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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Recaps The Win Over The Commanders In Week 9 · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, great win. Man, just really proud of our team,
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  Speaker 1: our approach the whole week, coming out of the by
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  Speaker 1: you know, we got guys banged up, even guys throughout
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  Speaker 1: the game. But you know, this is the stuff that
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  Speaker 1: we preach on, how we train our guys, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're really bringing like the ready squad and the and
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  Speaker 1: the and the seventy to life here. So that's probably
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  Speaker 1: what I'm most proud of is the guys stepping in
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  Speaker 1: upholding the standard, you know, the mentality of the team
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  Speaker 1: when we get leads to uh try to finish the
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  Speaker 1: game the right way. So uh, you know, sam our
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  Speaker 1: offense at a tremendous job, especially in the first half.
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  Speaker 1: Really a great team effort, great game planned by our coaches.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, Sam's execution right now, he's just just ridiculous,
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  Speaker 1: just playing to sight all the things we talked about
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  Speaker 1: that he's been doing, but decisive, making smart decisions or
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  Speaker 1: receivers doing a great job of the protection was really good.
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  Speaker 1: So it's just a great win. You know, Arizona here
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  Speaker 1: on Monday night, and then you know we got we're
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  Speaker 1: going back across the country, so well we'll get home,
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  Speaker 1: refocus and go uh, go get ready for next week.
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  Speaker 1: So Ernest has a bit of a knee. We'll we'll
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  Speaker 1: figure out. You know, it's not I don't think it's
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It's not season ending, but it's well, we'll see how
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  Speaker 1: it goes. Uh, who's the other one with Josh Joe,
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  Speaker 1: he's so concussion you know, he's in the protocol. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll just we'll see how that checks out or not
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  Speaker 1: that either it's about Ernest. Yeah, there's a chance, there's
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  Speaker 1: a chance.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we'll see, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, I'll give you a timetable right immediately now he's
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we'll we'll see, we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned guys stepping up for Tory Horton first drive
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  Speaker 2: out get a big catch.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, incredible. Look some you know, I forget what coverage
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  Speaker 1: they're in, but just a great job, great job of
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  Speaker 1: teams want to start, you know, coops down for the day,
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  Speaker 1: Tori st ups up, you know, Cody White stepping up,
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  Speaker 1: first touchdown, Elijah stepping up in that situation. It's just
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  Speaker 1: awesome that the guys. That's why we train the way
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  Speaker 1: we do, It's why we practice, that's why we take
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  Speaker 1: all those reps so those young guys can can develop
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  Speaker 1: and grow. Yeah, yeah, it's such a great story but
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  Speaker 1: in a great worker. And they were you know, we
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  Speaker 1: were celebrating there in the locker room. Really happy for him.
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  Speaker 1: So but we gotta we gotta keep it going. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's there's there's room believe it or not, there's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be room for growth when we watch the tape, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: we got to keep keep growing together. But really happy
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  Speaker 1: for those guys, the young guys man, I mean, talk
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  Speaker 1: about the amount of work that's gone into you know,
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  Speaker 1: was this year six for for Cody? I think just yeah,
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  Speaker 1: really really happy for him.
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  Speaker 2: You guys have the second youngest offense in terms of
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  Speaker 2: who's getting snaps. How much you see in terms of
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  Speaker 2: how much they can continue to grow, how much.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I thought we took a massive jump today. We've
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  Speaker 1: with our operation that I thought I was proud of
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  Speaker 1: way we took the line and motioned and shift and
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  Speaker 1: that's been a massive point of emphasis for us. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: they're playing together, So it doesn't matter how old you are,
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  Speaker 1: but this this group is committed to you know, to
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  Speaker 1: play for the guy next to them and that's a
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  Speaker 1: powerful thing and you can you can you can do
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  Speaker 1: some special things that if you keep doing that.
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  Speaker 3: You've talked so much about finding more consistency with the
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  Speaker 3: ground game. How much did that help Sam have the
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  Speaker 3: first half that he did, coming out early and getting
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  Speaker 3: a couple of those nice runs of the perimeter, getting
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  Speaker 3: your receivers involved in their run.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know that. I mean, getting the ball moving,
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  Speaker 1: especially on the ground. Uh, that's gonna be something that
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna have to do, you know, consistently and close
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  Speaker 1: games out as well. You know, we've been great to
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  Speaker 1: get some first downs there and in four minute at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the game, and I'm sure that's you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna be looking at answers and where to go
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  Speaker 1: from there.
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  Speaker 4: The guy has a first half like he had sixteen
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  Speaker 4: for sixteen for a touchdown. Help has to be surprising
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  Speaker 4: on some level, no matter how good he's been, just
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  Speaker 4: to see a guy, you know, not.
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  Speaker 1: Believe me when I say I'm not surprised. We watched
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  Speaker 1: we watched Sam every day on how he operates, and
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  Speaker 1: he's the same guy every day, which is what you
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  Speaker 1: love about him. And uh, we're chasing it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the guys are determined and and it's fun to watch
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  Speaker 1: and the teams when the team comes together. That's this
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  Speaker 1: type of stuff that you can do when you when
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  Speaker 1: you play the right way, you prepare the right way.
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  Speaker 1: And our coaches deserve a lot of credit to it.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 1: I thought Clint call it called a great game, and
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  Speaker 1: all the coaches involved in the game plan process, I
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  Speaker 1: thought we had some great answers and and it all
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  Speaker 1: came together.
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  Speaker 3: To talk about how energy is important his defense, what
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  Speaker 3: did you see today and what did Spoon add to
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  Speaker 3: that on his return?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, Spoon, he's a spark plug. But you
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  Speaker 1: lose you to Mike Linebacker at the end of the
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  Speaker 1: half and you come out and you still play good
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  Speaker 1: defense in the second half. I mean this, this team
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  Speaker 1: that we're playing is an elite second, third, fourth quarter team.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what their portant differential is, but it
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  Speaker 1: was really high in the especially in the second half,
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  Speaker 1: and so we needed to close the game out after
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  Speaker 1: that first half and for our for our defense to
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  Speaker 1: go out there and really not skip a beat until
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. It was tremendous, you know, and that
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  Speaker 1: takes everybody that that's that's our coaches, you know, making
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  Speaker 1: our the correct adjustments. That's the guy's going in you know. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: Tyrese night end up with like nine tackles. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm really proud of him coming in and playing good football.
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  Speaker 2: And he's been stepping in there. What do you see
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  Speaker 2: in terms of his getting comfort with the.
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  Speaker 1: Just keeps building, just keep stacking great plays. He's another guy,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I mean, I know he's been starting for
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  Speaker 1: us here for a minute, and we're gonna need him
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  Speaker 1: to keep playing great football for us while Julian's out.
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  Speaker 1: But you just, I mean, I think when I think
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  Speaker 1: about ty I think about his attitude every day in
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  Speaker 1: the building. I think about his attention to detailing the
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  Speaker 1: game plan. I think about how great of a teammate
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  Speaker 1: is and how much he loves the guy next to him.
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  Speaker 1: And it's one hundred percent effort all the time. And
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  Speaker 1: you got guy, you got a bunch of guys like
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  Speaker 1: that on your team and on your defense. It's pretty cool,
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  Speaker 1: you know. It makes it a really fun group to coach.
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  Speaker 1: Was incredible, It is incredible. Yeah, just I mean almost
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it happened in slow emotion, seeing like
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  Speaker 1: the second foot come down and toe tapping. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: I wish we would say we taught on that, but
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  Speaker 1: that's just that's just a phenomenal play all around. That
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  Speaker 1: was a big street. That was a big point in
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  Speaker 1: the game right there, between that and the fumble and
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  Speaker 1: the kickoff return, and that really helped.
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  Speaker 4: Us place tonight after turnover, sudden change place, explosive place.
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  Speaker 2: You're trying to be offensive the attack after a sudden change,
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  Speaker 2: and I know you work on that. U.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all those situations we work. You know, Coach Fraser
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  Speaker 1: is always asking for sudden change situations, So I'm I'm
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  Speaker 1: holding us back on that front.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Now, our look, our it's about a mentality of of
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  Speaker 1: stacking plays. You know. It's really that simple that we
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  Speaker 1: have a standard that we want to play for for
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  Speaker 1: our team and for our city. And it doesn't matter
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  Speaker 1: the situation. We can be up X amount of points.
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  Speaker 1: It could be after a takeaway Sunday night football, Like
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  Speaker 1: it's all it's you're up, you know whatever. It's just
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  Speaker 1: the guys are committed to uh to play in our
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  Speaker 1: style ball and when we do that, we play really
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  Speaker 1: good football.
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  Speaker 3: Fumble recovery, that fumble recovery We've seen a lot of
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  Speaker 3: rarity is on kick covers kicks this year, but seeing
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  Speaker 3: Brandon Peely out there making that play, punching the ball
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  Speaker 3: out of it, is that the biggest guy that you've
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  Speaker 3: seen make an impact play.
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  Speaker 1: Like, yeah, well, Jay, John and I are just laughing
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  Speaker 1: when Jay said that, well, now we can play Brandon
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  Speaker 1: Peely on a kickoff team. I kind of took a
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  Speaker 1: deep breath and try to figure out what the heck
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  Speaker 1: was going on. But yeah, I mean again, who who
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  Speaker 1: puts a defensive tackle on kickoff team and who's bought
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  Speaker 1: in to the you know, to the role and then
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  Speaker 1: goes out And it's like kind of like ball finds
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  Speaker 1: interery type of thing. You go out, you have great attitude,
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  Speaker 1: you prepare the right way, do your job, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to one hundred percent of your ability, and it's funny
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  Speaker 1: how things work out like that. But happy for Brandon.
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  Speaker 2: What was the reason?
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  Speaker 1: Oh I am not gonna share the tactic behind it,
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  Speaker 1: but like there's some things on why we wanted to
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  Speaker 1: and that I mean, that's that's a shout out to
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  Speaker 1: Jay and fits on on like how they on how
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  Speaker 1: they strategize and use our whole roster, so they think
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  Speaker 1: out of the box and they're always trying to find
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  Speaker 1: ways to give us an edge.
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  Speaker 4: Like what's like on your sideline seeing injury like that
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  Speaker 4: to play like Ja Davis, especially.
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  Speaker 2: At that point in the game. Yeah, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Your heart goes out to him. Man. You you don't.
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  Speaker 1: You never want to see any anybody get injured in
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  Speaker 1: our game. He's you just you don't. It's just you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's a great player, any any any player. You just
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  Speaker 1: you want to You want guys to be healthy. And
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  Speaker 1: when a guy goes down like down it and it
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  Speaker 1: didn't look good. They were telling me upstairs, it, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: your heart goes out to him. So, I mean, our
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  Speaker 1: sideline was right there with him and we're rooting for him.
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  Speaker 1: We want him to get back as soon as possible
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  Speaker 1: and want them to be healthy. Say a prayer for
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  Speaker 1: him and hopefully he's back as soon as possible. So
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  Speaker 1: that was that was tough.
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  Speaker 4: There's no official halfway point in the season. You guys
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  Speaker 4: are basically there on the top of the division six
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  Speaker 4: year last seven, getting pretty much what you want in
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  Speaker 4: every phase. What can you say just about how it's
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  Speaker 4: all come together this one.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny how you say that. It's like, that's not
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  Speaker 1: how we're looking at it. We're like, we're just trying
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  Speaker 1: to have great days. And that's just it's really that simple.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like what I'm what we're thinking about right
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  Speaker 1: now is let's get back home as soon as possible,
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  Speaker 1: Let's figure out who's gonna play in the Arizona game.
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  Speaker 1: How are we gonna get ready for this game? And
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  Speaker 1: and let's go rock and roll. Those guys asked you
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  Speaker 1: about Jackson Smith and maybe routine this has become.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, what can you say is about the
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  Speaker 2: consistency with what she's doing this year.
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  Speaker 1: It's remarkable. I mean I think I don't know the
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  Speaker 1: stat but it seems like it's first time we've done
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  Speaker 1: it for our you know, for our team. Let's keep
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  Speaker 1: doing it. You know, he's and it's only what three
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  Speaker 1: quarters of work, so team football. I mean, it's either
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  Speaker 1: like it. It feels like it's almost like he's the
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  Speaker 1: catalyst to spark somebody else that gets open, or if
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  Speaker 1: the run game is working that sets it up for Jacks.
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  Speaker 1: Just feels like it's complimentary right now, and when his
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  Speaker 1: number is called, he's he's coming through, but yeah, it's tremendous.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, probably the big in my opinion, one of
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  Speaker 1: the biggest game plays of the game was the first
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  Speaker 1: play of two minutes, you know, coming out getting the
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  Speaker 1: ball moving, I'm in a situation where, you know, if
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  Speaker 1: we don't complete that pass, you know, Washington might get
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  Speaker 1: the ball back. And now you're talking about it's a
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  Speaker 1: different type of football game. But being able to answer
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  Speaker 1: that touchdown with points was was really critical for us.
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  Speaker 4: It didn't end up factoring all that much in the end,
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  Speaker 4: but the sequence at the end.
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  Speaker 2: Of the first half, did you guys have the option
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  Speaker 2: to call a timeout to avoid the ten second run off?
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  Speaker 2: I thought that the the uh.
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  Speaker 1: I thought, basically what we were gonna do is we're
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  Speaker 1: going to take the ten second run off and kick
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  Speaker 1: the field goal and take the time out. But I
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  Speaker 1: think it was Washington's decision whether or not they wanted
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  Speaker 1: to run off, and they decided to take it. So
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  Speaker 1: then then we said, all right, we'll let it, let
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  Speaker 1: it roll a couple of seconds, we'll take a time
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  Speaker 1: out and go kick it. At that point, it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: probably worth taking a shot at the end zone from
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  Speaker 1: where we were on the field.
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  Speaker 2: After a couple of games of having trouble on third downs,
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  Speaker 2: you guys came out and almost every third down to
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  Speaker 2: start the game. Was that something you picked up from
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  Speaker 2: the bye.
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  Speaker 1: Week or yeah, we just said all right, now let's
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  Speaker 1: let's now let's convert third downs.
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  Speaker 2: This is what we want to do.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we haven't been wanting to do that.
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 1: I think the way we answered that, like the way
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  Speaker 1: we saw it throughout the buy and and and then
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  Speaker 1: answering the questions from out the week, It's like we
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  Speaker 1: knew it wasn't good enough, but we liked our process,
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  Speaker 1: and so I felt like the same thing like the
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  Speaker 1: running game. I feel like it's the same way. Let's
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  Speaker 1: stick to it. Let's keep hammering out the details, let's
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  Speaker 1: keep finding new edges and things that we can do
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  Speaker 1: schematically to help our guys, and and then it's great
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  Speaker 1: to have results this way, you know, to kind of
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  Speaker 1: show fruit for the labor that's going to do it.
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  Speaker 1: But our guys serve a lot of credit. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I thought we protected Sam really well, and you know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Jake, Chenoko, Clint, the guys that are involved
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  Speaker 1: in game planning through down. I thought they did a
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  Speaker 1: great job. Anything else, thanks all right, Thanks guys at home,