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Mike Macdonald: "We Took A Step Up Front" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Mike, you guys were as deep as you've been
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  Speaker 1: across the defensive front this season.
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  Speaker 2: Where did that show up when you went.
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  Speaker 3: Back and looking at the tape, just having that many
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  Speaker 3: guys to rotate.
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  Speaker 4: I think it showed up in the second half.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: You're looking at some of the snap counts to be
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  Speaker 5: a little more controlled than that the ideally that you
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  Speaker 5: that you want on a per game basis. And then
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  Speaker 5: we're getting too some of those past situations, having fresh
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  Speaker 5: guys getting ready to you know, rush the passer and
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  Speaker 5: then play some of the just be able to have
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  Speaker 5: some more fresh legs to play the play some of
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  Speaker 5: the runs games and in a.
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  Speaker 2: Particular high Byron Murphy looking his first game.
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  Speaker 4: Back, Murphy, he looked great. I thought he played really well.
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  Speaker 5: There's a couple of plays away from him that I
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  Speaker 5: think he can adjust his angle and be able to
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  Speaker 5: make some of those plays on the backside, and and
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  Speaker 5: he'll see that and he'll he'll get better from it.
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  Speaker 4: Can you guys hear the well?
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  Speaker 5: Got some construction going on over here, Brady. I, Mike,
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  Speaker 5: what can you tell us about dk metcalp status and
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  Speaker 5: what you've learned about his injury?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so he's got a Uh I think I think
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  Speaker 5: it's a minor m c L timeline, not sure time,
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  Speaker 5: I'm not sure. Doesn't look like it's a long term injury.
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  Speaker 5: And I know, uh, you guys know DK. We know DK.
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  Speaker 5: He's gonna probably do anything humanly possible to be able
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  Speaker 5: to play in this game, I would imagine, and uh,
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  Speaker 5: we'll assess it as a week kind of kind of
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  Speaker 5: unfolds here.
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  Speaker 4: There was a report that it's an MCL sprain.
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  Speaker 6: Is that you're understanding, yes, ye, yes, Brian.
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  Speaker 7: Hey coach, question on Abe Lucas and if you expect
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  Speaker 7: his practice window to open this week.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, give me another couple, give me another I needs
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  Speaker 5: more time to let you know on that.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: There is a situation where he could come back and
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  Speaker 5: start practicing this week, but we haven't finalized that yet.
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  Speaker 5: But it's looking good on the front with Abe. And
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  Speaker 5: when he does come back, you know we're not gonna
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  Speaker 5: there is a there is a process to get him
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  Speaker 5: ready to play. So even even if he did start
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  Speaker 5: to practice, I think you're looking at a you know,
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  Speaker 5: a good chunk of a time of practice time to
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  Speaker 5: get him ready to go play a game.
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  Speaker 7: George fant expectations there this week?
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  Speaker 5: George, not sure right now? Not sure about this week
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  Speaker 5: right now?
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  Speaker 2: And then I'm just curious.
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  Speaker 7: Different coaches have different definitions of explosive plays. How what
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  Speaker 7: the threshold is for run or threshold is for a
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  Speaker 7: past to be explosive. What's your definition of explosive run
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  Speaker 7: and explosive past?
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  Speaker 4: You know when you see it, so it's a it's
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  Speaker 4: it's adjustable.
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  Speaker 5: But if you're not playing it right and you know
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  Speaker 5: the ball it's out, it's an explosive run.
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  Speaker 4: It's an explosive pass.
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  Speaker 5: If the guy plays the heck out of the ball
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  Speaker 5: and it's down the field and guy makes a heck
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  Speaker 5: of a catch, I mean, yeah, it's an explosive pass,
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  Speaker 5: but is it really you know? So those are the
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  Speaker 5: things you're looking at, But it's about how It's about
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  Speaker 5: how you played the plays and offensively, it's really the
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  Speaker 5: same thing. Hey, if did you know, did Canine just
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  Speaker 5: make a guy miss and run around the defense or
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  Speaker 5: did we block the heck out of the thing and
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  Speaker 5: we creased them?
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's kind of a sliding scale. Thanks coach, Jen.
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  Speaker 3: I want to follow up on that. Where did you
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  Speaker 3: where did you get that philosophy from because you're very
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  Speaker 3: numbers driven.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I just think people try to get too cute
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  Speaker 4: with it.
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  Speaker 5: You're like, well, you gave up like x amount of
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  Speaker 5: explosive runs and it's a ten plus run. Well, you know,
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  Speaker 5: and then they try to sound like they're run defense
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  Speaker 5: is great, and then they give up like twenty nine yard runs.
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  Speaker 4: So people start.
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  Speaker 5: Jerry Rosberg once told me, if you torture the numbers
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  Speaker 5: hard enough, they'll tell you anything you want. So if
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  Speaker 5: I start spewing some stats to you, guys, look out.
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  Speaker 8: Great.
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  Speaker 3: You leaned on Kobe Bryant a lot this week going
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  Speaker 3: back to last year, because I know you looked at
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  Speaker 3: tape when you first got here. Where has he made
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  Speaker 3: the biggest jumps from last season to what we saw yesterday?
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  Speaker 5: Well, last season it's hard for me to speak speak
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  Speaker 5: on Frankly, I just think from our experience with him
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  Speaker 5: since he since he got here first of all, trying
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  Speaker 5: to find a home for him. He's such a versatile player,
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  Speaker 5: which you know we've talked about this before.
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  Speaker 4: But when you can be when you can play multiple things,
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  Speaker 4: it's a little.
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  Speaker 5: Bit of a double edged sword because it's hard to
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  Speaker 5: find a true home. And I think, you know, he
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  Speaker 5: still has nickel flexibility. You know, I think he still
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  Speaker 5: can play corner, but right now it seems like his
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  Speaker 5: best spot is at safety and he's just just comes
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  Speaker 5: with reps and just get a more comfort level and
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  Speaker 5: more and more clarity and then you know, just banking
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  Speaker 5: a ton of reps. It's like we've talked about the
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  Speaker 5: whole time, is hey, you know he's been doing the
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  Speaker 5: same calls over and over and over again, uh since April,
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  Speaker 5: and so that that that breeds confidence and he's able
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  Speaker 5: to play fast.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Curtis. Yeah, Mike, what would you like about Mike
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  Speaker 2: Durrell's performance this week and does he get another look
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  Speaker 2: this Sunday for you?
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  Speaker 4: Well, guy played hard. Guy played really hard.
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  Speaker 5: And there's a couple of plays where, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 5: he just he lost the reps and you know that's
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  Speaker 5: gonna happen. But guy fought and played really hard and technique,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, there's always there's always things, you know, the
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  Speaker 5: first rep, but like the game wasn't too big for him.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just I'm just really pleased with his effort frankly,
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  Speaker 5: and his finish on a per play basis, and I
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  Speaker 5: think he's earned the opportunity to, you know, if it
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  Speaker 5: shakes out at right tackle.
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  Speaker 4: We've got some moving parts going on there right now.
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  Speaker 5: But if he you know, if he was the guy
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  Speaker 5: again this week, you know, we'd be be really confident
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  Speaker 5: in him.
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  Speaker 2: And how about the line play overall yesterday?
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  Speaker 8: Up front?
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  Speaker 5: For I thought, I thought we took a step up front,
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  Speaker 5: and we're this is something we're always mean. We're always
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  Speaker 5: gonna be chasing, dominating the line of scrimmage on both
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  Speaker 5: sides of the ball. Uh, but we took a step
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  Speaker 5: I felt like up front. And Uh, when we watch
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  Speaker 5: the tape, there's gonna be a lot of great things
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  Speaker 5: we did, and then there's gonna be some plays and
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  Speaker 5: some opportunities where he felt like that we could have
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  Speaker 5: finished the play better and could have you know, aren't
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  Speaker 5: some of our double teams, some of our run schemes, felt.
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  Speaker 4: Like we left a little bit on the table. Bos
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  Speaker 4: veto Hey, Mike this morning.
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  Speaker 9: Uh, you said we have a sense of urgency to
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  Speaker 9: build a team that we want to become as a
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  Speaker 9: process driven and leader. How do you balance where the
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  Speaker 9: team is and that sense of urgency and where you want.
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  Speaker 5: Them to go, well, it's always about building, you know,
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  Speaker 5: building towards a vision of who we want to be,
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  Speaker 5: and you're and if you're doing it right, you're never
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  Speaker 5: gonna get to that point, right. It's it's it's kind
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  Speaker 5: of this uh Wizard of Oz type thing at the
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  Speaker 5: end of the you know, at the end of the
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  Speaker 5: road said that you're always trying to just be it
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  Speaker 5: just you know, encapsulate that vision of how we want
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  Speaker 5: to be every day, every down.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that's what keeps you hungry. I think
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  Speaker 4: that's what it.
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  Speaker 5: Keep you doing what you're doing and having the enthusiasm
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  Speaker 5: that you could that you want. But it's it's exciting
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  Speaker 5: to go chase that thing, and when you make progress,
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  Speaker 5: it's really exciting. And then you know, from a week
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  Speaker 5: to week basis, we you know, we talked about it
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  Speaker 5: three weeks in a row now, but now here comes
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  Speaker 5: another challenge. So we got to go back to square
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  Speaker 5: one as a team and understand all the effort that
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  Speaker 5: it took us to get ready for this pass game
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  Speaker 5: against Atlanta, and we got to go, uh even kick
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  Speaker 5: it up a notch again against the Bills and.
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  Speaker 9: Then real quickly the importance of quarterback hits in your defense,
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  Speaker 9: and your three losses you have got less than six
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  Speaker 9: quarterback hits, and all your four wins you've got a
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  Speaker 9: minimum of seven. Yep, how important is that? That's an
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  Speaker 9: obvious question.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's I think that's a little bit
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  Speaker 5: more a result over the process about how you win
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  Speaker 5: on early downs, how well we can move the ball
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  Speaker 5: and possess the ball on offense as well. So again
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  Speaker 5: it's a team stat, I think, but how we play
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  Speaker 5: on early downs on defense specifically helps us create some
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  Speaker 5: of those, you know, more of those opportunities on defense
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  Speaker 5: where you can try to get the quarterback to hold
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  Speaker 5: the ball in some of those dropback situations. It's it's
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  Speaker 5: tough to you know, when they're run play action game.
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  Speaker 5: You know, really you just you can't be running these crazy,
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  Speaker 5: crazy defenses that uh otherwise you you know, you've got
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  Speaker 5: no chance against the run.
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  Speaker 2: Greg hell litenir, could you further find those moving parts
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  Speaker 2: at right tackle? Is stone foresight back soon?
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  Speaker 4: And yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, right now, it's just it's a it's a it's
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  Speaker 5: kind of we're working through that right now.
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  Speaker 4: Greg.
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  Speaker 5: It's it, Mike, Mike Drell Obviously, if he had to go,
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  Speaker 5: we'd be excited about him working through George fans situation.
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  Speaker 5: Same thing with Stone, and then you know, Abe's not
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  Speaker 5: going to be whether or not we bring it back
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  Speaker 5: on Wednesday or not.
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  Speaker 4: He won't be ready to play this week.
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  Speaker 5: So I think it's really between Stone, George and Uh
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  Speaker 5: and Mike Durell.
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  Speaker 2: And and then how much.
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  Speaker 1: Not just yesterday, but all season has Gino Smith moving
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  Speaker 1: within the pocket helped the entire offense and he seems
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  Speaker 1: to be creating plays that otherwise would have been broken down.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's big time because you know, you can't just
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  Speaker 5: live in quick game and when you are in your
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  Speaker 5: dropback situation trying to get the ball to move down
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  Speaker 5: the field, and if Gino can buy an extra extra click,
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  Speaker 5: you know, for the routes to develop and sit in
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  Speaker 5: there and make a great throw like he's been doing,
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  Speaker 5: really helps you get the ball down the field.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, to the.
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  Speaker 5: Earlier question about explosives, now you're hitting some of those
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  Speaker 5: second level throws.
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  Speaker 4: That's that can really help.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir Corbyn.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, which we got our first look at Roy Robinson
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  Speaker 8: Harris yesterday and you've been playing him a fair amount
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  Speaker 8: it looked like off the edge. What did you see
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  Speaker 8: from him his first game and how much does it
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  Speaker 8: benefit you in your scheme to have a guy with
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  Speaker 8: that kind of length that can play that big defensive
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  Speaker 8: end position.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think I think you'll I think you'll see
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  Speaker 5: this trying to move Roy around a little bit more.
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  Speaker 5: Having having some more time with him, I thought he
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  Speaker 5: I thought he did a great job. There's a couple
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  Speaker 5: of plays and I'm off the top of my mind,
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  Speaker 5: I always think of the plays that you want to
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  Speaker 5: improve on, but uh, we're excited to have Roy. Uh
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  Speaker 5: can play, can play played some nine technique for US
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  Speaker 5: six technique. I think he can play play the big
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  Speaker 5: gap as well. And uh, again front flexibility in certain
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  Speaker 5: personnel categories I think will help us moving forward. And
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  Speaker 5: just a guy that, uh, just a guy that you
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  Speaker 5: want your football team. Just a loves ball, great energy,
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  Speaker 5: really smart, tough. So we're excited to have him.
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  Speaker 8: And with Draymont Jones four quarterback hits yesterday, it seemed
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  Speaker 8: like he really came to life. And do you feel
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  Speaker 8: like he is starting to really find his rhythm now
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  Speaker 8: in this scheme that you guys are figuring out how
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  Speaker 8: to utilize.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so. I think so.
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  Speaker 5: It's been a it's been a team process with it
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  Speaker 5: and how it fits with the guys that have been
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  Speaker 5: available as well. You know, the Detroit game, we had
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  Speaker 5: to move him inside, which you know, he did what's
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  Speaker 5: best for the team and that that situation. I actually
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  Speaker 5: thought he played pretty well against Detroit. But this past
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  Speaker 5: game I thought was his best game at least this year,
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  Speaker 5: speaking for this year since we've since we've been together,
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  Speaker 5: played with great energy. Uh really took over the one
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  Speaker 5: series I thought where he had the the TfL or
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  Speaker 5: the batted pass and then I think he was in
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  Speaker 5: on a sack and uh, just excited for him in
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  Speaker 5: his progress. It seems like he's have some confidence and
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  Speaker 5: more on the edge and what we're asked him to do,
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  Speaker 5: and I you know, expect him to still improve as
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  Speaker 5: we go.
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  Speaker 1: Bob, Yeah, do you have any clarity on what the
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  Speaker 1: situation will be this week with Reequilling and Trey Brown?
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  Speaker 1: And then how did you feel like the cornerbacks who
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  Speaker 1: you had to had to have played yesterday? And and
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  Speaker 1: I and Josh how did you feel like they played?
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  Speaker 9: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, a week.
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  Speaker 5: I think we're gonna we're shooting for having him some
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  Speaker 5: some capacity on Wednesday. Trey right now not sure about
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  Speaker 5: his availability on Wednesday. And then the guys that stepped
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  Speaker 5: in for those guys, I thought they did a heck
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  Speaker 5: of a job.
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  Speaker 4: Thought, uh, you know, Nei and Maya.
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  Speaker 5: He's really getting his feet wet in the NFL. So
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  Speaker 5: he's gained some confidence, but you can see that the
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  Speaker 5: ability is there, and some technique issues that we'd like he'll.
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  Speaker 4: Get cleaned up in a hurry.
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  Speaker 5: And then you know, like to see him tackle a
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  Speaker 5: little bit more sturdy on the perimeter. I missed some
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  Speaker 5: tackles with a couple of balls got out. He'll make
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  Speaker 5: those plays next time. And I thought Josh played a
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  Speaker 5: really really good game as well. I felt him out there.
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  Speaker 5: Uh seemed like he was poised, sticky in coverage and uh,
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  Speaker 5: you know, answered the bell. And I thought the rest
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  Speaker 5: of the defense did a great job of rallying around
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  Speaker 5: those guys, and uh speaks to the work of prep
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  Speaker 5: that they were able to bank all those reps through
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  Speaker 5: out the week.
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  Speaker 4: And I thought they showed up.
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  Speaker 1: And we're more with with Kobe Bryant. How did you
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  Speaker 1: sort of decide, I guess to make him be to
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  Speaker 1: have him be the start for this.
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  Speaker 4: Week body of work. And yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I just think that he just he did he earned it.
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  Speaker 5: He earned the opportunity by his production. We say, like
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  Speaker 5: being in on don I'm earlier in the season and
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  Speaker 5: then just kind of banking all those reps and then
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  Speaker 5: when it became apparent that we weren't going to have Ray,
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  Speaker 5: I just felt like that was the best, best kind
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  Speaker 5: of configuration in the back end to help us go
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  Speaker 5: win the game.
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  Speaker 6: Brady and Mike uh with DK situations, what kind of
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  Speaker 6: luxury is it to have a pretty deep wide receiver corps?
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  Speaker 6: And then what do you think about your ability to
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  Speaker 6: kind of overcome his loss if he isn't able to go?
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  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, we have a huge amount of confidence in
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  Speaker 5: in our in our guys. I mean again to your point,
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  Speaker 5: we got a deep crew. So like you know, Jake
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  Speaker 5: stepped in last night when after yesterday after DK went down,
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  Speaker 5: and then you know the way that we build all
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  Speaker 5: three guys can kind of play all three spots where
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  Speaker 5: you can mix and match. Af Terike Young got a
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  Speaker 5: got more of an opportunity Leaviska going out there and
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  Speaker 5: being able to play multiple spots and then be able
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  Speaker 5: to all the catch and run stuff with him is exciting. So, uh,
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  Speaker 5: we we have and then you know you can go
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  Speaker 5: to two tight end packages.
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  Speaker 4: You know we can.
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  Speaker 5: There's things you could do with Ken or two tailbacks.
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  Speaker 5: So there's lots of options at our disposal that are
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  Speaker 5: in the system. So if we didn't have them, you know,
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  Speaker 5: you're never gonna you know, fill the shoes of a
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  Speaker 5: DK Metcalf, but you can kind of work around it
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  Speaker 5: in certain ways.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, John Boyle.
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  Speaker 2: Their top two running backs beat John and Tyson that
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  Speaker 2: I think it was twenty two yards on eleven carries
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  Speaker 2: in the second half after a pretty big first half.
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  Speaker 2: What did you see changing in the run defense?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, we just played the plays better, I thought. I thought,
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  Speaker 5: you know, we still we need to tackle better.
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  Speaker 4: Period.
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  Speaker 5: That's that's a theme that we're we're attacking right now.
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  Speaker 5: That that is that's showing up consistently. But when you
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  Speaker 5: do play a certain way and you play fast and
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  Speaker 5: you get hats to the ball, it kind of erases
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  Speaker 5: some of those things. So I felt like the second half,
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  Speaker 5: our second and third level guys getting in on the
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  Speaker 5: tackle and getting the guys to go backward rather than
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  Speaker 5: you know, maybe a missing a tackle as a second
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  Speaker 5: level player and then you know, spitting out for about
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  Speaker 5: fifteen or so yards before the post safety.
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  Speaker 4: Asked to tackle.
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  Speaker 5: And I thought, you know that that will eliminate some
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  Speaker 5: you know, some explosive yardage.
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  Speaker 4: Mike Sean, Mike.
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  Speaker 8: With the rotation you've had at right guard and then
• 15:19
  Speaker 8: some of the.
• 15:20
  Speaker 7: Rotation you've kind of have with injuries at right tackle,
• 15:23
  Speaker 7: how have you seen Connor and Gino manage their roles
• 15:27
  Speaker 7: with all of that?
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: Well, I thought they've done it. They've done a great job.
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: Considering what's going on. We lean on Connor a lot
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: up front. He's going to make a lot of calls
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: at the center position. But this guy's on it.
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: He's a super he's a he's a big time competitor.
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: I love like his When you guys see this guy
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: practice and how he does does walk throughs, and how
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: he meets you, just you can't help but be really
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: really impressed. Just the sense of urgency he has about
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: making calls and wanted to do it right all the time,
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: so no matter who's to his right in that situation.
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: I think that's infectious and Geno's the same way. This
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: guy's a perfectionist and uh, you know, and then also
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: kind of the the the guy kind of rounding the
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: troops when you know, when things are kind of scattered
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: every once in a while, so you know, those guys
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: were going to lean on. But really impressed with Connor
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: on how he's been able to handle the moving parts
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: on the right side of the line.
• 16:21
  Speaker 9: Thanks.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: Okay, a couple more Brian.
• 16:24
  Speaker 7: Yeah, coach boy Mafe and Derek Hall are the only
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: teammates twenty five or younger that I'll both have four
• 16:31
  Speaker 7: sacks on the season so far. Both of them played
• 16:33
  Speaker 7: a big role Yesterdaday, what what do you see as
• 16:37
  Speaker 7: their future? Like, what do you envision for them as
• 16:40
  Speaker 7: they continue to grow even as early as they are
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: in their career.
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: Well, I think both players could be all pro type
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: football players. I think the sky's the limit for both.
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: It's about the process with those guys when they've when
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: they've put the work in which they have and had
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: the off seasons that they've had, in the focus on
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: a day to day basis and continually finding things that
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: they can they can attack in their game. And you
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: can kind of go through each guy and tell them,
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: you know, those things, but they've they want to learn,
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: they want to be great.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: They work their tails off and then on.
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: Game day they just they they play really freaking hard
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: and they run to the ball and the rest of
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: the stuff, you know, is our job as coaches to
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: get fixed.
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: But the sky's the limit with those two guys.
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: Thanks coaching.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: Okay, last two Curtis and then Greg.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Mike, can he kind of reflect on Ken's performance
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: yesterday given how he was feeling and everything, and when
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: you watched it back and saw that for he was
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: able to kind of give you what he was able
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: to do for you yesterday.
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's Uh, he was a warrior, man.
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: I know he didn't I know he wasn't feeling well,
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: and that probably doesn't even do it justice.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: Again, I don't I don't know what he had, but.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: He was Uh, he gutted through it and he played
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: his tail off. I mean some of the plays that
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: he made, even the cut touch, has I get called
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: back on the holding call?
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: Just he's a difference maker for us and and we
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: want to get the ball in his hands as much
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: as possible in the in the in the past game
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: and the run game, and so when he's out there
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: just it makes a difference. And so for him to
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: able to kind of put the team first and and
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: gut through it was was big for us.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Sure, Christian Haynes and Anthony Bradford do And will that
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: rotation continue?
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: I thought, I thought, I thought both guys took a
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: step in their game. I think I think that competition
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: right now is is what's best for both of them
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: and probably what's best for the team. So I'd imagine
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: the rotation still still continuing at this point.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: All Right, Thank you everybody. We'll see you live in
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: in person on Wednesday. All right, travel safe, guys. See