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Press Pass | Taylor: "Let the players make the plays." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Well, I think schematically they're kind of similar to what
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  Speaker 1: we saw in Indie where they kind of just line
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  Speaker 1: up and do what they do. You know, the wide
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  Speaker 1: nine front that coach Burke and those guys Demiko they're
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  Speaker 1: familiar with in San Francisco really lets the D line
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  Speaker 1: kind of tee off and they're firing off the football,
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  Speaker 1: you know, penetrating three technique, all the different things that
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  Speaker 1: you see in a lot of these fronts that we've
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  Speaker 1: started to see they're doing a good job of. And
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  Speaker 1: obviously they have talented edge players. They have good solid
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  Speaker 1: interior players as well to let the linebackers kind of
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  Speaker 1: clean everything up from there. So you know, you can
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  Speaker 1: see they're early on in their system. This is game
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  Speaker 1: three for them, playing a new system for some of
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  Speaker 1: the guys. Now a lot of the free Asian acquisitions,
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  Speaker 1: they all came up in this system somewhere or another,
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  Speaker 1: so they're familiar with it, but you can see it
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  Speaker 1: start to.
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  Speaker 2: Get implemented and they're doing a good job. They play really,
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  Speaker 2: really hard.
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  Speaker 3: I think the report came weren't in that stately and
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  Speaker 3: got banged up at practice though, Mike see shack or
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  Speaker 3: finish just how would that change the game plan at all.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they're still going to play the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: And and Shack again came up in Seattle, came up
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  Speaker 1: in this coverage scheme, so it's something he's familiar with.
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  Speaker 1: He played in the indie game. You see him out
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  Speaker 1: there in that game as well.
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  Speaker 2: So a lot of.
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  Speaker 1: These guys have played, whether it's in obviously this system
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  Speaker 1: in Houston getting implemented for the first time, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of these guys have come up in the system. That's
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  Speaker 1: really where Shack kind of cut his teeth playing in
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  Speaker 1: this style of coverage unit. So something he's very familiar with, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: and he's done it for a long time.
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  Speaker 4: With some of the outside and noise and pressure, I
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  Speaker 4: mean cameras on you frustrated during games out assume this
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  Speaker 4: is probably the most criticism and pressure you've been on
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  Speaker 4: during your coaching career.
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  Speaker 1: I was in Philly for eight years, so uh no,
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  Speaker 1: I mean outside noise doesn't affect us inside, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: here pretty much all day every day, so I really
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  Speaker 1: don't on social media, don't listen to the radio, don't
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  Speaker 1: watch TV. I mean I don't really have time to.
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  Speaker 1: So you're kind of ignorance is bliss. So yeah, that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't really bother me at all.
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  Speaker 3: Could you talk a little bit about after watching film
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  Speaker 3: with the offensive line any what's your level of concern
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  Speaker 3: with the unit at this point? And obviously you know
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  Speaker 3: Harrison had a tough time with christ Jones.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's not the first player to ever have
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  Speaker 1: a tough time with Chris Jones, so you know, certainly
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  Speaker 1: it's early in his career, and you know, at times
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  Speaker 1: we put them in a tough situation and that's on
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  Speaker 1: us as coaches. We got to do a great job
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  Speaker 1: making sure we're protecting matchups and doing everything. And you
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  Speaker 1: know they kind of get you a little bit and
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  Speaker 1: that they're a big pressure team and you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: protect against the pressures and then all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: you realize you have the personnel matchup at times, so
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  Speaker 1: you're picking and choosing how you want to deal with
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  Speaker 1: it at certain times. But you know, I think our
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  Speaker 1: offensive line is continuing to come together. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: week two or we just finished week two, getting into
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  Speaker 1: week three. We expect growth and you see as you
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  Speaker 1: mix and match pieces through camp, you get Ben BArch
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  Speaker 1: back in here. There's there's some gelling that I think
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  Speaker 1: comes together.
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  Speaker 2: That's to be expected.
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  Speaker 1: But I think everyone in our unit, in general, offensive line,
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  Speaker 1: the offensive union is general. We all think we need
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  Speaker 1: to play better in week three than we did a
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  Speaker 1: week two.
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  Speaker 2: For sure, they can't.
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  Speaker 4: Go this week. How much do you have to shift
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  Speaker 4: things when you put maybe Tim Jones on the field game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a possibility. You know, we're fortunate and that
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  Speaker 1: we have versatile pieces. We have guys like Tim, guys
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  Speaker 1: like ag that provide different elements, and then with our
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  Speaker 1: tight end room being able to mix and match twelve
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  Speaker 1: personnel thirteen personnel to give us some of the elements
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  Speaker 1: we get. It's for a coaching staff perspective, it's certainly
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  Speaker 1: a lot easier to know early on if a guy's
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  Speaker 1: playing or not, if it's a guy that ends up
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  Speaker 1: being a game time decision, or if something happens on
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  Speaker 1: game day. That's where it gets tough to mix and
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  Speaker 1: match and change your game plan as you go. So
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  Speaker 1: we're doing everything we can to communicate with the with
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  Speaker 1: the training staff to get a feel for where day
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  Speaker 1: is and what we expect out of them. But we'll
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  Speaker 1: continue to be able to massage our plan either way.
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  Speaker 4: Last time the Texans we're here, the offense had a
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  Speaker 4: little bit of a rough day out. How much do
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  Speaker 4: you look at that since there's so much different around
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  Speaker 4: that team score.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you really don't pay attention to that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the personnel has changed, obviously, the scheme has
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  Speaker 1: changed pretty dramatically. That was that was more cover two
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  Speaker 1: based coverage unit and then this, you know, tends to
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  Speaker 1: not be like that as much. So that's not something
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  Speaker 1: necessarily we pay attention to. Do you go back and
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  Speaker 1: look at sand and how they ran their defense last year? Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: and you know we all kind of pull our experiences
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  Speaker 1: of planning against those guys as together. But you know
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  Speaker 1: that's where coach Ryan's has the most experience as a
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  Speaker 1: defense coordinators. So you see his identity how they played,
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  Speaker 1: and then you you're always checking the tape.
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  Speaker 2: Is it the same or or is it aligned? Is
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  Speaker 2: this who they are?
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  Speaker 1: And that's always kind of the research you do throughout
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  Speaker 1: the week to get a feel for it. What kind
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  Speaker 1: And he's a good players disruptive, you know, he's a
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  Speaker 1: guy that for a long time when you go to
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  Speaker 1: the scouting combine, you talk to players and talk to Alabama.
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  Speaker 1: Who would you bring with you? That's a common question.
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  Speaker 1: What teammate would you bring with you just to get research?
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  Speaker 1: For a couple of years, you've heard the name Will Anderson,
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I don't pay much attention to the
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  Speaker 1: defensive guys coming out of the draft and stuff, but
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  Speaker 1: I certainly knew his name. So when they were able
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  Speaker 1: to get back in there and get him at three
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  Speaker 1: and he's in the division, you're not exactly excited about that.
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  Speaker 4: Got a rookie offensive tackle? Who are seeing these sorts
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  Speaker 4: of talented pass rustus. I mean it's the NFL, but
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  Speaker 4: you're seeing impactful past versus a week in a week out.
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  Speaker 4: How does that help him to I guess grow faster?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you got no choice. You're kind of
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  Speaker 2: out there. You got it. You either get it done
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  Speaker 2: or you don't.
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  Speaker 1: And again, it's on us as coaches to make sure
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  Speaker 1: we're putting him in the best possible position. If there's
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  Speaker 1: a way to provide help in some way, shape or form,
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  Speaker 1: if there's things you can do schematically to take advantage
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  Speaker 1: or to protect certain matchups, and that's what you got
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  Speaker 1: to do. But playing right tackling the NFL is tough.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of really, really good rushers that happened
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  Speaker 1: to be on that side nowadays. But one of the
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  Speaker 1: things we knew about Anton coming up that we vetted from,
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  Speaker 1: you know, people at Oklahoma and just his background and
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  Speaker 1: growing up was we felt like this was a kid
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  Speaker 1: that mentally would be tough. It's going to be hard
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  Speaker 1: as a rookie offensive tackle in the NFL, as a
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  Speaker 1: rookie offensive lineman, you know, you could name the position.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna see tough guys every other week or so.
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  Speaker 1: But we felt like this was something that Anton would
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  Speaker 1: be able to handle as you went through the bumps
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  Speaker 1: and bruises of being a rookie offensive lineman.
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  Speaker 3: Someone Monday that.
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  Speaker 4: The need for players to sort of let the game
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  Speaker 4: coming in the n press to make plays.
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  Speaker 3: As a coordinator, do you have to do that as well,
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  Speaker 3: just sort of let the offense. Yeah, yeah, you do.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you start feeling at times, you fight the
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  Speaker 1: feeling of all right, we need a big play here,
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  Speaker 1: we need to spark momentum, we need where you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of the what got us going last year a
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  Speaker 1: little bit was just sticking to our plan. We built
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  Speaker 1: a game plan that we believed in. We execute the
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  Speaker 1: plan regardless of the situation, and we chip away at
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  Speaker 1: whatever we needed to do to get ourselves going. And
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  Speaker 1: so you fight the urge to, you know, have to
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  Speaker 1: start digging and looking for the big play when it's
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  Speaker 1: not necessarily there. Coach talks to the team all the
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  Speaker 1: time about, you know, make the play that comes you,
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  Speaker 1: don't go chasing plays, and that that applies to all
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  Speaker 1: of us coaches with you know, as myself as the
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  Speaker 1: play caller, the same idea of just stick to the
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  Speaker 1: plan that we we created, we believed in from Monday
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  Speaker 1: to Saturday when there was no emotion involved in it,
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  Speaker 1: and so just stick to that, let the players make
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  Speaker 1: the plays, and that's where we want to go with
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  Speaker 1: things a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Do you feel like there's there's some pressure on this
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  Speaker 3: OSI and everybody's talked about it and it's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: a top five offense, Super Bowl pretenders, things like that,
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  Speaker 3: Then you see what happened last. Do you think there's
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  Speaker 3: some pressure there?
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  Speaker 4: Maybe?
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  Speaker 1: I think something like that is natural. I think as
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  Speaker 1: you hear the noise and you hear if you like
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  Speaker 1: that get to you. But I think at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: we have very high standards. So it has nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with at least from my perspective or the coaching
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  Speaker 1: staff's perspective, has nothing to do with outside noise or people.
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  Speaker 2: We expect a lot of ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: We expect to play to a certain standard that we'd
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  Speaker 1: felt like, really through two weeks we haven't been able
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  Speaker 1: to achieve yet, or consistently at least, but we know
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  Speaker 1: we just keep chipping away. We trust the process that
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  Speaker 1: we've got in place for how we build game plans,
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  Speaker 1: how we practice, how we prepare the guys, and really
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  Speaker 1: just kind of double down on our process.
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  Speaker 4: What was the biggest frustration point with the way the
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  Speaker 4: offense played last game? A lot of guys said that
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  Speaker 4: they were just upset with how they showed.
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  Speaker 3: Was it just.
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  Speaker 4: Because nothing seemed to go right? Was it that you
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  Speaker 4: saw the plays there and it just wasn't all coming together.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a play by play basis. I mean
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  Speaker 1: there were certain things that took place that just overall
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  Speaker 1: led to a frustrating day. I think if you're able
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  Speaker 1: to punch a couple of those red zone opportunities in
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  Speaker 1: the day feels very differently. I think the biggest thing,
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  Speaker 1: and we talked about this as a unit together on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: The biggest thing was we felt like we let down
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  Speaker 1: the two other units on our team. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: felt like special teams and defense gave us opportunities to
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  Speaker 1: win the game, and as an offense, we didn't carry
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  Speaker 1: our weight and.
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  Speaker 2: Do our part. So that's that's where you feel the worst,
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  Speaker 2: is
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  Speaker 1: You feel like you let down the rest of the teams.