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Brian Fleury: "We're All Continuing To Grow In The Right Direction" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Well, your first week plus ordinary or uh, it's been great.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously there's a good foundation here in place,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of good players, so it's an exciting situation
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  Speaker 1: to walk into. It's been it's been awesome.
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  Speaker 2: It's the biggest change you've had to meet. Don't from
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  Speaker 2: pain position of market.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously you're overseeing the entire group. I'm used to installing
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  Speaker 1: into the entire group, but now just having to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that I'm paying attention to every aspect of every
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  Speaker 1: single drill. There times, as a position coach, you can
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  Speaker 1: kind of hunker down in your bunker and just focus
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  Speaker 1: on your own guys, and and now I don't have
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  Speaker 1: that luxury anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Right, how much is installed right now?
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  Speaker 1: How much I would say a good chunk of the
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  Speaker 1: foundation is in solled Uh. The challenge that we face
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  Speaker 1: is we're going against one style of defense every day,
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  Speaker 1: and so much of the package is built to attack
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  Speaker 1: different styles of defense. So there's really no point putting
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  Speaker 1: it in because it's not gonna work or be executed
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  Speaker 1: properly against what we're seeing on it daily basis. But
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  Speaker 1: that's one of the reasons I'm excited to get to Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, use some of those other pieces, So
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  Speaker 1: you'll roll some.
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  Speaker 2: Of that during the season too, because you haven't seen
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  Speaker 2: those look chet.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. I mean we'll find a way once
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  Speaker 1: we get into more like a controlled scouteing period. We'll
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  Speaker 1: work on developing those skills before we get to that time.
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  Speaker 1: But for right now, we're just kind of focus on
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  Speaker 1: competing against each other, working on fundamentals, building the foundation
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  Speaker 1: skills and effort and techniques and that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 3: How about the play calling aspects for you, is there
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  Speaker 3: that an adjustment at all from what you've been doing
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  Speaker 3: in the last few years.
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  Speaker 1: I've thought as a play caller for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously doing it for the first time at this level
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  Speaker 1: is going to present some challenges. Mike is doing a
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  Speaker 1: great job of like putting me through the ringer In
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  Speaker 1: terms of challenging situations. We go through different ones every day.
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  Speaker 1: For some reason, we're always like down by a touchdown
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  Speaker 1: with fifty seconds left.
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  Speaker 2: And no timeouts.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who's burning through the timeouts, but it
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  Speaker 1: left it definitely like it helps me, you know, adjust
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  Speaker 1: to those situations.
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  Speaker 3: How much do you want to offense dictate to a defense?
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  Speaker 3: What you're gonna do with your play calls versus put
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  Speaker 3: them in bad situations and know that their rules you
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  Speaker 3: might want to bring.
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  Speaker 1: It's a combination of both. It's really both kind of
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  Speaker 1: all the time. You know, we're attacking defenses and their structure,
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  Speaker 1: but utilizing our players in ways that fit their skill
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  Speaker 1: sets and allow them to succeeded.
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  Speaker 2: Right, You've obviously be in this division. You've known Cooper
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  Speaker 2: cup and he's known his.
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  Speaker 3: Game for a long time, but working with them what
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  Speaker 3: stands out being around him every day.
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  Speaker 1: He just until you work in a building with him,
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  Speaker 1: you don't appreciate his love for every aspect of football.
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  Speaker 1: We've had so many conversations about how that we online
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  Speaker 1: is blocking run plays and things that are completely outside
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  Speaker 1: of the normal realm of his position group. So that's
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  Speaker 1: been really cool to experience, and I admire.
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  Speaker 2: That seq there is like a third long conversion of
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  Speaker 2: the next play he's blocking on the edge. I mean
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  Speaker 2: that pretty much.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it does. We were in a third
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  Speaker 1: long situation and you know, I saw them trying to
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  Speaker 1: sell We wanted to get up on the ball quickly,
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  Speaker 1: and he's like just such a versatle piece. He can
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  Speaker 1: do some of the things that tight ends do normally,
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  Speaker 1: and having him out there is definitely makes it easy.
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  Speaker 2: Hearing where you're just literally practicing what you're saying. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we talked to quarterbacks who have.
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  Speaker 1: To practice right no every day and we're working through that. Especially.
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  Speaker 1: I try to make it harder on myself, Like there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of thought that we'll go into it beforehand
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  Speaker 1: going into a game, you'll have stuff kind of all
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  Speaker 1: laid out on your sheet. But I try and challenge
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  Speaker 1: myself at times to just think off the top of
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  Speaker 1: my head and like see if I can get it
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  Speaker 1: out on time for the sake of the quarterbacks and
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  Speaker 1: the play call and so people we're practicing all the
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  Speaker 1: time with.
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  Speaker 3: All the shifts and the love shifts and the time
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  Speaker 3: room of the play clock that that takes up the
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  Speaker 3: sat like make it more and part up to me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if we're gonna be able to utilize that part
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  Speaker 1: of the offense, we have to be able to get
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  Speaker 1: in and out of the huddle quickly. So it definitely
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  Speaker 1: like they're aware of that and it's something we're working.
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  Speaker 3: With, working with Justin Auten and then Jake Peeks with
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  Speaker 3: RK connuity from last year to merging a few.
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  Speaker 1: It's been great, not only them, but the entire coaching staff.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly like that, you know, it's the transition was very,
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  Speaker 1: very easy. It took us a while in the off
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  Speaker 1: season to get on the same page with just some
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  Speaker 1: differences in terminology and making sure that what a word.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think one word means something and they
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  Speaker 1: think it means the exact same thing, because sometimes you
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  Speaker 1: can get lost in translation across football because people recycle words.
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  Speaker 1: So that was a process. But now that we've gotten
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  Speaker 1: back to camp and are installing things again, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: been really awesome. Those guys have helped me a lot.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I think we're all continuing to grow
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  Speaker 1: in the right direction.
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  Speaker 2: With the language. Did you bring your language here.
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  Speaker 1: And you do adapting to the It's honestly a combination
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  Speaker 1: of both. There's I think the players have answered this
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  Speaker 1: question a lot, and they're probably the best, you know,
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  Speaker 1: barometer as to where it stands. There's been a lot
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  Speaker 1: of continuity from a terminology standpoint and run the game protections.
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  Speaker 1: There's a few things formation and motion wise that I've added.
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  Speaker 1: And then they'd say it's probably fifty to fifty across
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  Speaker 1: the past game. So the guys that have been here
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  Speaker 1: I think have benefited from a little bit of the
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  Speaker 1: same terminology.
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  Speaker 2: How you feel your blitz pick up, blitz recognition, blitz
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  Speaker 2: pick ups, fish off the edge as much as Mike Senzak.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was pretty good today. We worked at
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  Speaker 1: Drill specifically for that. I don't know what the efficiency
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  Speaker 1: numbers were, but uh, you know, I think Sam particularly
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  Speaker 1: does a great job of recognizing those things and getting
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  Speaker 1: us into the best possible scenario.
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  Speaker 3: He's not saying I'm at a tip Francisco and now
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  Speaker 3: you're seeing it up here. Do you see a difference
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  Speaker 3: in how he's playing now versus back then.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's a difference in his role and so you know,
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  Speaker 1: he knew he was the backup and he was there
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  Speaker 1: helping support Brock, and his preparation maybe was a little
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  Speaker 1: bit different in that role than it is now. And now,
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  Speaker 1: you know, one of the first impressions I had when
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  Speaker 1: I got into the building is how much ownership he
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  Speaker 1: has over the entire thing, and wanted to know exactly
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  Speaker 1: what everybody's responsibilities were and how we were going to
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  Speaker 1: teach certain things and then we've had a lot of
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  Speaker 1: great conversations about things he's done in the past in
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota and then here last year with Clint that you know,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't as familiar with, but we can find a
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  Speaker 1: way to implement because you know, he executes it very
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  Speaker 1: at a high level.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you assess where the writing game is right now?
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  Speaker 2: And kind of the running backs to their end too.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I want it to be better, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're moving in the right direction. I think we've been
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  Speaker 1: efficient in practice, but I see things through a different lens.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like the success of the play on the
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  Speaker 1: practice field. I'm just looking at everyone's alignment and the
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  Speaker 1: techniques and there's there's a lot of room for growth there.
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  Speaker 1: And not to say that we're doing poorly, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: I expect that to be an extremely like reliable portion
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  Speaker 1: of our game, and it's it's not there yet. With
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  Speaker 1: all the ways that Mike's defense can put stress on offense,
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  Speaker 1: how does that help you as a play caller to
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  Speaker 1: see that craft? It definitely helps. I'm I think it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be more challenging. It's more challenging in practice
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  Speaker 1: than it will be in a lot of the games,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just with the variety and the pressure packages
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  Speaker 1: and the movement and the physicality that they come with
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  Speaker 1: every single day. So it's it's good to face that
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  Speaker 1: and then hopefully transition when you're game planning and things
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  Speaker 1: are a little bit slow down, a little bit more specific,
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  Speaker 1: it just makes it seem easier and slower for the players.
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  Speaker 2: Even says where Jalen is in his development right.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Jalen's had, you know, a good week and a half.
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  Speaker 1: He had a really good offseason. He's had a good
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  Speaker 1: week and a half. He's doing a great job throwing
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  Speaker 1: the ball. I think it's statistically he's been really efficient
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  Speaker 1: passing the ball. He's making plays with his feet when necessary.
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  Speaker 1: But we're really focused on pin playing quarterback and that
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  Speaker 1: the elements of that aren't always visible to everybody. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's communication, it's timing, it's execution, it's efficiency, and he's
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  Speaker 1: really grown a lot in those areas.
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  Speaker 3: Green Babel said, he saw your pickup truck in the
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  Speaker 3: parking lot.
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  Speaker 2: I know you'd like to run the football.
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  Speaker 1: It is that true, but I like to run the football.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the pickup truck has to do.
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  Speaker 1: With that. But if that's the impression it gives, I'm
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  Speaker 1: okay with that.
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  Speaker 2: The offensive line that day coming back? What does that
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  Speaker 2: do for you to health because you try to.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's an extremely rare situation, I think, to have
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  Speaker 1: all five starters returning, especially from a super Bowl team,
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  Speaker 1: So I'm walking into a really good situation. And then
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  Speaker 1: I've worked with John Benton before. He does a phenomenal
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  Speaker 1: job of coaching that group. So the cohesion that they
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  Speaker 1: already have just makes it really, really easy to implement stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And then when you do realize that an adjustment needs
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  Speaker 1: to be made, they're just so used to working with
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  Speaker 1: each other and communicating the adjustments happened lightning fast, and
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  Speaker 1: so that that's a nice advantage.
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  Speaker 2: To that situation. What is the importance?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like using two backs because it can change
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  Speaker 1: the formation strength after the snap, as opposed to the
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  Speaker 1: whole defense being able to identify it before the snap.
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  Speaker 1: So I think it creates some fit problems, and it's
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  Speaker 1: becoming less and less common across the league, so it
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  Speaker 1: means it's difficult more difficult to prepare for. So those
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  Speaker 1: are the elements I like about it. I think, like
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm more of like an old school traditionalist
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  Speaker 1: just because of my upbringing and football, and so I'm
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  Speaker 1: always gonna want to play with two backs at some point.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, and I like the guys that we have
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  Speaker 1: in that role right now.
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  Speaker 2: To that end, how how are you a fullback? It's
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  Speaker 2: a situation. But for what you want to install, you
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  Speaker 2: need to bolster that petitions.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that we need to bolster it. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna find creative ways to get a second back into
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  Speaker 1: the backfield. It doesn't always have to be a traditional fullback.
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  Speaker 1: We've found ways to use receivers and lead blocking roles,
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  Speaker 1: other tight ends, even other running backs. So we'll find
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  Speaker 1: a way to get it done.
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  Speaker 2: With Bill Road. Do you envision you never realize his legs.
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  Speaker 1: Potentially, we'll see if he's gonna be active on game days.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna have ways to use his skills to our
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  Speaker 1: advantage and surprise defenses with that. But we have to
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  Speaker 1: you know, his The decision about that is going to
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  Speaker 1: be based on how well he plays quarterback. And we
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  Speaker 1: have to get over that hurtle first.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you,