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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Recaps The Bye Week, Looks Ahead To Week 9 · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you're beaming with injury questions, and uh, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna save the injury answers for Wednesday, So I hope
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  Speaker 1: you respect that. It's just it's an extra day. You know,
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  Speaker 1: guys are back. We just had had a good you know,
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  Speaker 1: hour and fifteen minute workout practice and uh and uh
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  Speaker 1: mre we go.
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  Speaker 2: So talk God doing you guys? Do selve scout? We're
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  Speaker 2: coming out of by How do you feel about the
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  Speaker 2: team after what you said?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, A lot of the things that we said going
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  Speaker 1: into the buy of.
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  Speaker 3: Hey where where are we were.
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  Speaker 1: In a position. We put ourselves in a position to
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  Speaker 1: really attack the second half of the season, and we
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  Speaker 1: and we know we can improve.
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  Speaker 3: Numbers support that. Uh tape supports that.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. The great thing is is, I don't think we
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  Speaker 1: have to reinvent ourselves. I think we you know, we're
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  Speaker 1: a team with an ident We know who we are.
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  Speaker 3: We just have to go be that.
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  Speaker 1: Team every day and when we do that, we give
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  Speaker 1: ourselves a really good chance to win.
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  Speaker 2: Do you feel like you were a team with and
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  Speaker 2: identity last year?
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  Speaker 1: I think we were looking I think we were searching
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  Speaker 1: for it, especially this time of year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, would you learn about the run game and how
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  Speaker 2: you can get better in the run game.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's everything, and I think we're on the right track.
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  Speaker 3: We have a pretty probably better focus, put a.
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  Speaker 1: Better understanding of what we do well and what we
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  Speaker 1: don't do as well, how we build things, who's out there,
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  Speaker 1: that sort of thing. But I think we don't need
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  Speaker 1: a wholesale changes. We need to We need to keep
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  Speaker 1: keep attacking it. There's detail involved, there's operation involved, game
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  Speaker 1: plan scheme, kind of all the above is is a
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  Speaker 1: room for improvement. And I think I think we saw
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  Speaker 1: last game we took a stride. We just got to
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  Speaker 1: keep moving in that direction.
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  Speaker 2: Was there any thought.
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  Speaker 4: To over the bude, any sort of personnel changes upfront?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 2: No, how much.
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  Speaker 4: Attention do you pay to like around the league into
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  Speaker 4: the NFC, and I think, I mean it's NFC in
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  Speaker 4: particular is really competitive.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of teams are kind of all similar to
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  Speaker 2: the record.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's tough.
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  Speaker 1: It's you know, you're so focused weekend week out on
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  Speaker 1: what you need to do in your operation, getting ready
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  Speaker 1: for every opponent.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, having the week away.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, I didn't sit in front of the TV all Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: so they have an idea.
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  Speaker 3: What's going wrong with the league?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you want to have a great feel. I mean
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of people in our building that are
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  Speaker 1: doing that, you know, and they're.
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  Speaker 3: Up to speed. But uh, I don't know. Just it's
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  Speaker 3: kind of like I saidt the beginning of the year.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, it's cool, it's nice to pay attention and
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it really doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: What's no school principle that is student the test of time.
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  Speaker 2: I heard you in.
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  Speaker 1: Interviews, respect, integrity, work, Yeah, I gave you three.
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  Speaker 2: And you're met.
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  Speaker 3: It's I mean like.
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  Speaker 1: You've you've been at every press conference. It's it's we're
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  Speaker 1: always tinkering with how we do things. It's a travel schedule,
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  Speaker 1: how we practice periods, we do all every.
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  Speaker 3: Tactic we have is a method. You know.
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  Speaker 1: There's no like, hey, we have to do this old
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  Speaker 1: school principal play. It's all those things are are up
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  Speaker 1: for evaluation all the time. Is it true?
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  Speaker 2: Nicknamed the sheriff in the weight.
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  Speaker 3: Room, There's there's some truth to that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, how do you I'm impressed. You know that I
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  Speaker 1: must be a joy to work out with. Apparently, if
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  Speaker 1: my nickname is the sheriff.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if you're gonna do it, you should be
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  Speaker 3: doing it right. So no, that's good.
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  Speaker 1: We have We have a great group down there. Our
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  Speaker 1: strength guys are awesome. It's a great way to kick
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  Speaker 1: off the day. It's competitive, just like just like our
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  Speaker 1: our speed around the building, Like we want to give
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  Speaker 1: each other crap, but we want to get great working
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  Speaker 1: at the same time.
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  Speaker 3: So SAME's true for when we're working out.
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  Speaker 2: Is that part of your daily routine earlier workout?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: What else?
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  Speaker 1: We'd like some more coaches to join us, but you
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  Speaker 1: know they're too busy.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: How many do you have working out so far?
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  Speaker 3: What is there? Eight or ten of us? Are we talking?
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  Speaker 3: It starts at six? Don't be late.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry. What was that feeling this morning when all your
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  Speaker 2: men were in the room and they just got back?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what did for you as a teacher of
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  Speaker 2: the process.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a it's a it's a it's cool. I
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  Speaker 1: mean there's different again, there's different methods to how you
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  Speaker 1: approach the bye week. We felt like it was important
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  Speaker 1: to kind of recenter, get away, have the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: maybe look at things through a different lens zoom out
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, and I think I think our guys
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  Speaker 1: are determined.
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  Speaker 3: I think you could feel I was probably theres probab
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  Speaker 3: nice for them to.
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  Speaker 1: Have a little bit of a break, but they're also focused.
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  Speaker 1: I thought we had a really good day.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was a kid Robbie. Robbie back down
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  Speaker 2: off the.
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  Speaker 3: Field GEA, Yeah, it's great, it's great.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't a long practice, but got some good reps
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  Speaker 1: in good individual work, and.
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  Speaker 3: We'll we'll take it from there.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously got back to the running game, getting back in
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  Speaker 4: the line and.
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  Speaker 3: Pat whatever's well.
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  Speaker 1: I think we've we've majored in twelve personnel U thirteen
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  Speaker 1: personnel when we put you know, two core guys in
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  Speaker 1: the game, when we're in you know, one or two
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  Speaker 1: receiver sets. Brady's done a great job, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in the full back type of role.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll see how the game plan shakes out.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, Robbie, Robbie provides more two back flexibility
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  Speaker 1: than probably we've had.
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  Speaker 2: Even Laura has said he's comfortable. How much of how
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  Speaker 2: you're using it as similar as your game tape you
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  Speaker 2: saw since the South.
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  Speaker 3: Carolina let's see say that a game.
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  Speaker 2: Great, how are you using How similar is it type
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  Speaker 2: we saw the game?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a litt different he was he was mostly
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  Speaker 1: at safety, uh like playing in the deep area of
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  Speaker 1: the field. Now he was blitzing and coming out of
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  Speaker 1: the roof. And you know they do a lot of
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  Speaker 1: they do some good stuff on defense, so you're able
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  Speaker 1: to see him do the things. You know, cover Manda
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  Speaker 1: man blitz play the deep area of the field. But
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  Speaker 1: this dis roll is a little different than they had
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  Speaker 1: him playing at South Carolina.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you got an extra week obviously to buy. If
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  Speaker 4: you were to get an extra hour every day, how
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  Speaker 4: would you spend it?
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  Speaker 3: Man?
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  Speaker 1: If I were to give you something other than working
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  Speaker 1: on football, I'd probably be lying to you. I wish
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  Speaker 1: I had some like novel answer, like I'd read a
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  Speaker 1: book or something, but that ain't happening.
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  Speaker 2: What would you How would you spend it on football?
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  Speaker 3: It depends throughout throughout the week.
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  Speaker 1: But it'd be nice to have a quiet hour in
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  Speaker 1: your office watching tape. That'd be sounds like a good
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  Speaker 1: hour to me. A third down, we're not there yet
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  Speaker 1: doing some good things. Protecting the quarterback well can can improve,
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  Speaker 1: though having less and shorter third down distances help. You know,
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  Speaker 1: a great third down offense is one that really isn't
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  Speaker 1: out there on third down.
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  Speaker 3: But I think it's kind of like the run game.
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  Speaker 3: It's like there's a lot of great.
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  Speaker 1: Stuff we're not We're not there yet, but I think
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  Speaker 1: what we're doing is is good.
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  Speaker 3: It's sound.
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  Speaker 1: Guys are executing. We just we got to do everything better.
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  Speaker 1: We got to scheme a little bit better. We got
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  Speaker 1: to execute a little bit better, protect a little bit better.
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  Speaker 1: I think once we start doing that, then we'll we'll
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  Speaker 1: get we'll get better returns.
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  Speaker 2: How much big average distance that happened.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well I'd be lying if I told you the
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  Speaker 1: average distance. But it's always going to help. You know,
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  Speaker 1: just you start getting in some of those four down situations,
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  Speaker 1: runs become a threat. Teams can't get his fancy, he
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  Speaker 1: can't bring as many overload prep means I just, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the scale start being tilted in the offensive field favor
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  Speaker 1: when those when those yard just go down.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, it's really everybody's goal.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, defensively, our goal is to keep him in
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  Speaker 1: is starting, you know, as long as possible, so we
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  Speaker 1: can have the whole playbook at our disposal.
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  Speaker 2: The pons and targets for Smith and Jacob as long
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  Speaker 2: as the four get you cool with that or do
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  Speaker 2: you want to force the balance?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we want to include everybody we have.
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  Speaker 1: We have some great skill players on offense that have
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  Speaker 1: done some great things, you know after the catch and
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  Speaker 1: down the field. Uh, it's not like we're just forcing.
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  Speaker 3: The ball to Jacks. I mean he's yeah, he's he's.
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  Speaker 1: A primary on a lot of concepts are running and
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  Speaker 1: as well he should be, but there's also things where
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  Speaker 1: he's second or third in the paression the balls finding
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  Speaker 1: him too.
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  Speaker 3: So i'd say both you know, you talked.
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  Speaker 4: About it dentity and and people talking about the RN
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  Speaker 4: games struggling, but you guys are actually significantly better on
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  Speaker 4: third and fourth in one yard or short.
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  Speaker 2: Yard situations than last year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Are you seeing progress in is kind of the short
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  Speaker 2: guarded situations compared to where you've been?
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, yeah, I mean, uh, it's funny. I'm listening
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  Speaker 1: to your question and I'm thinking of things we can
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  Speaker 1: be better at in those situations. But uh, yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we we have you have to be in order to
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  Speaker 1: in order to win, especially late in the year and
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  Speaker 1: beat really good teams.
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  Speaker 3: You have to be great on short yardage.
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  Speaker 1: It's just I don't know if it's like a fact
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  Speaker 1: or it's proven or anything, but it just feels like
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  Speaker 1: when you're when you have to get a yard, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta you gotta be able to do it, and defensively,
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  Speaker 1: you got to defend a yard. So that's something that
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  Speaker 1: I think there's some ebb and flow to it throughout
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  Speaker 1: the season. You know, start doing something you're successful at it,
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  Speaker 1: Teams are gonna have answers. You gotta have answers for
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  Speaker 1: those answers. The menu significantly shrinks in those, uh, in
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  Speaker 1: those situations, so it's a bit more game planning than
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  Speaker 1: maybe other situations.
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  Speaker 2: That any activities win grade deadline.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, you be active. We're always active.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we're we're always I mean, you know, John Roles,
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  Speaker 1: We're in everything. We're we're constantly trying to do it's
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  Speaker 1: best for us. Sometimes that's through acquisition.
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  Speaker 2: Expecting anyone to retire this bye week.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, hopefully not, hopefully not.
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  Speaker 4: The defensive front has been the strength any guys all year.
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  Speaker 4: When you've got the depth and different guys making place,
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  Speaker 4: how much more does that helping?
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  Speaker 2: You know, somebody plight have one end guy or one
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  Speaker 2: to your guy who's kind of focused. But when there's
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  Speaker 2: so many different guys making.
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  Speaker 1: Plays and I met, well that I think that contributes
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  Speaker 1: to Like, you know, our identity is we're gonna we're
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  Speaker 1: we're an eleven man rush. You know, it's it takes
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  Speaker 1: all eleven you know, we're not. We got some great
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  Speaker 1: rushers that deserve one on one opportunities and that happens
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  Speaker 1: naturally throughout the course of the game. But uh, we
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  Speaker 1: want to set all of our guys up for success.
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  Speaker 1: It's not really built around one guy. Uh, That's why
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  Speaker 1: we pressure.
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  Speaker 3: The way we do.
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  Speaker 1: That's why we disguise the what we do, and the
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  Speaker 1: guys are bought in. You know, if the guys aren't
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  Speaker 1: brought into doing it, it doesn't work.
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  Speaker 3: Just that's the way it goes.
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  Speaker 1: But our guys have been supportive of another and they
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  Speaker 1: understand that, you know, a rising tide raises all ships
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  Speaker 1: in this situation.
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  Speaker 3: So, uh, it's great, and you know, and you have
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  Speaker 3: fresh rushers.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's hard to play the same four guys
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  Speaker 1: the whole game and be effective.
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  Speaker 3: You know, latent drives and light in games. Everybody else
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  Speaker 3: Thank you all right, Thanks yus