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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "Just Focus on Your Job" · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, how we're doing, Doug.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to start just updates with Travis and Tyson.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, both those guys will be out there today. Both
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  Speaker 3: are doing well, just kind of day to day uh
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  Speaker 3: with each one, but but both uh are doing good?
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  Speaker 4: Is cam or guy?
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  Speaker 1: Who?
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  Speaker 4: Do you think you could get back before the playoffs start?
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  Speaker 1: I believe so. I believe so.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we'll see how he does these next couple
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  Speaker 3: of weeks obviously, and you know, but uh optimistic that
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  Speaker 3: we could.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Do you feel any extra energy from your team
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  Speaker 1: as they get ready for this? A lot of the
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  Speaker 1: roster hasn't has never played in the Monday night football games.
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  Speaker 3: I I think maybe the closer we get to the game,
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  Speaker 3: possibly you know. One of the things that I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: keep talking to these guys about is just controlling emotion,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just staying in the moment obviously. Uh, just
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  Speaker 3: focus on your job, you know, this week, and you
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  Speaker 3: don't have to go out of your way or do
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  Speaker 3: anything extra special, you know, just do your process.
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  Speaker 4: So is there any difference between the Saturday night games
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  Speaker 4: you had last year and the Monday night is?
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  Speaker 1: It is? It is?
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  Speaker 4: It is short week is obviously harder because there's less time,
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  Speaker 4: or is Monday tough in some ways because they got
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  Speaker 4: an extra.
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  Speaker 1: Day to think about it? Well, I look at it differently.
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  Speaker 1: I look at it Monday.
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  Speaker 3: A Monday game gives the extra rest days, you know,
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  Speaker 3: in there, try to get get a few guys healthy,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 1: For the game.
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  Speaker 3: It's the back end. It's the next week that poses
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  Speaker 3: the problem. But you know, I don't think it affects
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  Speaker 3: the guys either way. I don't think they think about
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  Speaker 3: it any differently than they would a Sunday game, you know,
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  Speaker 3: or a Saturday game, really Saturday.
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  Speaker 4: Night games last year they regrew they could kind of
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  Speaker 4: handle the bright lights of that kind of a spotlight.
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  Speaker 3: Right or that kind of a yeah, I mean that
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  Speaker 3: was that was good to have, you know, the Tennessee
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  Speaker 3: game on a Saturday night here, you know, the obviously
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  Speaker 3: the playoff game Saturday night here of course, you know
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  Speaker 3: Kansas City.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a big moment.
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  Speaker 3: We haven't had many, you know, this team we're playing,
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  Speaker 3: it's been been a lot, you know, recently. So it's
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  Speaker 3: just how we handle that and you know, how we
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  Speaker 3: how we approach it.
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  Speaker 1: But just just keep things, keep things the same.
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  Speaker 4: What's the biggest difference you've seen it Josh Apen.
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  Speaker 1: This year compared to last year.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, he's affecting the quarterback obviously. Uh, he's playing,
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  Speaker 3: he's playing physical, he's using using a lot of his
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  Speaker 3: you know game pass rush game, you know, to to
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  Speaker 3: to affect the quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and by scheme too. You know, we've seen a.
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  Speaker 3: Lot of different different moves and games and stunts and
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  Speaker 3: different things too, which which are effective. You know a
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  Speaker 3: lot of teams do that, and we've been able to
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  Speaker 3: do it. And and obviously his desire, his desire to
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  Speaker 3: to get to the quarterback, you know, especially in passing situation.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a combination of of everything.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, do you remember your first Monday night football game
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  Speaker 5: or no.
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  Speaker 1: No as a player or coach or.
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  Speaker 5: But just as a player that what were your thoughts
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  Speaker 5: like when you go into Monday night How how exciting
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  Speaker 5: was it?
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  Speaker 1: Just? Yeah, I mean it's it's very exciting.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you're the Monday night football the history of
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  Speaker 3: Monday night football and in the National Football League, and and
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  Speaker 3: you're the only night you know, or the only game
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  Speaker 3: on that day, and and.
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  Speaker 1: You know it's uh, you're in front.
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  Speaker 3: You're playing in front of in front of your peers,
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  Speaker 3: your other teams, and they're watching you, and it's exciting,
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  Speaker 3: you know, And and.
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  Speaker 1: We're just hopeful that maybe we have a few more
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  Speaker 1: down the road.
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  Speaker 5: To you that this team.
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  Speaker 2: Hasn't played on Monday night since twenty eleven.
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  Speaker 1: It really is.
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  Speaker 3: But again, you have to kind of earn that, right,
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  Speaker 3: I think, you know, to to play on Monday night
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  Speaker 3: or a Sunday night game. And I feel like that
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  Speaker 3: that uh, you know, the guys have have earned that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, for for this game and and again hopefully
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  Speaker 3: hopefully we have more to come. Playing Jake Brown and
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  Speaker 3: you've been around the league for a while, but this
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  Speaker 3: is only his second career start. I mean, you just
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  Speaker 3: gotta you just gotta watch all the all the clips, right,
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  Speaker 3: you just gotta go back and look at all his
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  Speaker 3: his body work and and and see and and then
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  Speaker 3: how how they're you know, how they're using them within
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  Speaker 3: this system. There's not a lot of obviously not a
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  Speaker 3: lot of you know, reps in the offense. Obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you gotta you just gotta approach it. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: like we say, you just got to continue to do
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  Speaker 3: your job and and you know, focus on your your
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  Speaker 3: role and what you're assigned to do. You know, you
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  Speaker 3: just don't go chasing chasing plays. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 3: you know they're I'm sure going to try to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: get the ball out of his hand quickly and and
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  Speaker 3: he does a pretty good job of that. You know,
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  Speaker 3: this short to intermediate stuff and screen game has been
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  Speaker 3: real effective, you know for them. And you know, so
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  Speaker 3: empty formations things of that nature, that that sort of
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  Speaker 3: you know, for a quarterback, sort of simple fire the
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  Speaker 3: defense a little bit. You know, So there's ways of
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  Speaker 3: of looking at all that, but it just comes down
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  Speaker 3: to doing your your responsibility. All about his brother, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: M.
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  Speaker 5: When you look at how your team finished the last season,
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  Speaker 5: obviously a lot of it is a function of getting
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  Speaker 5: used to your system and getting used to playing with
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  Speaker 5: each other. Does that give you confidence for this stretch
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  Speaker 5: run in the last six games that this team can
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  Speaker 5: also finish strong, just given the fact that it's more
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  Speaker 5: mature or have more time together and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, obviously it's different, different set of circumstances.
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  Speaker 1: I think this year than last year.
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  Speaker 3: Last year we were kind of fighting for our lives
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the season, we're fighting just to
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  Speaker 3: you know, compete in the AFC South, right, this year's
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  Speaker 3: different when you're when you're you know, it goes back to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, playing with the lead right in games and
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  Speaker 3: sustaining that lead. And so now you're in that lead
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  Speaker 3: obviously in the AFC South, but at the same time,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you look up at the AFC and Andy,
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  Speaker 3: there's bigger things for this team, right and and so
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  Speaker 3: our focus has to be just that. But but leaning
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  Speaker 3: on our experience as a year ago definitely can help
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  Speaker 3: us in these moments.
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  Speaker 1: Team that you.
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  Speaker 5: Had in Peeling from a bonding standpoint only not not
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  Speaker 5: talent or anything like that, do you feel like this
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  Speaker 5: team is as connected as any team that you had
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  Speaker 5: in feeling?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, could explain why. I mean, I I just think
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  Speaker 1: you just you just I just listen. I listen.
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  Speaker 3: I listen to their conversations, you know, in and around
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  Speaker 3: the building.
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  Speaker 1: I listened to 'em. And when I say listen, I'm
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  Speaker 1: listening from afar.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not like you know, but but just just hearing
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  Speaker 3: what they're saying, what they're doing, what what I'm seeing
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  Speaker 3: them them do. When when there's days off, the amount
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  Speaker 3: of guys that are in the building, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, they really do like this place.
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  Speaker 3: Uh it's a good place to come to and get
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  Speaker 3: get a workout in, or watch them film treatment, whatever
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  Speaker 3: it might be. And that's what cultivates culture and and
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  Speaker 3: the bond that this this group has and they genuinely
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  Speaker 3: like each other and they get along and and that
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  Speaker 3: goes a long way.
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  Speaker 4: Is this the easier move for Walker?
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  Speaker 5: He starts for for left tackle, then for left guard,
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  Speaker 5: now for you know, assumingly for back at left tackle.
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  Speaker 4: Is that the easier move for him because it's what
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  Speaker 4: he knows.
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  Speaker 3: Best kind of home, yeah, you know, And and again
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  Speaker 3: it's just a credit to to Walker. I mean, he's
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  Speaker 3: he's bounced around, you know, the the offensive line this year.
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  Speaker 3: It's not easy to play offensive line obviously in this league.
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  Speaker 3: But but I think for him, his natural position, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: is the tackle spot. So there'll be a lot of
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  Speaker 3: a lot of familiarity out there, you know. And it's
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  Speaker 3: just again it's just a matter of different stance. You're
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more on an island. I mean, there's
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  Speaker 3: you know, space is greater than playing at that guard spot.
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  Speaker 3: So just getting used to that, you know, And and
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  Speaker 3: really in practice will help him. Michael is like Le's week,
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  Speaker 3: you get to wear some shoes that are really close
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  Speaker 3: to your heart.
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  Speaker 1: Can you just explain why you chose what you chose?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean obviously with h you know, pancretic cancer
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  Speaker 3: and and what we went through with my brother a
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  Speaker 3: couple of years ago, and and it's just you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's near and dear to us as a family and
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  Speaker 3: to me, and and it's a great way to honor
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  Speaker 3: him and and his his legacy and memory and at
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  Speaker 3: the same time support a really good cause.
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  Speaker 1: Is this an opportunity to look forward to each year?
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  Speaker 1: I do? I do?
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  Speaker 3: You know in years past you just sort of try
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  Speaker 3: to figure out what you want us to do or support,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and and everybody has a you know a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of this and that, I guess, you know,
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  Speaker 3: but but for me it's now it's obviously personal, you know,
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  Speaker 3: having gone through it, and yeah, makes it makes it
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  Speaker 3: more special.
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  Speaker 2: Defensively, Cincinnati obviously, you know, carry them to a Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl after twenty twenty one b on the same personnel,
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  Speaker 2: what's changed since then and maybe what allowed for them
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  Speaker 2: to have kind of that mini resurgence in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of this season.
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  Speaker 3: I you know, it's this is a really it's a
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  Speaker 3: it's a good it's a good defense, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: I it when you look at 'em and you look
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  Speaker 3: at 'em on paper, I mean there's you know, what
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  Speaker 3: are they they're creating the creating some takeaways. I think
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  Speaker 3: they had a couple of guys four interceptions, three interceptions, creating,
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  Speaker 3: you know, creating those opportunistic moments for their offense.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, you know, they they definitely miss probably Joe. The
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  Speaker 3: biggest the biggest issue there you know, for them probably
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  Speaker 3: is just dealing with that. But you know, they were
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  Speaker 3: able to score points off of those turnover When you
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  Speaker 3: look at some of the games during their Super Bowl
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  Speaker 3: run and those postseason games, some of the takeaways that
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  Speaker 3: they were creating their offense was was scoring. And and
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  Speaker 3: rightfully so I'm even now, you know, as the defense
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  Speaker 3: creates takeaways, they're still producing some some scores. But I
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's a it's a it's a really good
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  Speaker 3: solid sound. Another another one of those defenses that's been
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  Speaker 3: around their coordinator for a few years now, and and
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  Speaker 3: so they've got they've got really smart, talented, physical guys
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  Speaker 3: and they they play sound football and there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of lot of moving parts, but it's a it's it's
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  Speaker 3: not moving parts that are it's chaos. It's moving parts
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  Speaker 3: that are in sync with one another. Uh, very detailed
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  Speaker 3: and you know they they they play really really well.
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  Speaker 2: We asked you, Logan Wilson kind of I don't wanna
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  Speaker 2: say he's getting a bad rep, but in light of
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  Speaker 2: the drop tackle against Marc Andrews, so he kind of
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  Speaker 2: has gotten this bad rap up like he's out to
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  Speaker 2: get people's legs.
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  Speaker 3: What do you see, Ennis, Ah, listen, I you know
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  Speaker 3: people are gonna say what they wanna say, but this
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  Speaker 3: is a good football player. You know, he's smart, he's instinctive,
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  Speaker 3: he gets the defense lined up, he doesn't come off
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  Speaker 3: the field. I mean this guy, and he's all over
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  Speaker 3: the place, and he's tough. He's downhill. So I think
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  Speaker 3: anybody trying to tackle Mark Andrews would have a tough
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  Speaker 3: time and they have and and so yead I don't
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  Speaker 3: put this one on.
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  Speaker 5: Him, Thank goodness, Thanks coach.
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  Speaker 1: All Right,