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Pete Carroll: "I Really Liked The Last Three Weeks" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a little wet out there. It was nice. I
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  Speaker 1: have fun. Yeah. Well so it's a it's unusual to
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  Speaker 1: come back after a week, but to us it was
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  Speaker 1: kind of like warp week and that just kind of
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  Speaker 1: was a little disorienting and all that. But we're back
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  Speaker 1: and today was exactly a Monday like we always do.
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  Speaker 1: And and uh with a little bit of something special
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  Speaker 1: on the top practice today, Uh to get her get
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  Speaker 1: us back working, and we're getting ready for a huge
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  Speaker 1: week coming up. How you guys do it healthwise better?
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're better than we were. There's some guys
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  Speaker 1: that are gonna get a chance to jump back out
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  Speaker 1: and and uh, you know, it helps anybody that got
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  Speaker 1: banged up in the game. So we're hoping that this
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  Speaker 1: will be really productive week for returning a few guys
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  Speaker 1: and and uh, so we'll see how it goes. He
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  Speaker 1: was on the practice field today, Yeah, he worked today
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  Speaker 1: and and uh he looked quick and nifty and all
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  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. We'll see how he does when
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  Speaker 1: we come back, you know, as we get through the week,
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  Speaker 1: see if he can, uh, you know, maintain a practice
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  Speaker 1: level that allow him a chance to play. He's on
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  Speaker 1: the final stage coming up getting cleared and and uh
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  Speaker 1: pretty promising that thought that he will be cleared tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: You did a little something special at the beginning of practice,
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  Speaker 1: said what did you do? Huh no, no, no, really early?
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  Speaker 1: Was it the guys that were injured or was it
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  Speaker 1: coaches to be able to sell scout? Was it players?
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  Speaker 1: Just yes? Who got the most out of it? I did?
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure I feel the most prepared coming back this
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  Speaker 1: week way ahead, you know. I if you remember, I
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  Speaker 1: never gripe one way or the other about when the
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  Speaker 1: when the buys come, because you can't do anything about it.
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  Speaker 1: So we just try to make the most of it
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  Speaker 1: for us. Right now, we like all of the conversations
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  Speaker 1: go to you, and we have guys having a chance
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  Speaker 1: that have been banged up earlier in the year that
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  Speaker 1: have a chance to get back out, and so you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna take full advantage of that. We've been making
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  Speaker 1: it through with you know, with guys stepping up and
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  Speaker 1: doing a nice job, and we're really proud of that.
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  Speaker 1: But this will give us a chance to get a
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  Speaker 1: little healthier and then we'll try to you know, bank
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  Speaker 1: on that as we move forward. You know, you never
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  Speaker 1: know how it's gonna go. But this is you know,
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  Speaker 1: it seems like we can take full advantage of it
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  Speaker 1: right now and we'll try to get better kind of
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  Speaker 1: you do We do all kinds of every everything we
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  Speaker 1: can think of, honestly, you know, everything we can think of,
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  Speaker 1: every way looking at it, look at it from our perspective,
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  Speaker 1: look at it from our opponent's perspective. I'll look at
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  Speaker 1: it from a historical perspective, and just try to gain
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  Speaker 1: as much as we can and use this week to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that we get a little bit better and
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  Speaker 1: a little smarter. Great Tens. Well, it's still early in
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  Speaker 1: the year. You know, we've got four games, onder you
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  Speaker 1: so teams aren't quite sure yet. You know, you've got
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  Speaker 1: to get past the first four or five games to know.
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  Speaker 1: So it's in both directions. You know, we can't account
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  Speaker 1: on everything that we're seeing, but you know, just you
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  Speaker 1: have to make some assessments and you know, you make
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  Speaker 1: some judgments on it and to move forward. But it's
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  Speaker 1: not really locked in yet. You know, we get we
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  Speaker 1: need a few more games before that our team, other
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  Speaker 1: teams will be more committed to what they're doing and
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  Speaker 1: we'll see them kind of come back around through that
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  Speaker 1: first cycle and uh so, but it's still important and
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  Speaker 1: we we can't afford not to know, you know, so
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  Speaker 1: we do everything like it's gonna tell us all the secrets,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not always quite that way. I really like
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  Speaker 1: the last three weeks and you know, the second half
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  Speaker 1: of the first game, like I've told you, and that
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  Speaker 1: that's still kills me that we were the way we were.
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  Speaker 1: But the last three games we've really stayed in kind
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  Speaker 1: of in a mode and where we're playing with the
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  Speaker 1: same kind of focus, same kind of intensity. We're we
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  Speaker 1: feel like we're gaining on some things, we're getting better
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  Speaker 1: at some stuff. We finished this similar fashion, which is
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  Speaker 1: something that's really important to me, telling me how the
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  Speaker 1: mentality of our team is, you know. And so we've
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  Speaker 1: had three really good, solid settings that we've been through
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  Speaker 1: in a couple of ways in a home big trips,
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  Speaker 1: you know that we've been through and all me the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing. So we've we've gained a lot. Hopefully we
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  Speaker 1: can make you know, keep going. We didn't get out
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  Speaker 1: to you last week after I'm sorry about that. You guys,
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  Speaker 1: she's a uh Player of the week. When you went
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  Speaker 1: back and looked at that game on film what he did?
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  Speaker 1: Just what what did you see? I guess for guys. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's he's really fallen in line and kind of
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  Speaker 1: like what he's already shown us, he practices really well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he really tries hard and practice and positions
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  Speaker 1: himself to make his place, so we can anticipate and
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  Speaker 1: we already trust that he's a playmaker. You know, he've
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  Speaker 1: seen that, so we're not really surprised. We're just excited
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  Speaker 1: that he's that it's fitting together. We didn't know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that he would be able to pick stuff up as
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  Speaker 1: well as he has. We were hoping and uh but
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  Speaker 1: he has not even you know, really flinched it at
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  Speaker 1: at learning the nickel stuff in conjunction with the corner stuff,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So that's just a real positive force as
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  Speaker 1: we move forward and in terms of matchups and how
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  Speaker 1: we play our guys and all that. So really just
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  Speaker 1: really thrilled to see him, you know, have that much
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  Speaker 1: success and and uh, now I'm anxious to see how
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  Speaker 1: he responds to all the you know, all the attention
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  Speaker 1: and all that, and and I you know, we'll see
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  Speaker 1: both those guys. You have a chance to you know,
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  Speaker 1: to be okay this week. You know, we'll see how
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  Speaker 1: they go. It's gonna take us a bit before we know,
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  Speaker 1: but both guys have a chance. So was on the
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  Speaker 1: practice field today. Sorry, Abbe's not quite around the corner
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  Speaker 1: yet to see you know, he's say we can put
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  Speaker 1: them on the practice field yet. So I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if it's another week or not. I'm not sure yet,
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  Speaker 1: but we're not ready. Like if we're practicing today, which
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  Speaker 1: we did, he didn't go, so, uh, look at it
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  Speaker 1: again on Wednesday and see if there's a chance. But
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  Speaker 1: we're at this point. We've we've we've invested so much
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  Speaker 1: time in his recovery. We don't want to screw it
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  Speaker 1: up and bring him back too fast. So we'll be
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  Speaker 1: more you know, I patient with it and just see
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  Speaker 1: what happens here. But he's he's he's gonna make it
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  Speaker 1: back here within the next couple of weeks. Yeah, well, he's, he's,
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  Speaker 1: he's right there right now. This is it's been enough
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  Speaker 1: time in preparation for him to get back and make
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  Speaker 1: sure that he's in condition and all of that. He
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  Speaker 1: had a big day to day and he's going to
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  Speaker 1: have a really important week and competing for playing time. Yes, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he can played guard in right tackle and uh he's
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  Speaker 1: done it all. H Yeah, Derek is really close. He's
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  Speaker 1: a little bit closer than Kenny is. Derek's running and
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  Speaker 1: doing all kinds of stuff. Kenny's getting back but not
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  Speaker 1: quite yet. That's you know, it's still another week or so.
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  Speaker 1: Derek's got to prove it. He's doing all of the
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  Speaker 1: running stuff right now, hasn't He's not ready to practice?
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  Speaker 1: How much of you as much as we know how to,
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  Speaker 1: really we're trying to use everything we got. What. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they've really they've really started to mesh together and taken
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  Speaker 1: advantage of the game plan and the calls and and
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  Speaker 1: uh listening to the right voices out there to make
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  Speaker 1: the calls and to make the adjustments and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: Like I can't tell you how much Jay Read is.
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  Speaker 1: You know how important he has been to us. He's
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  Speaker 1: such a veteran that he really commands the calls and
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  Speaker 1: in the system and the game plan and all of that.
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  Speaker 1: So he's a big factor. And as the guys communicate
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  Speaker 1: with him, they they just seem to get more well
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  Speaker 1: versed to take advantage of what we're seeing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes it sets and alignments and formations and d
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  Speaker 1: and ds and all those things. So a lot of
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  Speaker 1: stuff for guys to handle. And Jared is really good
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  Speaker 1: at it, you know, so he's he's helping. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the other guys are doing well too, but the young
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  Speaker 1: guys outside other than than China, other guys that will
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  Speaker 1: improve the most, and so they're catching on. We're batting
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  Speaker 1: average is much better with our calls right now, so
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  Speaker 1: we try to keep going there. You'd expect to one
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  Speaker 1: that sacks a game in that front, but like to
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  Speaker 1: see the jump that they have made. What what makes
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  Speaker 1: you think that sustainable? But that kind of jump that
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  Speaker 1: you guys have, well, there's there's really there's no chance
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  Speaker 1: that there's that kind of that kind of chance to
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  Speaker 1: sustain that. But you know, it's almost a historic type
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  Speaker 1: of an event. But we've really been active the last
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  Speaker 1: three weeks and it's really changed. We've really shifted gears,
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  Speaker 1: and so we just try to stay after it and
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  Speaker 1: see if we can have another game where you know,
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  Speaker 1: we can be a be a factor in the game.
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  Speaker 1: But that's a that's that's a pretty pretty crazy number.
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  Speaker 1: We'll try, you know what we're shooting for it versus
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  Speaker 1: how it was, Well, we're not playing that quarterback. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's a great quarterback. We've really seen you know, good
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  Speaker 1: good throwers and guys that can command the game and all,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the Carolina game, you know, they send back
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  Speaker 1: the vet you know at us as well. So but
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  Speaker 1: all in all, we just we've seen really good guys
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  Speaker 1: and so we're just trying to grow with it. What
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  Speaker 1: was the question, Yeah, we're doing better. You know, we're
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  Speaker 1: just doing better. We're fitting together. You can see us
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  Speaker 1: cleaner and sharper. Communication is the best it's been at
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  Speaker 1: the point to this point, and you know, we have
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  Speaker 1: high expectations that we can keep going. You know, and
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  Speaker 1: as always, it fits. The coverage is a little bit
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  Speaker 1: tighter and so the balls held a little bit. Our
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  Speaker 1: disguises are a little bit cleaner and sharper and more effective,
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  Speaker 1: and that helps. And then then the rush helps the
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  Speaker 1: ball coming out, you know, faster. Everything kind of feeds
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  Speaker 1: off of one another. So we have a chance to
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  Speaker 1: really keep getting better. We're really just getting there. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't it's not a finished product. We're still moving so
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  Speaker 1: and it's reverent he he wasn't quite ready to go today.
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  Speaker 1: He's he's he's closer than you know than he's been.
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  Speaker 1: Had some trouble with his footwear and stuff. Can s
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  Speaker 1: he's bothering him a little bit, so he's not quite
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  Speaker 1: ready yet, but uh, he's getting close. Jared Reed's okay, yes,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's he got banged up, but it's been in
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  Speaker 1: it's that an extra week and all that, so he
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  Speaker 1: should be Okay. It's helping. Yeah, it's helping. He's he's
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  Speaker 1: still sore, but I it's helping. How difficult, Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I guess gets shots at you all the time, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So he's been just as m you know, tough as
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  Speaker 1: nails to to stick it out cause he wa he
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  Speaker 1: was hurt, legitimately hurt and and uh but he's made
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  Speaker 1: it through it. And you know, I don't think in
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  Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks he'll be totally well he
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  Speaker 1: he but he'll be able to play last talk better
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  Speaker 1: understanding him what that was all about the Adams incident.
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  Speaker 1: Oh oh, on the side of the s Yeah, he was.
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  Speaker 1: You got hit in the head, you know, and whatever happens.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I I under you know, the
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  Speaker 1: pressure of the game, and and and he had a concussion.
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  Speaker 1: He had a co legit concussion and also I I
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, we gotta give a little slacked there,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I know he apologized, you know, for stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know that he remembers what he said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so cause he was knocked pretty good. But
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  Speaker 1: he's come back out of it, and and he's you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's I think he's done the the very classy thing
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  Speaker 1: and how he's handled it from that point whatever. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I did the you know, it's it's it's a s
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  Speaker 1: tackling situation that uh was scrutinized heavily last year and
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  Speaker 1: then uh we heard a lot of opposition from it
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  Speaker 1: from the player's side of it and a and all
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  Speaker 1: uh about that tackle that that occurred, and we did
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  Speaker 1: not act on it as a league. You know that
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  Speaker 1: we didn't. We didn't act on it. So the fact
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  Speaker 1: that it was it it wasn't so far out of
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  Speaker 1: bounce that it wasn't an out of bounds hit. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't get fined for an out of bounds hit. So
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  Speaker 1: that's that's okay and all that, but it is something
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  Speaker 1: to talk about again. We need to bring up the
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  Speaker 1: topic because it's a very dangerous situation and and uh,
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  Speaker 1: we just need to you know, I've already been in
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  Speaker 1: contact and talking about it and trying to you know,
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  Speaker 1: get some some feel for where everybody is on it,
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  Speaker 1: but the league had decided last year to not act
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  Speaker 1: on on changing that. It's a it's kind of the
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  Speaker 1: horse collar tackle that you know that in the pocket
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  Speaker 1: is different and and uh so I'm not seeing anything
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  Speaker 1: malicious that was done and I'm not saying any of that.
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  Speaker 1: I just think that we need to talk about that again.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a topic that's uh that I hope, well,
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  Speaker 1: we'll bring up when you know, when the season's over.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing to do about it right now, it wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have been no from what I've what I gathered, it
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  Speaker 1: is a penalty and so uh and it wasn't an
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  Speaker 1: out of bounce hit illegally hit out of bounds either
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  Speaker 1: according to the league. So you know, I'm going along
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  Speaker 1: with whatever they're saying right now, but I'll be talking
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  Speaker 1: about it when the time comes. A lot