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Sam Darnold On The Offense's Performance In The Week 15 vs. The Colts · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, never a doubt right now. It was you
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  Speaker 1: know again, I think.
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  Speaker 2: For us, we just gotta start faster as an offense.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to finish in the red zone. It's I
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  Speaker 2: feel like it's becoming a theme now these next few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: And we got to get it figured out. You know.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like our defense is playing really really good football.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, we just gotta we gotta step it up
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  Speaker 2: a little bit as an offense, you know, and that
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  Speaker 2: starts with me. But we just gotta we gotta play better.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, like I, like I said, we gotta
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  Speaker 2: you know, be better on third downs, be better in
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  Speaker 2: the red zone, you know, and uh, we will be better.
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  Speaker 2: We'll look at the tape and get better. But again
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  Speaker 2: we got a quick turnaround for Thursday night against l A.
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  Speaker 1: That we'll be We'll be ready for what you.
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  Speaker 3: Said there about you step it up? Is it tree
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  Speaker 3: something though?
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  Speaker 4: That twice you guys need to go down sport late games,
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  Speaker 4: preble do.
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  Speaker 1: Something like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's it's great, you know, to be
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  Speaker 2: able to get in those situations where you gotta have
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  Speaker 2: a two minute drive or a late I have to
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  Speaker 2: put us in position to be able.
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  Speaker 1: To win the game and we get it done.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, those are the situations that we practice
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  Speaker 2: throughout the week, and you know, it's good to it's
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  Speaker 2: good to have those have those drives when we need it.
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  Speaker 3: What did you feel like started working a little better
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  Speaker 3: in the second half of offensively? Did kind of get
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  Speaker 3: it go a little more?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think it was great. First of all,
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  Speaker 2: is great adjustments by our coaches, you know, by us
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  Speaker 2: you know, as players, being able to take those adjustments
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  Speaker 2: and run with it and.
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  Speaker 1: Execute it, and I think that was it.
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  Speaker 5: Would you see in the first half of the way
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  Speaker 5: that they seemed like they were able to successfully get
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  Speaker 5: rushers back into the pocket and force you to move
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  Speaker 5: up quite a bit early on, and then as the
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  Speaker 5: game progressed second half, So like that's stopped for the
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  Speaker 5: most part. But would you see them effectively doing in
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  Speaker 5: terms of you know, creating problems for.
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  Speaker 1: You guys with your pass protection goals?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I thought they did some really good
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  Speaker 2: stuff defensively, But again, we just got to watch the
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  Speaker 2: tape and grow from it get better that way.
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  Speaker 1: I think again.
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  Speaker 2: The other thing too, of you know, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: some of the protection stuff I think that was on
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  Speaker 2: me a lot of the times, just holding on to
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  Speaker 2: the football. I thought I could have gotten the ball
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  Speaker 2: out a couple times early in the first half.
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  Speaker 4: What would you think of having Jalen back at center
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  Speaker 4: and kind of how that worked after being with that
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  Speaker 4: him here for a month or something.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was great.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think, you know, obviously Olu did a
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  Speaker 2: really good job when he was in.
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  Speaker 1: There, but you know, having Jalen back and just.
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  Speaker 2: For him to be able to get a really good
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  Speaker 2: week of practice in and I felt like we we
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  Speaker 2: you know, didn't miss a beat, you know, with the
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  Speaker 2: way that he was able to get in there and
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  Speaker 2: do his job.
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  Speaker 3: Today.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned about the slow starts in the first half
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  Speaker 1: in the last three games. Is there anything you could pinpoint,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a thing or two.
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  Speaker 2: I mean you mentioned some things, but you look back
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  Speaker 2: at hindsight and say, you know, week bigtail.
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  Speaker 1: The spenter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's just about going out there and
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  Speaker 2: you know, executing. I mean it sounds cliche, but it's true.
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  Speaker 2: We just got to do a better job of all
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  Speaker 2: eleven doing our job. And again, like I said, that
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  Speaker 2: starts with me.
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  Speaker 3: You always you would rather Jason Myers doesn't have to
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  Speaker 3: take a bunch of.
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  Speaker 4: Feel but what you say about him, say your.
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  Speaker 2: Game, Yeah, Jami has been incredible all year, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know he's you know again, like like I keep saying,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we hopefully we don't need to use him
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  Speaker 2: as much as we are hopefully they're pats and not
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  Speaker 2: field goals. But he's been excuse me, he's been doing
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  Speaker 2: a great job for us, being.
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  Speaker 3: Able to go to shiheed those moments there in the
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  Speaker 3: final job.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the product of just.
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  Speaker 3: Having the time with him that you guys, has he arrived?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: You know I think you know, having shed having sheed
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  Speaker 2: and him being able to you know me and him
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  Speaker 2: getting on the same page with certain things, and him
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  Speaker 2: being just ready to go when his numbers called. You know,
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  Speaker 2: that's been a theme, you know, ever since he's he's
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  Speaker 2: gotten here. So whether it's in the punt return game,
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  Speaker 2: kick return game, or as a receiver.
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  Speaker 1: So he's been doing a great job for us.
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  Speaker 4: From what you saw in the sets out there on
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  Speaker 4: the field, Why do you think the run game kind
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  Speaker 4: of struggled to.
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  Speaker 1: Find some footing today? Say that first part again, Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Just from what you saw out there and you're feeling
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  Speaker 4: it out on the field. But what do you kind
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  Speaker 4: of think led to the run game struggles today?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think first of all, it's a great defense.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they did a really good job. But again,
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  Speaker 1: we got to watch the ape.
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  Speaker 2: And and kind of see, you know, what they did
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  Speaker 2: or how they affected us in the run game and
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  Speaker 2: go from there.
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  Speaker 1: The last drive there and some progression on which one
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  Speaker 1: the well was bigger one the first one. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, when I when I throw the ball, it was
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  Speaker 2: just you know, some a play that we've been practicing
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  Speaker 2: for a long time. But yeah, it was just coverage
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  Speaker 2: kind of dictated that I should have thrown the ball,
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  Speaker 2: and I did, and it was a big play and
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad he uh he ran a really good route,
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  Speaker 2: got open, and yeah, we kind of took care of
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  Speaker 2: the rest of there.
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  Speaker 1: Talked about j.
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  Speaker 4: Said how like when he did this game would maybe
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  Speaker 4: early on the balls from fide of him and then
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  Speaker 4: fitted us to take place.
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  Speaker 3: What'd you see out of Jackson today?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he's a competitor.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's one of those guys that you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's not gonna shut down or anything when he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: get the ball. You know, he he knows that when
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  Speaker 2: his numbers called, he's gonna you know, step up and
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  Speaker 2: make a big play. And again he's not going to
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  Speaker 2: like try to force it or anything. It's it's very
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  Speaker 2: natural with him. And uh, he knows the balls. The
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  Speaker 2: ball is going to find him eventually when we needed
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  Speaker 2: the most. And I felt like he stepped up in
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  Speaker 2: a really big way today. Just continuing to be be
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  Speaker 2: a really good leader for this team and be a
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  Speaker 2: really good receiver faith. You know, the game valuable of
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  Speaker 2: that this time of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's huge.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we know we know what these games, these
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  Speaker 2: these upcoming games mean for us as a team. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, we're just going to continue to do our
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  Speaker 2: process and go from there.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, with the understanding that it does mean
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  Speaker 1: a lot.
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  Speaker 3: I know, you said, you've got through this a lot
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  Speaker 3: with the two minute drills of stuff. But but his
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  Speaker 3: Mike's calling the timeout, so you know there might be
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  Speaker 3: some time on the clocket.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of are you thinking there? You know?
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  Speaker 2: Before that, yeah, you know, and when Indy was kind
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  Speaker 2: of going on their second to last drive there, it
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  Speaker 2: was just you know, understanding that you know, field goal
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  Speaker 2: puts them up and we might be in a position
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  Speaker 2: to where we need to, you know, get a couple
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  Speaker 2: of big plays to put us in field goal position.
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  Speaker 2: And I think, like I mentioned before, but she did
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  Speaker 2: a really good job in that Charick return, just getting
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  Speaker 2: North really quick for us and getting those yards that
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  Speaker 2: were crucial. And then the two plays that he made
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  Speaker 2: as a receiver too were important as well. So he's
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  Speaker 2: been doing a great job for us. But yeah, that
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  Speaker 2: was what was kind of going through my head at
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  Speaker 2: that point.
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  Speaker 1: Barely across midfield we started using timeouts. Didn't that surprise you?
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  Speaker 1: What do you started doing when? Who started when? When
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  Speaker 1: Indianapolis just got across midfields when you started confusing the
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  Speaker 1: defensive timeouts? Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's just the situational stuff that we
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  Speaker 2: practiced that you know obviously, you know Coach Mike, in
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  Speaker 2: our entire staff, they all practice it so much. They
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  Speaker 2: talk about all these situations so much, so we're always
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  Speaker 2: ready for that.
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  Speaker 5: There is there a advantage to one or the other
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  Speaker 5: where like you have like fifty seconds but you gotta
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  Speaker 5: have no timeouts, or who like say like thirty.
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  Speaker 1: Seconds but you have two or three.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think in that position. I think
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  Speaker 2: we handled it perfectly because you know, you don't want
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  Speaker 2: them to you don't want them to try to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: burn the because you'd rather have fifty seconds.
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  Speaker 1: With no timeouts than you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, twenty fifteen or twenty seconds in all three timeouts,
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  Speaker 2: or maybe two or one timeouts. So I thought we
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  Speaker 2: handled that situation perfectly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, makes sense, that's m hm.