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Press Pass | Coach Pederson Reflects on Season So Far, Injury Updates for Week 17 · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Greig Trail and Darnello for sent Ben Trail protocol.
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  Speaker 2: So I wouldn't expect him to go. I'm sorry, Uh Savage,
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  Speaker 2: Darnell Savage, Yeah, Savage. Uh, he's he's in a protocol.
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  Speaker 2: Uh wouldn't expect him. I don't expect him, uh Ben Trail,
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  Speaker 2: same thing, Ankle, don't expect him to uh to play.
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  Speaker 2: And then of course Walker, Yeah, everybody else is good.
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  Speaker 3: What do you need for mac Jones this week?
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  Speaker 1: I mean he's started a couple of games where you
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  Speaker 1: started against the Titans. Gotta win against them last, and
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  Speaker 1: what do you need for.
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  Speaker 3: Him this week?
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  Speaker 2: Just just play consistent football, right, Just execute the offense,
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  Speaker 2: Lead the offense, lead the team. It really doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: to do more than that. Just again, just control he
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  Speaker 2: can control, uh, put the ball in play and and
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  Speaker 2: and do that. I think. I think if he does,
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  Speaker 2: then what we've seen obviously from him, you know, great
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  Speaker 2: things and good things will happen.
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  Speaker 1: You talked about Pride a few different times this season
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  Speaker 1: and just fishingly, seating strong, just to play one more
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  Speaker 1: time at home. Just what you're gonna mean? Just?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's gonna mean a lot in front of
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  Speaker 2: our fans. I mean, it's just gonna be a a
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  Speaker 2: great atmosphere with Tennessee coming here and and you know
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  Speaker 2: in AFC South opponent, you know, to to finish, to
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  Speaker 2: finish up our home schedule and and you know, to
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  Speaker 2: try to get a win, and that'd be that would
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  Speaker 2: be just I think for us is huge, you know
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  Speaker 2: it And again a step in the direction of of
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  Speaker 2: trying to finish, you know, finish the season the.
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  Speaker 3: Right way time in the year. Would two games left
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  Speaker 3: if you start to worry about guys if you like,
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  Speaker 3: so check it out.
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  Speaker 2: I mean there's always a possibility, you know, but uh again,
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  Speaker 2: I think that that falls on me to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't happen. And keep everybody engaged in in the
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  Speaker 2: coaching staff and and you know again they y once
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  Speaker 2: you once you play, and you and you and you
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  Speaker 2: kick the kick the ball off on Sunday. You know,
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  Speaker 2: everybody's engaged and locked in. So wouldn't wouldn't expect too
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  Speaker 2: much of that course of year.
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  Speaker 1: You kind of talked about loading up Betis play slowly
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  Speaker 1: and putting more on him to see how much he
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  Speaker 1: can handle. How much more is there that you can
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  Speaker 1: can put on put on him, Like, how much more
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  Speaker 1: work for growth is anything?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there's still I think there's still a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. You know, you haven't seen him out of
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  Speaker 2: the backfield as much. You know, different things you see,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a guy like Jamar Chase can come out
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  Speaker 2: of the backfield or you know, justin Jefferson on the backfield,
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  Speaker 2: guys like that. I think there's some of that. It
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  Speaker 2: just creates matchups, you know, takes takes double teams away,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and and and then just just keep expanding
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  Speaker 2: the rout tree. You know that are there certain things
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  Speaker 2: that we we haven't done with him yet that that
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  Speaker 2: we can you know, we can continue to work on
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  Speaker 2: and and then still emphasize his strength. So I still
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  Speaker 2: think there's there's room to really grow a little bit more.
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  Speaker 2: And in all that all that he does.
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  Speaker 1: Tony Mollard has a practice for that the last two days.
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  Speaker 1: Not sure exactly if he's gonna be able to go
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  Speaker 1: or not, but obviously he hurt you.
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  Speaker 3: Guys in the first meeting, especially in that first half.
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  Speaker 3: If he can't go, what does that do to the game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he used a big, big part of the run
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  Speaker 2: game obviously, good running back. You know, look it's it's
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  Speaker 2: always been sort of the next man up mentality, I
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  Speaker 2: think with every with every team, and and I wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: expect them to try to do anything different, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in the run game. Quite honestly, I I still think
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  Speaker 2: that you know themselves and us. I mean, that's what
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  Speaker 2: you try to establish in games like this. Try to
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  Speaker 2: get that thing going, cause that'll open up some of
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  Speaker 2: the the the play action and the movement and the
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  Speaker 2: screen game and and all of that. But I I
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  Speaker 2: I just think that you know, we're going to continue
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  Speaker 2: to try and find ways to you know, to get
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  Speaker 2: the ball to really not just their runners, but but
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  Speaker 2: all their skill guys.
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  Speaker 3: Were you surprised that they opened up that game with
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  Speaker 3: eightyear nine straight?
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  Speaker 2: Not not necessarily, I think too. Sometimes you get in
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  Speaker 2: those games and if it, you know, you get those
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  Speaker 2: one or two runs going, you just kind of go, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna stick with it. And and it it
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  Speaker 2: might have been some of that, but you know then too,
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  Speaker 2: you gotta look at what we have not been able
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  Speaker 2: to do and and stop people early in games. Right,
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  Speaker 2: So the fundamentals of football of just blocking and tackling
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  Speaker 2: and and so those are things that that we emphasize
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  Speaker 2: and and so I wasn't surprised that they did that.
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  Speaker 3: At this point in the season, when it's almost over,
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  Speaker 3: do you go back and do the way it game
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  Speaker 3: all the time? Okay all the time?
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't make me feel any better, right, alright?
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  Speaker 3: But I mean, is what's your biggest what if at
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  Speaker 3: this point would be the the opener of Miami, the
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  Speaker 3: the fumble.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you have to go all the way
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  Speaker 2: back to that game, you know, you know, if you
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  Speaker 2: hang on to that football, you're you're twenty four to
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  Speaker 2: seven lead going into the fourth chore and who knows, right,
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  Speaker 2: go to the next game. If we don't have a
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  Speaker 2: you know, an illegal shift in the red zone, we
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  Speaker 2: score a touchdown, kick a field goal, it's a different
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  Speaker 2: ball game.
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  Speaker 3: It's just.
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  Speaker 2: It's what if, you know, And it's uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: even even the first Houston game, opportunities down the field
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  Speaker 2: to make plays and we don't do that. Again, it's
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  Speaker 2: the fundamentals of football. And so you go through that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't let it really eat it doesn't get it's
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  Speaker 2: not gonna eat me up right, because I can't. I
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  Speaker 2: can't do anything about it now. And but things that
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  Speaker 2: as a team, we we we need to learn. We
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  Speaker 2: need to learn from their hard lessons to learn, and
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  Speaker 2: we need to learn them fast. And you know, for
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  Speaker 2: us to have nine one score losses this year, and
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  Speaker 2: you look at what the Chiefs have sixteen or so
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  Speaker 2: one score wins, you know, so it's just a matter
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  Speaker 2: of making those plays. It's just making one or two
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  Speaker 2: more plays a game and then it goes the other
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  Speaker 2: way for you. And that's what we have to learn.