, you see them
13:47
making making big strides as well. So,
13:49
um,
13:50
you know, we've had good recruiting
13:51
class.
13:53
Uh, we'll see how the commits actually
13:54
end up falling and then, you know, for
13:55
the '27 group that we've already had a
13:57
lot of good commits there. It's,
13:59
uh, whatever it is, you know, it's
14:00
ranked, you know, fairly high and we're
14:02
not done yet. So, we'll see how all that
14:04
goes, but, you know, if you keep
14:05
bringing in good players and the players
14:07
keep improving,
14:08
program set in in in a positive
14:10
direction, we'll continue to get better
14:12
and that's that's our goal every day.
14:15
And that's my goal to be too, like I
14:16
need to continue to do a better job so
14:18
that each of our players, our assistant
14:19
coaches and all the support people, you
14:21
know, we evaluate what we do, uh, see
14:23
how we can do better and then you know,
14:25
attack it.
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>> Back left.
14:27
>> Hey, coach, I just wanted to say how
14:29
much I appreciate what you're doing so
14:30
far.
14:30
Just sort of a follow-up to that
14:32
question. Uh,
14:33
college football, we know it's changed
14:35
in two teams
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and all that.
14:37
When you come into it, how how much did
14:39
you have to adjust
14:41
in this new era? How much has been in
14:43
the social
14:44
media? How much has been in this team's
14:45
culture in recent years or how much of
14:47
it has been in the culture here at
14:47
Carolina and how much of it has been in
14:48
the culture here at Carolina? [snorts]
14:50
But this one is much different than the
14:51
last one that we
14:52
did.
14:53
You can put this in the past.
14:56
>> Um,
14:57
Yeah, look, there's certainly some
14:58
differences, you know, I think, you
15:00
know, one of the big things is just some
15:01
working with a lot of new people, you
15:02
know, and so getting to know,
15:04
uh, the people here at Carolina and, you
15:05
know, getting familiar with what
15:07
everybody does, how they can help us
15:09
and, you know, we've gotten great
15:10
support from, uh,
15:12
you know, Chancellor Roberts, um, Steve
15:14
has come in, he's been, you know, new
15:15
to,
15:16
um, and so forth. So, we, you know,
15:18
we've all started working together and,
15:19
you you that just gets better every
15:21
single day.
15:22
Um, so, you know, that that's been good.
15:24
Yeah, there's definitely a learning
15:25
curve anytime you go to a new job.
15:27
Sure you've done it before. You go to a
15:29
new job, you meet new people, you work
15:31
with different people, and you
15:32
understand how to use their strengths,
15:33
and and how to, you know, get your staff
15:36
functioning at, you know, maximum
15:37
capacity. So, um that's just a normal
15:40
process. That's the way it was for me in
15:42
Cleveland. Uh
15:44
in my stints as a head coach at the
15:45
Jets, which were very brief, but that
15:47
was part of it, too, you know.
15:49
Obviously, you know, it was New England.
15:51
Uh but yeah, you you know, that's part
15:53
of it when you come into a new program,
15:54
you know, you you make some
15:57
you set things up, and then you modify
15:59
and adjust them as you go based on the
16:01
changing circumstances, or maybe uh you
16:03
know, knowledge that
16:05
you didn't have initially when you set
16:07
those up, or maybe your options change
16:09
in year two from year one based on
16:10
availability of personnel, or
16:12
in this case, um certainly the rules
16:15
have changed significantly from, you
16:17
know, a two-portal system to a
16:19
one-portal system. Looks like the
16:21
eligibility rules are going to change. I
16:23
mean, there've been a number of
16:24
significant changes. I don't care what
16:25
program you're at. You could be, you
16:27
know, Kirk Ferentz at Iowa for as long
16:29
as he's been there, he still has to deal
16:31
with all those changes, too. So, it
16:34
doesn't really matter what your what
16:36
school you're at, you know, when the
16:37
rules change for college football, they
16:39
change for everybody. So, you know,
16:42
again,
16:43
it's part of a normal process, I would
16:45
say. You know, you just figure it out
16:46
and try to, you know, make the
16:48
adjustments that you feel are best, and
16:50
if you can see into the future, you do,
16:52
but you know, it's it's hard right now
16:54
to know exactly what
16:56
what Congress is going to pass or not
16:58
pass, how that's going to go. So, you
17:00
know, we're kind of more of a wait and
17:01
see. Let's see what we have to work
17:03
with, and then we'll figure it out from
17:04
there.
17:05
Things that look like there's more
17:06
certainty toward, like the eligibility
17:09
rule, for example, then
17:10
you know, we can start to
17:12
guys that we didn't think we were going
17:13
to have next year, now we'll have
17:15
another year of eligibility. You know,
17:16
whether they decide to stay or not, and
17:17
that's all another story, but at least
17:19
there's an option there that wasn't
17:21
there with certain players from last
17:22
year based on those rules. So,
17:32
Yeah, there are many moments, yeah. I
17:34
mean, there's many moments, sure. Yeah.
17:36
The Again, one of the biggest
17:38
differences between
17:40
the NFL and college football is the vast
17:43
amount of improvement that these players
17:45
make.
17:45
They come in at 17, 18 years old. Um in
17:49
a lot of cases, they haven't really
17:51
played very often, if at all, against
17:54
players of comparable skill.
17:56
Maybe in a camp or something like that,
17:59
but on a down-after-down basis, where
18:02
they're lining up across from somebody
18:03
who's who's a power four player, or
18:06
multiple players like that, you just
18:08
don't see that very much in high school
18:10
football. Like, teams that have that
18:12
kind of, you know, with rare exceptions,
18:15
you know, teams that have eight, nine,
18:16
10 power four players, when practice
18:18
they go against each other and so forth.
18:20
But that's more the exception than the
18:22
norm. So,
18:23
you know, these kids get here and they
18:25
have a ton of growth, both physically
18:27
and from a competitive standpoint, you
18:29
know, they're just not better than
18:30
everybody anymore. They've got to
18:31
improve their skills, improve their
18:33
strength, their conditioning. And you
18:35
know, what Moses has done in in a weight
18:37
in a weight room and in a conditioning
18:38
program, you know, the speeds guys go,
18:41
you know, three, four tenths of a second
18:43
faster in a 40 in a year. I mean, you've
18:46
never seen that in the NFL. You never
18:47
see a guy go from 4.9 to 4.5. I mean,
18:50
they're just You just wouldn't see that.
18:52
Um you might see him go from 4.65 to
18:54
4.58, or, you know, something like that,
18:58
but not you wouldn't see a guy go from,
19:00
you know, 450-lb squats to 630-lb squats
19:04
in a year. I mean, you wouldn't see
19:06
that. So,
19:08
the physical growth, as well as the
19:09
techniques and fundamentals, of how to
19:11
run routes, learning how to pass
19:12
protect, learning how to how to tackle,
19:15
learning how to play with leverage on
19:16
the line of scrimmage, tackling people.
19:17
I mean, all those things like the amount
19:19
of improvement that these guys have made
19:21
is is enormous. I mean, you look at a
19:23
player like Melber, and he's a walk-on
19:24
at Delaware.
19:26
Led the ACC in sacks last year. So, you
19:28
know, and that's a credit to him through
19:30
his hard work and and his
19:32
competitiveness and all that. But,
19:34
he I mean, he got a lot better in in a
19:37
you know, in a total calendar year, even
19:38
a little less than a calendar year.
19:40
Well, it was a calendar year, January to
19:41
January. So,
19:42
you know, you just don't see that kind
19:44
of improvement in the NFL as frequently
19:47
as you do here. There's a few guys that,
19:48
you know,
19:50
Brady goes from a
19:52
fourth-string quarterback to a Super
19:53
Bowl MVP in a year. I mean, there's not
19:55
many of those. There's really aren't
19:57
many of those, and he was a rare, rare
20:00
um exception to that.
20:02
But, for the most part, you see guys
20:04
improve, but like Edelman, you know, it
20:07
took a few years, you know, he really
20:09
didn't become a productive receiver
20:10
until, you know, his fifth year in the
20:11
league. And that's I would say more the
20:14
norm, second, the third, the fourth, the
20:16
fifth year.
20:17
Whereas, these guys improve much quicker
20:20
than that if they put in the work and,
20:22
you know, are diligent in their their
20:24
preparation.
20:25
>> We got time for four more, Brad.
20:27
Billy you told us in Peyton.
20:29
You told us in Charlotte that there was
20:31
no bigger in the clubhouse as far as
20:33
quarterback battle. What does the
20:34
timeline look like on that, and how do
20:36
you how do you go about the evaluation
20:38
process there?
20:39
>> Yeah, no no set timeline. Um we'll just,
20:42
you know, I think once once it becomes
20:44
apparent and clear, then that's when we
20:46
make a decision.
20:49
>> All right. As that continues, um what is
20:51
something that sticks out to you about
20:52
each guy? Um what's the biggest thing
20:54
you're looking for in that evaluation
20:55
process there?
20:59
>> Well, the players' deposition come from
21:00
very different backgrounds. Um you know,
21:03
Billy Edwards has played a lot of
21:04
football um
21:06
and and had a lot of
21:08
or had a lot of sorry production in the
21:10
big 10 in in 2014 season at Maryland.
21:14
Played a lot of football at Wisconsin
21:15
but then got injured and really didn't
21:17
play during the season. So and from
21:19
experience standpoint he has more
21:20
experience than all the other
21:21
quarterbacks put together times five,
21:24
you know, so it is what it is.
21:27
Miles is a very talented player, one of
21:29
the best athletes on the team. He's big,
21:31
he's fast, he's strong. I mean honestly
21:35
he could you know play tight end,
21:36
probably could play linebacker or
21:38
safety, you know, if that was his
21:39
position. You look at him and say yeah,
21:41
he'd probably do those things, all
21:43
right, but he's a quarterback. So
21:45
very talented player there. You know,
21:47
Tory is improving in his second year and
21:49
Travis has been able to keep doing more
21:52
and more through the spring, through the
21:53
summer
21:54
to where he's ready to go now. So you
21:56
know, I'm excited to see him play. So
21:58
they all kind of have a little different
22:01
you know,
22:03
wouldn't say necessarily strengths or
22:04
weaknesses but they just come from
22:05
different places and want to see how it
22:07
all comes together. But one thing we do
22:10
know is that next year you know,
22:12
Billy won't be available, right, but he
22:14
has the most experience again by far of
22:17
of any of the other ones or all of them
22:19
combined if you actually want to go that
22:20
way. So
22:22
you know, what's best for the team we'll
22:24
we'll see how that plays out. But I
22:25
think they all have a lot to offer.
22:28
>> So do I.
22:29
>> You had a couple of four-win seasons in
22:32
a row with a break in between.
22:35
That had to be a really disorienting
22:36
experience for you after winning so much
22:38
over so many years. How did you deal
22:40
with that
22:41
I guess emotionally? I mean was that was
22:42
that difficult for you?
22:45
>> Yeah, I mean look, I've taken the same
22:47
approach ever since I've been a coach.
22:48
Do the best you can every week, do the
22:49
best you can every year. At the end of
22:51
the year you look back and you see what
22:52
you could do better, look at it
22:55
you didn't win a game or you won the
22:56
last game in the Super Bowl, it's still
22:58
you re-evaluate what happened and you
23:00
out how to do a better job the year.
23:02
There's always room for improvement.
23:04
There's always things that you did well
23:05
that [clears throat] you want to build
23:06
on.
23:07
And there's always things that you would
23:08
like to do better and you figure out how
23:11
to you know, how to how to address
23:12
those.
23:13
So,
23:14
that's what I've always done week to
23:16
week, year to year. I'm sure it's not
23:18
your problem. I'm sure everybody else
23:20
does that in their job, too. That's just
23:21
a normal process.
23:23
>> We'll finish up right here real real
23:24
quick.
23:25
I think it was cleared up when you said
23:26
that. I don't know if that was
23:28
fully addressed. What can you tell us
23:31
moving forward into the college football
23:33
championship? Allegedly there's a big
23:35
football game.
23:36
>> Yeah, next question. Brandon, I mean we
23:39
can't talk about that.
23:39
>> Yeah.
23:40
Thanks, guys.
23:41
>> All right. Thank you.
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