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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence Ruled Out in Week 11 & More Updates From Doug Pederson · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: More.
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  Speaker 2: What the plan for Trevor this week?
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  Speaker 1: Practice wise, Trevor will be out. We've just decided this week.
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  Speaker 1: He's getting close, but to.
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  Speaker 3: Make sure that again, you guys know how I am
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  Speaker 3: with injuries. We don't want to put a player out
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  Speaker 3: there that's not one hundred percent. So we're gonna We're
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  Speaker 3: gonna rest in one more week.
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  Speaker 4: Makes sense going into the bye week to give him
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  Speaker 4: two weeks essentially.
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  Speaker 1: It does, It does, and we got some time.
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  Speaker 2: You think he'll be ready to go after the biogerus.
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  Speaker 3: That's still a question still a question mark, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm optimistic.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, another week for Mac Jones.
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  Speaker 2: What's the confidence level after having a bleep under it?
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  Speaker 5: Til?
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  Speaker 1: It's high?
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  Speaker 3: You know, he's Uh, he's excited to have another opportunity,
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  Speaker 3: obviously a chance for him to rebound, you know, from
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  Speaker 3: from last week. But I think as a team, same way,
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  Speaker 3: rally around him and support him and and uh and
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  Speaker 3: get ready to play a really good football team.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe easier.
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  Speaker 2: He know he's gonna get all the first STAPs of practice.
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  Speaker 2: Does that make it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: What's he do?
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  Speaker 6: Well?
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  Speaker 1: Done? Me?
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  Speaker 2: What does he give you to work with?
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  Speaker 1: Mac?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: One?
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  Speaker 3: You know, he he's a veteran quarterback, so he he's played,
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  Speaker 3: he started in this league. He knows how to handle that.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. I think two leadership wise with the guys.
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  Speaker 3: You see him communicate uh with the players, you know,
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  Speaker 3: on and off the field, Uh, with us as coaches
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  Speaker 3: as well. I think the third thing is how well
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  Speaker 3: he does communicate with us when it comes to the
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  Speaker 3: game plan, what he likes, what he doesn't like. And
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  Speaker 3: then just his his overall work ethic, how he prepares,
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  Speaker 3: you know, for for these games. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: really uh gives him you know, gives him the best
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  Speaker 3: opportunity you know, uh playing in these games.
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  Speaker 2: As real his status. And then since since of those
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  Speaker 2: two guys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah Mason, Uh, both guys actually should uh get back
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  Speaker 3: into practice today, you know, uh under a limited basis,
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  Speaker 3: So looking forward to that.
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  Speaker 7: If they're one of those for franchises, it seems to
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  Speaker 7: have a real identity, a draft to it, they build
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  Speaker 7: to it. Well, how beneficial can that be when you're
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  Speaker 7: you know, for any team, you need to have something
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  Speaker 7: definditive that you're building around, whether it be the head
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  Speaker 7: coach's personality. And you know, he's mentioned for wanting to
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  Speaker 7: keep things in a certain way.
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  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I mean, obviously I'm not in that building,
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  Speaker 3: but I I you know, I think it's it's what
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  Speaker 3: every team strives to do. You know, everybody has a
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  Speaker 3: plan and and you you stick to that plan. Sometimes
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't always come to fruition, but you know, you
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  Speaker 3: have a plan needless and and uh, you know they've
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  Speaker 3: they've done it well obviously, And and they made some
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  Speaker 3: some good trades over the years. And obviously Golf was
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  Speaker 3: a big, you know, big acquisition, and and you know, uh,
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  Speaker 3: they've done well.
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  Speaker 2: Tell us not having you talked the other day about
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  Speaker 2: Dr no surgery for Trevor. Not sure where that's coming from,
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  Speaker 2: but that's kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Been reported out there. I'm just wondering, never come up
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  Speaker 1: with you, not with me, Not with me.
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  Speaker 3: Uh And again, I think that's a question for our
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  Speaker 3: medical team. Obviously it's not my place to say. And
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  Speaker 3: and I have no idea where it's coming from.
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  Speaker 2: What sort of problems does that Lions offense present for defense?
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  Speaker 1: What? Now?
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  Speaker 2: What sort of problems does the Lions offense present Lion's
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  Speaker 2: offense offensive line?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, well, obviously it's a it's a big play offense,
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  Speaker 3: right it's uh, it's opportunities to uh, you know, push
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  Speaker 3: the ball down the field, play action pass as something
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  Speaker 3: that that Golf has.
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  Speaker 1: Been good at, even when he was you know in
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  Speaker 1: l A.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think that's something that uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the the movement game, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But again it also it all kind of stems off
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  Speaker 1: their run, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I think it starts there and in one of the
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  Speaker 3: things that you know, you look at the tape last week,
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  Speaker 3: Houston did a pretty good job of sort of you know,
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  Speaker 3: stopping the run a little bit, and and they were
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  Speaker 3: able to disrupt Jared you know, and get.
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  Speaker 1: Him off his spot.
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  Speaker 3: I think those are all key things that you've got
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  Speaker 3: to be able to do. And you know, tip passes
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  Speaker 3: things like that that cause some turnovers. But this offense
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  Speaker 3: is opportunistic. I'm you know, it's another it's another team
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  Speaker 3: that is is you know, not shy about pushing the
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  Speaker 3: ball down the field when when they can.
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  Speaker 5: How much do you attribute that he's some of Matt Jones'
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  Speaker 5: mistakes or you know whatever to rustiness down having been
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  Speaker 5: in like full game action for.
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  Speaker 1: Almost a year.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean obviously you're you're during the it's in
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  Speaker 3: the regular season. So it's it's hard to it's hard,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I hate you hate to say that, right,
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  Speaker 3: you hate to say the word rust and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: But look, it's he's been in big games before. He
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  Speaker 3: knows how to handle him. I would expect that he's
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  Speaker 3: gonna he's gonna rebound this week, you know, learn from
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  Speaker 3: it obviously, as we all are. And and uh, and
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  Speaker 3: move forward.
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  Speaker 2: What does Mason Smip need to do to get get
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  Speaker 2: on the field, first off, and to take that next.
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  Speaker 5: To be right?
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  Speaker 3: Just keep being Mason, keep showing, just keep working in
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  Speaker 3: practice during the week. And and obviously you know now
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  Speaker 3: that he's he's getting healthy again. I mean it's uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, uh, he'll be in the mix each week,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and just just showing the consistency of of
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  Speaker 3: his job and and you know how he handles that
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  Speaker 3: in practice.
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  Speaker 2: What's personality now this Detroit defense without.
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  Speaker 3: Him out of there, you know, it's the same, the
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  Speaker 3: same group. I I think it's a it's a really
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  Speaker 3: good unit. They're good upfront. It's a fast flow defense. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: they you know, they can be disruptive up front. I
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  Speaker 3: think their two tackles insider are good players. Big physical guys,
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  Speaker 3: and the linebackers can run, you know, and and and
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  Speaker 3: really it's just a again unit that's playing well together.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's what you see on tape. And and
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  Speaker 3: when when they do that, they can that's that's where
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  Speaker 3: they can play fast and and really you know, keep
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  Speaker 3: uh keep offenses down, you know, I mean it's do
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  Speaker 3: teams score and do teams gain yards against them? Sure,
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  Speaker 3: but they've also been able to you know, snym me
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  Speaker 3: some guys and and and get after quarterbacks and and
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  Speaker 3: create some takeaways.
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  Speaker 8: This past week, you your tight end unit had about
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  Speaker 8: thirteen targets with rob receiver.
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  Speaker 2: Unit had about seven. Was that something specific to the
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  Speaker 2: game plan? That's something that I saw going into the
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  Speaker 2: week times? Just how did that workout?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I mean sometimes it just works out that way. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you'd like it to be the other way, but it
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  Speaker 3: just worked out that way. You know, there's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: games where the receivers are definitely gonna get more you
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  Speaker 3: know activity. It just depends on how how the game goes,
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  Speaker 3: so you know, and plus the other thing too is
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  Speaker 3: you're you're looking for, you know, opportunities to to spark
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  Speaker 3: your offense and and get the ball out and different
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  Speaker 3: things like that, and tight ends seemed to be the
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  Speaker 3: place to go at times.
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  Speaker 8: You mentioned last week about the importance for MAC that
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  Speaker 8: was having a running game, and you know, for whatever
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  Speaker 8: reason that did not transpire, uh last week.
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  Speaker 2: What are your expectations hopes for the for the running
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  Speaker 2: game this w this week? Because it you can't it
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  Speaker 2: just seems.
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  Speaker 5: Like, you know, without one, Max just you know, I
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  Speaker 5: mean it's really swimming upstream with that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's i it's.
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  Speaker 3: I think every quarterback in the league would say the
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  Speaker 3: same thing, Like, you know, the ability to run the
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  Speaker 3: football just helps everything else out right.
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  Speaker 1: It just it slows the rush down.
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  Speaker 3: It's uh, it creates passing lanes off of play action movement,
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  Speaker 3: quarterbacks out of the pott. It just it just helps everything, right,
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  Speaker 3: And so having a run game to help Mac that
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  Speaker 3: I think is big and it's something that we've got
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  Speaker 3: to this week, I think be better at.
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  Speaker 2: Is it tough to manage the guy's emotions?
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  Speaker 4: I mean it's in that kind of season and then
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  Speaker 4: you're without your quarterback going against a team that's been
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  Speaker 4: rolled over people through the NFC so far the season.
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  Speaker 4: Is it is it tough to kind of manage that thing.
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  Speaker 3: In No, it's really not. It's a great group of guys.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we we' this is week eleven, you know,
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  Speaker 3: guys haven't really had a break obviously, and and they
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  Speaker 3: keep grinding and are we defeated, disappointed, discouraged. I mean
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  Speaker 3: there's there's moments of that obviously because of the way
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  Speaker 3: the season's going. But but by no means are they
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  Speaker 3: you know, quitting or lack of energy or wanting to
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  Speaker 3: improve get better as a team. I still see that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, every single day. And it's credit, you know,
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  Speaker 3: credit to those guys.
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  Speaker 4: With teams are favorite and coverage shorts Brian the way
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  Speaker 4: they have then lately, what are some ways you can
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  Speaker 4: kind of still get him involved and maybe even manufacturing
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  Speaker 4: targets or is it just maybe putting too much on.
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  Speaker 2: Rookie's plate fast for that?
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  Speaker 1: No, No, no, I don't think it's too much.
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  Speaker 3: I think you know, you can put 'em in stacks, bunches,
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  Speaker 3: you can move 'em around the formation a little bit,
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  Speaker 3: you know, do some things that way. It's you know,
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  Speaker 3: the only downside to it is the offense has to
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  Speaker 3: be stationary at the snap, so they can defense can
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  Speaker 3: still move and get lined up as well, So you know, uh,
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  Speaker 3: do the best we can to to move 'em around
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  Speaker 3: the formation.
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  Speaker 1: And and then you know on Brian to obviously, you
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  Speaker 1: know know that he's gonna be doubled at.
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  Speaker 3: Times and and he's just gonna have to work to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, get himself free.
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  Speaker 9: Not sure how many people you now in the Detroit organization,
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  Speaker 9: but the way that they've built this thing, how you know,
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  Speaker 9: they kind of came in from ground zero wait to
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  Speaker 9: everything clean. Dan has the press conference about buying kneecaps
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  Speaker 9: and probably some people wrote.
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  Speaker 2: Them off was a little eccentric.
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  Speaker 9: And now you look at where they are now, what
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  Speaker 9: do you make of how they built that organization essentially
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  Speaker 9: from scratch over the last three or four years.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I go back to probably the early you
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  Speaker 3: know Jimmy Johnson days with the Cowboys, right, I mean
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  Speaker 3: he took over a franchise that was one in fifteen
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  Speaker 3: or Ohen fifteen or Own sixteen, something like that, and
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  Speaker 3: within four years, you know they're they're competing for championships
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  Speaker 3: and you know, obviously they've done things well there. They
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  Speaker 3: draft well, free agents have have all been a big
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  Speaker 3: part of it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's the more success you have.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's gonna lose coaches, He's gonna bring new coaches in.
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  Speaker 3: You know, faces are gonna change. But I think there's
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  Speaker 3: just the one thing that that I think when you
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  Speaker 3: look at Dan and and really the teams that have
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  Speaker 3: had success, it's consistency. It's just doing the same things
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  Speaker 3: every single day. You know, messages the same, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the guys worked the same and and and the players buy.
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  Speaker 3: And then when you win, because I've been on that
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  Speaker 3: side of it, when you win, everything's great, right, everything
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  Speaker 3: everything is. It's not easy, but it feels easy. And
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  Speaker 3: that's that's probably where they are right now.
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  Speaker 6: Can you can you live with the way that your
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  Speaker 6: defense is playing, Like a game against Detroit Nuggers, they're
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  Speaker 6: giving up yards, but they're break and serve here and there.
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  Speaker 6: They hit it against Philly at the end with the
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  Speaker 6: stop and set up the field goal that was a miss,
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  Speaker 6: and last week with the takeaways to be Can you
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  Speaker 6: live with that? Can you find a way to win
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  Speaker 6: when your defense is giving up a lot of yards
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  Speaker 6: and on the field too much?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think it's a sustainable recipe, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you look at the last I think three games,
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  Speaker 3: they are averaging close to eighty snaps a game. I
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  Speaker 3: mean it's a lot on the defense, but.
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  Speaker 1: Again credit them. You know, you hold a high powered
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  Speaker 1: offense to four field goals, right your.
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  Speaker 3: Your toe to toe with a chance to win against
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  Speaker 3: the Eagles. You come back against a good Green Bay team,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and tie that thing at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the game.
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  Speaker 1: So you know it, I is it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think over the course of the season is
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  Speaker 3: that sustainable. Probably not, But the way they're playing, yes,
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  Speaker 3: it is. I mean, they're they're playing good football. It's
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  Speaker 3: and and honestly, a lot of defenses are that way.
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  Speaker 3: They're they're gonna, they're gonna kind of the bend but
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  Speaker 3: don't break mentality, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And and it's kind of the kind of the way
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  Speaker 1: the league is, I think the parody of the league
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  Speaker 1: and and and.
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  Speaker 3: The way teams are, uh today, So can can we
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  Speaker 3: live with the way the defense has been playing?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: But then we've got to do our part offensively, you know, now,
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  Speaker 3: to to score and to and to move the ball.
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  Speaker 8: A school difference between the the Vikings game and the
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  Speaker 8: Eagles game, as part as the secondary our rotation was concerned, uh,
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  Speaker 8: with Andre Cisco playing around sixty seven percent of the
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  Speaker 8: snaps and Antonio Johnson getting more of the stats this
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  Speaker 8: past week. Is that something as you can kind of
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  Speaker 8: force for shadow going forward? Is that packet specific?
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  Speaker 3: No, I think it's something you'll see more and more of.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's it's you've seen it with with Darby
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  Speaker 3: in Monteric.
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  Speaker 1: You see it with the D line.
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  Speaker 3: I think as you see it with the linebackers, right,
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  Speaker 3: I mean you see these guys rotating.
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  Speaker 1: I think you have to do it this time of year.
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  Speaker 3: You know, bodies and minds are tired, and it's a
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  Speaker 3: way of trying to keep guys as fresh as possible.
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  Speaker 3: So I think it's something you'll see, you know, more
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  Speaker 3: and more.
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  Speaker 1: E tweak Okay, thanks coach. All Right,