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Ryan Grubb: "Last Week Was Our Biggest Step In The Run Game" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I'm great. I'm great, thanks coach.
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  Speaker 2: Some teams like the Eagles, the tousch Push, the Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: back in two thousand and five and have alter John
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  Speaker 2: Steve I just send Tom Brady's sneak, had like one
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  Speaker 2: play for short yards that they really go to. Do
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  Speaker 2: you think it's more important to be really good at
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  Speaker 2: one play and short yardage or have a variety of
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  Speaker 2: things that at your disposal.
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  Speaker 3: I think a lot of that depends on personnel. We're
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  Speaker 3: still seeking that one play obviously, but I do think
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  Speaker 3: that it's kind of forced us to evaluate the personnel
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  Speaker 3: situations in all those type of scenarios. So I think
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  Speaker 3: that once, once you find your groove, you can build
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  Speaker 3: things off of that and continue to complement those things.
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  Speaker 3: It's all an information gathering process.
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  Speaker 2: You've had those opportunities during the year, what have you
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  Speaker 2: learned about not just personnel.
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  Speaker 4: But what information have you gained from those experiences?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think game to game it depends
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  Speaker 3: a little bit as far as you know the type
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  Speaker 3: of situations that you're in or the type of defenses
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  Speaker 3: you're facing. But for us, you know, it's it's always
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  Speaker 3: just evaluating how good was the plan, how good was
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  Speaker 3: the execution and for us at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 3: it was it falls on both. You know, I think
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  Speaker 3: we could have done a better job having a better
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  Speaker 3: plan certainly and being more creative, and I think there
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  Speaker 3: could have been a little better execution at times. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: I think what our guys always do a good job
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  Speaker 3: of is having good ownership. So for us, we're just
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  Speaker 3: looking for the best possible answers and solutions to try to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, find the best way to get in the
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  Speaker 3: end zone.
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  Speaker 4: What do you like about in the short yards and
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  Speaker 4: specifically having can exact on the bill together.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think the more threats obviously the better. You know,
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  Speaker 3: anytime they have to think about two guys that have
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  Speaker 3: gotten the ball and in short yard situations, I think
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  Speaker 3: it makes it more difficult on them.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned finding your groove, and obviously we're twelve games
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  Speaker 4: in now there's been a lot of shifting personnel.
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  Speaker 1: Did you feel like you guys would have that.
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  Speaker 3: At this point in terms of well, yeah, of course,
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  Speaker 3: of course that's fair. You know, I think that for
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  Speaker 3: us we just haven't had the consistent success in those moments,
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  Speaker 3: and I think, you know, the the thing you got
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  Speaker 3: to do is continue to search and try to find
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  Speaker 3: better answers. And you know, for us, that's that's what
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  Speaker 3: we committed to do.
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  Speaker 1: Ran.
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  Speaker 2: Can you talk about the complexity and you get the
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  Speaker 2: simplicity of the scrambled drill, the complexity where that wire
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  Speaker 2: from DK and also that there's.
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  Speaker 1: Certain you know, routs.
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  Speaker 2: They have to do in the scrambled drill.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then today Gino said, you know what, I
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  Speaker 1: just got to get the ball to the receiver.
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  Speaker 2: Can you just talk about that?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I certainly think there's an instinctive piece to quarterbacks
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  Speaker 3: when to leave the pocket and you know how to
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  Speaker 3: deal with that when they do, and so there's there's
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  Speaker 3: an innate piece. But I think having some fallback baseline
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  Speaker 3: rules that that guys can execute when the football leaves
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  Speaker 3: the pocket and the quarterbacks on the move, I think
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  Speaker 3: that as long as you.
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  Speaker 1: Have a simple set of rules, which we do.
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  Speaker 3: The guys can find those areas and sit down. And
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  Speaker 3: then certainly for receivers, they understand what the challenges are
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  Speaker 3: for the quarterback as far as which way is he rolling,
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  Speaker 3: where's he at, how deep am I who's in front
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  Speaker 3: of me? Just locating space and understanding how to use
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  Speaker 3: the sideline and where to find pockets that would be
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  Speaker 3: easier for the quarterback to see and throw to. So
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  Speaker 3: I think as long as everybody's on the same page,
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  Speaker 3: that part is extremely important.
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  Speaker 2: What makes this receiving close so especially in that regard.
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  Speaker 4: Because they understand I mean, they're going from the quarterback size.
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  Speaker 3: And then I think, you know there's there's a piece
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  Speaker 3: there of court. Yeah, for sure. But you got some
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  Speaker 3: veteran guys too, some guys that are you know, just
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  Speaker 3: really good players too, right, They understand sideline mechanics and
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  Speaker 3: where quarterbacks at.
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  Speaker 1: They have familiarity with GINO, which you.
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  Speaker 3: Know always helps, and I think that's a big part
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  Speaker 3: of it as well.
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  Speaker 4: The run game overall, excuse me, not just the short yards,
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  Speaker 4: but where do you feel like you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Are at with the run games? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I thought last week was probably our best week as
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  Speaker 3: far as working the football inside the the b gaps
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  Speaker 3: and getting physical on some of those double teams. There
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  Speaker 3: are certainly sometimes in the Jets game where I felt
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  Speaker 3: like we were dominating the line of scrimmage and moving
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  Speaker 3: those double teams, and they did a great job with it.
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  Speaker 3: I thought at the right moments on a couple of
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  Speaker 3: those long drives. That was really what helped us sustain.
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  Speaker 3: So I thought last week was one of our biggest
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  Speaker 3: steps in the Run Game, and I thought we did
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  Speaker 3: a great.
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  Speaker 1: Job along those lines. What do you think Tower did great?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I thought he was impressive, you know, his footwork,
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  Speaker 3: He's such a balanced player, and I really think he's
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  Speaker 3: only going to get better, you know. It was there's
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  Speaker 3: definitely some times where things probably felt big for him.
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  Speaker 3: But I thought, once you know, he got going in
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  Speaker 3: the game, it was just playing ball. And I think
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  Speaker 3: that's what Tower does a great job. It was just
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  Speaker 3: letting the game come to him.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't get overwhelmed.
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  Speaker 3: And and uh, he's a physical player. That certainly showed
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  Speaker 3: up with him finishing some guys you know in the
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  Speaker 3: Run game for sure, but just getting the calls and
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  Speaker 3: staying in rhythm. I was impressed how he was able
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  Speaker 3: to do that, especially you know early in the game.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's always where guys sometimes they can hit
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  Speaker 3: a bump that's so significant they can't get themselves out
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  Speaker 3: of that. And I thought Tower did a great job
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  Speaker 3: just playing each series and just letting the game come
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  Speaker 3: to him, So he he played awesome.
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  Speaker 2: What are the things he showed to you recently that
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  Speaker 2: got him in lineup that he didn't have when the
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  Speaker 2: season started.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think for Tawa, certainly, the physical skill set's
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  Speaker 3: been there, and there's been some things that we've been
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  Speaker 3: impressed with since day one. I think for Tawa, he's
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  Speaker 3: coming from a very different system, and so I think
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  Speaker 3: just you know, verbiage and terminology, past set structures, things
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  Speaker 3: like that, those.
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  Speaker 1: Things take a little bit of time. And so it
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  Speaker 1: certainly wasn't just a week.
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  Speaker 3: This has been a process and something we've definitely been
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  Speaker 3: looking at and giving reps to Tawa for a while,
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  Speaker 3: and we just felt like he was gonna give us
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  Speaker 3: our best chance and and he's really like the last
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  Speaker 3: I would say month three weeks, really really come on
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  Speaker 3: and just felt more comfortable in the offense and the
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  Speaker 3: calls and executed really really well, like that out.
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  Speaker 4: Of college the headsets with Dixon out and like figuring.
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  Speaker 2: Out what you guys are doing in the situation, was that
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  Speaker 2: like for you to.
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  Speaker 3: Coordinate or like that we might not be able to
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  Speaker 3: pay it, Like, Yeah, there was a couple of those
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  Speaker 3: guys sprung on me last second, So it was it
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  Speaker 3: was I think you got to be ready for situations
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  Speaker 3: like that obviously. I mean, you have calls ready for
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  Speaker 3: third downs and fourth thowns and opportunities, understand where the
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  Speaker 3: clock's at and what the score is and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: And as long as you get the information far enough ahead,
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  Speaker 3: you can structure some of the calls you make early
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  Speaker 3: in the series. And I think that's the most important part.
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  Speaker 3: As long as you have the info early, you can
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  Speaker 3: plan ahead and think about have four downs to get
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  Speaker 3: this done.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure every season has unique challenges like that, where
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  Speaker 4: a punter goes down, or there's injuries on the line,
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  Speaker 4: or every season is different. I'm just wondering, stepping into
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  Speaker 4: this role, what do you feel like you've learned through
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  Speaker 4: the process of this season at this point.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow, there's there's tons of things.
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  Speaker 3: I think, you know, finding ways to build your team
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  Speaker 3: around the guys you got are things that we've always
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  Speaker 3: been pretty good at, and I think that we've tried to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, highlight those things and keep building around the
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  Speaker 3: guys that we have and the players we have. But
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  Speaker 3: as far as like learning processes, I think that you know,
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  Speaker 3: the coordinator families in the NFL and where guys come
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  Speaker 3: from and the different type of processes those you know,
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  Speaker 3: defensive families, so to speak, have. I think that's probably
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  Speaker 3: one of the biggest things, because everybody kind of comes
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  Speaker 3: from certain trees, and so certainly evaluating some of those
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  Speaker 3: things and seeing what type of things people draw back
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  Speaker 3: to is unique to the NFL.
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  Speaker 4: Going back to the right side of that line, is
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  Speaker 4: there anything about personalities or maybe similar edges, like when
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  Speaker 4: you hear you guys together, because it seems like ape
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  Speaker 4: and so it might have like a similar kind of
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  Speaker 4: approaching personnel.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good observation.
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  Speaker 3: I think they are both wired in a way where
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  Speaker 3: you know, they're kind of pulling reins back kind of guys,
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  Speaker 3: and so they both play really hard, they finish well,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 1: They they just got a really good mentality. They both love.
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  Speaker 3: Football, and so it's it's easy to work with guys
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  Speaker 3: like that and it's been a lot of fun, you know,
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  Speaker 3: And I think those guys are are very They're both quiet,
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  Speaker 3: They're not going to say a ton, but when they
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  Speaker 3: get out there, they certainly want to talk with their pads.
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  Speaker 4: Has there been a tree you've done a defensive of
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  Speaker 4: punching tree that you've done maybe a deeper dive on
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  Speaker 4: this season because.
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  Speaker 1: Of what you were.
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  Speaker 3: You know, probably the biggest one was Mike's as still
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  Speaker 3: as that sounds, but there's there's people that have obviously
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  Speaker 3: come from Mike's system that are paired throughout the NFL
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  Speaker 3: that we faced and or have influences from that, and
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  Speaker 3: so those are the ones that have been deeper dive.
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  Speaker 1: I guess, well.
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  Speaker 3: I think they're creative, you know, I think they give
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  Speaker 3: different pictures and that's always something that I think Mike
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  Speaker 3: is unique to that. He does a good job of
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  Speaker 3: attacking your weak points and understanding, you know, what are
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  Speaker 3: the things that are gonna be problematic, and then he'll
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  Speaker 3: build those things around that. For you, Ran, what have
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  Speaker 3: you noticed as the biggest difference between coaching for.
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  Speaker 1: Offensive mind head coach or defensive.
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  Speaker 3: It is definitely a first for me there and coach
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  Speaker 3: Fraser and Mike or are definitely defensive guys. So I
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  Speaker 3: think that there's it's just perspective, honestly, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: have to at first you can even way back to OTAs,
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  Speaker 3: I'd be like, wow, I would have liked to you know,
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  Speaker 3: on twenty thirty more plays in this situation and not
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  Speaker 3: been with the defense and things like that. So there's
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  Speaker 3: there's things that I think how they look at things sometimes,
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  Speaker 3: I think defensively is there's more of a holistic approach
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  Speaker 3: to it versus you know, sometimes offensive guys are just
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  Speaker 3: like run as many play as you want or whatever
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  Speaker 3: you need to do, and you can focus more on
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  Speaker 3: that way. And I think there's there's give and take
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  Speaker 3: in both those situations. But certainly, what I've appreciated about
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  Speaker 3: Mike is, you know, his understanding of, you know, how
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  Speaker 3: to win games, you know, and that's what I think
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  Speaker 3: in the last few weeks we've really come together on
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  Speaker 3: that that, you know, if we need to hang on
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  Speaker 3: to the ball and take care of it and they're
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  Speaker 3: playing lights out and then we can do that.
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  Speaker 1: If we have to be explosive.
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  Speaker 3: And try to go after people and play catch up,
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  Speaker 3: we can do that too, you know. So I think
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  Speaker 3: marrying those things together and continue to learn that process
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  Speaker 3: has been valuable.
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  Speaker 2: What's been like working with, you know, a new head
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  Speaker 2: coach for the first time in a while, you know,
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  Speaker 2: especially when things don't always go exactly as you want
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  Speaker 2: you don't have that history to lean back on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's good.
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  Speaker 3: I think that you know, you have to trust your
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  Speaker 3: your decision making early on. And you know, there's a
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  Speaker 3: reason I took this job and the trust that I
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  Speaker 3: have a Mike and uh, you know, I think that
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  Speaker 3: that's a huge part of any relationship, right, whether it's
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  Speaker 3: a working relationship or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, certainly there's there's.
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  Speaker 3: Built up reps, so to speak, with a guy like
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  Speaker 3: Kalen when I was with him for a long time,
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  Speaker 3: and so when you hit those bumps in the road,
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  Speaker 3: they're they're easier to manage and get through. So certainly
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  Speaker 3: this season has provided a lot of growth opportunities for
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  Speaker 3: Mike and I and and I'm thankful for that. And
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  Speaker 3: I think the relationship has gotten stronger, and and you know,
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  Speaker 3: the understanding what we're trying to get done as a
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  Speaker 3: as a team just continues to build. So it's been fun.
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  Speaker 3: And honestly, is.
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  Speaker 4: The temple like what you were just talking about, and
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  Speaker 4: sometimes we had a football in an eight minute drive
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  Speaker 4: Cardinals or sometimes?
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  Speaker 2: Is that different than in college general?
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  Speaker 3: No, I think what it comes down to in the NFL,
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  Speaker 3: what what teams do such a better job of is
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  Speaker 3: just understanding how to hold the ball. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: you don't see sometimes much discipline in the college game,
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  Speaker 3: where you just have more opportunities and plays and drives. Honestly,
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  Speaker 3: I mean last game, not counting the meal down, I
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  Speaker 3: think we had eight drives, you know, and so eight
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  Speaker 3: possessions is not a lot, you know. So that's something
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  Speaker 3: I think you certainly have to factor into every game.
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  Speaker 3: And you can't play tight or think I'm not going
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  Speaker 3: to be you know, aggressive in these situations, but you
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  Speaker 3: have to be mindful of what's going on in the
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  Speaker 3: football game to make sure that you're you're being smart
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  Speaker 3: about it.
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  Speaker 1: That something discussed, right, Oh yeah, yep, yep. Mike's good
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  Speaker 1: about that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he knows that he doesn't have to point
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  Speaker 3: out the obvious stuff. But you know, I think that
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  Speaker 3: those are our conversations that certainly come up.
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  Speaker 2: Three of your four quarterbacks neeks this year have work.
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  Speaker 2: The only one that didn't was a questionable spot maybe
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  Speaker 2: in San Francisco. Yeah, talk about you know why it
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  Speaker 2: isn't as simple as let's do that more often on
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  Speaker 2: short yardage?
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  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, without giving anything away, I think there's things
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  Speaker 3: Obviously defenses, some people are better at it than others.
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  Speaker 4: Why do you think you're getting better in the beat ups?
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  Speaker 3: Is up in the one game against the Get Honestly,
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was the inside players.
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  Speaker 1: I thought our inside players played really.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I thought, and the guards, so I thought that
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  Speaker 3: the double teams are really good.
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  Speaker 1: And then really I.
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  Speaker 3: Just thought I thought our guard play was pretty good
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  Speaker 3: in general. I thought Tawan Lake did a good job
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  Speaker 3: of set in the tone whether they're doubling with Olu
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  Speaker 3: or one of the tackles.
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  Speaker 1: I just thought the vertical double.
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  Speaker 3: Teams in the run game, we're probably as good as
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  Speaker 3: we've seen this year. The guys like Noah and Tyler
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  Speaker 3: so used to be featured in the passing game over
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  Speaker 3: the course of their careers.
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  Speaker 4: Handled have you seen them handle not getting as many targets?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they've been a customs. Those guys are. They're awesome,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that any guy's being honest, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they want the ball, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And and Tyler is probably about.
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  Speaker 3: As good a human being as you've ever met in
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  Speaker 3: your life, right, And he's not going to be somebody
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  Speaker 3: that's coming unglued when he's not getting the ball, but
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  Speaker 3: everybody wants the football, and I just think that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the reliance on the team and knowing that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: whatever it takes to win the game, you know they're
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  Speaker 3: going to be part of that. They they both I've
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  Speaker 3: only exemplified that at all times, so you know, I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Always appreciative of that.
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  Speaker 3: And certainly they're both playmakers and we want to get
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  Speaker 3: him the ball, and I do think the ball finds
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  Speaker 3: those guys, but you know, anytime we can highlight them,
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  Speaker 3: we definitely try to. Sometimes it just it plays out
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  Speaker 3: differently on who's getting the targets, you know, depending on
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  Speaker 3: what defense is trying to take away.
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  Speaker 1: But they've been awesome.
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  Speaker 2: How are you talking about Abe? Luke's to this progress?
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  Speaker 2: And I got a few weeks center Belt.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's He's impressive. He's getting better every week. I
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  Speaker 3: think the calls get faster, you know, the timing is
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  Speaker 3: quicker from when he's hearing the call to understanding like
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  Speaker 3: how to apply it to the defense and what he's doing.
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  Speaker 3: I think I mentioned this before, but he's really serious
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  Speaker 3: in his preparation, and I mean that in a really
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  Speaker 3: really complimentary way. He'll ask or you know, can I
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  Speaker 3: get that play again against this front?
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  Speaker 1: I really want to see this, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And actually pointed that out to the offensive unit the
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  Speaker 3: other day, that he did such a good job of
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  Speaker 3: almost demanding, like I have to be ready for this game,
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  Speaker 3: you know, And I thought that that was the ultimate
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  Speaker 3: pro thing for him to do, so it was really cool.
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  Speaker 3: I just I think he's just going to continue to grow.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's going to be a dominant player. Anybody else,
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, all right, Thanks everybody.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks go