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Press Pass | Doug Pederson on Defense, Injuries & Team Culture After Bears Loss · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Well, I guess, good afternoon, Doug.
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  Speaker 2: We just get a quick update on I guess Anton
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: and Travis their injuries from yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Travis had a had a hamstring in the game.
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  Speaker 4: He's going to be weak to week. Uh. He he
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  Speaker 4: tweaked it on the on the on a on a
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  Speaker 4: go ball.
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  Speaker 3: Early in the game. And then Anton Anton is just
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  Speaker 3: he's day to day. He's gonna he's gonna be fine.
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  Speaker 3: He just got he got rolled up a couple of
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  Speaker 3: times and and just the pile and things of that
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  Speaker 3: nature durned the game.
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  Speaker 4: But he should be fine. He's more day to day.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday after the game in the locker room, Cisco said
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  Speaker 2: to Brent Martineau action US Jacks that he felt like
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  Speaker 2: the team quit.
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  Speaker 1: I'm wondering if if you talked to him about that,
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  Speaker 1: what your thoughts are about that.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't seen the players today, being the schedules a
• 0:59
  Speaker 3: little bit different. They're off today, We're gonna work tomorrow,
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  Speaker 3: be like our Monday before we before we head into
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  Speaker 3: the week. I would like, you know, just to get
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  Speaker 3: some clarification from his tow. I don't think it. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think he meant it in.
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  Speaker 4: A in a in a in a you know, obviously
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  Speaker 4: it's his his observation, but I.
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  Speaker 3: Don't think it was necessarily, uh, you know, meant to
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  Speaker 3: harm anything or point a finger at anybody or anything
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  Speaker 3: like that. I think sometimes when you get in a
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  Speaker 3: game like yesterday, that sometimes is the feeling. We've been
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  Speaker 3: on the other side of that too, where where you know,
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  Speaker 3: we've we've had games where you know, we felt like
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  Speaker 3: you know, we we've had that type of success and
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  Speaker 3: you feel that way with your opponent.
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  Speaker 4: But again, I don't think it was necessarily a finger pointing.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and one more, really quick, Are you getting enough
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  Speaker 2: out of the free agent guys you signed? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I know Gabe had a couple of tad passes drops yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what Armstead's pressure rate was yesterday, but
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't seem like he's he's helping out as much.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, guys like Juvenate now on, I are
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  Speaker 2: just are you getting enough here specifically, especially in terms
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  Speaker 2: of leadership and helping a team fight through what you're
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  Speaker 2: in right now?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, obviously those are things that we're gonna
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  Speaker 4: we have to take a look.
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  Speaker 3: I have to take a look at we have to
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  Speaker 3: look at those, you know, internally, you know, I do
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  Speaker 3: believe that these guys are are are they're helping us. Listen,
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  Speaker 3: we all need to do better. It's not again, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not here to you know, point the finger at anybody
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  Speaker 3: but myself really, and just make sure that we're getting
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  Speaker 3: the most out of everyone.
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  Speaker 4: We're putting, you know, the best eleven on the field.
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  Speaker 3: And and and we've got to look at that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: as a staff.
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  Speaker 4: And and you know, I know game's banged up a
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  Speaker 4: little bit right.
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  Speaker 3: Now, and Eric's been working through his is you know,
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  Speaker 3: the off season injury and working himself back in and
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  Speaker 3: obviously it's unfortunate with Devin right now, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's something that you know, we've got to just
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  Speaker 3: continue to.
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  Speaker 4: You know, continue to continue.
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  Speaker 3: To work, continue to just keep showing everybody, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the good and the bad and and make the necessary corrections.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Gary, followed by Jane.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Doug referenced to a number of hamstring injuries you've had,
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  Speaker 6: and let me preface it by saying it's a it's
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  Speaker 6: a league wide problem. I just went over the injury
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  Speaker 6: reports and in terms of guys listed us out on Friday.
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  Speaker 6: Hamstring is kind of leading the league. Is there any
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  Speaker 6: easy explanation for this?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 6: And I've already seen people speculate that maybe guys aren't
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  Speaker 6: hitting enough in the preseason, which goes back to a
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  Speaker 6: CBA as you, But do you have an explain to
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  Speaker 6: why there's so many hamstring injuries both on the team
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  Speaker 6: and league wide?
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  Speaker 1: You know what?
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  Speaker 3: I don't, I don't, I I gosh, you know the
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  Speaker 3: off season program. If you go back to the off
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  Speaker 3: season program, it's it's it's obviously it's different, it's unique.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's something that we've we have focused.
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  Speaker 4: On here, you know, but I don't know, it's it.
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  Speaker 3: Is a it is a phenomenon that that that we
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  Speaker 3: need to look at medically and and do everything we
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  Speaker 3: can from a from a strength conditioning standpoint two to
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  Speaker 3: you know, treatment and rehab to you know the way
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  Speaker 3: we you know, even the way we practice, to the
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  Speaker 3: way you know, the way the off season program.
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  Speaker 4: Is set up.
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  Speaker 3: But it's it's it's definitely something that I know the
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  Speaker 3: league is looking at it.
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  Speaker 4: They look at it every year, as do the club.
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  Speaker 3: So we just gotta we just gotta keep I think,
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  Speaker 3: just keep working with our guys and and making sure
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  Speaker 3: that you know, they're getting they're getting everything they need,
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  Speaker 3: you know, physically, uh to to stay healthy.
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  Speaker 7: Hi, thank you yep, being followed by Miyau.
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  Speaker 1: First couple of games, the defense seemed to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: hold up its end and do a pretty good job
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  Speaker 1: of putting you guys in position to win games. But
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  Speaker 1: in the four games since then, it seems like, uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's gone to a level that is in many ways
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  Speaker 1: unacceptable for a coaching staff. Can you, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: kitpoint anything that's changed so much? And is it just
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  Speaker 1: a matter of you know, getting a Foyer and a
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  Speaker 1: Tyson Campbell back on the field to try to, uh
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  Speaker 1: to remedy the points and yards that you guys have
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  Speaker 1: given up the last four games.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Gee, that's you know, obviously it's a that's a great question.
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  Speaker 3: You know. We we've got to make sure that number one, uh,
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  Speaker 3: as coaches, we we we prepare our players during We
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  Speaker 3: we show them everything we can what to anticipate, you know,
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  Speaker 3: on game day, you know, and making sure that they're
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  Speaker 3: they're they're prepared mentally more so than than physically. Uh
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  Speaker 3: To to the second part of your question, I do
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  Speaker 3: believe that. You know, hopefully we get you know, Tyson
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  Speaker 3: Campbell back that that would be a big, a big boost,
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  Speaker 3: you know, defensively there. I think it would help the
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  Speaker 3: whole defense. You know, he's he's he's one of the leaders,
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  Speaker 3: you know, on the team. And getting him back in there.
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  Speaker 3: It's good to get him back in practice last week
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  Speaker 3: and and get him going and and Andy and Foy
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  Speaker 3: is an emotional leader as well as a sort of
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  Speaker 3: that inspirational guy and a good football player.
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  Speaker 4: And when you're missing those.
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  Speaker 3: Those two, you know, starters like that, it does it
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  Speaker 3: does impact your defense. So we've got to make sure
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  Speaker 3: one it starts with the coaches and then and then
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  Speaker 3: two you know, the players just take the lead from there.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, We'll go to Mia then to Mark.
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  Speaker 8: Kind of building off that a little bit, Doug, I
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  Speaker 8: know you said last week the hope is to have
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  Speaker 8: Tyson back this week. When it comes to the secondary,
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  Speaker 8: do you anticipate any other changes? Knowing to Sean Gibson
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  Speaker 8: also would be available this week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, in regardss to Sean, you know, we still
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  Speaker 3: haven't heard necessarily really from the league yet. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we have to wait for the league to clear him
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  Speaker 3: offer the suspension, right, So that's that's to Sewan's case
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  Speaker 3: right now. So so maybe that'll that.
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  Speaker 4: Will happen this week or or in the near future.
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  Speaker 3: You know, obviously, you know Savage Savage missed and and
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  Speaker 3: you know a couple of games in there, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think I think too there there are some young guys.
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  Speaker 3: There's some young guys back there, but but they're playing
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  Speaker 3: extremely hard and and and you know, again, we just
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  Speaker 3: got to make sure that with even with the guys
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  Speaker 3: that we do have coming back, right Tyson's coming back,
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  Speaker 3: and we're hopeful, hopefully to get you know.
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  Speaker 4: Dowey back maybe uh maybe in.
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  Speaker 3: A week or two. We'll see, we'll see where that is.
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  Speaker 3: And and you know, these are these are these are
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  Speaker 3: leaders of your secondary. These are veteran players who can
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  Speaker 3: can bring that leadership back there, you know, in the secondary.
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  Speaker 3: And and but but it's taken nothing away from you know,
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  Speaker 3: we I do think Antonio and and Cisco you know,
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  Speaker 3: played better yesterday this some there's a good thing.
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  Speaker 4: Cisco had had a nice.
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  Speaker 3: Interception yesterday, and and uh, you know, we're still learning
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  Speaker 3: and and and again it goes back to just making sure.
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  Speaker 3: As coaches, we we prepare these guys, put them in
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  Speaker 3: the right situations, and then and then ultimately the communication
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  Speaker 3: on the field.
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  Speaker 8: I'll quick run through just to confirm both Savage and
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  Speaker 8: Jari and pass through concussion protocol.
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  Speaker 5: They're good to go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they were checked during the game and they both returned,
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  Speaker 3: so yes.
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  Speaker 9: Okay, cool.
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  Speaker 8: And then if you could evaluate Ronald Darby the first
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  Speaker 8: two weeks of the season versus these last two three.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Ronald's you know, Darves is another one that a
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  Speaker 3: veteran player, you got that we brought in here to
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  Speaker 3: to give us some some time, you know, some valuable
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  Speaker 3: time there corner.
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  Speaker 4: And and again he's still doing some good things. And
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  Speaker 4: I think.
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  Speaker 3: I think that he's you know, been in a good position.
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  Speaker 3: He had opportunities. It's just it necessarily hasn't hasn't translated
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  Speaker 3: yet onto the field a couple of plays, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's doing fine.
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  Speaker 4: Like where he's at.
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  Speaker 3: Would we love to give him, you know, a player
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  Speaker 3: here or a series of rest here or there to
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  Speaker 3: to you know prolong that I mean, I think it's
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  Speaker 3: part of the part of the plan.
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  Speaker 4: I think we could. I think we could do that.
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  Speaker 3: And and and now again with with Tyson coming back
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  Speaker 3: and and and how Buster has been playing and potentially jarring,
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  Speaker 3: you know, play in the corner Nickel spot. I think
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  Speaker 3: there's some some rotational things now that we can do defend.
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  Speaker 4: We're starting to get.
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  Speaker 3: More bodies back, and then that's that's a positive to
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  Speaker 3: the entire defense.
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  Speaker 8: Gotcha, Thanks Doug.
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  Speaker 4: Yeap.
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  Speaker 10: Mark, you had this quote after the game to Bucky
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  Speaker 10: Brooks where you said, got to change that culture otherwise
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  Speaker 10: it gets out of control. We're on a slippery soap
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  Speaker 10: on the cusp of that slope.
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  Speaker 1: Blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 4: Enough is enough?
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  Speaker 10: What what is the what's the culture that you guys?
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  Speaker 1: Is it a losing culture here? I mean, like, what
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  Speaker 1: is the culture that you're looking to change?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 3: Mark, yeah, I mean obviously we've lost some games here, right,
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  Speaker 3: so we want to change that culture to to winning culture.
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  Speaker 4: That's that's why we coach, and that's why we play.
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  Speaker 3: I think you know to that statement that I made,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, these these these guys listen, they
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  Speaker 3: bust their tails. I've said this and you've seen, I
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  Speaker 3: mean you've seen how we've practiced. I mean, these guys
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  Speaker 3: bust their tails. During the week, and I don't want
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  Speaker 3: it to I don't want them to feel even though
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  Speaker 3: we haven't won yet, I don't want them to feel
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  Speaker 3: sort of mentally defeated, if that makes sense, because that's
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  Speaker 3: where the slippery slope comes in, right. If you feel
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  Speaker 3: like you're going into a game where you don't have
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  Speaker 3: a chance, then then you're not gonna have a chance.
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  Speaker 3: You're not gonna give yourself an opportunity to win that game.
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  Speaker 3: So that's what I mean by that culture there. We
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  Speaker 3: just got to make sure these guys stay stay mentally, uh,
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  Speaker 3: stay positive with each other, stay positive, you know, during
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  Speaker 3: the week and.
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  Speaker 4: Listen. Bottom line is just just go out and have
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  Speaker 4: fun and play.
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  Speaker 3: And it's a great game to coach and a great
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  Speaker 3: game to play, but winning obviously helps that.
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  Speaker 5: We'll go to Jamal, then to Brent Hey Doug.
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  Speaker 7: Some of the guys have said mentioned about like being
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  Speaker 7: a hard practicing team and they don't think they have
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  Speaker 7: a practice problem.
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  Speaker 4: It just doesn't show up on game day.
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  Speaker 7: Where is the disconnect between doing it on the practice
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  Speaker 7: field and it's showing up on the game field.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Jamal I, I wish I had a crystal
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  Speaker 3: ball to answer that question.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I look, it's you see it. You see
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  Speaker 4: it in practice.
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  Speaker 3: You know, even even when there's a mistake made, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we go back and correct that mistake, right we want to.
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  Speaker 3: It's that positive reinforcement. And then sometimes too in a game.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, I mean, listen, I'm I'm not going
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  Speaker 3: to sit here and you know you make excuses. That's
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  Speaker 3: that's the wrong thing to do. But that's something we
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  Speaker 3: got to figure out. We got to figure that together. Honestly.
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  Speaker 3: Why that doesn't always translate. It's it's not all the time,
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  Speaker 3: but it is some of the time. And and and
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  Speaker 3: right now the times that it doesn't, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: opponent has an explosive play, a run or a pass,
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  Speaker 3: and and those are those are the most that we've
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  Speaker 3: we've we've got to we got to eliminate.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks j Yeah, this will be the last two.
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  Speaker 3: Brent and then John Shipley.
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  Speaker 11: And Doug in the past at least uh covering this team,
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  Speaker 11: it feels like if you have a lot of drops,
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  Speaker 11: you'd see it like in training camp or practice, and
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  Speaker 11: it starts to become kind of a thing. Just curious
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  Speaker 11: if if that's kind of your experience as well, and
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  Speaker 11: do you guys see that in practice, because I think
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  Speaker 11: this team now.
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  Speaker 9: Leads the league over the last three years and drops
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  Speaker 9: and you've got a lot of good receivers, highly paid receivers,
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  Speaker 9: but still not making some of the catches that should
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  Speaker 9: be made. Do you see it in practice? And does
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  Speaker 9: that translator? Is it a little bit isolated to Sundays?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, obviously, that's that's something that we're you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're aware of as a staff and you know constantly,
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  Speaker 3: you know, talk to our team about one about about catches,
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  Speaker 3: about ball security, you know, all those things, and.
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  Speaker 4: You know, think when it comes to to catching.
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  Speaker 3: The football, I think it's just it's just the focusing concentration, right,
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  Speaker 3: It's just it's looking the ball into the tuck and
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  Speaker 3: making sure that you you you know, you class the
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  Speaker 3: football on contact and and things of that nature. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, you get the occasional drop in practice. But
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  Speaker 3: again that's where that's where the reinforcement comes in. The
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  Speaker 3: guys want to the guys want to get back and
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  Speaker 3: get that rep over again. Makes that catcher or Trevor
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  Speaker 3: will take those guys to another field and work on
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  Speaker 3: those throats and.
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  Speaker 4: That's and that's really what you what you gotta do, and.
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  Speaker 3: You slowly kind of uh, you know, week by week
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  Speaker 3: kind of work yourself, you know, work yourself out of
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  Speaker 3: that U out of that out of that hole.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks last one, John.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, hey, Doug, it seems like the last couple
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  Speaker 5: of weeks quarterbacks scrambling have been a little bit of
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  Speaker 5: an issue with the defense. Just is that a byproduct
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  Speaker 5: of the scheme or what is that it really can
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  Speaker 5: make to fix that? Just know that there aren't many
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  Speaker 5: statues at quarterback anymore these days.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, that's something that going into the esterday's game,
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  Speaker 3: we knew, you know, Caleb is a is a very
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  Speaker 3: slippery quarterback. He's an athletic guy, and and we had
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  Speaker 3: to stay disciplined, you know, in in our rush lanes
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  Speaker 3: and and you know, look we had opportunities to get
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  Speaker 3: him on the ground, and we did it yesterday. And
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  Speaker 3: and that's the that's the part we've got to look
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  Speaker 3: at and obviously fix and and and correct. But you know, look,
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  Speaker 3: those guys are good athletes too, you know, speaking from experience, right,
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  Speaker 3: so you know it's it's you're not always going to
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  Speaker 3: get them, but but when you have an opportunity, right,
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  Speaker 3: you got to make the play and and.
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  Speaker 4: But then you got to know too, like how is
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  Speaker 4: that quarterback going to escape?
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  Speaker 3: Is he gonna Is he going to spin out and
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  Speaker 3: back door you is he gonna front door?
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  Speaker 4: Is he going to go up through the pocket? Up
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  Speaker 4: and out?
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  Speaker 3: You know, And and that's all, that's all just studying
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  Speaker 3: the quarterback, studying the opponent. But you know, definitely got
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  Speaker 3: to improve there and make sure that you know, we
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  Speaker 3: we we do our parts of and then and then
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  Speaker 3: you know, two when when the quarterback does scramble, you know,
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  Speaker 3: making sure you you know the plaster technique right, the
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  Speaker 3: plaster on the on the on the receivers, and making
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  Speaker 3: sure that uh, you'd rather him run than than than
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  Speaker 3: an explosive pass. But obviously yesterday two of them, you know,
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  Speaker 3: one was an explosive run and the other was an
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  Speaker 3: explosive pass, which is the double WHAMMYE.
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  Speaker 4: So something we got to improvement