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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "...Take Pride in the Opportunities You Get." · Press Pass

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Did you give us an up game on Trevor, still in,
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: still in the protocol, progressing well, but we have to
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: follow the we follow the steps so we can't skip anything.
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: So still in. Yeah, I'm say, uh, Jay is getting better. Uh,
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: strength is strength is good. But still week to week.
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: We didn't ask about the other guys, Tyson, Cisco. And
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: then I think you said Ezra.
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: And Walker were good at Yeah they came out of
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: the give sore, but that they came out fine, They're fine. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: both Tyson and Cisco. Will we'll practice today, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we get them back out there, so hopefully, you know,
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: they continue to progress and and you know, we'll see
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: where they're at able to get out of the game.
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  Speaker 1: When yes, running backs were good, Jamal was good, the
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  Speaker 1: old linemen were good, Zay was probably the only one.
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: And then Trevor, yeah he does. I was looking at
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: the stats.
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  Speaker 3: And the percentage of scoring touchdowns in the red zone
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  Speaker 3: is actually you're the same rank in the NFL as
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  Speaker 3: last year, about the middle of the pack, and the
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  Speaker 3: percentage isn't much different. So I guess there's a perception
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  Speaker 3: that it's been worse in the red zone and it
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  Speaker 3: actually isn't. But still, you know what makes you happy?
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  Speaker 3: I mean I score it every time. I guess makes
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  Speaker 3: is what you want. But is there a certain percentage
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  Speaker 3: you shoot for or that you think is adequate?
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  Speaker 1: Well, one hundred percent would be great, but you know, realistically,
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  Speaker 1: you'd love to be you know, eighty plus percent and
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  Speaker 1: you get in the red zone. I mean that's you know,
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  Speaker 1: and that's probably high. But but you know, our goal
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  Speaker 1: is to score touchdowns in the red zone. You know,
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  Speaker 1: each week. If you can come away with three, obviously
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  Speaker 1: that's that's good too. But our biggest issues have been
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: the turnovers, you know, down there. That's the thing that's
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  Speaker 1: kept us, I think from having a little bit better
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  Speaker 1: you know, scoring percentage. You know this year when you.
• 2:04
  Speaker 3: Think it's in fact did turnovers are kind of I
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  Speaker 3: don't know, there's a little bit too memorable, like Terman
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  Speaker 3: just dropping the ball, you know, is it is it?
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  Speaker 3: They they've they've really been painful.
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  Speaker 1: Any turnovers painful, but especially down there. You know when
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: you have a little drive going and you're at the
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  Speaker 1: twenty yard line, you know, going in, it's they're all painful.
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  Speaker 2: How much it finds? What what's the fine repeat? Offender.
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  Speaker 2: Does he get does it Increa at least is navigating
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  Speaker 2: the protocol with the quarterback topper than dealing with.
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  Speaker 3: The knee and the ankle, because I'm assuming you can't
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  Speaker 3: give him game plan stuff to look at and all
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  Speaker 3: that other stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, you gotta be you gotta follow the steps,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And and it's really based on symptoms, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and how he feels. If if he can sit into
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  Speaker 1: me and tolerated meeting, it's okay. If if not, then
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: we we we we don't put him in there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because you're you're stimulating the brain. Right, So it's just
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  Speaker 1: based on based on symptoms. But like if it's his
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  Speaker 1: knee or his ankle, he's in those meetings and and
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  Speaker 1: he's you know, he's getting the game plan and he's
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  Speaker 1: he's listening and and and all of that. So you
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  Speaker 1: just you just got to do it really case by case.
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  Speaker 2: Can you tell us where his sorry, can you tell
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  Speaker 2: us where his symptoms are?
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  Speaker 1: I can't disclose head entries, okay, and where people are.
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  Speaker 4: So does it make it a tougher call if like
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  Speaker 4: say he comes out on Friday for Saturday, clears the
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  Speaker 4: protocol about whether you.
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  Speaker 2: Play him or not just because of the he hasn't.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's a it's a tough decision. The number
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  Speaker 1: one thing is making sure that he's he's one hundred
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  Speaker 1: percent and he has been cleared you know, by all
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  Speaker 1: the all the specialists, and then and then you have
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  Speaker 1: to make a decision as a team, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: and uh and see where he's at too, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but it it definitely, you know, makes it makes it harder,
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  Speaker 1: I guess more today that correct.
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  Speaker 2: What's be the biggest called written in your mind about
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  Speaker 2: why the running game is kind of come close to
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  Speaker 2: disappearing in your last four games.
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  Speaker 1: I think one of the probably the one that sticks out,
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  Speaker 1: is just the lack of consistent players, meaning the same
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  Speaker 1: guys in the same positions for the whole season, you know,
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  Speaker 1: same left guard, same left tackle, center guard, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that whole thing. There's just been there's so much timing
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  Speaker 1: that goes on up front. And you know, now we've
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  Speaker 1: introduced a new player, right with Ezra, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: our scheme, not a not a not a rookie, but
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  Speaker 1: a veteran player, but new to our scheme, and Walker's
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  Speaker 1: playing you know, guard, he's been tackle and he's bounced
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  Speaker 1: around and it's hard for those guys. It's like it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of hard to get in a rhythm. Right, So
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  Speaker 1: I think that's that's where it that's where it starts,
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  Speaker 1: you know, uh there. And then and then secondly, it's
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  Speaker 1: just I think our ability to to finish blocks and
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  Speaker 1: sustained blocks where we're you know, and look, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: been no shortage of good defensive fronts either. So we're
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  Speaker 1: playing some good teams. But it's no excuse for us
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  Speaker 1: not to continue to sustain and move people, right, and
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  Speaker 1: our guys take pride in doing that. And then and
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  Speaker 1: then the other element too is you know, the the
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  Speaker 1: running backs making sure that that we detail with them
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  Speaker 1: and anticipate where this hole should be on this particular
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  Speaker 1: run where it may go. Uh. And then some of it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, some of it too. There's there's advantage type throws.
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  Speaker 1: There's throws where the quarterback can pick it up and
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  Speaker 1: throw it. You know, you've seen those lateral throws. Well,
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  Speaker 1: those are runs that he has the opportunity to you know,
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  Speaker 1: and so those go down sometimes as passes, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's really a run, and we haven't been real good,
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  Speaker 1: you know, especially the last couple weeks and some of that.
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  Speaker 2: How much more of a burden is it on Trevor
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  Speaker 2: when you can't get the Ryan game? You know?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, I think ye, yeah, I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: it's it's tough, you know, because it takes away a
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  Speaker 1: little bit from your play action, some of the movement
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  Speaker 1: stuff you want to do screen game, you know. But look, it's, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, something we got to continue to work at.
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  Speaker 1: We got to continue to get better, you know, if
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  Speaker 1: we can, if I've said this before, we can keep
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  Speaker 1: going back to the some of the concepts that have
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  Speaker 1: been successful for us. We do that just so that
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  Speaker 1: our guys can not think about a lot of things
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  Speaker 1: and just go go play.
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  Speaker 4: When you're in the middle of a three game slide
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  Speaker 4: like you are right now, is there something to sometimes
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  Speaker 4: you just need a spark to kind of snap out
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  Speaker 4: of it get back on the right track.
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's it's figuring out, you know, how
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: to win, how to win a game right now, And
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: you know it's you know, everybody has to pay attention
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  Speaker 1: to their job and just just do what they've been
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  Speaker 1: asked to do. Coaches, players, you know, we try to
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: keep it simple, so they can play and play fast.
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  Speaker 1: Somewhere somebody you know, make it play Like last week,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Jank gets the interception, but we don't capitalize
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  Speaker 1: as an offense type thing, you know. So it's it's
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  Speaker 1: it's you know, we don't go search and form, but
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  Speaker 1: we need to make the ones that that that show
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  Speaker 1: up and present themselves. And you know, sometimes it may
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  Speaker 1: not be pretty, but if you can figure out a
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  Speaker 1: way to get it done, you know, it helps you.
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: What have you thought about Baker Mayfield this year? I
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: thought he's playing really well, you know, and he's gotten uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's gotten better as the season has gone on. Some
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  Speaker 1: of his you know, statistical numbers. He's getting the ball
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  Speaker 1: out of his hand extremely fast. It does slow down
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: pass rush when you can do that, you know, especially
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  Speaker 1: in the third and short medium range. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's uh, he's trusting his guys you know, down
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  Speaker 1: the field and they're making plays for him. So and
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  Speaker 1: he's not turning the ball over, you know. So all
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  Speaker 1: those things are in his favor and are helping and
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  Speaker 1: he's playing playing good.
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  Speaker 2: Is it okay to feel desperate at this point or
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  Speaker 2: is that is it too soon?
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  Speaker 1: For that, I don't know if you ever want to
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  Speaker 1: feel desperate. I think you've got to feel a sense
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  Speaker 1: of urgency. I think you got to feel a sense
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  Speaker 1: of you know, it's it's kind of like maybe your
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  Speaker 1: back's against the wall a little bit and it's it's
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  Speaker 1: time to go play. But I don't think he ever
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  Speaker 1: want to be desperate, because then you do things out
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  Speaker 1: of character.
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  Speaker 2: So what's the word you use with the team?
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  Speaker 1: That's my word with them. Yeah, I won't tell you.
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  Speaker 3: But the challenge is that you guys are having right now.
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  Speaker 2: Is it more of a mental thing then or a physical.
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  Speaker 1: It's a little about it's a physical game and you're
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: going to get beat. I mean, that's just it's football.
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  Speaker 1: You know you're gonna get You're gonna get beat from
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  Speaker 1: time to time. I think it's the it's the mental
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  Speaker 1: from the standpoint of just understanding your role, understanding your job.
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  Speaker 1: We look, we know every every offensive player out there,
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  Speaker 1: skill position guy, they know they're not supposed to turn
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  Speaker 1: the ball over ran that's duh, right, that's that's to us.
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  Speaker 1: That's the most prized possession on the fields the football.
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  Speaker 1: So we know that. So it's a little more concentration,
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  Speaker 1: it's a little more focused, it's a little more attention
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  Speaker 1: to detail when you're in traffic, you know, when you're
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  Speaker 1: out in space the ball security to where it becomes
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  Speaker 1: kind of second nature, you know, for for our guys.
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  Speaker 1: But the physical part of it, you know, guys are
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  Speaker 1: gonna get beat and it happens. You know, they make plays.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna make plays. It's just the kind of the
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  Speaker 1: ebb and flow of a game. You know.
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  Speaker 4: Is it hard to snap out of a slide like
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  Speaker 4: this one? Three games in where you're trying to figure
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  Speaker 4: out how to win games? Is that how difficult is that?
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  Speaker 1: I mean when you really look at it. I mean
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  Speaker 1: there's there's been times where, okay, go back to the
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati game. You know, we we had a chance to
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  Speaker 1: win that game. We didn't, but we had a chance
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  Speaker 1: to win it, right with a kick late in the
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  Speaker 1: game and then a kick to win the game type thing.
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: You know, Cleveland four turnovers, you know in that game, miscommunication,
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  Speaker 1: you know, gave up some explosives offensively, you know, by them.
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  Speaker 1: And then this past week, you know, same thing I thought.
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  Speaker 1: But in each game, you see, you see a lot
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  Speaker 1: of good things happen. But it's the it's the it's
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  Speaker 1: the sort of the negatives that that are maximize those
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  Speaker 1: are the glaring issues, right, and that's what's kept us from,
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  Speaker 1: I think, feeling better you know, about ourselves, you know,
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  Speaker 1: at this stage. But again, it just it's just a
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  Speaker 1: it's a mentality. It's a mindset that, hey, you know,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes enough's enough and and you just gotta take pride
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  Speaker 1: in the opportunities to get to worry.
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  Speaker 4: About the confidence of the team.
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  Speaker 1: No, is there any.
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  Speaker 3: Advantage to you to to declare CJ Bask the starter
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  Speaker 3: this week early in the week.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, when you consider that it's a concussion that you.
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  Speaker 3: Might not know well all the way till game day,
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  Speaker 3: the way that Trevor performed to Cleveland got.
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  Speaker 2: Remissing the week of on the practice field.
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  Speaker 3: Is there any advantage to just getting your team mentally
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  Speaker 3: ready for the fact that maybe Trev's not.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna be ready this week. Well, I think I think
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  Speaker 1: there's an advantage to CJ. If you said, when you
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: came out and said, he's the guy, you know, but
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: you know, you always leave the door open for the
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  Speaker 1: chance that that Trevor clears and and you know, listen.
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  Speaker 1: And this has nothing to do with CJ or the
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: backup quarterbacks, but you want your starter to play. I mean,
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: especially at the quarterback position, right, I mean, I think
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: that's that's a given. But at the same time, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think internally, you know, you prepare and and CJ
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: does a great job of preparation. You know, he knows
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  Speaker 1: the situation. It's the life of a backup. You know,
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: spent eight years behind a guy that you never knew.
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: You know, he gets hurt, but he always bounced back
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  Speaker 1: and seemed to play the next week, you know. And
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  Speaker 1: and uh so I get it. And it's tough. But
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: you know, the guys, the guys know, I think, you
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  Speaker 1: know then they prepare no differently.
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  Speaker 2: Go mentality. Who on the O line has really surprised
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  Speaker 2: you and just taken off his stride?
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: I'll say that. You know, two guys really kind of
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: stick out. One is Anton. You know, it's a rookie
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  Speaker 1: right tackle. He's listen, he's he's faced a lot of
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: great defensive ends this year, and and he's gotten better
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: each week, and each week he settles in and and
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: uh it's probably the most football he's played in a
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: long time. You know, going back to his college days,
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  Speaker 1: and and he's done a nice job as a rookie,
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: you know, and and settled in. I think the other
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  Speaker 1: one coming in and a new player was is Ezra.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I think he's really embraced the opportunity. You know,
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  Speaker 1: now he's he's playing a little bit hurt, but uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's he's really done done a nice job
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  Speaker 1: for us, and and and has shown that that he's
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: very capable of stepping in and filling in at that spot.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks ownership,