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Brian Fleury On Drew Lock's Performance, Getting Ready For Week 10 · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How would you evaluate Drew's play last week and then
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  Speaker 1: the toughness he showed after the injury?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would characterize it as gritty for sure, especially
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  Speaker 2: with him having been getting limited reps going into that.
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  Speaker 2: It was really impressive to see him absorb the plan
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  Speaker 2: throughout the course of the week and then be able
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  Speaker 2: to go out and execute it at such a high level.
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  Speaker 2: We're really proud of the effort that he put in
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  Speaker 2: to get himself ready and the way he went out
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  Speaker 2: and played.
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  Speaker 3: You guys have been a predominantly outside zone team and
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  Speaker 3: ran a lot of inside zone this past week. What
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  Speaker 3: does it do for you guys offensively when the outside
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  Speaker 3: zone is working or when the inside zone is working?
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  Speaker 3: How does that kind of play off of each other?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they both definitely play off of each other. It's different,
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  Speaker 2: you know, kind of a, those decisions are made a
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  Speaker 2: lot based on the opponent that we're going to play
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  Speaker 2: and how well they can defend those different types of combinations.
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  Speaker 2: So the balance is going to change from week to week.
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  Speaker 2: It also has to do with how the, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the coverage structure is going to fit relative to those tracks.
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  Speaker 2: But they definitely complement each other well. And we have
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  Speaker 2: two backs that can excel at both, you know, Either one, honestly,
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  Speaker 2: can do either type of concept just as well. So
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  Speaker 2: it's nice to have both weapons.
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  Speaker 1: Back to Drew for a second. Is the plan with
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  Speaker 1: him this week almost essentially the same? He just now
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  Speaker 1: has a little bit of an oblique thing on top
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  Speaker 1: of the elbow?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the oblique thing doesn't seem to be much of
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  Speaker 2: a concern. And the elbow has been improving over the
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  Speaker 2: course of the last few weeks. So he's actually taken
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  Speaker 2: more reps this week than he was going into last week.
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  Speaker 2: So we have no concerns about his readiness to go.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of an odd one, but Jalen Milrow has also
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  Speaker 1: been getting more reps. How have you seen him absorb
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  Speaker 1: some of the material just being.
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  Speaker 4: Out on the field?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's, you know, Jalen, it's so competitive. He wants
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  Speaker 2: to play badly, but he's also extremely supportive of Drew.
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  Speaker 2: So like, there's the question as to, is Drew going
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  Speaker 2: to be ready?
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  Speaker 4: Is Drew going to be ready?
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  Speaker 2: So he's really excited to potentially have the opportunity to play.
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  Speaker 2: So it's been good to see him. We were mixing
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  Speaker 2: him in some with the reps with some of the
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  Speaker 2: first team. So it's been really, really good to see
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  Speaker 2: him a take control in that situation and show everyone,
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  Speaker 2: in the huddle especially, that they can be confident when
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  Speaker 2: he's out there.
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  Speaker 4: So he's made the most of that opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: Getting more of Jadarian and Charbonnet in there last week,
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  Speaker 1: does that start to kind of give a feel for
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  Speaker 1: what the offense in their own game can be with
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  Speaker 1: both those guys healthy?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: And I still think that they're building momentum. It's been
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  Speaker 2: nice to see them gain a little bit of confidence
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  Speaker 2: in both in the concepts that we're running and just
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  Speaker 2: in their readiness to be ready to go out and
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  Speaker 2: carry the load, both of them. So I think we're
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  Speaker 2: just going to see that continue to grow.
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  Speaker 5: What was it about Charbonnet's return or status that gave
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  Speaker 5: him the most carries in two years last week?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't realize he had had the most carries in
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  Speaker 2: two years last week. But that, I mean, we just
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  Speaker 2: know he's a great player and he's going to be
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  Speaker 2: able to help us in a lot of great ways.
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  Speaker 2: And he expressed confidence throughout the game that he was
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  Speaker 2: feeling good. He was feeling ready to take on more.
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  Speaker 4: Of that role.
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  Speaker 5: So that evolved during the game, the way he was?
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  Speaker 4: It was leading into the game and then during the game, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: After he was drafted, pass catching was something that he
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  Speaker 5: said he wanted to be able to show off on
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  Speaker 5: this level.
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  Speaker 4: Had a few opportunities to do that last week. What
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  Speaker 4: did you like about him in that role?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we saw the potential there all during the offseason
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  Speaker 2: and into training camp, and we're really excited to kind
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  Speaker 2: of develop that aspect of our offense. And then obviously
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  Speaker 2: it got derailed a little bit with the injury. So
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  Speaker 2: those things, they were on ice for a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: and we're ready to unleash them over and over again
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  Speaker 2: as we go.
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  Speaker 3: Knowing that, um, Quentin Nelson will be coming back, uh,
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  Speaker 3: and now you have a little bit of a knowledge
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  Speaker 3: that grades able might need to move back to right guard.
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  Speaker 3: Are you giving him any additional reps at right guard
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  Speaker 3: to kind of prepare for that? Are you just leaving
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  Speaker 3: him and leaving everybody where they are?
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean, well, interestingly enough, JB does a great
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  Speaker 2: job of rotating guys, you know, in all those different
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  Speaker 2: positions because you never know what types of scenarios can
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  Speaker 2: come up. So, um, flexibility is something we value tremendously. And, uh, So, yes,
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  Speaker 2: that's a likelihood that he'll probably move back to right
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  Speaker 2: guard when Quinn's healthy. But for now, most of the
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  Speaker 2: reps are going to be how we're going to play,
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  Speaker 2: and we're mixing in a few here and there just
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  Speaker 2: to make sure everyone's maintaining that flexibility.
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  Speaker 1: How do you feel about the way the line played, considering,
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  Speaker 1: you know, second straight week of flopping positions around a
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  Speaker 1: little bit?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say, and I think that they would agree,
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  Speaker 2: that there was a little bit of room for improvement
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  Speaker 2: there in how they played overall. Obviously, we had a
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  Speaker 2: good day running the football, and they were able to
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  Speaker 2: get the backs– into the holes and into critical like
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  Speaker 2: gains when we needed it, especially late in the game
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  Speaker 2: in the fourth and four minute situation. But there's definitely,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's some challenges and all the moving around
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  Speaker 2: and stuff. So we're looking forward to having some continuity
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  Speaker 2: moving forward.
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  Speaker 5: When guys are saying they're trying to get more production
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  Speaker 5: on first down, what can you do? What can you change?
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  Speaker 2: Call better plays, you mean? No, we're all like trying
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  Speaker 2: to add an emphasis to start fast. You know, part
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  Speaker 2: of that was trying to work some tempo in early
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  Speaker 2: in the game that ended up not being effective for us.
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  Speaker 2: but we're just trying to make sure that we're completely
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  Speaker 2: dialed in on what we're going to expect on first
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  Speaker 2: downs and then have the right plays to attack it.
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  Speaker 3: There's kind of a weird statistical oddity between this year
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  Speaker 3: and last year. The first 15 plays, the team was
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  Speaker 3: pretty good last year. This year it hasn't been, but
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  Speaker 3: every other play after 15 is pretty much the same.
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  Speaker 3: So what is it about the beginning of games that
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  Speaker 3: maybe is challenging or maybe things you're trying to accomplish
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  Speaker 3: that might be different?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've actually come across a lot of unscouted looks.
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  Speaker 2: We have to identify the ways that teams are going
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  Speaker 2: to try and structure their coverages to take jacks away,
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  Speaker 2: which is, you know, the first part of that evaluation.
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  Speaker 2: And then there's been some front varieties that we weren't
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  Speaker 2: expecting based on formations we're giving. So there is an
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  Speaker 2: evaluation process that's always going to go into the early
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  Speaker 2: part of the game. And then once we identify that,
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  Speaker 2: communicate about it as a staff and have a plan
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  Speaker 2: to attack it, then we can, you know, gain some momentum.
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  Speaker 2: We love to avoid that scenario and have some success
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  Speaker 2: early on. So we're looking at ways to like have some, like,
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  Speaker 2: catch-all situations that we can maybe have some explosive plays
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  Speaker 2: earlier on in the game. But credit to our coaching
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  Speaker 2: staff and our players for making adjustments the way they have.
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  Speaker 2: I think they've done a great job, and that's shown
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  Speaker 2: with our production into the second half.
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  Speaker 3: Is that, like, more about you guys trying to learn
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  Speaker 3: things about, like, putting plays in that will help you
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  Speaker 3: learn how they're playing you? Or is it about, like,
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  Speaker 3: game plans and, like, we think we have this advantage
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  Speaker 3: and we want to exploit it early?
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  Speaker 4: You're talking about early on, moving forward? It's a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of both. You know, having... having plays that.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of like catch every option like have answers for
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  Speaker 2: every single potential thing maybe that they haven't shown but
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  Speaker 2: that we anticipate they might show to take away what
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  Speaker 2: we're doing well so it's it's contingency plan on top
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  Speaker 2: of contingency plan trying to like just anticipate what they're
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  Speaker 2: going to do to defend us.
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  Speaker 3: How much of the offense is in with Drew or
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  Speaker 3: how much that has to be like restricted a little
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  Speaker 3: bit with him versus.
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  Speaker 4: Sam in there?
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  Speaker 2: I would say that there's no restrictions with Drew versus Sam.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, at any, for any given game, like 30%
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  Speaker 2: of the overall offense is in, you know, just based
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  Speaker 2: on what we're going to deploy that week to attack
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  Speaker 2: the opponent. So there's differences week to week, but we're
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  Speaker 2: not doing anything differently with Drew than we would have
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  Speaker 2: done with Sam.
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  Speaker 4: One more.
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  Speaker 3: So some people say like, Hey, all the balls keep
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  Speaker 3: going to JSN. There's other teams that would love to
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  Speaker 3: get the balls of their best players often, especially when
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  Speaker 3: teams are trying to take them away. So how do
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  Speaker 3: you kind of, find that balance of, like, make sure
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  Speaker 3: he's getting the ball, but trying to get others involved.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, within any given plan, there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of plays that are designed to go to Jacks, but
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  Speaker 2: the defense always dictates who gets the football, in my mind.
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  Speaker 2: And we have other plays where we're anticipating that they're
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  Speaker 2: going to take him away, and we have it designed
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  Speaker 2: to go somewhere else, but for some reason they're taking
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  Speaker 2: that away, and it goes back to him anyway. So
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  Speaker 2: it's really a balance that I can't control. I have
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  Speaker 2: maybe an idea of where the ball will go when
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  Speaker 2: I call a play, but the defense ultimately determines that.
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  Speaker 2: And so quarterbacks are doing a great job right now, like,
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  Speaker 2: getting the ball where it's supposed to go based on
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  Speaker 2: the coverages.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, Coach.