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Geno Smith: "We All Collectively Can Get It Done" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: We're doing good afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: It fell.
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  Speaker 3: Uh feel pretty good, pretty good, Uh, just getting getting
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  Speaker 3: ready for this, uh, another tough matchup.
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  Speaker 1: How helpful were the two days of doing uh regular
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  Speaker 1: two days off a year kid? Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was helpful for me because I really needed to
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  Speaker 3: get healthy. Still working, still battling, you know, working through
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  Speaker 3: some things, but uh, just pushing, pushing every day, and
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  Speaker 3: to have two days to be able to you know,
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  Speaker 3: R just r rest and recover work on my body
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  Speaker 3: was pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Have you been told us a situation that's gonna last
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  Speaker 1: a while you get.
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  Speaker 3: To play through, you know, the the goal is for
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  Speaker 3: it not to so the recovery part of that is
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  Speaker 3: is very important.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, as of right now, it's still still there.
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  Speaker 2: In retrospect, do you do you feel like it affected
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  Speaker 2: you all in terms of like throwing or even just
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  Speaker 2: the not having your usual amount of reps going into
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  Speaker 2: that game Thursday night.
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  Speaker 1: Uh? No, I wouldn't say that.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, as you can see, I mean, we were taking
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  Speaker 3: uh a few deep shots, especially early on, and I
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  Speaker 3: felt pretty good about it, So I I wouldn't say
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  Speaker 3: that it affected me.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I thought I was pretty much you know, obviously, No
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  Speaker 3: I'm battling dealing with it, but I don't think it
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  Speaker 3: affected me.
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  Speaker 1: Uh throwing wise or playing wash with me tells about
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  Speaker 1: your gigs up there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so my cause, my cleats. You know, this is
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  Speaker 3: for seven Sunday Heroes, which is you know, something I've
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  Speaker 3: been doing, you know since my rookie year.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: It's for you know, underprivileged kids. You know, mainly we
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  Speaker 3: focus on youth in the community. Uh. We host kids
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  Speaker 3: to pretty much every single uh home game that we have,
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  Speaker 3: and uh just kind of try to you know, develop
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  Speaker 3: a relationship with the community, continue to build and you know,
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  Speaker 3: try and help out as much as I can, you
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  Speaker 3: know obviously, Uh, you know, Seattle has been good to me,
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  Speaker 3: so I just wanna return the favor, and uh this
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  Speaker 3: is you know, a part of that cause right here,
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  Speaker 3: Well it's not hard.
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  Speaker 2: The cle you did at uh football camp Nathan Hale
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  Speaker 2: High School.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, we had uh we had a football
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  Speaker 3: camp at uh Nathan Hill High School, as you as
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  Speaker 3: you said, and uh it was a great turnout. I
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  Speaker 3: think we had like five hundred some kids and uh
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  Speaker 3: it was just great to be in the community. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, see all the smiling faces a lot of
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  Speaker 3: great fans.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: The kids had a great time. I had a great time.
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  Speaker 3: So uh it was a it was a great event.
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  Speaker 1: It was still the news that desire to get back,
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  Speaker 1: Uh just started at home with my family.
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  Speaker 3: Uh mother, grandmothers, they're my Grandmother's been a pastor my
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  Speaker 3: entire life. She's dedicated her life to the community, so
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  Speaker 3: as my mother and uh pretty pretty much everyone in
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  Speaker 3: my family. So uh, my mom, she's always on me
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  Speaker 3: about that, about giving back, and uh, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: feel like it's the least we can do as athletes,
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  Speaker 3: as people in this position. You know, all the fans,
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  Speaker 3: they spend their harder mon money to see us play,
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  Speaker 3: and uh you know, they come out and support us
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  Speaker 3: every chance they get. So it's a chance for us
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  Speaker 3: to be supportive of them as well.
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  Speaker 2: The word identity has been used to a lot this week,
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  Speaker 2: like Pete by DK.
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  Speaker 3: Where does t identity or offensive identity start this week? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it starts, Uh, you know, it starts up front as always.
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  Speaker 1: It starts with our run game.
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  Speaker 3: It starts with the discipline with without the penalties and
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  Speaker 3: you know, eliminating the penalties and and going out and
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  Speaker 3: playing clean football.
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  Speaker 1: But it always starts up front.
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  Speaker 3: It starts with balance, It starts with being efficient, uh
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  Speaker 3: in terms of the passing game. Uh, it starts with
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  Speaker 3: being a lot better on third down and in the
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  Speaker 3: red zone and overall just making plays, you know, going
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  Speaker 3: out there having a bunch of fun and uh, playing
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  Speaker 3: with the you know, our guys and just you know,
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  Speaker 3: really just having fun together, locking in and you know,
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  Speaker 3: doing whatever it takes to win.
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  Speaker 1: You You were really su strongly after the game saying
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  Speaker 1: you believe in you know, your offense and and and
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: I guess what is it that kind of gives you that? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I would just say tons of you know, film that
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  Speaker 3: we can go back and watch and see, uh a
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  Speaker 3: number of times where we've been really successful and been
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  Speaker 3: really explosive, and uh we still got those same players
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  Speaker 3: and the same coaches, and so uh I I trust
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  Speaker 3: in our process. I believe in the players around me,
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  Speaker 3: I believe in the coaches. I believe in myself, and
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  Speaker 3: so for us, again, it just gets back get back
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  Speaker 3: to doing what we do, which is playing good football,
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  Speaker 3: playing sound football, and knowing that we can execute.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's the reality.
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  Speaker 3: Being confident in that, and uh, I'll always confident in myself,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm, you know, gonna continue to preach that. I'm
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  Speaker 3: even more confident in the guys around me, and I
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  Speaker 3: know that we all collectively can get it done.
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  Speaker 1: So that's where that's where it lies. You know, given
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  Speaker 1: the competence that you do have, any guys on on
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  Speaker 1: that side of the ball.
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  Speaker 2: How frustrating is it that this is a thing that's
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  Speaker 2: been ongoing for a few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: You guys haven't been able to find your stride. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't say we haven't found our stride. I think
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  Speaker 3: it's been inconsistent. You know, just two weeks ago, I
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  Speaker 3: think passed for the most yards I've ever passed in
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  Speaker 3: my career. So, you know, we just gotta be better
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  Speaker 3: at being more consistent. And it starts with me a
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  Speaker 3: p of course, you know, I've got to be better overall.
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  Speaker 3: And so shoot, man, I'm working my tail off trying
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  Speaker 3: to get that done.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, we know what we have inside this
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  Speaker 1: locker room.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't always show up every single play every single week,
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  Speaker 3: and that's something we gotta work on and be better at.
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  Speaker 2: Why show up every week?
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  Speaker 3: I mean I don't have to if I had to
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  Speaker 3: answer you know, we would have solved that a long
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  Speaker 3: time ago.
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  Speaker 1: But I think overall is just the.
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  Speaker 3: Inconsistencies and in our play, you know, from a down
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  Speaker 3: to down, uh situation the situation standpoint, it's one or
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  Speaker 3: two plays here each and every game, one one or
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  Speaker 3: two mistakes that cost us, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, And it's a game of interest, as they like
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  Speaker 1: to say.
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  Speaker 3: And so we gotta make sure that every single time
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  Speaker 3: we go out there, we're on it and we can't
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  Speaker 3: take any breaks. We can't relax, we can't be inconsistent.
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  Speaker 3: And it starts with me. Like I always say, it
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  Speaker 3: seems like.
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  Speaker 2: When you're facing the top five defense of that margin
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  Speaker 2: for errors.
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  Speaker 1: Then again on Thursday, when you're talking about doing all
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  Speaker 1: of these things right.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, in the NFL, it's gonna be like that.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna be faced with tough challenges every single week.
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  Speaker 3: You can expect that, Uh, you can look forward to that. Actually,
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  Speaker 3: and so when when going up against these you know,
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  Speaker 3: great teams, and again you know, I appreciate, we believe
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  Speaker 3: we have a great team.
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  Speaker 1: We just haven't found it yet.
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  Speaker 3: But uh, when you're going up against these teams, like
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  Speaker 3: you said, it's it's important that you eliminate the mistakes,
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  Speaker 3: eliminate the errors and not help them. You know, we
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  Speaker 3: wanna play clean football and and and let them make
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  Speaker 3: the mistakes. And you know that's something that we gotta
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  Speaker 3: really really lock in on.
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  Speaker 2: You haven't taken off an uh as run and run
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  Speaker 2: this much UH this season as you did last year.
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  Speaker 2: But when you have run, it seems like it's been effective.
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  Speaker 2: There's a nice one in the red zone the third quarter.
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  Speaker 2: Do you like there's more opportunity for you.
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  Speaker 1: To do that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I I've been you know, without you know, n
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  Speaker 3: looking at the rush or without trying to you know,
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  Speaker 3: abandon my reads. I've been trying to find those areas
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  Speaker 3: in the game where I can steal some first downs
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  Speaker 3: and some yards here and there. I know that it
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  Speaker 3: is an emphasis for other defenses to keep me contained
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  Speaker 3: in the pockets, so they don't, you know, try they
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  Speaker 3: try not to let me get out of the pocket
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  Speaker 3: at as much. And so you know, I'm always trying
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  Speaker 3: to find that that's important. You know, the more I
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  Speaker 3: can run use my legs, the more the defense has
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  Speaker 3: to you know, pay attention to that. So UH as
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  Speaker 3: much as I can, you know, within the scheme, of
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  Speaker 3: the offense, you know, try to get out and get
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  Speaker 3: some yards.
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  Speaker 2: The first play of the game, was that a design run?
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, well no, it wasn't a design run.
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  Speaker 3: It was actually uh design maybe rpo, but uh t
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  Speaker 3: kind of has some yards right there, so thought I
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  Speaker 3: could get some yards and just get this money as
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  Speaker 3: many as I thought.
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  Speaker 1: John Bland has been.
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  Speaker 3: On crazy Star the pick sixes, that defense, and you
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  Speaker 3: have to keep your eyes on him in particular. Just yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he's a shoot man, he's uh, he's on a heck
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  Speaker 3: of a tear.
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  Speaker 1: He's having a great year.
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  Speaker 3: He's a ball hawk, he's a he's a guy who's
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  Speaker 3: every time he touches the ball, he's going points. So
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  Speaker 3: he scored five touchdowns for them. We know, we gotta
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  Speaker 3: be aware of where he is as well as Gilmore.
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  Speaker 3: They got playmakers all over the field though, got up
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  Speaker 3: to start with eleven, where's eleven? And protection and then
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  Speaker 3: you know, being mindful of uh ball location and uh
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  Speaker 3: just the type of throws that we're making around those
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  Speaker 3: guys to make sure they don't get those opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: Pete Carroll was saying, you have to get the ball
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  Speaker 1: out more quickly, but he also said, it wasn't gest you.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, a lot of factors are going to that.
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  Speaker 1: What could you see in your world in doing that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, uh, as he said, just processing and and going
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  Speaker 3: through reads and and getting the ball out to the
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  Speaker 3: design guy within rhythm of you know, the play in
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  Speaker 3: the offense, and uh, coach right, you know, I've been
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  Speaker 3: probably holding the ball a little bit too long to
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  Speaker 3: try and see guys open instead.
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  Speaker 1: Of uh what I normally do is to throw 'em open.
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  Speaker 3: So just trusting the guys again, trusting myself, believing in
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  Speaker 3: you know, what we're doing, and just getting the ball
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  Speaker 3: out and making sure that I'm you know, throwing it
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  Speaker 3: pretty accurately so the guys can make catches and make
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  Speaker 3: great plays because uh, they're great players.
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  Speaker 1: Is there the hesitation you're talking about seeing them open?
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  Speaker 1: Is that a coverage thing? Is that a protection? What?
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  Speaker 1: What's what's got you on that track? I would say,
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  Speaker 1: it's a little bit of all.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's a little bit of all, and uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think the thing is continue to wrap it,
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  Speaker 3: continue to practice, continue to believe in it, and uh,
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  Speaker 3: like like I said, trust it and throw it.
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  Speaker 1: And and let the guys make the plays.
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  Speaker 2: You mention the number eleven case, then how do you
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  Speaker 2: need his parsons in the way they do him around
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  Speaker 2: the different things.
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  Speaker 1: He can do. Yeah, he's uh, you know, he's he's
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  Speaker 1: a lot different than you know.
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  Speaker 3: We see a lot of great pass rustlers pretty much
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  Speaker 3: every week. But the way they scheme with him, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he'll be at middle linebacker at times, he's on the
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  Speaker 3: right side on the ads, he's at three to three tech,
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  Speaker 3: he'll be uh head up over the center, at noseguard,
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  Speaker 3: he'll be on the left.
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  Speaker 1: Side on the edge.
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  Speaker 3: So it puts a lot of stress on your protection
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  Speaker 3: in terms of finding out where he is. And I
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  Speaker 3: think he does a great job but no matter where
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  Speaker 3: he's lined up and creating pressures. So, uh, we'll have
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  Speaker 3: a plan for that. We'll always be alert of where
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  Speaker 3: he is and uh, you know, we'll we'll do our
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  Speaker 3: best to make sure he doesn't impact the game as
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  Speaker 3: much as he has.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel like you guys gotta run the ball for.
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  Speaker 3: I think we gotta run the ball effectively and efficiently.
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  Speaker 3: Whether that's more or less, you know, that's determined by
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  Speaker 3: the coaches. But the key is to be balanced on
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  Speaker 3: offense and in order to be balanced, you gotta run
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  Speaker 3: the ball efficiently and effectively, and so I think that
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  Speaker 3: we're for the most part doing that. But at times,
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  Speaker 3: you know, when the game situation where you're behind, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you're not gonna run the ball as much as you
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  Speaker 3: would if you know it's a even game where you're
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  Speaker 3: in the lead. So situations dictate that a lot. But uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I would say, in order to be balanced, we do
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  Speaker 3: have to run the ball a little better.
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  Speaker 1: What what's the key to fight in the happy medium?
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  Speaker 3: Like like Pete talks about wanting to get some like
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  Speaker 3: just maybe Jackson get get him the ball more then
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  Speaker 3: the Titans then obviously can't just get.
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  Speaker 1: It to everybody, Allen as much as you want.
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  Speaker 3: But what sort of the the key I guess to
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  Speaker 3: kind of trying to get everybody involved the way you
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  Speaker 3: want to. Yeah, just throw it to the open guy,
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  Speaker 3: you know, That's that's really the key. You know, each
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  Speaker 3: one of those guys have opportunity, opportunities to make plays,
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  Speaker 3: and for the most part they make 'em. So for me,
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  Speaker 3: it's just tru throw trusting it, throwing to the open guy,
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  Speaker 3: no matter who that is. Because we have a lot
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  Speaker 3: of weapons and then relying on Shane and and and
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  Speaker 3: coach Carroll to you know, scheme it up for for
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  Speaker 3: you know, each guy individually. So uh, the key for
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  Speaker 3: me is just to play quarterback and let the d
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  Speaker 3: uh defense dictate where the ball goes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, Thank you guys,