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Julian Love: "We Want To Keep Raising The Bar At Safety" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Actually, when you look back at Sunday's game, defense did
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  Speaker 1: a great job of olimiting the explosives.
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  Speaker 2: What can you attribute that.
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  Speaker 1: To, Uh, just a cohesive Eve heard of a great
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  Speaker 1: rush rush playing playing top down and just tackling. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was a goal obviously, I think, a very explosive offense,
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  Speaker 1: and so we just had to make sure we were
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  Speaker 1: mindful of those things.
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  Speaker 3: A difference between you know, you guys, weeks one through
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  Speaker 3: three were on the best defense in the Enhell statistically
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  Speaker 3: last couple of weeks been playing a lot better as well.
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  Speaker 3: The difference in how you're playing and what are those differences?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's the approach.
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, sometimes it might take for some
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  Speaker 1: guys to take things personal, which is okay. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you have pride in your work and you just try
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  Speaker 1: to challenge as much as you can. And so I
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  Speaker 1: think just as we've been going about each week, it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of just being on the details of hey, like
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  Speaker 1: this isn't good enough, Like what standard do we want
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  Speaker 1: to have and so we kind of tightened some things
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  Speaker 1: up in the meeting rooms, and I think it's showing
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  Speaker 1: itself these past few games, and so we gotta keep
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  Speaker 1: sack and keep going regardless of the results.
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  Speaker 3: How are you doing with the power situation coecting your
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  Speaker 3: life at all?
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty crazy for sure.
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  Speaker 1: It's not impacting me too much obviously here is we're
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  Speaker 1: we're making it happen.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm all good at home.
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  Speaker 1: So when you talk about those guys maybe needing to
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  Speaker 1: take it.
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  Speaker 3: Personally and step off the approach, would.
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  Speaker 2: You anticipate that with a coaching staff?
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  Speaker 1: Do you anticipate that when you've got so many new
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  Speaker 1: guys who are trying to get to know each other
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  Speaker 1: or is it out of the work, Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to make sure those things for sure, staff new guys,
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  Speaker 1: But really kind of what boiled down to was a
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  Speaker 1: few leaders as we're talking and say, Okay, what do.
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  Speaker 2: We want to be?
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  Speaker 1: We kind of are still finding out our identity and
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  Speaker 1: it kind of just won't won't just happen.
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  Speaker 2: We kind of have to create an identity.
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  Speaker 1: And some of the you know, some of the stuff
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  Speaker 1: was brought up about kind of the lob days about
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  Speaker 1: how they kind of went about practice and how the
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  Speaker 1: defense took a lot of things personally and challenged and
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  Speaker 1: we're very obviously you guys know kind of an attack mentality,
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  Speaker 1: and so some people want to break some of that
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  Speaker 1: into how we led, and I think some of that
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  Speaker 1: stuff has has paid it to forward just by you know,
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  Speaker 1: hey man, this isn't good enough trying to hold the
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  Speaker 1: higher standard for who we want to be.
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  Speaker 2: Who broke that up? Uh, it was Jared Reid.
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  Speaker 1: Jared Reid kind of had that approach in mind and
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  Speaker 1: this we want to have, you know, a dog mindset,
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  Speaker 1: and we're not the by any means we're not We're
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  Speaker 1: not them, and obviously they're they're not us, but it's
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  Speaker 1: just some of those style stylistic things that we just
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  Speaker 1: want to incorporate by it was before the buy Yeah
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  Speaker 1: really it was before the Rams game. Kind of that
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  Speaker 1: approach was taken and he just you know, it was
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  Speaker 1: it was a great thought, and so we implemented it.
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  Speaker 1: It took more of leaders, It took more of guys
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  Speaker 1: kind of in each room to uphold that standard and
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  Speaker 1: kind of say what was good and what isn't good.
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  Speaker 1: And so it was a collective effort for sure, and
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  Speaker 1: we're we're still trying to get there. We're still trying
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  Speaker 1: to get everybody on board and just incorporate that into
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  Speaker 1: how we go about each week posed the standard, how
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  Speaker 1: is that to communicated specifically and the need Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think you know, in practice, we don't want a catch
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  Speaker 1: to be caught on us.
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  Speaker 2: It's very simple.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're in a man situation challenge like you
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  Speaker 1: should take it personal if somebody catches a ball and
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  Speaker 1: you in practice and just like kind of that mindset,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it just it helps you be sharper, like
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  Speaker 1: knowing that the room is going to probably get on
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  Speaker 1: you if you give up a catcher or just don't
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  Speaker 1: finish a play.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's kind of the standard.
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  Speaker 1: It's in DB's you know, leadership wise, outside of myself,
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  Speaker 1: I think everybody's done a good job of you know,
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  Speaker 1: Spoon has done a great job of, you know, stepping
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  Speaker 1: forward and just leading that charge. Kobe Bryant, Jenks just
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  Speaker 1: it's been it's been a great effort.
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  Speaker 3: Talk about with rashewon Jenkins potentially coming back this week
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  Speaker 3: and the time you now have.
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  Speaker 2: Is Kobe Bryant. What can that say?
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  Speaker 3: You're going to be with Jenkins back on.
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  Speaker 1: The field, it's you know, he brings a lot of
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  Speaker 1: physicality to the secondary for sure, and having him down,
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  Speaker 1: having him around was great because he you know, when
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  Speaker 1: you get hurt, it's a lonely place, or you know,
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  Speaker 1: when you're recovering from something, it's it's a lonely place.
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  Speaker 2: And he was around, you know, he was around.
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  Speaker 1: He was in the media room, he was out on
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  Speaker 1: the practice field just being there for us. And Kobe's
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  Speaker 1: done a hell of a job playing. He's a baller,
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  Speaker 1: and so having all of us and then when we
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  Speaker 1: get k back, Tyo Kato obviously was up did his thing,
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  Speaker 1: and so yeah, we just want to keep raising the
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  Speaker 1: bar at safety and just really try to perfect our play.
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  Speaker 3: He has a lot of first second year guys.
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  Speaker 2: Playing all three level. Yeah, yeah, what does that break you?
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  Speaker 2: You catch his.
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  Speaker 1: Energy wise, it brings jews, It brings energy, but also
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  Speaker 1: it requires some patience, like you can't handhold guys, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know when they're a year one.
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  Speaker 2: Year two, you got it.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like a trial by fire type of thing.
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  Speaker 1: Just let him go play fast, play free. If I'm
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  Speaker 1: out there with some guys, I just you know, try
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  Speaker 1: to limit thinking and just just go do That's what
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  Speaker 1: kind of requires the confidence and ability to let these
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  Speaker 1: young guys just go and play football, and some people
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  Speaker 1: in the past have been really good at allowing that,
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  Speaker 1: and so we're just trying to incorporate the to kind
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  Speaker 1: of how we how we flow, and yeah, two nights.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the young guys obviously Mirth's just a stud
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  Speaker 1: and some other of the young.
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  Speaker 2: Guys job Joe's year three.
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  Speaker 1: But just playing fast, playing free is freeing as a
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  Speaker 1: player when you just don't have to think, how was.
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  Speaker 2: The cold shower if you've had to take more.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't had a cold shower yet. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: living okay right now. But some guys I know have
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  Speaker 1: been pretty good at helping out, you know, teammates and
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  Speaker 1: coming over to each other's houses. And so yeah, all
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  Speaker 1: hands on the way. He wants to say cold showers.
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  Speaker 1: Some are, but you know, not not preferred. And I
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  Speaker 1: think number thirteen is probably what's working. That dude's a
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  Speaker 1: stud and we i mean, we just all really appreciate
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  Speaker 1: having him. And he's just such a good leader in
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  Speaker 1: terms of he's very steady, he communicates clearly, and above all,
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  Speaker 1: he's a dog.
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  Speaker 2: He's a seaball get ball.
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  Speaker 1: Mentality, and so when you have that, you know, guys
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  Speaker 1: are playing off them and also getting some guys back.
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  Speaker 1: You know, having Murph back in the run game is
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  Speaker 1: huge because he's a he's a beast, and Leo's playing
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  Speaker 1: a high level our BACKERDS playing a high level les
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  Speaker 1: past game. Ta Night was playing at high level and
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  Speaker 1: just tackling, And so I think it starts in that
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  Speaker 1: in that middle, just from very very very good play.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody else is building off of it. What is it
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  Speaker 2: like and you go.
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  Speaker 3: Back to the standard of devap What is it like in
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  Speaker 3: practice in the eating room?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you're dreading that play. It's not, you know,
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  Speaker 1: an attacking type of thing. I like to say, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you you coach it um and say, man like, they
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  Speaker 1: can't catch a pass on you.
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  Speaker 2: But then when you make a play, you celebrate it.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's that balance of you know, we're not
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  Speaker 1: just attacking each other, but we're trying to be the best,
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  Speaker 1: and to be the best, you have to require the best.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's it's been good so far. Nobody's been like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, anything crazy up there. Just the standard is raised.
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  Speaker 2: Have you an internal find system and act good for this?
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  Speaker 2: And we don't find in the building.
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  Speaker 1: We know money does not exchange hands in the building.
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  Speaker 2: We just you know, we have other.
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  Speaker 1: Encourage me encouraging things to make sure guys are are
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  Speaker 1: in tune. Told us a couple of weeks ago that
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  Speaker 1: he felt like part of the issue and run defense
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  Speaker 1: was guys trying to.
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  Speaker 2: Do too much as they didn't more confident and set
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  Speaker 2: the guys around them wouldn't do their job. I feel
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  Speaker 2: like Ernest is helping in that regard. Yeah, and that's tough.
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  Speaker 1: I think when you try to you know, say you
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  Speaker 1: get gassed on a play, then like, okay, let me strain,
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  Speaker 1: let me do a little bit more to make sure
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't happen. And then when you do that, you
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  Speaker 1: are unsound in your defense. And so that was a
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  Speaker 1: ton of that just snowballing into itself. And so when
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  Speaker 1: we get kind of the details dialed in and you know, ej.
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  Speaker 1: Ernest is playing fast, then you know, you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to do somebody else's job. You've got to do your job.
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  Speaker 1: And we're still obviously working on that. There's one off
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  Speaker 1: set here and there, but that's a huge, huge thing.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's doing the job, not feeling like they have to
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  Speaker 1: you know, overlap quickly, push quickly to potentially get out
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  Speaker 1: of their own gap.
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  Speaker 3: Those linebackers helping and getting their drops as well, getting
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  Speaker 3: more depths making it easier on the secondary than they
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  Speaker 3: had been.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's always a work in progress. It's tough,
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  Speaker 1: but you saw this past game. You know, some of
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  Speaker 1: our outside linebackers has some really good drops to the
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  Speaker 1: guys who are on the line of scrippers. And so
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  Speaker 1: it's just understanding the defense and we're we're learning, we're
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  Speaker 1: growing in that, you know, because it's tough when you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're asking a guy who's normally like pass rushing to drop,
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  Speaker 1: you know, ten yards down the field, twelve yards down
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  Speaker 1: the field. And so it's all cohesive and I think
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  Speaker 1: above all, you know, the coaches are coaching better. The
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  Speaker 1: details are are are more in tune day and day
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  Speaker 1: out to make sure, hey, you got to get this
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  Speaker 1: deep you're protecting kind of this area. And so the
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  Speaker 1: emphasis has been you know, it has been good and
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  Speaker 1: just more dial Then what do you make of the
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  Speaker 1: division where it's right there, you guys can go from
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  Speaker 1: the top of the bottom results make just how tight
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  Speaker 1: it is with stretching. It's a lot of good teams
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  Speaker 1: and it's uh, we're close. It's all of us are closer,
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  Speaker 1: so all these games matter, and you know, the Cardinals
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  Speaker 1: have been playing really good ball, and every team in
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  Speaker 1: our division has strengths, a lot of strengths. To playing
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  Speaker 1: some weeknds is of course, but it's going to be competitive.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna come down, you know, to us executing and
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  Speaker 1: kind of worry about what we're doing because all of
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  Speaker 1: them are very capable teams.
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  Speaker 3: What makes fact put get better during the season.
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  Speaker 2: M M, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's we do tackling deals. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to say. You know, it helps when you kind of
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  Speaker 1: have that foundation under you. I think it's just a
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  Speaker 1: willingness to just play fast, free and just knowing somebody
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  Speaker 1: has your back, because then if you can go shoot
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  Speaker 1: and just play aggressive like this pass game. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you see a ton of times where you know there
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  Speaker 1: was a lot of three four, five man tackles and
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  Speaker 1: so when that first guys is shooting and just playing
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  Speaker 1: is really aggressive. Similar to how I think the best
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  Speaker 1: game that we showed that is maybe Denver week one,
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  Speaker 1: is people were just flying around. That makes tackling easier
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  Speaker 1: because then you know people don't want to break tackles
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  Speaker 1: because they know more people are coming.
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  Speaker 3: Julian if the wise and the important component of leadership.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, how has Mike been able to communicate that to
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  Speaker 2: the coaches and then to the leaders than to the players.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, Mike, he's done a great job of
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  Speaker 1: just requiring more from everybody, including himself. Obviously it starts
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  Speaker 1: with himself, but you know, he you know, I know,
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  Speaker 1: God on the coaches to coach better and detail things
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  Speaker 1: out more so players can play faster. Then it's on
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  Speaker 1: players to bring the everything to life and so kind
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  Speaker 1: of selling standards, showing in the media room what's good.
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  Speaker 2: And what's not.
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  Speaker 1: He calls good stuff, high powered stuff, and he calls
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  Speaker 1: uh not good plays in practice like make it rights
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  Speaker 1: pretty much, you got to make it right. And he's
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  Speaker 1: now been showing those in the meeting room, in the
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  Speaker 1: team room, so everybody can see what's good, what's bad,
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  Speaker 1: and so the standard is known across the entire organization.
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  Speaker 3: Seven Weather's been seems like he's been making plays the
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  Speaker 3: last few weeks more than he had been. Why do
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  Speaker 3: you think that's the case.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's just a very good player.
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  Speaker 1: He's one of the better players on our team, and
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  Speaker 1: he plays hard every play, you know, those big powerful
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  Speaker 1: splash plays you know, haven't been having as much earlier
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  Speaker 1: this season.
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  Speaker 2: But he's playing very good ball right now.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know if he's being slept on across
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  Speaker 1: the league, but he's one of the better players, I
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  Speaker 1: think on defense in the league. And you can just
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you guys know you see you see each game,
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  Speaker 1: every play he's just going all out, fast, aggressive, attacking, celebrating,
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  Speaker 1: and so I think he's just doing his normal thing.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's just the balls just happening to find him.
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  Speaker 1: He's been in tune of his process all year, going
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  Speaker 1: all out.
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  Speaker 3: Last West where he got flicked over what that looks
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  Speaker 3: like taking.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that was that was Those are tough, but that's
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  Speaker 2: Spoon sending it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you would hope a running back
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  Speaker 1: doesn't cut your nickel pressure some like to. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he got up and just put some pressure in the
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  Speaker 1: face of a party. Uh And yeah, that one probably
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  Speaker 1: hurt a little bit. But this pass game was an
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  Speaker 1: ice bag game. If you weren't leaving with some ice,
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  Speaker 1: then you weren't playing hard enough.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's what that was.