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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Gives Final Updates Ahead Of Week 5 vs. Buccaneers · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Fire away injury questions, Go ahead, I don't think we've
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  Speaker 1: gotten the injured group.
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  Speaker 2: Do you mind telling us the guys?
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  Speaker 3: Is it normally out? Is it normally out?
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so so Spoon's out, Julian's out, d Laws out, Uh,
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  Speaker 3: Josh Jones is out.
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, those are the guys that are out. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: else is either some form of not out. That's at
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  Speaker 1: this point. Nick is not out.
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  Speaker 2: Did did Devin have a setback and obviously made it
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  Speaker 2: through the Arizona game?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? Yeah, I just got got re injured. I guess
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  Speaker 1: in the Arizona game. Is our potential for any of
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  Speaker 1: this guys? I don't think so. Jared Ivy Mike Morris.
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  Speaker 2: What do those two guys do similarly? What do they
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  Speaker 2: do differently?
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  Speaker 1: What do they do well? Yeah? A good question. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Mike does a great job for us on special teams
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  Speaker 3: right now, Jared is competing for more of a role
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  Speaker 3: on special teams. Both guys have like a similar build,
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  Speaker 3: so how we deploy them would be similar. Both can
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  Speaker 3: play on the edge, both can play on the interior,
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  Speaker 3: and some of the things that we're doing in RUSSI inside.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, but we expect physical see.
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  Speaker 3: Gap dominance in the run game and then you know,
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  Speaker 3: competing for snaps and on on pass downs. So both
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  Speaker 3: are doing a really good job and uh got great competition.
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  Speaker 4: The comfort level you have with you know, plugging guys
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  Speaker 4: like Kendrick Tayaka, all the different guys who've already shown
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  Speaker 4: you they can play.
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  Speaker 3: Just yes, the same feeling going into uh was it
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  Speaker 3: was it New.
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  Speaker 1: Orleans or Pittsburgh. I don't know whatever week we're in.
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  Speaker 3: But uh yeah, those guys they had a good week
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  Speaker 3: of practice and locked in and expect them to go
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  Speaker 3: play our brand of ball and go go try to
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  Speaker 3: win a football game.
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  Speaker 4: You said Spoon got reinjured.
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  Speaker 2: Guess we're Jullian as well.
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  Speaker 1: Julian happened really late in the game. Is that you
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  Speaker 1: severity aver there? Not sure? Not sure?
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  Speaker 4: You're gonna have a ton of former players obviously in
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  Speaker 4: town this weekend for the game. Is that something you
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  Speaker 4: try I know you've talked about welcoming guys around. Is
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  Speaker 4: that something you try to incorporate with the current players,
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  Speaker 4: have them talk.
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  Speaker 3: To guys or anything, or well, to my understanding, they're
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  Speaker 3: gonna be here tomorrow and our guys are great, you know,
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  Speaker 3: We've got families and friends and stuff that come to
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  Speaker 3: our Saturday walkthrough, so I'm sure they'll spend some time.
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  Speaker 3: And then, like I think it's Spoon and Dicko will
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  Speaker 3: be at the event tonight. So yeah, our guys would
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  Speaker 3: do a great job with it. But I'm excited. I
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  Speaker 3: had zero to do with the planning, but it's uh,
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  Speaker 3: to my understanding, we have forty of the fifty guys
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  Speaker 3: that are gonna be back in town, so I appreciate
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  Speaker 3: them making the effort and it's exciting times.
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  Speaker 1: So it'd be great to see those guys. He asked
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  Speaker 1: you a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: It has requil and responding and.
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  Speaker 1: What's he working for.
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  Speaker 3: It's all about the process with Riek, So just it's
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  Speaker 3: been the same same, I mean, it's really with all
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  Speaker 3: of our guys, but that that's what we're shooting for.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, he's doing that right now. He's doing it
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  Speaker 3: throughout the week, and I think, Uh, I'm excited to
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  Speaker 3: see him play, excited to see hm Play's got a
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  Speaker 3: great opportunity with Mike Morris.
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  Speaker 2: Where have you kind of seen him that they jump
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  Speaker 2: with him this year?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we're still we're still rolling. But he's he's playing
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  Speaker 3: good ball, he's playing decisive, he's playing physical. That's what
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  Speaker 3: we expect from him. And and he knows he's in
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  Speaker 3: a battle too. There's a lot of great competition in
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  Speaker 3: that room. It's with our defensive line and our defront.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard to find spots too, you know, there's only
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  Speaker 3: there's only so many snaps to go around, so those
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  Speaker 3: things are at a premium and gotta you gotta, you
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  Speaker 3: gotta take advantage those opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: And right now that's what he's doing. Oh did Nick
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  Speaker 1: looking practices? Nick's done a good job. He's done a
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  Speaker 1: good job. Is he ready to go? Yeah? Yeah, Nex, Look,
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  Speaker 1: Thank's gonna play in the game.
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  Speaker 3: So how he plays, how much all that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we'll see how the game goes.
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  Speaker 1: But we had a big plan for him the first week.
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  Speaker 3: You get sometimes you gotta make you gotta make adjustments
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  Speaker 3: as it goes, and but we got an initial plan.
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  Speaker 3: And think of that Austin Powers joke right now, but
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  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna say it, but yeah, he's done a
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  Speaker 3: good job.
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  Speaker 2: The Tayacado step in again like you did.
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  Speaker 1: Oran, Yeah, yeah, Tyle play.
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  Speaker 4: Just with it means you alluded to he had a
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  Speaker 4: plan for him. Then he gets hurts so early in
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  Speaker 4: the games. How excited are you to see him get
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  Speaker 4: out there?
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  Speaker 3: And I'm I'm more kind of like excited for him,
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  Speaker 3: you know, to go out and be able to.
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  Speaker 1: Go play a game. Uh, it's not easy.
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  Speaker 3: The guy played literally every every step since he walked
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  Speaker 3: in the door, every practice is available, and then you
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  Speaker 3: you know, you get a setback in the first game.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's not an easy, like mental thing to have
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  Speaker 3: to go through and then go through the whole rehab
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  Speaker 3: to come back.
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  Speaker 1: And do it the way you done. I thought he's
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  Speaker 1: handled himself really well.
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  Speaker 3: He stayed sharp mentally, and I know he's itching for
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  Speaker 3: the opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: So excited for him. Kobe Bryant just seems to be
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  Speaker 1: around the ball or the ball finds him. And you've
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  Speaker 1: talked about players that are like that. Yep. Just what
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  Speaker 1: do you seeing from him from Kobe? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: More more of what we saw last year. He's still
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  Speaker 3: building on his on his young career. He's doing a
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  Speaker 3: great job. He's Look, there's a lot of things that
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  Speaker 3: happened in our defensive secondary, and the safeties are the
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  Speaker 3: ones that have to go orchestrate the whole thing. And uh,
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  Speaker 3: he's leading the chart, especially with Julian out him entire
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  Speaker 3: communicating well, Uh, we have a saying with like the
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  Speaker 3: ball finds energy. So if you if you do the
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  Speaker 3: things the right way, you're in the right spots. Your eyes,
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  Speaker 3: you have discipline eyes, you run to the rock, you
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  Speaker 3: break on the ball with great angles. Uh, your natural
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  Speaker 3: ability to come through, which Kobe has a lot of that,
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  Speaker 3: and he's got great ball skills. So when it when
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  Speaker 3: it finds him, he's been making them play, which has
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  Speaker 3: been great for us, great for him.
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  Speaker 1: Mentioned that process. What parts of the process are important
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  Speaker 1: specifically for help.
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  Speaker 3: For every every player. It's everything we do. It's every snap,
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  Speaker 3: it's every it's every meeting. This isn't just this isn't
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  Speaker 3: just reek. But sometimes it's easy to get caught up
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  Speaker 3: in the noise of the outcome when really we just
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  Speaker 3: got to focus on what we do every day and
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  Speaker 3: making sure those things are the right things, and making
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  Speaker 3: sure we're we're taking reps and our technique is right
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  Speaker 3: and our preparations right, and our game plans are right
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  Speaker 3: and we make right decisions on game Dame as a
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  Speaker 3: coach I'm making the right decision now. Sometimes the outcome
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  Speaker 3: stinks and you know you got to take on chin
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  Speaker 3: and move on.
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  Speaker 1: But you got to be honest with yourself whether the
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  Speaker 1: whether the process is right. So that's what we're.
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  Speaker 3: Focused on with reeks or folks on. That's what we're
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  Speaker 3: focusing on with the rest of the guys.
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  Speaker 2: And you, guys, did yourself scouting with this little minie
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  Speaker 2: by how much was it about editing things out that
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  Speaker 2: you've been doing versus adding things?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that happens.
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  Speaker 3: That happens a lot of a lot of it's a
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  Speaker 3: function of like you're trying to probably do probably the
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  Speaker 3: volume saying, you know, we probably probably can't invest as
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  Speaker 3: much as we it's going to take in order to
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  Speaker 3: make that come to life as much as we for
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  Speaker 3: it to do that and say you say, okay, let's
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  Speaker 3: maybe move in a different direction and spend our time elsewhere.
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  Speaker 2: There's been a lot of talking about that with the
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  Speaker 2: kicking change this year and the touchback rule and then
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  Speaker 2: with the k balls and maybe the kickers are kicking
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  Speaker 2: it longer. Have you have you noticed that? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: is it changing any of your decision making process?
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  Speaker 1: Does I think you have to.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the average start field position is important, and a
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  Speaker 3: lot of those those kicking decisions on you know, where
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna kick it, you're gonna put it in play,
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  Speaker 3: how much times left, how many players.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's kind a bunch of moving.
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  Speaker 3: Pieces there at the end of halves, which is a
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  Speaker 3: little different than years past. Uh, So that that's definitely
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  Speaker 3: part of our conversation.
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  Speaker 1: And then you know, a.
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  Speaker 3: Lot of times you're playing a field goal kick line
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  Speaker 3: at the end of halves as well. It seems like
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  Speaker 3: those lines keep moving backwards. So but that's against the
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  Speaker 3: rules that are given to us. Let's go play with
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  Speaker 3: them better than everybody else.
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  Speaker 4: These new rules kind of increasing the value of a
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  Speaker 4: good kicker, like Jason Myers kicking Pittsburgh led to do
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  Speaker 4: a touchdown because he was able to hit that one.
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  Speaker 2: Again.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I mean, I think I think you're I
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  Speaker 3: think I got this question the other day. But I
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  Speaker 3: think it's great that it's accentuating the importance of the
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  Speaker 3: special teams phase and the kicking phase of our game.
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  Speaker 1: It just.
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  Speaker 3: There seems like there's a lot of like game turning
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  Speaker 3: plays out there that are turning the tides of games.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think you go through every single one
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  Speaker 3: of our games up to this point, there's been a
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  Speaker 3: critical play on special teams that's helped decide the you know,
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  Speaker 3: the outcome of the game.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's multiple plays.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean we're we're trying to be the
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  Speaker 3: best we possibly can in that phase. We got great
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  Speaker 3: and we've got great players, we got great specialists.
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  Speaker 2: The models that you use for.
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  Speaker 4: Like rift downs to maybe even two points as well
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  Speaker 4: as that somebody in putting new debt into that as
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  Speaker 4: the season goes, based on what's going around the league.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's kind of like a live, living, breathing
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  Speaker 3: model that we take into every game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jason Myers's linebacker, Uh not to my not to
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  Speaker 1: my knowledge.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of it's input, Like it's based off of
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  Speaker 3: where you're playing, surface, you know, all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You have different lines for different endginescluding the.
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  Speaker 3: Field, right Sometimes sometimes that's the case, Yeah, on each
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  Speaker 3: end zone.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what's exactly about with who oh he's got what
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  Speaker 1: was it? A thigh quad quad? I'm not a good
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  Speaker 1: medical guy. Who just I'm just reporting the news man, Like.
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  Speaker 2: You don't know anything about the severity.
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  Speaker 3: No, I mean he's I know, he's gonna try, like
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  Speaker 3: heck to play next week and.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see if he plays. I just you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: it's just just varies.
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  Speaker 2: With with with Julian and where those were the same
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  Speaker 2: injuries that they came into those games with.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, to my knowledge might might be like yeah,
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  Speaker 1: to my knowledge, yes, Okay, got it. I'm I'm honestly trying.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, I mean, they just tell me what it is.
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  Speaker 3: It's just I'm not in there examining them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm literally just a news reporter or incomes injuries.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, it's a game of telephone, is all right,