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Press Pass | Liam Coen Recaps Week 17 Win Over Colts · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Guys that came up sick today and a ton of
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  Speaker 1: them were were key contributors as well. So very proud
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  Speaker 1: of the group going on the road in the division
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  Speaker 1: again getting a huge win, winning the division titles right there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the disrespect thing for that next week, No, I mean
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  Speaker 1: we had a pretty chippy battle against those guys the
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  Speaker 1: first time we played them. Know that it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a physical football game. They're they're coming off I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what obviously they're up to, but they came off
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  Speaker 1: a good win against Kansas City, physical football game. We
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  Speaker 1: know what kind of players they have, and that quarterback
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  Speaker 1: keeps getting better. So yeah, this is definitely an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: for us to to continue to ascend and get better again. Again.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so proud of him. He has uh earned so
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  Speaker 1: much trust from not just the players as teammates, but
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  Speaker 1: but coaches staff. Every time he's out there, you just
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  Speaker 1: feel him. You know, you feel him at practice, you
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  Speaker 1: feel him in the walkthroughs, you feel him. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: very you should have vi Jorian the way that he's
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  Speaker 1: continued to battle and make place for our team. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, hindsight probably should have kicked it knowing what
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  Speaker 1: was on the you know, kind of with the way
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  Speaker 1: the other side was going at the end. But again,
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  Speaker 1: like that's the same message from Arizona that like, I'd
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  Speaker 1: like to be able to close the game out on
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  Speaker 1: our terms offensively, and for us to take the necessary
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  Speaker 1: steps offensively, we've got to be able to gain a
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  Speaker 1: fricking yard. And that's a little agitating and I'm frustrated
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  Speaker 1: with myself because you're like, Okay, they were struggling defense,
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  Speaker 1: had momentum a little bit there. Hindsight, maybe kick it
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  Speaker 1: forced them to be a little bit more aggressive and
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  Speaker 1: knowing that they were struggling to push it down the
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  Speaker 1: field a little bit there. But I'm probably, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: want to teach these guys how to go finish the
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  Speaker 1: game on the offensive terms, taking the defensive healthy, yes,
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  Speaker 1: because you end up getting you don't want it. The
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  Speaker 1: first down doesn't matter, so the snap second one, you
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  Speaker 1: think you're gonna be able to gain a yard and
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  Speaker 1: so that if you go second and one, you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: eat up more clock on that make them burn a
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  Speaker 1: time out and now you got a fresh set of down.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the point of that Russian touchdowns for Trevor
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  Speaker 1: was this something pretty the season that you could see
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  Speaker 1: untapped potential for him? Not really, I mean, I think
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  Speaker 1: he's always had some natural athletic ability. I thought our
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  Speaker 1: coaching staff did a really nice job of the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: draw today scheming it up. It was similar to the
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  Speaker 1: one that we ran against the Raiders, I believe it was,
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  Speaker 1: but a little bit different formation. It was actually off
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  Speaker 1: of a play we had run against them to Jacoby
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  Speaker 1: for a touchdown and the first time that we played
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  Speaker 1: these guys and kind of felt like they would over
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  Speaker 1: adjust to that, and they did and our guys executed
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  Speaker 1: it well. So really proud of Trevor for the competitor
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  Speaker 1: that he's been in the way that he keeps playing
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  Speaker 1: for us. Job you guys did on Taylor? Yeah, what
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  Speaker 1: was he sixty nine yards today? Russian? So yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean that you could definitely tell early on they came
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  Speaker 1: out with a mindset mentality that they wanted to establish
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  Speaker 1: him and get the run game going. I thought they
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  Speaker 1: did a nice job early on in the game running
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  Speaker 1: the football. We made a couple adjustments, especially to when
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  Speaker 1: they were in twelve personnel. We were playing a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of big nickel. We adjusted to that played a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more heavy base personnel, and I think our
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  Speaker 1: guys did a nice job of mixing up the front structure,
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  Speaker 1: not just giving them four down structures to play with,
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  Speaker 1: and our guys did a great job digging in. I
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  Speaker 1: thought Trayvon Walker TfL at around just about plus fifty
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  Speaker 1: around that area plus side was a huge play because
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  Speaker 1: it really knocked him out and made them get into
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  Speaker 1: a throw game.
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  Speaker 2: Two red zone turnovers today disappointing, especially when you look
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  Speaker 2: at the way we were moving the ball and executing
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  Speaker 2: a lot of good things.
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  Speaker 1: You look at that first couple of drives, he checked
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  Speaker 1: out a zero and number, you know against zero, blitz
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  Speaker 1: a number of times and hit big plays, and I
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  Speaker 1: thought Trevor was seeing it very well. He was getting
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  Speaker 1: us in and out of the right plays. We just
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  Speaker 1: kind of tricked it off in the red zone a
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  Speaker 1: few times. So frustrating. Can't do it. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: were seven or fourteen on third down and two of
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  Speaker 1: five in the red zone, so that's typically. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we've been better in those situations, especially the red zone recently,
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  Speaker 1: and today we weren't. Parker Washington another one hundred yard
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  Speaker 1: game coach.
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  Speaker 2: This guy just continues to compete each week.
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  Speaker 1: Probably about Yeah, he's just he's so reliable as a competitor.
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  Speaker 1: You know where he's going to be, you know what
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  Speaker 1: he's going to do, you know the way he's going
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  Speaker 1: to prepare throughout the week and the quarter. Trevor trusts him.
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  Speaker 1: There's a trust level there, there's a continuity there. They've
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  Speaker 1: been playing together for a number of years now, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, third downs, whether it's you know, running away zone,
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  Speaker 1: he's just had a he has a good football feel
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  Speaker 1: and he's been able to make people miss and have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of run after catch, which it helps your offense.
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  Speaker 1: Defense allowed I think just one long drive today. Just
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  Speaker 1: how'd you feel about how they played? Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: they played pretty well. They had two hundred four yards
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  Speaker 1: total offense. There were two or three in the red
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  Speaker 1: four of eleven on third down, I mean over one
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  Speaker 1: on the fourth down there. I think they played pretty solid.
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  Speaker 1: We just didn't really play as well complimentary like we
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  Speaker 1: would score. Then they had a big return right, and
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  Speaker 1: then that sets up a short field and then they're
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  Speaker 1: in a little bit of a bund there. So I
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  Speaker 1: just don't think we played great. Complimentary football is probably
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  Speaker 1: as well as we had been, But man, they played stingy,
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  Speaker 1: they played tough. To only allow seventeen points in a
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  Speaker 1: game like that, that's huge. I mean, that was an offense,
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  Speaker 1: regardless who's playing quarterback, that was reeling for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: It was like one of the best offense in the
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  Speaker 1: NFL for a long time, and they got some weapons.
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  Speaker 1: So proud of our guys and the coaching staff are
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  Speaker 1: doing a nice job defensively. I've been handling your messaging
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  Speaker 1: in terms of goals. If we had the division when.
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  Speaker 2: Possibly the one seed, how has that been going.
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  Speaker 1: This time of year. Yeah, we talked about that on
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday that and we didn't even address making the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: as a team. We haven't really talked a ton about
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  Speaker 1: goals about the division, playoffs, conference, super Bowl, like, we
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  Speaker 1: have not had any of those conversations as a team.
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  Speaker 1: Not really on purpose, more so just because you're you're
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  Speaker 1: really trying to focus on getting better because there's so
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  Speaker 1: much to coach off of every week for us, and
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  Speaker 1: even through a lot of wins, we're able to coach
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  Speaker 1: off a lot of stuff and keeping the mindset pretty
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  Speaker 1: singular on want to know each week. That's just been
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  Speaker 1: the mindset of mentality that these guys have had, and
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  Speaker 1: I've appreciated that and we fed off of each other
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  Speaker 1: that way. Coach great, Thank you guys,