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Pete Carroll: "This Is Going To Be A Great Challenge" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Okay, we've had an extra day here because of the
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  Speaker 1: Monday night that we're taking full advantage of.
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  Speaker 2: It feels a lot longer of a break.
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  Speaker 1: Than just one day, just because we get out of routine,
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  Speaker 1: but it's good for us and we're trying to take
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  Speaker 1: advantage of that. We'll have a lot of guys practicing
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  Speaker 1: today and we're pretty good shaped that way.
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  Speaker 2: This is a.
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  Speaker 1: Great matchup for us, playing World champs and on Monday night,
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  Speaker 1: it's about as fun as he's gonna get. So there
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  Speaker 1: is so much at stake from this point forward. There's
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  Speaker 1: so much With five other teams that are that are
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  Speaker 1: vying for this spot, it's a it's a it's a
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  Speaker 1: run to the finish and see who wins the race.
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  Speaker 1: And it's exciting and we got to make the most
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  Speaker 1: of it and be tuned into it. And everybody's is
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  Speaker 1: well aware. We haven't missed that point from the other night,
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  Speaker 1: so everybody knows what's going on, and we got to
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  Speaker 1: put together a great week to prepare and make sure
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  Speaker 1: that we get this done.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's gonna be a great challenge.
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  Speaker 1: This is a fine football team and with a winning
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  Speaker 1: mentality and all that, but that's the kind of challenges
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  Speaker 1: we got to take on to get there.
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  Speaker 2: So it hasn't changed much.
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  Speaker 1: It's been kind of like this for a while, and
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  Speaker 1: so I'm not concerned about our ability to take up
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  Speaker 1: the challenge and and do the things we need to
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  Speaker 1: do to get it done.
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  Speaker 2: We just got to come out with a W.
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  Speaker 1: So that's that's the big challenge. Gino's went through the
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  Speaker 1: walkthrough today, he's in the practice today.
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  Speaker 2: He had a good lift this morning.
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  Speaker 1: So now we'll see how each day goes one day
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  Speaker 1: at a time and figure that out. But I know
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  Speaker 1: it's a big concern to everybody, but he feels really
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  Speaker 1: good and he threw the heck out of the ball
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  Speaker 1: in in the morning session. So we'll see what happens
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  Speaker 1: today with the really hope that he's he's ready to go,
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  Speaker 1: and if not, Drew's gonna be there. We'll we'll mix
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  Speaker 1: reps to make sure that everybody's prepared. But that's a
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  Speaker 1: good sign for us, and you know, hoping for geno sake.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to play it in the worst way. So
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  Speaker 1: that's where it is, and we're ready to get cranked
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  Speaker 1: up and go.
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  Speaker 2: Was you moving around today? He's signed. Yeah, he did
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  Speaker 2: everything he did. He moved around just fine.
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  Speaker 1: It was a walkthrough and so we'll go to practice
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  Speaker 1: this afternoon and see how that goes into take one
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  Speaker 1: session at a time.
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  Speaker 2: But he feels really good. He's ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: He he won't work today, he won't rest him a
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  Speaker 1: little bit longer and we won't know.
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  Speaker 2: We gotta take a day to day to day with
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  Speaker 2: that one.
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  Speaker 1: How did you give game off in a couple of
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  Speaker 1: days off help to Smith's arm?
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  Speaker 2: Proustress?
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  Speaker 1: I mean from the injury from before. It's not even
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  Speaker 1: a factor. It's that he's as far as I know,
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  Speaker 1: that's not even an issue. How did you like the
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  Speaker 1: sudden switch of this game from Sunday to Monday.
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  Speaker 2: Night and all that? I like it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's it's it's cool that you
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  Speaker 1: know that we get a chance to do that and
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  Speaker 1: and uh fun for everybody. It's it it messes with
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  Speaker 1: next week, you know, that's the that's the part that
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  Speaker 1: we don't like. But you know we've had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of ch schedule challenges. We'll be okay with that.
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  Speaker 2: What about the Eagles on there? On offense, particularly jumps.
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  Speaker 1: Out, they're they're a unique team, you know, and it's
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  Speaker 1: it's because it Jalen is such a unique player.
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  Speaker 2: They're able to do all kinds of stuff. And he's
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  Speaker 2: a threat.
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  Speaker 1: He's almost rusts for five hundred yards already, you know,
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  Speaker 1: at this point, So he's.
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  Speaker 2: A threat back there.
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  Speaker 1: He's a terrific scrambler, he's got Accuracy's completing almost sixty
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  Speaker 1: seven centers passes at this point late in the season.
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  Speaker 1: He's doing he does a lot of stuff, and they
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  Speaker 1: use them. You know, they're not there's no mystery. They
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  Speaker 1: know when when to use them and how to use them.
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  Speaker 1: And it makes it very difficult because you have to
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  Speaker 1: account for him in all situations. And so but that's
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  Speaker 1: not all they've you know, the offensive line is excellent.
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  Speaker 1: They do a nice job of all of their stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, they've got big time players. And so it's
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  Speaker 1: this is a this is an offense that gives you
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  Speaker 1: a lot of problems just because he's in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of all of it. What do you think of the
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  Speaker 1: way they were Yeah, well, you know, I when I
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  Speaker 1: first realized that, you know, how dominant a play it
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  Speaker 1: was a year ago. You know, I went right into
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  Speaker 1: the motive that this could change the game. You know
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  Speaker 1: that this play could change the game. And uh, they've
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  Speaker 1: pretty much owned this thing, you know, and they've done
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  Speaker 1: a great job with it and their ninety something percent
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  Speaker 1: conversion when they do it and almost.
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  Speaker 2: Unstoppable, you know, And.
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  Speaker 1: It's something to be challenged though, I mean, cause it
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  Speaker 1: does it's a different phase of the game. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean that it's wrong. It's just new. It's just innovative
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  Speaker 1: and all of that. And they've done a great job
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  Speaker 1: to get that done. And they've crossed over to the
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  Speaker 1: the world of rugby, you know, and it's a it's
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  Speaker 1: a cool compliment to that that beautiful game as well.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, you know, we're in it, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: got to compete with it and try to figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: We'll find out.
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  Speaker 1: I guess there were some talks at the league meetings,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but the conversations at all, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: where which way it's going. But I was kind of
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  Speaker 1: surprised that something didn't take place in last season because
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was drastic enough.
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  Speaker 2: But I wasn't fighting it just I thought.
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  Speaker 1: It might it might hit the owners and the the
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  Speaker 1: people who run in the league, you know a little
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  Speaker 1: bit differently than than it has.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see what happens this time around.
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  Speaker 1: Different than how other teams have traditionally tried to use
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  Speaker 1: quarterback sneeze.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: The commitment, the commitment to the style of of you know,
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  Speaker 1: of the movement of the line of scrimmage, which is
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  Speaker 1: truly in rugby fashion, you know, the scrum that happens
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  Speaker 1: in rugby. They've really l latched into that, that mentalit
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  Speaker 1: and that approach and the physical part of how that works,
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  Speaker 1: and so it's just become it's unique, and it's really
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  Speaker 1: hard to practice too.
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  Speaker 2: It's a very difficult thing to practice.
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  Speaker 1: They've done it enough now where they're there, but for
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  Speaker 1: other teams to try to practice it during the season
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  Speaker 1: in season, it's it's it's a challenge, you know, So
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's it's really their commitment to
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  Speaker 1: it is what's made you know, a really good thing
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  Speaker 1: for them. Is it hard because it's just the physical
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  Speaker 1: aspect of it, and teams don't want to be that
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  Speaker 1: physical in practice during the season. Yeah, that's that's part
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  Speaker 1: of it. That's part of the practicing part of it.
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  Speaker 1: But I think they've started it back in the off season.
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  Speaker 1: I think it might have been in the preseason. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I think they did, and I know they don't from
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  Speaker 1: what I've heard. They don't practice it anymore in full
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  Speaker 1: speed in practice.
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  Speaker 2: They don't need to. They've had enough reps at it now,
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  Speaker 2: so they're way ahead of everybody in that regard.
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  Speaker 1: They've been much more successful using it than other teams
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  Speaker 1: have when.
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  Speaker 2: They've tried it. What makes them is it just the
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  Speaker 2: practice part? Is there some Kelsey's just that.
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  Speaker 1: Good at center, Well, that's part of it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Kelsey's he's a big time player. You know, he does
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  Speaker 1: a lot of cool things, and he takes it full
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  Speaker 1: advantage of this play in particular.
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  Speaker 2: He's great at it. But it's all their whole group.
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  Speaker 1: It's really been their commitment to it and then the
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  Speaker 1: time spent on task and full speed stuff. There just
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  Speaker 1: ahead of everybody, and so you know, it's it's a
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  Speaker 1: hard challenge. We've had one shot at it against the
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  Speaker 1: Giants and this will be you know, I'm sure that
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  Speaker 1: they'll find their way to you know, putting us in
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  Speaker 1: that situation.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see what.
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  Speaker 1: Happens when it comes to their defense.
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  Speaker 2: You talked a little about Jalen Carter earlier in the
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  Speaker 2: week with the pressure that they generate and and the
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  Speaker 2: amount that they can.
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  Speaker 1: Disrupt on the line. Yeah, well they're they're loaded up front,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they're loaded. Reddick is a fantastic edge rusher
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  Speaker 1: as a sweat, and then they've got the monsters up
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  Speaker 1: up inside that are so so uh you know, m
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  Speaker 1: physical and tough and quicketting off the rock and all
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  Speaker 1: that they they just cause all of the problems that
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  Speaker 1: the the front can cause.
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  Speaker 2: And and they.
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  Speaker 1: Have the all the variations, the different looks that they
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  Speaker 1: do to utilize all of their guys, and it's it's
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  Speaker 1: a real challenge Tidget, Right, that's a pretty in set
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  Speaker 1: your econmics on the radio show. The teams hearing you
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  Speaker 1: that you're sick and tired of these guys, that was
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  Speaker 1: the I don't know if you saw that, if you
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  Speaker 1: get any.
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  Speaker 2: Reaction to it. I need to talk to kJ. I'm
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  Speaker 2: sick and tired of whom was when you're at the.
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  Speaker 1: Coach Carroll's that he's sick and tired guys. He's extremely frustration,
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  Speaker 1: just like I need to talk to kJ.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, uh, I'm not sure what he's talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Grown on the walk through today. Yeah he's out there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see, let's see what they gotta gauge what
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  Speaker 1: happened out there today in twenty nineteen when you were
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  Speaker 1: guys were looking in DK met calf ously aj Brown
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  Speaker 1: was his teammate.
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  Speaker 2: Just how were were you her? Would you of him?
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  Speaker 2: And who'd you think him as a player? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a monster of a player. You know, he's
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  Speaker 1: such a such a h adept catcher. He had a
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  Speaker 1: great catching range and and hand eye stuff is just
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  Speaker 1: as good as you can get. And then he's got
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  Speaker 1: the big physical makeup too that adds to it. So
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  Speaker 1: he he's he's really hard to get into his space,
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  Speaker 1: right because he he he uh, he's such a powerful
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  Speaker 1: guy and they really go to him.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's he's all all over it.
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  Speaker 1: They got ninety catches i think at this point, and
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  Speaker 1: in all situations, he's the star guy and the guy
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  Speaker 1: they go to that he's highlighted worthy, he's worthy of
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  Speaker 1: it all and he's really.
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  Speaker 2: Something pretty unique in the draft. Time to see two
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  Speaker 2: guys at one school.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, there's that look. Look for how
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  Speaker 1: far they've gone on, right, you know? They they had
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  Speaker 1: marvelous starts to their career. When it comes to your.
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  Speaker 2: Passing games, befferent quarterbacks the last two weeks, But what
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  Speaker 2: do you like about what's been available down fields?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're you know, we're still getting our explosives. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're still making plays downfield, and we're we're uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're we're kind of on track with being a pretty
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  Speaker 1: explosive football team and uh on offense, and so we
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  Speaker 1: have to keep that going. I think we're tenth or
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  Speaker 1: eleventh or something like that for explosive plays.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's it's a good part of our game, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So we're gonna keep trying to find 'em. You know.
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  Speaker 1: Then you have to create him each week, and then
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  Speaker 1: you gotta hope for good catch after run after catching
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that to make those plays happen.
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  Speaker 2: Is there any value you guys are each played the
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  Speaker 2: same two teams the last two weeks, And.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we've been wa watching this for a while now,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and uh know, we had we had him
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  Speaker 1: three times, they had him two times, you know, so.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, there's a lot of crossover.
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  Speaker 1: And but it's interesting watching it because we we really
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  Speaker 1: can dig deep into what's going on and trying to
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  Speaker 1: figure it out and all that stuff. So it's a
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  Speaker 1: good it's a good mystery for us this season. Have
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  Speaker 1: you found your players to be accountable for those mistakes?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah in this room, these guys are great about it.
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  Speaker 1: And and uh, you know, we talked about his stuff
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  Speaker 1: in in the individual rooms and in the defense and
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  Speaker 1: offensive mini rooms and in the big room. This is
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  Speaker 1: a this is a good room. I love these guys.
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  Speaker 1: I love the way that they've approached this thing. They're
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  Speaker 1: all in, they want to get it done. They'll do
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  Speaker 1: whatever they can. Uh, They're they're really consistent about helping
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  Speaker 1: their teammates and all that.
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  Speaker 2: So mentality is really good. Ously battled a lot physically
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  Speaker 2: to kind of make it back.
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  Speaker 1: I guess just how you sort of how he's dealt
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  Speaker 1: with that and how I think he's done an extraordinary
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  Speaker 1: job of battling it, because there was a time in
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  Speaker 1: the off season it couldn't he couldn't walk right, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, and he just kept working his way through
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  Speaker 1: it and working his way through it and just climbing
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  Speaker 1: back and back to normal. And it's been a real battle.
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  Speaker 1: It's been the physical parts are hard. They can't walk normal,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for for months, and then he made it back.
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  Speaker 1: So I think he deserves all the credit in the
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  Speaker 1: world for fighting through it and competing his tail off
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  Speaker 1: and uh and it he'll continue to get better.
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  Speaker 2: He'll can. It's gonna go all the way to in
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  Speaker 2: the next.
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  Speaker 1: Season, his rehab and his conditioning and all that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and he'll he'll just get better. There's a couple other
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  Speaker 1: guys that we know of that have been through the
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  Speaker 1: same similar surgery and it takes it's a two year
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  Speaker 1: recovery to get all the way back to everything.
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  Speaker 2: And so he's he's done a marvelous job.
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  Speaker 1: Already burns this he okay.
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  Speaker 2: I already went through the walk through the day. He's looking. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: what have you thought about Kobe Bryant since he's got
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  Speaker 2: back to he hasn't played a ton, but he had
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  Speaker 2: to get in the mix a little bit last week
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  Speaker 2: before you progressed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we we can all kind of feel. We're excited
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  Speaker 1: that he's back. You know, he Coab's got a good
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  Speaker 1: mentality about him and tough and he's play making kid.
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  Speaker 1: So we've all been looking, you know, for him to
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  Speaker 1: fight in his place on the field again. And it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of hard because he kind of got buried for
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  Speaker 1: you've been out of such a long time, but we
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  Speaker 1: haven't forgotten about the player that he is. And he's stronger,
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  Speaker 1: and he's he's more tuned into things now. He can
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  Speaker 1: do a lot of things, put all kinds of different
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  Speaker 1: positions for us now. So he's he's creeping his way
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: back in even with Trey brown Hill. Did you anticipate
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: Mike Jack playing at all against Philly?
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  Speaker 2: Mike's ready. Mike played a really good game.
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  Speaker 1: He had a great week last week and and uh
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  Speaker 1: and taking advantage of the opportunity, and he played well.
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  Speaker 1: He had a couple knockdowns on third down, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and so I was really fired about Mike getting back out.
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  Speaker 1: So if we need him, he's ready to go. And
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  Speaker 1: so we'll see how that goes. He'll get a lot
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  Speaker 1: of work today against the Nighters. It's a play that
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  Speaker 1: you had seen lest year. How satisfying was it?
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  Speaker 2: I just like, yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was an excellent job Shane, you know,
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  Speaker 1: putting it together and getting it done and the execution
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  Speaker 1: that they catch did it perfectly.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody did all.
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  Speaker 1: It was because an intricate play and uh Drew pulled
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  Speaker 1: it off, you know, and then Kobe did it exactly right,
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  Speaker 1: so he was in position to make the play.
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  Speaker 2: That's a cool play.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's it's actually it's very old. It's
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  Speaker 1: way i mean, way back in the history of the league.
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  Speaker 1: That play has been out, but it popped up a
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  Speaker 1: couple times in the last couple of years. So that's
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  Speaker 1: cool that we we were able to cash in on it.
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  Speaker 2: How do you feel about where your run game is
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  Speaker 2: right now? About where your running game is right now?
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's a consistency to it that I wish
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  Speaker 1: it was more more more so, you know, we kind
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  Speaker 1: of finding our way into the eighty ninety yard kind
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  Speaker 1: of areas. We need to get more yards out of it,
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  Speaker 1: and we're at the we've hit a threshold for some
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  Speaker 1: reason of twenty to twenty three plays and then we
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  Speaker 1: need to run the ball a few more times and
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  Speaker 1: get and take advantage of it.
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  Speaker 2: It's just part of mixing the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm I'm hoping we can continue to go. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna need it down Stretcher. Yeah, the way I'll help
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  Speaker 1: you on this one. The way I'm looking at this
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  Speaker 1: thing with five other teams that are in this situation,
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  Speaker 1: same one we're in. Basically, it's the tournament's on, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, here we go and it's one week at
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  Speaker 1: a time, and we're going to fight our way out
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  Speaker 1: of this thing. We can still get better, and there's
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  Speaker 1: areas that we're working on in parts of our game
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  Speaker 1: that we hope we can improve and take better advantage
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  Speaker 1: of our guys and all that kind of stuff. This
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  Speaker 1: is still a really wide open opportunity and I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how the other guys are looking at it, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at it like it's playoff time all the
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  Speaker 1: way down the stretch here, and every game is going
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: to make a difference, and as they always do, but
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: it's even more amplified now, you know. So I'm hoping
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: that we can improve there, you know, and and and
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: get a little bit better production to complement what we're
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: doing with the thrown game.
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: So see how it goes.
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: How did kenon Zach make it out of the game
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: with their matter of fact, they made up quite well.
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: They look great today getting started for the week. Both
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: guys feel really good. So there's no issues with with
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: what they were dealing with the week before the game. Yeah,
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: I talked to Aid this morning and he feels like
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: he's back.
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: He really feels like he's back and confident, feels good.
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: It's taken a couple of weeks, you know, to get
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: his playing legs underneath him. And but that's a great sign,
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: and so we'll count of him moving forward.
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: He should be in great shape. Is lead in the season.
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: How confident are you that those third down numbers on
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: offense will will turn around during this tournament?
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: Now's a week ago. You know, we go, we hit it.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be the factor in our success on offense.
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be a factor for sure. We've got to
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: get around fifty percent of those things. And it means
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: we need two more plays a game, you know, two
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: more conversions of a game and three more and that's
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: what you're talking about, two or three plays a game
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: that make the difference in those numbers. And and uh,
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: it just seems like when you're hitting it around fifty,
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: the ball's really going and we're moving, you know, things
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: are happening. So that's that's what we're shooting for you
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: right game? Going from ninety two yards today to over
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: the century markets.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: You're talking about what has to happen.
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: And besides, just when your plays it the first down.
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: And obviously third down, well it's it goes back again.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: You know that with the third down things the limit
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: are chances, you know, you know, limit your drives, you
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: limit your you play.
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: On the field.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: You know, we moved the ball pretty well in this
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: past week, and and but we just need a little
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: bit a few more shots, you know, and so we
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: just by converting we can get eight or nine more runs.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: You know, converting two or three more plays, you're gonna
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: get six or eight more runs anyway, you know.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: So it's all of that ties together.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, I mean, you could just stand there keep running
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: it to get your numbers up, and you're not playing
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: win in football, you know, you're just doing it for
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: the wrong reason. So we've got to play good, complimentary
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: ball and see if we can get that done and
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: get a good movement going. How do you feel about
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: the hip drop tackle that's kind of been the focus
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: of the league. I'm strongly, strongly in favor of taking
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: care of business on that one. I really believe that
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: it's a tackle that the guys can learn to avoid
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: and so that with that in mind, just like we've
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: done with the head and all the things that we've done,
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: the horse collar thing, it will still happen at times,
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: you know, but I hope that we can figure a
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: way to legislate that so however they want to go
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: about it.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: You know, if you go back to the I think it.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: Was the horse callar thing that we talked about that
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: at one point it was it was it was a
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: penalty or something like that, and then we went to
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: finding and we went we had to go farther because
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: it's a dangerous play.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: I understand that.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: That it's hard on the defensive players man who can
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: understand more, But that's still I think it's it's because
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: there's a decision that's made in that in that moment
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: that a guy can he can do that. If we
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: can do in other areas of our game, we can
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: do it here and we're asked to do it. Every
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: time you hit the quarterback, you burn the quarterback on
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: the ground.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: All of those things.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: We have to make those decisions, you know, to keep
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: us in the middle of the moment, and guys can
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: show that they show that they can do that, so
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: I'm for it.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, not a reason I'll agree with me.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: I don't really care, you know, but that's I would
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: try to work our way out of that if we could.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: Is that something you guys already work on avoiding that
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: hip drop things and hurting guys. We we have some
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: guys that have done it in the past. You know,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: it's and uh it's still it's still legal. You know,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: it's still legal part of the game, and so we'd
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: like to avoid it.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: We don't want to hurt anybody. What if anything, if
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: you