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  Speaker 1: The rest of the season. Yeah, well, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: continue to mix the rotation like we we have been.
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  Speaker 1: You'll see him both out there, you know at times.
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  Speaker 1: You know, probably by the end of the season. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we get five games left and and so we're going
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  Speaker 1: to continue to mix that position. Uh from Mason particularly,
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  Speaker 1: I saw a guy using his hands really well, got
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  Speaker 1: off a couple of blocks, made some plays, a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of rust. You know, it's been a little bit
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  Speaker 1: since he's been out there, but trending in the right direction.
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  Speaker 1: Had a good week of practice, uh so far yesterday
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  Speaker 1: and then walked through today's he was into it. So
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  Speaker 1: like I'm encouraged and get him back to where where
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  Speaker 1: he was and so yeah, pretty he was. He's doing
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  Speaker 1: pretty good. I like to see him tick up, trend
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  Speaker 1: up this game. What kind of challenges gotten read speed,
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  Speaker 1: elite speed, take the top off defense, huge deep ball threat,
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  Speaker 1: like we have to protect the deep ball against him, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, make him catches. He's gonna get us catches, guys,
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  Speaker 1: really good football player, he's going to get us catches.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna try to eliminate as much as we can,
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  Speaker 1: but we can't give up the explosives over the top.
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  Speaker 2: I was will Love is sort of growing, I guess
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  Speaker 2: throughout his time with the tens of times.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, huge arm. He can make all the throws like
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  Speaker 1: that's the thing. And then you're seeing him we played
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  Speaker 1: him last year, and then his his movement in the
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  Speaker 1: in and around and getting out of the pocket. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's making some plays with his legs and that's he's extending.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's it's first year. You know, now it's
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  Speaker 1: towards the end of the year. You know, he's going
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  Speaker 1: through a new offensive system, and you know, he arm
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  Speaker 1: talent is impressive, like it really is. It's it's really impressive.
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  Speaker 1: And we've got to do a good job of mixing
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  Speaker 1: some things up in our coverages and and staying tight
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  Speaker 1: on the receivers and like we talked about protect the
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  Speaker 1: deep ball because he could throw it as far as
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  Speaker 1: he wants.
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  Speaker 2: You talked about last week how you want him to
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  Speaker 2: change up some personnel during the game. What did you
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  Speaker 2: see from that and how do you sort of adjustment forward.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we thought our guys did a good job handling
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  Speaker 1: you know, we did a couple of different personnel groups
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  Speaker 1: that we had out there. We got bigger, put you know,
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  Speaker 1: five down a couple of times, and but we've got
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  Speaker 1: to continue to rotate that stuff. You know, we can't
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  Speaker 1: just sit in one grouping the whole time. Thought our
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  Speaker 1: guys did a pretty good job, you know, managing those things,
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  Speaker 1: making some plays. Thought our run defense in the first
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  Speaker 1: half particularly, it was a lot better. You know, a
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  Speaker 1: couple of the pop that I wish they wouldn't have,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, they did a good job. And then we
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  Speaker 1: just got to continue the wrinkle, you know, changing up
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  Speaker 1: a few coverages things like that and then calling it differently.
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  Speaker 2: Too progressed this season after getting in there early and
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  Speaker 2: sort of being thrown into a role he might have
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  Speaker 2: been ready for him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he's done a good job. I mean, really,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's he's a contact player and that's what
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  Speaker 1: you really like. You know, he's run hit, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's that type and he does not slow down. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the contact speed is fantastic, you know, and he's you
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  Speaker 1: know where I've seen his growth in coverage. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's doing a better job in coverage and sometimes
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  Speaker 1: that takes a little time, you know for a young player,
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  Speaker 1: but have seen him get better every single game, every
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  Speaker 1: single day. Like you can see that. You know, he's
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  Speaker 1: confident when he goes out on the field, not can
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  Speaker 1: I play at this level as he knows he cans
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  Speaker 1: he can, and just continue that growth. He's a good
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  Speaker 1: player and he's gonna be He'll play in this lake
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  Speaker 1: for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: Tyson can't go.
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  Speaker 1: How does that change your corner rotation? Kind of like
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  Speaker 1: we had at the beginning of the year. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we got we got Trey, got Buster, You'll have Darb,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and then we'll be able to you know,
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  Speaker 1: continue that rotation with those three guys. That's probably what
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  Speaker 1: you'll have out there, you know. And we're going to
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  Speaker 1: change a few coverage things, you know, to do some
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  Speaker 1: things with if and even when Tyson's there. So just
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  Speaker 1: change a few coverage things this game, mix it up
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  Speaker 1: the look type wise, so that that'll help as well.
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  Speaker 2: Do you say anything to jari In at all after
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  Speaker 2: the ejection?
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  Speaker 1: Didn't see him, didn't see him, and and to be honest,
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  Speaker 1: like I didn't see it. It happened live and was
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  Speaker 1: on the other side when that all happened, and so
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  Speaker 1: it was just you know, a wall of bodies that
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and went back obviously watched and everything
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  Speaker 1: like that, but I didn't see the what he did
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  Speaker 1: or you know, live when that happened for him to
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  Speaker 1: get ejected.
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  Speaker 2: Does it change any by any way your defense this
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  Speaker 2: year by not being able to have Darnell sort of
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  Speaker 2: play that you know, mix and Matt turl I know
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  Speaker 2: he does it some now, but but in the beginning
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  Speaker 2: of the year he used him more as a nickel
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  Speaker 2: go out at safety. Now he seems to be a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more staggery at safety. How how has that
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  Speaker 2: changed your defense?
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  Speaker 1: We've changed a few things, just more personnel wise. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we had a plan in the beginning of the year
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  Speaker 1: that these were the spots that we thought that these
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  Speaker 1: guys were gonna play, and with some early injuries, it
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  Speaker 1: kind of changed some things around. This is a position
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  Speaker 1: that he's played as entire career, so and I think
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  Speaker 1: he's doing it at a very high level. You're seeing
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  Speaker 1: him make a lot of plays in the quarterback manipulation
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  Speaker 1: things Joe one high, you know, move around and those
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  Speaker 1: type of things he does really well. Really, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think he's been having a pretty good season, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and so his ability to play other positions of what
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  Speaker 1: makes him special as he can play safety, he can
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  Speaker 1: play the nickel position, and he's a good pressure player,
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  Speaker 1: a good tackler, So all of those things he's he's
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  Speaker 1: done a good job. And so yeah, I mean there's
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  Speaker 1: been some things that we've had a massage through the season,
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  Speaker 1: but I think he settled in a role that's he's
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  Speaker 1: playing at a pretty high level right now.
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  Speaker 2: Is the way you coach your most as the coaches,
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  Speaker 2: if you know the quarterbacks line.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, that's obviously a hot topic, right and so you know,
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  Speaker 1: as we talk about the quarterback a lot of times,
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  Speaker 1: is if we can make a form tackle, that's the
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  Speaker 1: kind of tackle we want to make, you know. And
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  Speaker 1: then you know, when the quarterback is running and he
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  Speaker 1: goes into get into the slide, you know, as we
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  Speaker 1: we have an aiming point that we want and if
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  Speaker 1: that aiming point then drops and we just we try
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  Speaker 1: to slide over the jump over the top of them,
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  Speaker 1: so we don't you know, we don't want the penalty
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  Speaker 1: like that's the extra yards on the thing. And make
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  Speaker 1: sure sometimes it's tricky sometimes the fake slide, and so
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  Speaker 1: that's why we we try to form tackle it first.
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  Speaker 1: And then if he does fake day, I'm gonna I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to take that that shot and then go over
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  Speaker 1: the top if he goes and slides down. So it's, uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's something that you know, we're going to continue to coach,
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  Speaker 1: and obviously in this situation, I think it's it's something
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  Speaker 1: that you know, we need to revisit, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: make sure that we don't have something like that happened
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  Speaker 1: because obviously you don't want that to happen. And also
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  Speaker 1: the penalty yards on top of everything that that happens
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  Speaker 1: to you, you know, it's that's a big you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's a big fifteen. Our penalty is a big It
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  Speaker 1: could get you put you in point situations, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and obviously you don't want it to happen to our guy.
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  Speaker 1: But if we're just coaching this particular play and taking
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  Speaker 1: Jacksonville out of it and just talking about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: how to how to coach the thing, then yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: need to we need to eliminate the the hit to
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  Speaker 1: the head and and go over the top, not the
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  Speaker 1: main thing is yeah, yeah, And it gets to a
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  Speaker 1: point where, you know, if the form tackle part of
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  Speaker 1: it is you know, when you're you're wrapping and trying
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  Speaker 1: to clamp a guy, you know, and and not leave
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  Speaker 1: your feet. That that's the important thing if you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's particularly on the quarterback is you know, and that
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  Speaker 1: that's part of the you know, the fake slide. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you don't you want to be able to come in
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  Speaker 1: and wrap them up and get them to the ground.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of years as a pass rush, it seems
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  Speaker 1: like sacks obviously whether they were last year or pressure
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  Speaker 1: and everything else is still pretty good. Yeah, he's he's
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  Speaker 1: affecting the quarterback. He's he's he's still rushing the way.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're saying a little bit more power out
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  Speaker 1: of him. I think that's the difference in the in
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  Speaker 1: the two years. You're seeing a little bit more power.
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  Speaker 1: He's a little bit bigger using this, you know, going
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  Speaker 1: through the guy and says so much around them, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And then he's still doing a good job in the
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  Speaker 1: pass rush games and things like that. So he's it's
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  Speaker 1: his effects are there. It's just the production and you know,
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  Speaker 1: getting him downs, you know, any and he's working on it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not anything like we're you know, we're stressing out
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  Speaker 1: or anything about it, you know, because he is affecting
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  Speaker 1: the passer very beauty. You're right, there's a whole decision
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  Speaker 1: things that go into how one happens. Yeah, and and
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  Speaker 1: and it's it's it's getting them down when you here
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to get him down, Like that's the big
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  Speaker 1: you know, missing one could be the difference between nine
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  Speaker 1: or you know, nine or ten and you have a
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  Speaker 1: double digit sacking or a single man I could have
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  Speaker 1: had him down there. So getting them down and the
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  Speaker 1: opportunities where you do have them have a chance to
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  Speaker 1: do it, like, that's a big thing too. And so
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  Speaker 1: we we practiced, you know, this tackle the quarterback just
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  Speaker 1: kind of like we're talking about franchise SAG record.
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  Speaker 2: Do you ever take that into account as you kind
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  Speaker 2: of look at situations and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, one of one, one game at a time, one
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  Speaker 1: rush at a time type deal. You know. So I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you guys. Have a good day.