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Head Coach Mike Macdonald On The 30-24 Victory Over The Titans In Week 12 · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, good to see everybody. Really, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: a good win. You know, it's it's a it's tough
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  Speaker 1: coming East ten Am game for our guys. Uh, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta give the Titans a lot of credit. They they
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  Speaker 1: played extremely hard. I mean, their quarterback played really well.
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  Speaker 1: He's really hard guy to get on the ground and
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  Speaker 1: extended plays and did a great job, especially on some
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  Speaker 1: of those third and fourth downs. I mean, our guys
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  Speaker 1: were playing really hard at there at the end, and
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  Speaker 1: I thought we showed a lot of maturity, you know,
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  Speaker 1: working through all the things and how the game went.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you would have liked for us to be
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  Speaker 1: able to close the game out earlier. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're they're fighting hard, and they played hard, and they
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  Speaker 1: returned the kick for a touchdown, and my guys showed
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  Speaker 1: a lot of resilience just keep playing, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: last drive. We're also playing the clock knowing that they're
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  Speaker 1: going to be in a you know, on site kick situation.
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  Speaker 1: So didn't give a big play there, which is a positive.
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  Speaker 1: But we obviously would have liked to close the game
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  Speaker 1: out earlier. But uh, tell you what, our guys, our
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  Speaker 1: guys fought really hard, played hard, we had a good
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  Speaker 1: week of preparation, and uh, look, you don't. You don't
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  Speaker 1: play teams records in this league. Teams are too talented.
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  Speaker 1: This team is a talented team that has coached well
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  Speaker 1: and they played hard. They just they've had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of one score games that haven't gone their way and
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  Speaker 1: today is another one. So hats off to them. But
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  Speaker 1: Jason breaking the franchise record for receiving yarns, yeah, just
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's funny. We just told the team that
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  Speaker 1: he that he did. It became the game ball and
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  Speaker 1: I asked him what week it was, and everybody said
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter, so we got the right mentality. But
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  Speaker 1: happy for Jason. I mean, he's doing an incredible job,
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  Speaker 1: brings it every day and he's a great teammate, which
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  Speaker 1: is awesome, you know, so you're really happy for him.
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  Speaker 1: With all the injuries that linebacker, how did you feel
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  Speaker 1: like Patio went played out there? And it's funny, We've
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  Speaker 1: we have an ongoing joke on our on our on
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  Speaker 1: our ready squad that we can't block Patio on a
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  Speaker 1: daily basis. So I'm glad he had his opportunity today
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  Speaker 1: and happy for him. He went out and played winning
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  Speaker 1: football for US and made some great plays. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: excited to watch the tape, watch him and see what
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  Speaker 1: he did. Contiguous fully yet you see all right coming
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  Speaker 1: out of this my knowledge. Yeah yeah, so like consistently
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  Speaker 1: dominant when everyone knows that he's getting the ball for
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  Speaker 1: the most part. I guess what does that say about
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  Speaker 1: his ability? Well, he's he's got trends disability, he's a
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  Speaker 1: great talent, and he's an incredible worker. And but I
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  Speaker 1: would say it's a team thing, like, you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: not the only guy running rountes out there, he's not
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  Speaker 1: the guy protecting I think our offensive staff does a
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  Speaker 1: great job of moving him around, which is not easy
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  Speaker 1: to play multiple positions and move around you know some
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's hard for guys to do that. So
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  Speaker 1: it takes a lot of effort. It takes a lot
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  Speaker 1: of like elegant simplicity to kind of make him get
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  Speaker 1: you know, getting all these different spots. So and I
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  Speaker 1: think the guys around him are playing at a high
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  Speaker 1: level too. So I think we could be better. I think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think today we were a little sloppy
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  Speaker 1: operationally offensively, Uh, we need to clean that up. You know,
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  Speaker 1: got to be better in the reds. All these things
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  Speaker 1: that we want to be able to improve on, I
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  Speaker 1: think will even make it. I think we'll allow him
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  Speaker 1: to even take it to another level. This was the
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  Speaker 1: second game where you guys had no turnovers? How important
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  Speaker 1: was that to as Craig. I probably should have started
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  Speaker 1: with that. That's that's a obviously some major point of
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  Speaker 1: emphasis to play great football. And we're talking about finishing
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  Speaker 1: drives with the ball in the end zone. That's what
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  Speaker 1: we want to do. We're gonna finish in the red
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  Speaker 1: zone and obviously we want to we want to hold
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  Speaker 1: onto it. So guys did a good job of that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the balls and jeopardy a couple of times
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  Speaker 1: like guy hit the ball, hit the guy in the
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  Speaker 1: chest once and the balls up in the air. So
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  Speaker 1: we had to look at that, make sure we're cleaning
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  Speaker 1: those things up. What happened with Tyle? How do you
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  Speaker 1: feel liked Anthony? Yeah, Tye has a oblique and all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden he was out. So I think it happened, right.
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  Speaker 1: I think that might have happened on that fourth down
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  Speaker 1: or in the drive before the fourth down. So and
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  Speaker 1: then Anthony being ready to go. I got a little Harry.
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  Speaker 1: They were out of safety, so we had to be
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  Speaker 1: ready for a contingency plan. But great job. Uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Howard had a great job of getting them ready
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  Speaker 1: to go, and we didn't really we didn't have to
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  Speaker 1: change game plan. We call our stuff and that's a
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  Speaker 1: tribute to him. The podcast stepping out there and you've
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  Speaker 1: got Brandon healing in the four down stop. You didn't
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  Speaker 1: mention the anthony you got Patio. What's the same about
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  Speaker 1: the defense? Well, yeah, it's the same message. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's a seventy and and it's that feeling
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  Speaker 1: that we talk about throughout the year of like when
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  Speaker 1: when guys have opportunities to go, you're excited to go
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  Speaker 1: see them play, Like, uh, these guys have earned opportunities
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  Speaker 1: to play for us in in you know, in critical games,
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  Speaker 1: and so I was excited to see these guys play,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So it's it's excited. It's great. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's not like oh shoot, so and so is out.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, oh great, okay, great, like let's go, let's
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  Speaker 1: roll with Patio. Let's go. You're pretty tired that one. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: they got that Uh heck, yeah, man, I mean that's
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  Speaker 1: own football. I mean that's some that's a that's a
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  Speaker 1: physical football play man, and it's high leverage situation. Take
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  Speaker 1: some high level execution. At the end of the day
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  Speaker 1: in short yardg you gotta kick somebody's butt and uh
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  Speaker 1: on that play, we did that. You see, they're they're
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  Speaker 1: plumber to learn. Did you know for the touchdown? Did
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  Speaker 1: you see anything that might appen? Yeah? I saw something
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  Speaker 1: that happened, But we gotta play better. This guy likes
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  Speaker 1: to go around the edge and we had no edge.
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  Speaker 1: So that's not that's that's the that's the gunner's responsibility
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  Speaker 1: and it's our it's our nets responsibility. So we got
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  Speaker 1: to play that better. But I saw a few things
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  Speaker 1: on that one. What do you think of sam'sday? Like
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  Speaker 1: he was letting it red, Like you said you wanted
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  Speaker 1: to finish the best. Yeah. Well, actually, you know, he
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  Speaker 1: was a spark for us, you know, the big the
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  Speaker 1: big touchdown to Jack's Like to see his emotion and
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  Speaker 1: his excitement, I thought really got the team going, which
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  Speaker 1: was which is something that we needed. So like we said,
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  Speaker 1: same guy just uh ripped it. Did a great job.
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  Speaker 1: There's some plays that you know, we want to improve on.
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  Speaker 1: We want back and learn from those plays, just like
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the team. But saying play a good
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  Speaker 1: football today, Derek has his first sack of the season.
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  Speaker 1: Play doesn't feel like it. I feel like he's been
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  Speaker 1: rushing away. He deserves more than whatever he has, So
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  Speaker 1: happy for him. You know he should have more. And
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  Speaker 1: I think we have to finish better on the quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you got to give their quarterback a lot
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  Speaker 1: of credit for how lucive he is. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: we had some opportunities there in the fourth, you know,
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  Speaker 1: third and fourth quarter, and it'd be great to capitalize him.
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  Speaker 1: But guys are playing incredibly hard. You can't you can't
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  Speaker 1: say that's not because we're not fighting or we're not
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  Speaker 1: doing anything selfishly. It's just we just got to do
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  Speaker 1: a little bit better, play a little bit better together,
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  Speaker 1: finish better. But happy for d Haul because he's, uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's playing really high football, high level football for us
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  Speaker 1: at the great kind of coming back up. He starting
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  Speaker 1: to playing a little Tell you guys, he's unbelievable. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he you know, he wanted to go against their front
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  Speaker 1: and I mean, what else can you say about the
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  Speaker 1: guy just the league competitor, toughest crap. Yeah, we love him.
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  Speaker 1: I felt like he played played really good football too,
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  Speaker 1: so happy for him. Long worse of your rehearsal also
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  Speaker 1: and chase him down, Yeah, I know you do that.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny. As soon as a reverse field, I said
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  Speaker 1: in that Nick, go get him, because I was like,
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  Speaker 1: he's the only guy that's a chance to go get him.
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  Speaker 1: So but that's that's uh, that's our defense. You know,
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  Speaker 1: just just defend the blade of grass. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: want to play relentlessly. Nick does that, you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: and he's playing two spots for us, which is not
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  Speaker 1: easy to do. There's a lot of a lot of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You got to learn to play two positions. George Alani
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  Speaker 1: doing it seemed like those guys being out with the
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  Speaker 1: impact of the special teams there as well. Well it did. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're we're kind of getting a little thin
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  Speaker 1: there towards the game, so guys stepped up and played
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  Speaker 1: Chazz as an ankle. George has a hamstring, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see. Is there any early sense on Ocama? Most serious?
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  Speaker 1: Not in early sense. I looked at mean, I almost
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  Speaker 1: almost punched him in the oblique in the locker room,
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  Speaker 1: and then I stopped just because I know you love
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  Speaker 1: injury to time. A lot of questions is does it
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  Speaker 1: seem like Julian is attract to get back this week?
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  Speaker 1: We'll see he's on you know, he's he's got a
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  Speaker 1: process that we got to go through, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: it's just we got to take it day by day.
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  Speaker 1: We're hopeful, but you know, part of the reason of
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  Speaker 1: putting him on IR and taking this time is insure
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  Speaker 1: when he comes back that he's ready to go and
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  Speaker 1: he can he can go rip it the way that
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  Speaker 1: he plays and we're not asking, you know, second questions,
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  Speaker 1: so you know that we want to make sure he's
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  Speaker 1: ready to go to get more carries. Today, How did
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  Speaker 1: you feel like he played? Thought, I did a great
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  Speaker 1: job and it was great to see Zach you know,
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  Speaker 1: punching the red zone. We wanted to, you know, run,
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  Speaker 1: So those guys played well together. I thought we protect
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback, well, we caught it way out of the backfield. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but I felt ken today. You know, he made some
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  Speaker 1: explosive plays for us, which is great. He also be
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  Speaker 1: given to probably not enough and ultimate Honestly, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but he you know, he deserved honestly, probably could get
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  Speaker 1: one every game. It was just like eight in a
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  Speaker 1: row or eight eight games for one hundred plus. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean he's playing. He's a tremendous football player. His
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  Speaker 1: pass routes and keeps defenders on his back. Guys, a
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  Speaker 1: defensive what do you coach better to all those deep
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  Speaker 1: balls down the field, especially ones that aren't like in stride.
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  Speaker 1: It's incremand it's incredibly hard to play. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're running full speed speeds that I've never encountered me
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  Speaker 1: running down the field. So it's just it's a hard thing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like at some point when when you're in phase,
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  Speaker 1: you have to go play the ball, and that's really
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  Speaker 1: the only chance you have because otherwise you're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: called for a penalty. So but it just does show
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  Speaker 1: you his body control is really just next level. You
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  Speaker 1: asked my question. What's you said? You asked him something
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  Speaker 1: about Jackson. Yeah, when we're doing gall what the record?
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  Speaker 1: I'll go before I gave it to him, asked like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he broke the record by whatever weeke, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, but week, what week is it? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It's week twelve, eleventh game, week twelve, and that's it's
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  Speaker 1: pretty good. This first testoun quick. I mean, he went
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  Speaker 1: most ink, he got messed up on the safety there
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  Speaker 1: and we look, yeah, they might have coverage bust on
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  Speaker 1: that one, but you gotta make him pay for that
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  Speaker 1: anything else. All right, Thank you guys, see you back home.