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  Speaker 1: Wait, wait, hey, William Jordan Lewis obviously on IR now,
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  Speaker 1: just what's the challenge with him being out? And then
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  Speaker 1: I guess the the the rise.
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  Speaker 2: Of Jarring Joe.
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  Speaker 3: Always hard when you lose a leader, elite communicator, guy
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  Speaker 3: that brings energy and focus and playmaking to our defense.
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  Speaker 2: So that's always hard. But he's handled it like a pro.
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  Speaker 3: He's been extremely confident with the guys around him, continuing
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  Speaker 3: to try to pour into them as much as possible,
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  Speaker 3: and and Jarring is every opportunity. He's continued to get
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  Speaker 3: better and has made some huge plays for us this year.
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  Speaker 3: His play energy is always something that I appreciate, and
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  Speaker 3: he's tackled at a high level, especially in space, So
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  Speaker 3: continuing to get him moving in the right direction and
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  Speaker 3: we're going to need him down the stretch.
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  Speaker 2: Is there a chance he.
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  Speaker 4: Could play again this year if you go far enough
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  Speaker 4: and or will he be ready for OTAs?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not sure the exact timetable, but I wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: expect too much this season.
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  Speaker 1: You've had injuries, you never want them, but throughout the
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  Speaker 1: season you've had a lot of combinations in that secondary.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how much confidence is that giving you for
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  Speaker 1: guys like jar and Christian Bradswoz, they you need to.
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  Speaker 2: Send up, Yeah, a lot of confidence.
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  Speaker 3: I think Milo and Perk and those guys have done
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  Speaker 3: a really nice job of preparing that group in the
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  Speaker 3: back end, with both at the corner nickel and safety position.
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  Speaker 3: We've had a lot of guys play and be fortunate
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  Speaker 3: enough to play and to get depth throughout some of
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  Speaker 3: those injuries, and so you know, in the moment you're
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  Speaker 3: you're obviously trying to continue to build the chemistry, but
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  Speaker 3: also knowing that in the long run that depth will
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  Speaker 3: help us and it has helped us. So counting on
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  Speaker 3: those guys in the back end obviously to continue to
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  Speaker 3: play at a high level, and as you go towards
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  Speaker 3: the end of the season, you know, it doesn't really
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  Speaker 3: matter who's out there. It's just, hey man, this is
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  Speaker 3: a job that we have to do. There is a
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  Speaker 3: responsibility that we have to all know the game plan,
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  Speaker 3: communicate at a high level, and go make plays.
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  Speaker 1: I know you'd rather type them up the field, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: but he's still one of those guys you can contribute
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  Speaker 1: and just with his presence just still being.
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  Speaker 3: Around definitely already has to be honest with just his
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  Speaker 3: positive energy being in the training room, just no long
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  Speaker 3: face and what.
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  Speaker 2: Was me He's just not the type of guy that
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  Speaker 2: he is.
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  Speaker 3: He'll definitely help us, there's no question throughout the stretch
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  Speaker 3: and as we go. So the guys all trust them,
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  Speaker 3: they all believe in him. He'll have great guidance for
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  Speaker 3: for all those guys that are playing in the back
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  Speaker 3: end and be able to continue to contribute that way.
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  Speaker 4: But a guy like if you have to play monheiment center.
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  Speaker 4: You see after this year, how well has he sort
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  Speaker 4: of picked up the operation with Trevor.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but he's done a great job, you know, really
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  Speaker 3: all through training camp and then when he had the
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to go play against Washington, he actually graded out
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  Speaker 3: really really nicely. So a lot of confidence in Jonah.
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  Speaker 3: And if he ends up having to go, I think
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  Speaker 3: there'll be good continuity. And you know it's just on
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  Speaker 3: the road environment a little bit different, So we just
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  Speaker 3: got to have to see how he handles it. I
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  Speaker 3: have no question about how we will. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's done a nice job and those guys up front
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  Speaker 3: have done a nice job preparing him.
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  Speaker 1: To Oh what do you view Walker little as right now,
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  Speaker 1: it's still a tackle.
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  Speaker 3: Coo can play guard or just like one of those
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  Speaker 3: other guys that you just throwing revenue on our team,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I mean seriously, it's just having, you know,
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  Speaker 3: being in this position before in twenty twenty two in
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  Speaker 3: LA where it was a tough year of a lot
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  Speaker 3: of different roster assignments up front and having to pull
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  Speaker 3: people off the street and that was a challenge. And
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  Speaker 3: so to have the depth that we've had that we
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  Speaker 3: do have on the offensive line was something I think
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  Speaker 3: we did a good job in the off season attacking
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  Speaker 3: whether it was through pro free agency or the draft,
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  Speaker 3: and then continuing to work and develop with the guys
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  Speaker 3: that were here already. That's something that you never want
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  Speaker 3: to be in that position of not having depth and
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  Speaker 3: talent upfront, and so Walker's been able to continue to
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  Speaker 3: contribute to that and appreciative of that you.
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  Speaker 2: Went through that did that reinforce in your mind that
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  Speaker 2: when I'm a head coach, we are never going to
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  Speaker 2: that situation.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was in so much as more like when
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  Speaker 3: I'm in a head coach, but it was more of
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  Speaker 3: just not wanting to be in that situation again, regardless
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  Speaker 3: of what position I'm in, and then just so happened
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  Speaker 3: that James had been through that as well in twenty two,
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  Speaker 3: and Tony's an offensive lineman, so it was not a
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  Speaker 3: difficult sell, and we were all on the same page about,
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  Speaker 3: you know, where we needed to add depth, where we
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  Speaker 3: needed to really strongly work on the development, and how
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  Speaker 3: much time and resources need to be put into the
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  Speaker 3: offensive line position. We have three coaches in there, and
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  Speaker 3: so that to me is always going to be of
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  Speaker 3: top priority or to some of that veteran leadership.
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  Speaker 1: You've got a lot of those young players that have
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  Speaker 1: had to step into those roles and you've always pointed
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  Speaker 1: towards some of their veteran teammates helped them make sure
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  Speaker 1: that they're prepared to understand the standard. Yeah, they got
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  Speaker 1: to go out there for it.
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  Speaker 3: That's always the case, right, No, I mean, I think
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  Speaker 3: that the last thing you said was the standard of
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  Speaker 3: upholding the standard. When you have a new player come
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  Speaker 3: in off the street or somebody we just signed, well,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's our veterans and leaders responsibility to show
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  Speaker 3: them what the standards are every day of preparation, practice
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  Speaker 3: and then performance ultimately on Sundays and so that's no
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  Speaker 3: different for you know, young guys stepping into a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more of a focused role, you know, as a
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  Speaker 3: contributor or somebody that we're elevating off the practice squad
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  Speaker 3: to come and play on Sunday and.
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  Speaker 2: Get a helmet.
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  Speaker 3: I do believe that we are veterans guys that completely
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  Speaker 3: you know, they understand what we're trying to get accomplished.
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  Speaker 3: They're able to voice that message to the locker room
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  Speaker 3: and that we're all on the same page. I think
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  Speaker 3: that's really what it comes down to. If our standards
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  Speaker 3: as coaches are higher or lower than our players, that's
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  Speaker 3: not probably a great sign. And so us understanding as
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  Speaker 3: staff coaches and then also the players understanding what the
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  Speaker 3: standard is and upholding everybody to it on a day
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  Speaker 3: to day basis is sign of growth.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Have you mentioned profree agency and take you back the
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  Speaker 4: first day of March agree to term with eight guys
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  Speaker 4: that night is a staff How excited were you that, Hey,
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  Speaker 4: you got guys that were good players but also would
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  Speaker 4: probably be the charge for you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we were excited about the group that we were
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  Speaker 3: able to put together. I think a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: were questioning, you know's this, How is this one not important?
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  Speaker 3: And Hey, it just comes down to trusting the process
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  Speaker 3: and understanding that you know, we wanted to continue to
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  Speaker 3: elevate this place and the people around us, and those
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  Speaker 3: guys right, a number of them are captains, a number
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  Speaker 3: of them have been key contributors, excuse me, to our season.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it's just a great blend of the
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  Speaker 3: pro free agents, the veterans that we're here, guys that
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  Speaker 3: we're here on this roster collaborating on making this thing
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  Speaker 3: to get where it is today. And so I think
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  Speaker 3: that those guys all get along really well. The guys
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  Speaker 3: that we wanted to bring in here were football guys
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  Speaker 3: that you know, football was very important to them and
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  Speaker 3: their lives and their careers. And so that's blended pretty nicely.
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  Speaker 1: Process change over the course. So you start the season,
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  Speaker 1: nobody has any tape on what you want to do.
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  Speaker 1: Get to this point in the year. There's a ton
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  Speaker 1: of tape out there of what you've done over the
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  Speaker 1: course of the season. Got back to that game. Play
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  Speaker 1: a team for the second time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, mentioned to the players, I think it was yesterday
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  Speaker 3: or two days ago. Is when you play a team
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  Speaker 3: so close together in weeks or days if you will.
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  Speaker 2: It's the team that you know.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, how much can we know our opponent and what
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  Speaker 3: they did against us in the first game, what worked,
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  Speaker 3: what didn't, and okay, what's the next chess move? Right again,
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  Speaker 3: starting to anticipate either your next chess move or theirs.
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  Speaker 3: And that's how much you have to study understand your
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  Speaker 3: own plan first and foremost, and then okay, what are
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  Speaker 3: the next steps that could occur as players and coaches
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  Speaker 3: for all of us to understand some of those things.
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  Speaker 3: And that is the beauty of game planning towards the
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  Speaker 3: end of the year, especially when you're playing somebody this
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  Speaker 3: close again. Is plays off plays, making sure that you're
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  Speaker 3: not straying away from too much of what you do well,
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  Speaker 3: even though maybe it worked two weeks ago, three weeks ago,
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  Speaker 3: whatever it's been. Is making sure that, hey, we want
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  Speaker 3: to still be able to do things that we do well,
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  Speaker 3: but we may have to dress it up differently, or
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  Speaker 3: whatever it is, or hey, maybe we wanted to attack this.
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  Speaker 3: Certain covers didn't get as much of it against them
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  Speaker 3: the first time, but they've played more of it recently.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever it is, you got to go into archives still,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I was just watching twenty twenty three Lou
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  Speaker 3: and Arimo. So you go deep and you look in
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  Speaker 3: your search.
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  Speaker 4: Twenty twenty three team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, how is that just.
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  Speaker 4: The mind of a coach or are you able to
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  Speaker 4: still get a wrinkle or two that.
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  Speaker 3: One or first off, more flow play caller, you know,
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  Speaker 3: situational calls things like that that may show up against
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  Speaker 3: maybe like teams and.
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  Speaker 2: Stuff like that. So you try to go not too
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  Speaker 2: far right.
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  Speaker 3: It's just more so if you if you don't have
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  Speaker 3: enough inventory or something, or you just want to see
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  Speaker 3: maybe how a coach or you know, their defense has
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  Speaker 3: evolved or played differently, or what are the improvements and
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  Speaker 3: things that maybe they've made as a as a defense
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  Speaker 3: and so yeah, different players and all that, but you
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  Speaker 3: can still see and find anything in order for you.
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  Speaker 1: To get that far back ers it because you're playing
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  Speaker 1: them the second time, you've already covered a lot of grounds.
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  Speaker 2: That's more what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe twenty twenty for Buck State for even so.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I absolutely yeah, they've won hundred percent watched Bucks film,
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  Speaker 3: there's no question. So yeah, that's because look, you only
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  Speaker 3: get so many are short yardage plays on a season
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  Speaker 3: or third and seven on the sevens, Like, you don't
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  Speaker 3: have a ton of those even throughout our season this year.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe short yards.
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  Speaker 3: More, yes, but like third and nine on the nine,
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  Speaker 3: twelve on the twelve and a half in the game,
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  Speaker 3: like two minute situations four minutes. You know, you only
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  Speaker 3: get so many of these plays if you will, to
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  Speaker 3: put into a grouping, and so you just want to
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  Speaker 3: make sure you have a sample size and you can
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  Speaker 3: pull outliers out and be able to then kind of
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  Speaker 3: move different tendencies either up or down based on some
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  Speaker 3: of that data. But you're not exactly saying, man, we're
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  Speaker 3: going to attack this all the time because that was
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  Speaker 3: two years ago, and you want.
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  Speaker 2: Those coaches it has that.
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  Speaker 4: Photographic memory of like three years ago we saw this
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  Speaker 4: and I called this and it worked, or type of
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  Speaker 4: thing like that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not Shawn by any means like that,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, I you usually have a better feel
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  Speaker 3: for things that you've called, right, like when you're calling it,
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  Speaker 3: and you remember play calls a lot differently than when
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  Speaker 3: you weren't calling it, if you will, right. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean I think a lot of those situations and
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  Speaker 3: plays that I've probably called, I can you know, go
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  Speaker 3: back on and have a pretty clear remember, you know,
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  Speaker 3: member or memory excuse me of but you know, Sean's
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  Speaker 3: kind of a freak that way.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm