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Ryan Grubb: "We Have Young Guys That We Believe In" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, who's up? Are we doing? Were good? If
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  Speaker 1: anything changes for you well on set, I mean nothing
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  Speaker 1: like really it's just about you know, producing better. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: last week was disappointing and what we did defense played great.
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  Speaker 1: So I think it's more about focusing on us and
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  Speaker 1: the things we gotta do to you know, try to
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  Speaker 1: produce better and turn down and keep ourselves on the
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  Speaker 1: field and give ourselves a chance to get explosive plays. Right,
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  Speaker 1: what have you learned? How you've changed? Oh? Boy, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think I've changed. I think there's things that naturally
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  Speaker 1: everybody goes to their first year and any type of
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  Speaker 1: like changing venue as far as like leagues and things
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  Speaker 1: like that. So I would say the biggest thing is
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  Speaker 1: just understanding some of the some of the things that
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  Speaker 1: you gotta do to tailor your your system to your guys,
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  Speaker 1: and which we've always been able to do really well.
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  Speaker 1: And so I think continue to grow that process and
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  Speaker 1: you know, be able to attack different defenses and you know,
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  Speaker 1: defensive families the right way. And I think that's been
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  Speaker 1: probably as big of a process as anything is just
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  Speaker 1: understanding that part of it is that you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: different families defensively that show up in the NFL and
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  Speaker 1: schematically where their things come from, and how to attack
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  Speaker 1: those things. I think, you know, Mike does a great
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  Speaker 1: job of talking those things through, you know, attacking scheme
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  Speaker 1: and structure, not not just people. You know, and certainly
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  Speaker 1: if there's people that we can attack, we want to
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  Speaker 1: go after them too, but understanding, you know, why are
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  Speaker 1: we doing things? And I think offensively, those are some
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  Speaker 1: things that we've had some really really high moments this season,
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  Speaker 1: and obviously some low moments with that too. So I
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  Speaker 1: think that's what we've learned, is you know, how to
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  Speaker 1: try to attack those things better on a week to
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  Speaker 1: week basis. I think.
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  Speaker 2: So if you felt behind because you don't know other coordinators.
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  Speaker 1: Opposing towards, no, I mean, and that's not like a
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  Speaker 1: defensive statement, I don't feel I mean cover force, cover four,
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  Speaker 1: cover threes, cover three. You know, I think that there's
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  Speaker 1: there's things that marry together with personnel groups and things
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  Speaker 1: like that that you have to certainly be prepared for.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I don't feel like I've ever been behind.
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  Speaker 1: I think the guys we got on staff, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you got plenty of NFL guys that have done this
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  Speaker 1: longer than I have, so I certainly think we've got
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  Speaker 1: the right resources to make those things.
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  Speaker 2: Happen, feels danoffin his starts to earn a chance to
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  Speaker 2: compete for that position next year.
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  Speaker 1: I do. I do. I think that TWA. We're lucky
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  Speaker 1: in the sense that we got some good young guys,
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  Speaker 1: including Olu. You know you got Olu, you got Jalnson, Dell,
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  Speaker 1: you got you know, Tawa, and then Christian. You know
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  Speaker 1: a lot of guys that are developmental. And I know,
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  Speaker 1: again I've said this before, and I know certainly in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL you don't want to talk about developmental guys,
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  Speaker 1: but I think there certainly is a process to what
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  Speaker 1: a guy looks like from year one to year two.
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  Speaker 1: You take a guy like Jack's and the growth and
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  Speaker 1: development he's had in just one season, obviously it's a
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  Speaker 1: little bit easier to measure with him. But I do
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  Speaker 1: think that those guys are they've done it enough to
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  Speaker 1: really be in the conversation that like, you know, here's
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  Speaker 1: your job, entrench yourself in that position and and keep
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  Speaker 1: growing and I and I really believe they will.
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  Speaker 2: With Christian Haynes getting some snaps in centers that the
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  Speaker 2: position you think he'll that he can grow in or
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  Speaker 2: you still see him.
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  Speaker 1: I do, and that takes time for a guy that
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  Speaker 1: hasn't done it. He did a little bit of that
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  Speaker 1: postseason when he was in college, and so he's continued
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  Speaker 1: to develop those skills and he's certainly intelligent enough to do.
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  Speaker 1: He's a really bright guy. So that's one of the
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  Speaker 1: things I think he can build off of. He's got
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  Speaker 1: some grit with you know, how he plays and finishes,
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  Speaker 1: and those are some things that certainly are you know,
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  Speaker 1: you want in your center. And so I think Christian
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  Speaker 1: has a lot of attributes that that you'd really like.
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  Speaker 1: But it will it will take time. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm watching him. He's taking snaps over there right now,
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  Speaker 1: so he's doing a great job with that. I know
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  Speaker 1: he'll attack it in the off season. Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: everybody in this community knows who Tyler is, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's a guy I think everybody on the
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  Speaker 1: team looks up to, you know, and in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of different ways, just both professionally and just the type
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  Speaker 1: of person he is. And I don't think there's anybody
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  Speaker 1: in the team that would be surprised by Tyler saying
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  Speaker 1: that myself included, and he's just he's one of the
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  Speaker 1: class these guys have ever been around. He genuinely cares
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  Speaker 1: for his teammates, and he comes out of here and
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  Speaker 1: lays it out every day and.
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  Speaker 2: Sort of evaluating just how you're here those Kiman has
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  Speaker 2: to get at the milestones from many.
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  Speaker 1: OP players coming to play, whether it's Jackson potentially setting
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  Speaker 1: the record, you know, getting seventy percent, and is that
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  Speaker 1: fact persons war to evaluation. Well, no, I mean I
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  Speaker 1: don't think so. I guess I haven't thought of it
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  Speaker 1: that way. I think you know, for me, it's how
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  Speaker 1: do we get better on third down and you know,
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  Speaker 1: do a better job in the red zone all the
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  Speaker 1: things that we clearly have to do better. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's things that I'm proud of, Like you know, on
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  Speaker 1: seventy percent completion, that's that's a good stat You're being
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  Speaker 1: efficient when you're throwing the football, and certainly that's something
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  Speaker 1: that you can build on. And then obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when you look at a stat like what what Jackson
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  Speaker 1: has done this season, it just shows growth as a
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  Speaker 1: player and you're your happy for him in that regard.
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  Speaker 1: But I think the other things individual statistics, you know,
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  Speaker 1: show up for guys and and your happy for them.
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  Speaker 1: You're certainly excited, but uh, you know, I yeah, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: I guess not probably totally. How anybody frustrated, happy, excited,
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  Speaker 1: you know, all at the same time. And I mean that,
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  Speaker 1: I know there's certainly people that are probably share my frustration,
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  Speaker 1: you know, And and uh, our fans deserve the best,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I think that we have a great team,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that, you know, there's there's times where
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  Speaker 1: we line up and play people and certainly some of
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  Speaker 1: the best teams in the NFL, and I don't feel
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  Speaker 1: like there's people we watch on film and it's like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, how are we going to move the
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  Speaker 1: ball in these guys? You know, I feel excited every
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  Speaker 1: time we get an opportunity to play, you know, some
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  Speaker 1: of the best in the league. And I really feel
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  Speaker 1: like we're we're on the cusp of that that that
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  Speaker 1: we can do something really special. And I know right
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  Speaker 1: now those are just words and that doesn't help anything
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  Speaker 1: at this point when you know the season is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be over this weekend, unfortunately, which hurts, you know. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I know what this team's put into it, and that
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  Speaker 1: you know, we really feel like with everything that's happened
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  Speaker 1: the season, that we really had plenty of chances to
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  Speaker 1: put ourselves into postseason. So it's difficult to see that
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  Speaker 1: per well. The consistency is probably the biggest thing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you see, certainly e anybody watches us on offense, I
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  Speaker 1: think can see times where we look really special and
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  Speaker 1: there's things that we can do. And you know, you
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  Speaker 1: take last week's game, even obviously we you know, six
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  Speaker 1: points isn't gonna cut it for anybody. Something we've been
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  Speaker 1: great at all season. One of the top five in
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  Speaker 1: the league is third and two to three and four
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  Speaker 1: to six. We've been really good at that. And you
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  Speaker 1: know last week we're one for five on two to three,
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  Speaker 1: and it's something that has propelled us to keep us
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  Speaker 1: on the field, to get those opportunities to be explosive,
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  Speaker 1: get the ball down the field, things like that, and
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  Speaker 1: we didn't do that, you know, and that was hard
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  Speaker 1: to see. Where are some key moments and drives that
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  Speaker 1: could have kept us on the field and clearly could
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  Speaker 1: have got two more touchdowns no problem, And we were
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  Speaker 1: so good the opening drive and then after that on
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  Speaker 1: third down. I just thought we were, you know, too
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  Speaker 1: inconsistent in that part has shown up, you know, over
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  Speaker 1: the course of the season. So I think that there's
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  Speaker 1: certainly things in the off season that you know, schematically
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  Speaker 1: you can build, you know, relationship wise, the communication piece,
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  Speaker 1: the discipline and how you execute, all those things have
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  Speaker 1: to improve, just like any offense. And so for us,
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  Speaker 1: that's the that's the goal, you know, going through this
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  Speaker 1: this last week is like, what do you want it
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  Speaker 1: to feel like in the offseason, you know, building on
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  Speaker 1: this last week and building with momentum and not worrying
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  Speaker 1: about the Rams, you know, who they're playing or not
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  Speaker 1: playing or doesn't matter us. We just want to go
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  Speaker 1: out there and execute and finish on a high note
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  Speaker 1: and get a tenth to win.
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  Speaker 2: What do you feel like needs to happen for the
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  Speaker 2: Bunny game to kind of take a step next year?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, you know, I think there's who there's a long
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  Speaker 1: ways for that to go. I think, you know, obviously
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  Speaker 1: for us, the consistency in the old line early in
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  Speaker 1: the season I think would be something that could help
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  Speaker 1: us a lot, you know, where we're not melting through
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  Speaker 1: things and getting new centers and things like that. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not trying to make an excuse. I do think that
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  Speaker 1: will help though, You know, if you can have some
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  Speaker 1: early consistency, guys knowing the scheme early on, so you're
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  Speaker 1: not fixing problems and correcting things through you know, the
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  Speaker 1: first five weeks of the season. So I think there's
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  Speaker 1: things after the bye week that we certainly have done
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  Speaker 1: better after we're able to kind of regroup and put
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  Speaker 1: a study on those things. So I think the continuity
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  Speaker 1: piece knowledge, and then I do think there's an ownership
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  Speaker 1: to the physicality of how we should play and finish
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  Speaker 1: that we got to get better at. The issue is
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  Speaker 1: in kind of like picking up the scheme in the
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  Speaker 1: time that took. Do you feel like that was a
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  Speaker 1: bigger issue with the run game than with the pass game. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I do probably there were some truth in that,
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  Speaker 1: just in the sense that you do have some guys,
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  Speaker 1: probably more veterans in the past game that are, you know,
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  Speaker 1: able to pick up scheme quickly because they've been through
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  Speaker 1: it and done that for a while, and you can
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  Speaker 1: translate a little quicker. And when you get young guys
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  Speaker 1: moving in and out of lineup up front, that can
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  Speaker 1: be a little bit tougher, and and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: just keeping ken and sharp healthy and those guys on
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  Speaker 1: the field is important as well.
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  Speaker 2: You guys have one of the youngest offensive lines. Even
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  Speaker 2: Charles Cross is a vet and yeah twenty four. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: how do you balance like developing young guys versuss like
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  Speaker 2: wanting to have you know, some some leadership in there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the complexity of scheme and then the
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  Speaker 1: leadership part is I think that's a really good point
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  Speaker 1: is that, uh, you know, we got some young guys
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  Speaker 1: that we believe in. You know, Abe and you know
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  Speaker 1: Charles are two great cornerstones to build around. And then
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  Speaker 1: you know, young guys on the inside that that we think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, truly in the off season can develop and
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  Speaker 1: grow and get better. And you know, for us, I
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  Speaker 1: think you just got to you got to try to
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  Speaker 1: continue to challenge those guys that the leadership has to
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  Speaker 1: show up more and more every week. Is that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: having a guy like Lake and on the inside that
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  Speaker 1: has been able to give some veteran presence has been
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  Speaker 1: you know, extremely valuable for such a young group. You know,
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  Speaker 1: with the exception of of Lake, everybody's in you know,
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  Speaker 1: their first through third years. So, uh, I think that part.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you just got to build and believe in
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  Speaker 1: the talent that you out on the roster and and
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  Speaker 1: try to get the guys to you know, live up
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  Speaker 1: to the things that you know that they can be.
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  Speaker 1: With guys like Charles Cross and and Abe, you know,
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  Speaker 1: those guys are going to be great players, and we
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  Speaker 1: just got to keep pouring into them past option for man,
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  Speaker 1: how evolved were you in the person outside the draft
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  Speaker 1: pre draft.
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  Speaker 2: And how much more may you be involved by his nature.
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  Speaker 1: And out lest Yeah, that's a that's a great question,
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  Speaker 1: you know. Last year, I think there there's certainly there
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  Speaker 1: was plenty of opportunity where we're able to watch film
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  Speaker 1: and you know, John does a great job of allowing input. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: those decisions that they make are for you know, management
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  Speaker 1: and ownership, and uh, you know, we certainly trust them
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  Speaker 1: to do that. Now. It was a fun process, though,
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  Speaker 1: I can tell you that, you know, just get into
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  Speaker 1: great film and look at guys and think about how
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  Speaker 1: people would fit into the system. And I think certainly
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  Speaker 1: going forward in the future here they'll be a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of that where now they've been able to see
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  Speaker 1: some of the things that you know we want to
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  Speaker 1: do and relationship is built between coaches and management that
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  Speaker 1: you know, whatever they're willing to trust us with for
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  Speaker 1: evaluation that they certainly would listen to. And I think
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  Speaker 1: it's been great though. You know there's guys that you know,
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  Speaker 1: I know our scouting department will be like, hey, did
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  Speaker 1: you see this guy on film? What did you think
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  Speaker 1: of him? And you just love that communication. That's what
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  Speaker 1: you want to have in the building, dependent set what
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  Speaker 1: you guys have, Yeah, would be are you talking last
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  Speaker 1: week or in the season. Yeah, I think there's there's
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  Speaker 1: a part there where you know, on the road, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: surprisingly we've been almost better at times. And there's a
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  Speaker 1: simplicity to that too, that you're on a side of
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  Speaker 1: cadence and there's some things that go with that. So
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  Speaker 1: I certainly think when you're transitioning in and out of
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  Speaker 1: centers and quarterback that that relationship in the NFL, that
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  Speaker 1: cadence piece, which I think Gino is a lead at,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and trying to keep everybody up with we
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  Speaker 1: have to kind of tamper Geno down in times where
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  Speaker 1: he has so many cadences and can vary it so
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  Speaker 1: well that we have to make sure that the guys
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  Speaker 1: can keep up with it, and he's done such a
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  Speaker 1: good job of bringing the group along with that. So
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a part there that, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: guy's understanding when they can get set and if it's
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  Speaker 1: a two motion shift, who has to stay put and
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  Speaker 1: who's got to move. Those are things we've worked on
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  Speaker 1: all the way back to OTAs and we certainly will
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  Speaker 1: keep doing that because we think it helps you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean. I mean, you can decide how people
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  Speaker 1: set front and all those kind of things, and we
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  Speaker 1: want to dictate terms on that, so we have to
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  Speaker 1: keep getting better at it. I'm proud of Geno, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think he's I think he's uh, he's battled, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's had a really really incredible season. I
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  Speaker 1: know there's there's probably a lot of things that he's
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  Speaker 1: proud of and probably some things he's disappointed in, just
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  Speaker 1: like everybody, But I think he's he's a warrior. The
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  Speaker 1: guy doesn't complain, you know, it isn't all the things
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about, Like he always looks at it that
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  Speaker 1: there's gonna be five guys up there working for him
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  Speaker 1: and and whoever those five are He's gonna pour into
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  Speaker 1: him and you gotta you gotta admire a guy like that.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm excited for the offseason to see where things
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  Speaker 1: can go with him.
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  Speaker 2: And what about the DK season and the kind of
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  Speaker 2: season is nevers having a big wide a size stings
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  Speaker 2: if you missed a couple of games up the injuries
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  Speaker 2: and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, no, I certainly think when guys come
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  Speaker 1: back from injuries sometimes it can take a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of time to get things going. And I know certainly
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  Speaker 1: DK has been frustrated at times, not publicly, but just
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's a competitor. He wants the ball and
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  Speaker 1: he's a really good player and he should want that.
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  Speaker 1: So I think, you know, for him, after he got
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  Speaker 1: back from the injury, I think there certainly was a
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  Speaker 1: way people a style that people were playing him that
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  Speaker 1: every week we went into a game and you know,
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  Speaker 1: there was coverages we hadn't seen on film that people
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  Speaker 1: would adapt to to DK. So, uh, you know, we'll
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  Speaker 1: continue to try to give him football and we'll find
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  Speaker 1: a way to get it to him. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: when he can't get it, weaponis having him on the field.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, but there's there's ways that you know,
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  Speaker 1: we continue to try to get that done for him.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else, Thanks much, Thanks everybody,