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Well, you get the new coaching staff that comes in, right?
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Christian Parker and he starts hiring any staff.
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What are the conversations when you sit down with Christian Parker
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or the D-line coach or the linebacker coach?
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How do those conversations break down
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when you're trying to get their input on
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what are the particular players that you're looking for,
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style and all that kind of stuff?
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How do some of those conversations go?
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It's, you know, we sit down
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and we break it down from the very intimate,
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but beginning parts of it is, okay,
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what are we looking for in the position?
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What does that position do?
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How does it fit with them what we do?
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Every coach has traits and things that they're looking for
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and the funny thing is the players make coaches, right?
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And so you're always looking to find that best player
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that they've ever coached.
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Well, they're not all the same.
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So we're looking for those traits.
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We'll go down and look at all of the guys
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that they've drafted or worked with
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and talked to them about the different traits.
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And so then you start finding commonality and language
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and then you start vibing with it.
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If you know and understand football
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and the way that it's, you know, they're trying to fit
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the pieces in together, you have those conversations,
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you find out what they like and what they don't like
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and you try and match it as much as possible.
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You know, I've been dealing with Will
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since the Desperado days.
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You're not going to take me away from the Desperado days.
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Hell is a head coach, by the way, Will.
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I went to a lot of other games.
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Hell is a head coach.
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My daughter's a rice person.
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She's a cheerleader right.
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So we got a rice bond here.
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You're not going to take away this rice bond, okay?
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He took shots at you.
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No, we, you know, I didn't take shots at him.
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I just basically told him that when he was a young guy,
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back in the 30s and the 30s back in the 30s,
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and when he was a fourth, fifth round pick,
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nobody thought that he would be here,
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but he worked himself to the point.
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And, you know, as a scout, you know,
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you've gone with the different seasons
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coordinates and picking guys for their schemes.
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I don't know if you just asked the similar question,
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but from what Quinn was looking for to Zimmer or to,
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you know, obviously last year and now this year,
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Christian Park is 34, you know, and he's a young guy,
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you know, how different was it with him
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compared to some of the other guys in the past?
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Each coordinator comes in with what they're looking for.
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It's how well they describe it.
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And then how well they answer the questions about
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what do you do when you don't have it?
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And then you think about the process
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and the way that they explain it to you
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and what you have to do is everything's not going to be perfect.
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I'm not going to get you everything that you want.
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So how do we find ways to operate
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with what we do have and make that better?
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And so when you talk to Christian
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and he talked about the, he talks about the different ways
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that he constructs the defense.
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It's not just the players within the defense.
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It's what the defense can do
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and how you can adjust the defense
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based off of what you have and don't have.
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So the way that he put those things together
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and explained it, it gives you that security
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that he knows what he's talking about
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and putting the pieces together.
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And every coach has it.
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We're going through the same thing all the time.
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But it's the conviction and then it's the plan
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and then it's how you deploy.
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So everybody does it a little bit different.
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But you get excited when you talk to Christian and the staff
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and you talk just the whole staff offensively
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and defensively with our staff right now.
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There's a connection and a connectivity
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that makes you feel like you have an opportunity
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for it to have success
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because they're putting people in the right places