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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Gives Final Updates Ahead of Week 11 at Rams · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, let's not talk about the game. Let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about who's available.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see, so Tory Horton is out, Jalen is out,
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  Speaker 2: and that's really the only I think that's the only designation.
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  Speaker 1: So like Job's ready to go, bobo if we decide.
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  Speaker 2: To bring up Christian, I think we have un till
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  Speaker 2: next Wednesday. So Christian's ready if needed, and he J's
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  Speaker 2: ready if needed, which he is needed. Gray's gonna play.
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  Speaker 2: I did fact, he's playing, So he did great.
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  Speaker 1: Is that it.
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  Speaker 2: What's kind of going on with.
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  Speaker 1: His way back here? Yeah, it's it's a shin right now, so.
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  Speaker 2: Just working through it, you know, re imaged it, found
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  Speaker 2: some found some stuff that's going to keep him out
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  Speaker 2: for right now.
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  Speaker 1: So he's out.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's a difference in year two with the
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  Speaker 3: guys because of big oldest doll game plans a week in,
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  Speaker 3: week out, now that they have a little more experience
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  Speaker 3: with the system.
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  Speaker 2: Come on defense, Yeah, I think well, I think it's
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  Speaker 2: both of us working together. I think it's us as
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  Speaker 2: coaches learning our players and what they kind of like,
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  Speaker 2: what resonates with them and uh and then and they're
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  Speaker 2: getting used to kind of how we operate too, so.
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  Speaker 1: Just us working together. I actually feel like we've had
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  Speaker 1: a lot of growth this.
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  Speaker 2: Year compared to you know, last year's kind of a blurb,
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  Speaker 2: but this year, I feel like we've we've grown a
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  Speaker 2: lot on how we're how we're building it.
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  Speaker 3: Any impact to travel plans run out of all the
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  Speaker 3: rain weather stuff down and.
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  Speaker 1: I hope not. I haven't heard anything. I hope not.
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  Speaker 4: A couple of weeks ago with Cooper when he was
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  Speaker 4: out of injured, then Argus last week. You've seen better
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  Speaker 4: guys when they are I was really involved on the game.
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  Speaker 4: Dage on the sideline. What does that do for the
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  Speaker 4: team when they are back engage?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's great. I mean I believe it. I mean it.
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  Speaker 1: It helps.
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  Speaker 2: It's you know, every person on our sideline, even in
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  Speaker 2: the locker room, you know, pregame guys that aren't dressing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's like the energy and the enthusiasm and
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  Speaker 2: those guys are kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of being into it. It's been really helpful.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the guys have been awesome, and when you
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  Speaker 2: have veterans doing it shows a great example for the
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  Speaker 2: young guys and that energy is contagious on the sideline. Man,
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  Speaker 2: those guys have done a great job. I thinking a
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  Speaker 2: spoon spoon was out and he's got the towel going
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  Speaker 2: and everything.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Stafford really knowing for the creativity passes, the.
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  Speaker 1: Looks and stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Is there a way to practice against that during the
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  Speaker 4: week or what do you have to take you?
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  Speaker 1: I think you just have to have an awareness of it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean you start chasing like certain things and trying
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  Speaker 2: to you know, catch him or you know, it's just
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  Speaker 2: gets a little funky. But he's he's one of the guys.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a lot of people that do all the
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  Speaker 2: no look passes and can throw it with that type
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  Speaker 2: of arm talent.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty.
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  Speaker 2: It's cool until like this week, you know, say that again,
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  Speaker 2: he might I might have just missed it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure Drew's done a great job. He's done a
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  Speaker 2: great job this week with everything he talked.
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  Speaker 3: A few weeks ago about this team is seaxage. I've
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  Speaker 3: earned the right to expect to win each week. At
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  Speaker 3: what point do you feel like they earned that right
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  Speaker 3: to expect that?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Coming out of training camp. Our guys they're connected, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they they I think they believe in one another. I
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  Speaker 2: think they've they worked their tails off every day and
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  Speaker 2: we've talked about it at length, but throughout the throughout
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  Speaker 2: the course of spring, guys were in great shape coming
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  Speaker 2: out of the summer and they, uh, they get after
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  Speaker 2: it in camp and they continue to stack days. Now,
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  Speaker 2: how we do it, you know, in terms of physically,
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  Speaker 2: it varies based off of what we feel. But the
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  Speaker 2: mentality that we're trying to create here is is continuing
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  Speaker 2: to evolve and that's what we expect. But I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, last it's not like we've lined up last
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  Speaker 2: year and felt like you know, but I think the
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  Speaker 2: mentality changed. You know, every time you step on the field,
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  Speaker 2: you expect to win.
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  Speaker 4: I are considered deployer Dale.
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  Speaker 2: I knew that question was coming from Yeah, uh, they are.
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  Speaker 2: It is under consideration.
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  Speaker 4: Yah was coming to the last few camps with a
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  Speaker 4: chance to be a starter, and for different reasons, he
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  Speaker 4: wasn't when the year started. He got called upon midway
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  Speaker 4: last year, and now you're asking him to the kind of
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  Speaker 4: game that that's not always easy to the player. How
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  Speaker 4: have you seen him handle that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a great point.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's been a tough situation for al he's he's
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  Speaker 2: especially this year he had a he really battled and
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  Speaker 2: he competed his tailoff and under I would say it's
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  Speaker 2: he put in a training camp performance in normal circumstances
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  Speaker 2: that is worthy to play a lot of football, if
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  Speaker 2: not start just so happens, you know, the competition went
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  Speaker 2: a certain way, and uh last year is a similar situation.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it just speaks to his mentality and
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  Speaker 2: like him as a teammate to stay ready and kind
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  Speaker 2: of trusting the process and knowing that the team would
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  Speaker 2: need him at some point and have an opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: go to help us win. And now he has a
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  Speaker 2: great opportunity. So I'm excited for him. I defy go along.
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  Speaker 3: It's a received being able to get this week's saving
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  Speaker 3: the other.
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  Speaker 1: I can't put a number on it.
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  Speaker 2: But he looks great out there and seems confident executed
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  Speaker 2: at a high level. Coaches are excited. So, uh, you
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  Speaker 2: know Tory being out, it's great that we have them.
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean this with the players connected with
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  Speaker 4: and you took the job, where are the priority of
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  Speaker 4: those things you were trying to accomplish?
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  Speaker 2: Was that? And how long did you have perspective to
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  Speaker 2: take it. Was it quicker than you thought? It's never
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  Speaker 2: as quick as I think, you know, I'm always hoping
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  Speaker 2: it goes faster. I think it's I think it's right
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  Speaker 2: there at the top. I mean, when you define twelve
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  Speaker 2: is one, I mean, it's it's a synergy. It's a
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  Speaker 2: connectedness behind it. If if you can't get everybody going
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  Speaker 2: in the same direction, you really don't have a chance.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of the common and honor, common denominator behind
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing, in my opinion.
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  Speaker 1: So it's something.
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  Speaker 2: We're you know, we're we were chasing at the beginning,
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  Speaker 2: and it's something we're we continue to because it's it's
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  Speaker 2: a fragile thing, right It's it's something that if you don't,
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  Speaker 2: if you take advantage of it, or you know, you
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  Speaker 2: take it for granted, then it could go away and
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  Speaker 2: then then you're in trouble.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm happy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm happy with where our guys are right now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm proud of what we're creating and the and uh,
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  Speaker 2: I love the people that are on our team.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I got great guys.
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  Speaker 3: You guys are anything between year one and two year
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  Speaker 3: two in that regard.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean tweaked a lot of stuff. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, uh, shoot, I grew. I mean we've talked
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  Speaker 2: about this in the off season. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's things that I wanted to get better at. I think, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know that the the trip to Tennessee last year
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  Speaker 2: was was really great, and it's like, well, why don't
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  Speaker 2: we just create this more? You know what, Like you
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  Speaker 2: might lose a couple of hours here, a couple of
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  Speaker 2: hours there on the field in the spring, but well
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  Speaker 2: worth the sacrifice to you know, to help build your team.
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  Speaker 1: The turnovers.
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  Speaker 4: You guys are humming on offense despite I think you're
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  Speaker 4: tied to the second post giveaways.
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  Speaker 1: What do you what do you make of that fact
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  Speaker 1: that how do.
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  Speaker 4: You change it?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's it's not good. I mean, we can't be where.
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  Speaker 2: We're at and go where we need to go if
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  Speaker 2: if we continue on this pace.
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  Speaker 1: We know that.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think it's a process over results thing.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, the results aren't where we're at. I think
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  Speaker 2: we kind of like the process we got to. We're
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  Speaker 2: tweaking in a little bit on you know, how we
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  Speaker 2: talk about in the team meetings, how we talk about
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  Speaker 2: on offensive meetings.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the drills that we're doing in practice.
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  Speaker 2: Those are kind of always the tweaks that we're working at,
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  Speaker 2: but it's something that we want to improve.
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  Speaker 4: Behind all is available to snap for the other.
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  Speaker 2: Issue, well, you know, Bryce is the next would be
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  Speaker 2: a next guy. If Christian played, Christian could go.
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  Speaker 4: I got one out of a deep left fielder.
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  Speaker 3: Nico Thorpe.
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  Speaker 4: How did it come to be that he was the
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  Speaker 4: DJ in charge of pre and post game music.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want me doing that job. I'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: what I didn't know.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know Nico coming into this opportunity, and when
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  Speaker 2: I met him and I heard just about the asset
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  Speaker 2: that he was to our football team.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how do you not love this guy.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a great, infectious personality. Talk about being connected
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  Speaker 2: with the rest of the team. He's got a great
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  Speaker 2: relationship with the guy. It's a tough balance when you're
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  Speaker 2: a former player and you become a coach.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how that feels.
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  Speaker 2: But but uh, there's a balance there right off, Like, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: now I'm a coach, but I'm also kind of you know,
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  Speaker 2: I kind of you know, I played with some of
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  Speaker 2: the guys. How do I balance that and he's he's hand,
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  Speaker 2: he's he's balanced that magnificently and with a way to
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  Speaker 2: you know, get it out of the guys, but also
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  Speaker 2: encourage him and being at the same level, which is
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  Speaker 2: really great. And I'll tell you what, the energy that
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  Speaker 2: he can bring to the team is infectious. It's better
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  Speaker 2: than sometimes in the energy that I bring. And so
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  Speaker 2: uh yeah, I mean more. He's doing all he's doing
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  Speaker 2: a ton for our tier right now. The music is
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  Speaker 2: just the beginning of it.
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  Speaker 1: Just to tip the iceberg. Okay, all right, thank you,