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Geno Smith: "I've Been In Playoff Mode My Whole Life" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon when.
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  Speaker 2: You went back and you looked at the film. What
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  Speaker 2: really was.
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  Speaker 3: The catalyst for the Run Game that we saw on Sunday?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? Yeah, I gotta say hats off to the big
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  Speaker 1: guys up front. You know, it starts starts with those guys.
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  Speaker 1: I thought, Uh, you know, just when you watch the film,
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  Speaker 1: like I thought, they did a tremendous job at finishing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you see a bunch of guys pushing the pile.
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  Speaker 1: You see guys running down field getting you know, getting
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  Speaker 1: extra blocks, and I think, you know, when you look
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  Speaker 1: at the Run Game, you think about the big splash plays,
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  Speaker 1: but you know a lot of times those unsung heroes
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  Speaker 1: and you know, those unsung plays are just the little things,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just given extra effort. And I thought that
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  Speaker 1: was that was great from the guys, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's something we've been building on and uh, we look
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  Speaker 1: forward to continuing.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think the Run Game is turned the corner?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, It's it's always a work in progress, you know,
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  Speaker 1: It's it's something that we always gotta work on. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, turning the corner. Like I said, Man, I
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  Speaker 1: don't really get into that much. I just think we
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  Speaker 1: believe in our guys. We got the right guys, we
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  Speaker 1: got the right system. It's all about execution for us,
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  Speaker 1: and when we go out there and we execute the
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  Speaker 1: right way, things usually work out well for us. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think we're moving into the right direction. But again,
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  Speaker 1: it's all about what you do. On Sunday, it.
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  Speaker 2: Looked like you checked into the fifty one yard touchdown
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  Speaker 2: to Charbonay at the line. Qbs are usually known for passing.
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  Speaker 2: Curious how much pride you take in and those kinds
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  Speaker 2: of checks to run in.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I actually didn't check that one. That was
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  Speaker 1: That was a design call by Grub right there. So
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  Speaker 1: I gotta give Grub the credit for that one. He
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  Speaker 1: saw something from up top. I guess he saw a
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  Speaker 1: blitz or something weak and got to that look. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean we we do have the ability to get
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  Speaker 1: to those checks, and we have done that throughout the
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  Speaker 1: course of the season, you know, and whether it's a
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  Speaker 1: run check or you know, just getting the right pass
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  Speaker 1: protection or you know, figuring out that they're in zero
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  Speaker 1: coverage and we can get you know, a way to
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  Speaker 1: attack those guys. You know, I take a lot of
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  Speaker 1: pride in that, you know, I feel as though I'm
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  Speaker 1: the coach on the field. You know, I'm up, I'm
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  Speaker 1: out there, you know, going heads up with not only
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  Speaker 1: the defensive guy, but the decordinator and just trying to
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  Speaker 1: get my guys into the best looks. But I also
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  Speaker 1: have have Grub who's right there with me, and he
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  Speaker 1: does a great job at doing the same thing. Mike
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  Speaker 1: McDonald was talking yesterday about some of the ways teams
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  Speaker 1: are defending DK and how much attention he gets.
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  Speaker 2: How have you seen k kind of respond as the games
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  Speaker 2: where it's hard to get him the ball and the
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  Speaker 2: things he's doing other than catching the football to help.
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  Speaker 1: You get Yeah, you know, it goes back to when
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  Speaker 1: he was a rookie. We both got here at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, and I had been around the league for
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  Speaker 1: a while seeing a bunch of receivers, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I told him, Man, if they don't cloud you, you're
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  Speaker 1: the exit. They don't w you know, you're not reaching
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  Speaker 1: your full potential. And sure enough, man, he's he's he's
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  Speaker 1: right there. I mean, no team that we faced is
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  Speaker 1: just gonna leave him one on one. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's it's, you know, a gift and the
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  Speaker 1: curse because you want to throw them the ball as
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  Speaker 1: much as you can. You want to get him the ball,
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  Speaker 1: but you also realize that you can't force it. And
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  Speaker 1: so when defensive defenses are loading up and they're putting
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  Speaker 1: two and three guys on the backside for him, it
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  Speaker 1: just creates more numbers to the front side for us.
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  Speaker 1: And so we're always gonna take advantage of the right
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  Speaker 1: you know, matchups. And DK's done a great job at
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  Speaker 1: blocking down field, being a leader in the huddle, just
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  Speaker 1: doing all the little things that he's always done. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's understanding man like you know, he's drawing
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  Speaker 1: so much attention that it's opening up things for other
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  Speaker 1: guys and him being the selfless player that he is,
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  Speaker 1: the selfless person that he is, you know, he enjoys that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he enjoys the facts that the entire offense
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  Speaker 1: can benefit from having a star X receiver like him.
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  Speaker 1: So I think he's done a tremendous job. We still
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  Speaker 1: gotta find ways to get him involved, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: if they're going to just load up the coverage, then
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  Speaker 1: you know we got to do the right thing there.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned blocking.
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  Speaker 1: Can you tell his daddles an offensive linemanally he blocks
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  Speaker 1: down bill, Oh for sure. I mean just his entire
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  Speaker 1: mentality is like one of those linemen. Man. Like, he's
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  Speaker 1: a fearless competitor. He's as tough as his get as
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  Speaker 1: it gets. He's tough as nails and blocking down field. Man.
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  Speaker 1: Those guys don't want to see him out there. Man,
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  Speaker 1: they're running, they're running away from him and trying to
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  Speaker 1: avoid him as much as they can. And uh, you
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  Speaker 1: know that's that speaks to who he is and how
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  Speaker 1: he's raised.
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  Speaker 3: When you watch film and just watch football for fun,
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  Speaker 3: do you see any other teams using uh, like the
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  Speaker 3: pre staff shifting the way that you guys do.
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  Speaker 1: Not not not as much as we do, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And I can't say as to why they don't or
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  Speaker 1: why they do or why we do. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: just a part of grubs system. He's done that when
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  Speaker 1: he when he was at U Dub, he was doing
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  Speaker 1: that last year, and uh, he's brought that to us
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  Speaker 1: and I think it's it's definitely a tremendous help for us.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you do get a lot of answers. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you can see some things out there when you shift,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, just try to figure out what the
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  Speaker 1: defense is in or how are they reacting to certain things,
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  Speaker 1: And it helps us a bunch, but you know, we
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  Speaker 1: do expect teams to try and counter that. We've already
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  Speaker 1: had some of that, and uh, again it just goes
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  Speaker 1: out to you know, the quarterbacks now got the final
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  Speaker 1: final answer, and uh, I think I do an okay
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  Speaker 1: job at getting us to the right place. But I
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  Speaker 1: just got to continue to see it and get and
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  Speaker 1: continue to put us in the right position.
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  Speaker 3: So the Charbonnay touchdown was that?
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  Speaker 1: Was that?
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  Speaker 3: The was that the play call the whole way, like
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  Speaker 3: you guys were supposed to start off.
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  Speaker 1: And I can't tell you all like you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean everybody listening, you know, maybe off
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk about it. But yeah, we we got things
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  Speaker 1: is that we can get to.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you guys are here in December, one lead,
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  Speaker 4: one game lead in the in the division, you got.
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  Speaker 2: The whole nation watching on Sunday night against a really
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  Speaker 2: good Packers team. Just the enormity of this game.
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  Speaker 1: How how big is this to you? Yeah, it's a
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  Speaker 1: it's a very big game for us because it's the
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  Speaker 1: next game. We've been saying that the entire year, and
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  Speaker 1: that's not going to change. You know, we we we
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  Speaker 1: understand what's at stake. We understand that. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: want to have meaningful games late in December. You want
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  Speaker 1: to have your crowd. You know, these great fans that
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  Speaker 1: we have, you know, they're cheering and have something to
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  Speaker 1: be excited for, uh, in these meaningful games. As you said,
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  Speaker 1: and like I said, we just got to take it
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  Speaker 1: one day, one game at a time. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: can't put more emphasis on it that needs to be.
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  Speaker 1: It's a very big game. We know it's at stake,
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  Speaker 1: but it's just the next game, and so we got
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that we approach it the right way
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  Speaker 1: and take a step by step.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people have mentioned the idea of being
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  Speaker 2: in playoff mode since since by a week Hearnst Jones
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  Speaker 2: actually called it death zone.
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  Speaker 4: It's kind of hought on among.
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  Speaker 1: Fans to label the defense like the death zone. Do
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  Speaker 1: you like that? I like that name. I like that
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  Speaker 1: name right there. I think it, Uh, it fits them well,
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  Speaker 1: suits them. Well. You know, I've been in a playoff
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  Speaker 1: mode my whole life, So nothing's gonna change for me.
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  Speaker 1: I every day is you know, I live and die by.
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  Speaker 3: What what you got to know of Scott huff since
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  Speaker 3: he since he came on.
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  Speaker 1: I love Coach huff Man. I think he's he's done
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  Speaker 1: such a tremendous job with that room. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: just think about all the guys who have been in
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  Speaker 1: and out of the lineup. You know, he's got veteran guys,
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  Speaker 1: he's got young guys, you know, from all over the place,
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  Speaker 1: and he's getting each and every one of those guys
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  Speaker 1: you know, prepared to go out there and be their
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  Speaker 1: best selves. And that's really what you you know, want
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  Speaker 1: from a coach. And I think, you know, outstanding human
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  Speaker 1: being first and foremost, but just the way that he coaches,
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  Speaker 1: the way that he can he can connect with the guys,
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  Speaker 1: and then the way that he pushes the guys. You know,
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  Speaker 1: everyone doesn't get to see how stern he is and
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  Speaker 1: how how how honored he is with these guys, but
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  Speaker 1: you know he's right there and they respect him, and
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a big thing. But he has brought
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  Speaker 1: a lot to this offense, a lot to this team,
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  Speaker 1: and shoot, I can't wait to see, you know where
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  Speaker 1: it goes.
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  Speaker 2: Getting the ball down the field to your playmakers, could
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  Speaker 2: be a challenge given kind of the ball hockey nature
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  Speaker 2: of the Packers.
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  Speaker 3: What do you have to be aware of against that secondary?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like you said, they got some ball hawking guys.
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  Speaker 1: They got you know, one of their safeties I think
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  Speaker 1: leads the league or is tired for league league and
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  Speaker 1: interceptions McKinney. And he he's been a you know, perennial
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  Speaker 1: pro bowler. He's been a great player throughout his career.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think he's a really good safety back there,
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  Speaker 1: So eyes on him where he is Jay is supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be playing, I'm guessing, And again he's been a
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  Speaker 1: perennial pro bowler, you know, a top corner in this league.
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  Speaker 1: So he's he's often making plays on the ball. You know,
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  Speaker 1: those guys are really you know, trying to hunt hunt picks, man,
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  Speaker 1: They're trying to, you know, find ways to you know,
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  Speaker 1: get turnovers for their team. And you know, for us, man,
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  Speaker 1: it's always gonna be the emphasis taking care of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: That's first and foremost, you know. But we want to
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  Speaker 1: be agressive. We want to stay aggressive as well and
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  Speaker 1: take our shots.
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  Speaker 2: Does that change that the shots you're willing to take.
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  Speaker 1: Not at all?
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  Speaker 2: You guys have faced the zone, talked about that for
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  Speaker 2: a while. You check the ball down more in this
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  Speaker 2: last game than you have other games this season. You
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  Speaker 2: guys got a lot of yards out of that. Curious
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  Speaker 2: talk about what what checking down can mean against own
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  Speaker 2: defenses and why support utilize that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's the power of completions, you know. I
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  Speaker 1: guess checking it down has become like a frowned upon thing.
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  Speaker 1: I hope not. You know, it's about Football's about executing
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  Speaker 1: players and moving the chains and whether I'm you know,
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  Speaker 1: throwing it down the field, throwing it underneath intermediate, just
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  Speaker 1: trying to do the right thing out there. So if
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna try and you know, play a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: shell coverages and cover two and you know they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: bail and play quarters, then the underneath stuff is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be there and we're gonna take it. We got guys
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  Speaker 1: who can catch and run, and so, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: all all about making the right decisions. No matter what
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  Speaker 1: the defense is doing. We've got you know, we've got
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  Speaker 1: to have answers for it, and I've got to make
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  Speaker 1: the right decisions and put the ball in the hands
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  Speaker 1: of the playmakers. Why have you been playoff about your
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  Speaker 1: whole life? Man born in Miami, Florida, shoot man, young
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  Speaker 1: black man in this world. Come on simple.
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  Speaker 4: Pocket awareness and then the pressure awareness in the pocket
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  Speaker 4: because you can't have any sacks lasting year r and
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  Speaker 4: so how do you balance that when there's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of pressure and then when there's not pressure?
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  Speaker 1: For me, Yeah, it just comes down to, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: making the right decision, throwing the ball on time in rhythm. Again,
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  Speaker 1: the guys up front doing a tremendous job are protecting me.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that's first and foremost. I thought they did
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  Speaker 1: a great job at that. And then you know when
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  Speaker 1: there is you know, guys around me just making sure
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  Speaker 1: that I'm getting the ball out. You know, I had
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  Speaker 1: an intentional grounding that, you know, I'll continue to say,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that was intentional grounding, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: trying to get the ball out, you know, not take sacks,
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  Speaker 1: not take negative plays, you know, keep us on schedule.
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  Speaker 1: That's the main thing, and it starts upfront with protection
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  Speaker 1: those guys, but it's also a big part of it
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  Speaker 1: is me getting the ball out and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: using my legs if I have to go out and
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  Speaker 1: scram we'll get a couple of yards, get a first down,
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  Speaker 1: maybe a touchdown. You know, some good stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Talked about the blocking of Fried your tight ends, can
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  Speaker 4: you just talk about it. They've they've helped the run game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought Pharaoh man I thought Pharaoh aj Noah
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  Speaker 1: man I thought. You know, even on that Zach touchdown. Man,
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  Speaker 1: you see, Brady got in there, he made a good block.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, just that entire group, man, like they
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  Speaker 1: they really, you know, bring our offense together. You know,
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  Speaker 1: pass catchers, dynamic pass catchers, dynamic blockers. Uh, those guys
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  Speaker 1: are great on special teams, like, you know, just doing
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  Speaker 1: it all for us. And the more we can lean
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  Speaker 1: on those guys, the more they can go out there
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  Speaker 1: and be physical, uh, you know, help you know, eliminate
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  Speaker 1: the edge for us so we can catch it, capture
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  Speaker 1: the edge and you know, get some runs to sit
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  Speaker 1: the outside. It helps our offense out, helps our play
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  Speaker 1: action in our boot game as well. So those guys
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  Speaker 1: are a big part of our offense and we got
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  Speaker 1: to continue to lean on them.
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  Speaker 2: These guys are won four in a row. But the
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  Speaker 2: Packers come in here to your home stadium in their
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  Speaker 2: favorite a lot of people are picking.
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  Speaker 1: Them to win.
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  Speaker 2: Curious, like, do you use and if people in the
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  Speaker 2: locker room use doddors as fuel or stick?
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  Speaker 1: Right? Yeah, I can only speak for myself, and I
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  Speaker 1: say this like a doubter. I mean what, I don't
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  Speaker 1: get to see him every day, you know, only see
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  Speaker 1: the people in this locker room, and we all believe. So.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think any of that type of thing, any
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  Speaker 1: of that type of stuff really creeps into our mindset.
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  Speaker 1: We're so focused and so locked in and just continually
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  Speaker 1: working on, you know, bettering ourselves stuff on the outside.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, they gotta pick somebody, right, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we've been favorite in games and we've been not favorite.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't really matter, no, you know, you got to
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  Speaker 1: execute on Sunday. So what people have to say, I
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  Speaker 1: mean everyone has an opinion, they're entitled to it, but
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things.
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  Speaker 1: You reference that play.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have a good understanding of what in the
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  Speaker 3: vicinity is? I mean it seems kind of big.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes, Yeah, I think it's Yeah, it's it's definitely vague,
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  Speaker 1: and you can pull up games from you know, throughout
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  Speaker 1: the course of this league and You've seen plays like
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  Speaker 1: that that don't get flag, so I think it's you
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  Speaker 1: know again, I don't, you know, really go at the rest.
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  Speaker 1: They got a hard job to do their humans, But
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  Speaker 1: I just think you know that that one in particular
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  Speaker 1: wasn't intentional grounding.
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  Speaker 3: But what did Kenny McIntosh give you guys? We haven't
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  Speaker 3: seen a whole lot of them in the backfield. What
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  Speaker 3: did he give you guys someday?
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  Speaker 1: Shoot, I thought he ran the ball well, was explosive.
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  Speaker 1: I think like two or three of his runs were
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  Speaker 1: like explosive you know runs. And I thought he was physical,
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  Speaker 1: he finished his runs well, you know, even in past protection.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was great. And uh, he's he's been
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  Speaker 1: that way, you know, since he's gotten here. Obviously the
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  Speaker 1: opportunities with zach and and and Ken were limited, but
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  Speaker 1: it was great to see him step up into his role.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, you know, hopefully he gets a bigger
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  Speaker 1: role and gets to get more touches, but he does,
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  Speaker 1: he does. He did a great job and really proud
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  Speaker 1: of them.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think this doctors defense does well? And
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  Speaker 2: does it remind you dramatically of any of the defenses
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  Speaker 2: he faced.
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  Speaker 1: Apart to uh, Yeah, they you know, they kind of
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  Speaker 1: have like a forty nine ers background similar to what
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  Speaker 1: we face there, but they do a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: uh stuff on third down, I would say, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're very similar to us in their third down packages
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  Speaker 1: where you know, they'll have a bunch of guys at
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  Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage make determined is it cover zero
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  Speaker 1: or they you know, bluffing and playing zone. Uh. But
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  Speaker 1: they also, you know, do a great job of getting turnovers,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that's the main thing is that they've
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  Speaker 1: gotten a lot of turnovers. They might lead the league
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  Speaker 1: in that category, and uh, they do a great job
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  Speaker 1: and they help their offense out in that way. So uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, again big emphasis on the ball. That's something
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: we've always talked about, and uh, we just got to
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: make sure we go out there and execute. You do
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: stuff around us money all the time, but when you
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: do it around like holiday time, maybe Christmas in particularly,
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: does it feel like it's it's more impactful for some
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: of the kids or whoever you do stuff around here. Yeah,
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: I think it's just great, you know, to see like
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: the smiles on their faces. We actually are you know,
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: gonna be at the children's hospital this uh Christmas and
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: and and gonna pass out a lot of gifts and stuff.
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: And I did it last year. And just seeing the
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: smiles on their faces, like their families, and just the
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: joy that we could bring to them during the holidays. Uh,
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: it may be a little thing to us, but it's
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: like so big to them. And it's it's a you know,
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: a life changing experience sometimes. And so if we can
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: go out there and be an advocate, you know, for
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: the for the Seahawks, but also just uplift people and
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: and and lend our hands. Shoot, we gotta do more
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: of it. And uh, yeah, it it does make us
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: all feel good. Sometimes guys do like shopping sprees or
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: they go talk to your school, why the children's hospital
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: of your choice. Yeah, well I I'll you know, first,
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: it started with Russ. So I did it one time
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: when Russell, when Russe was here, and uh, you know,
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: I just kind of take it. Took a liking to it.
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: You know, I really enjoy being around kids, and uh
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: you know, especially those kids who you know, have to
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: spend their you know, holidays and in the hospital and
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: stuff like that. Man, just to be able to go
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: out and and and reach out to them, and it
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: just means so much to me personally. And uh, you know,
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: I I'll have a bunch of my teammates there as well.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: Everyone wants to be a part of it, So we
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: wanna make it a big thing, and we wanna you know,
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: continue to you know, be that be that voice. Thank you,
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: Thank you guys.