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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Gives Final Updates Ahead Of Week 2 · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: So, Torrey Horton, seems like he's ready to make his return.
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  Speaker 2: Torrey's back, yep. Had a great week of practice. Excited
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  Speaker 2: to see him play. He's worked really hard.
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  Speaker 1: How does it affect you guys to have all the
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  Speaker 1: different receivers you've got while you're also trying to get
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  Speaker 1: tight ends on the field? How do you guys work through.
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  Speaker 3: All that?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's you just work through it.
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  Speaker 3: You have certain things that you want for certain guys,
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  Speaker 3: but The fact of the matter is we have to
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  Speaker 3: be able to operate our whole offense no matter who's
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  Speaker 3: on the field. Otherwise, teams will attack that. We have
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  Speaker 3: a lot of players who want to get out there,
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  Speaker 3: which is a good problem.
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  Speaker 2: It could be a lot worse. We could not want
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  Speaker 2: people out there and then we'd be in trouble.
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  Speaker 4: What did you see from Drew just handling the week.
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  Speaker 2: And the tournament? Very process-oriented. Cool.
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  Speaker 3: Did a lot of great things. Part of my message
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  Speaker 3: to our team is, hey, it's Friday. We're not playing
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  Speaker 3: two hours. The process goes on. It's very important how
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  Speaker 3: we attack the rest of the day as a team. Tonight,
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  Speaker 3: how we sleep, get our bodies right. It's been a
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  Speaker 3: long time since we've.
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  Speaker 2: Had a one-day, 1 p.m. away game.
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  Speaker 3: How we nail this next 24, 36 hours is really important.
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  Speaker 1: What did you learn last week about your guys' ability
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  Speaker 1: to manage Ty Okada's absence and having to do so
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  Speaker 1: again this Sunday?
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  Speaker 2: What did I learn?
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  Speaker 5: Nothing.
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  Speaker 3: We saw Rodney play great football, and that's what it's
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  Speaker 3: going to take. Whoever's out there, it takes playing great
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  Speaker 3: football for us to play great football. That's some really
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  Speaker 3: high-powered wisdom for you.
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  Speaker 1: All right. How has Sam Donald progressed in his rehab
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  Speaker 1: this week?
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  Speaker 2: Great, great. He's on his way back. Is it next week?
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  Speaker 2: Is it the week after? Is it the week after that?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure, but I'm optimistic. Let's put it that way.
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  Speaker 1: With Nick, we saw the addition of a hip injury
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  Speaker 1: to that as well. Is that kind of the bigger
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  Speaker 1: thing there?
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  Speaker 2: I guess, where is Nick? We've added a hip. And
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  Speaker 2: he's doing a great job, and he's questionable for the game.
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  Speaker 1: Is he going to show up as a full participant
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  Speaker 1: today in practice?
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  Speaker 2: I believe he was limited today.
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  Speaker 1: In his case, he knows the defense and he knows
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  Speaker 1: how you employed him, but does he need a full
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  Speaker 1: practice to be checked off in one of his milestones?
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  Speaker 3: He needs a limited practice enough to be questionable for
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  Speaker 3: the game.
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  Speaker 1: I'll keep trying. If Anthony can't play, is Christian Haynes
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  Speaker 1: kind of the next man up there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Edge guys, outside linebackers, they're usually known for the sacks,
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  Speaker 4: but you have a bunch of guys who really like
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  Speaker 4: to be physical, hit guys.
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  Speaker 2: In the run game. How important for what you want to.
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  Speaker 4: Do schematically is the way those guys come set an edge.
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  Speaker 1: And be physical in their own games?
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  Speaker 3: We play a lot of shell defense and there's more
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  Speaker 3: gaps than people at the line of scrimmage. We need
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  Speaker 3: our front six or front seven guys to restrict space.
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  Speaker 3: We talk about playing your 1.09, which gets you to 12.
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  Speaker 3: That's what we expect from it. It starts up front.
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  Speaker 3: When you're in some of the fronts that we're at,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of times the point of attack is a
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  Speaker 3: is C-gapping out, and so we expect a lot out
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  Speaker 3: of those guys, and we ask a lot out of them.
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  Speaker 3: But we have great players, and they're up to the task,
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  Speaker 3: and they understand that if we play first down and
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  Speaker 3: second down the right way, then we can get ops
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  Speaker 3: to attack the quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: Dante Fowler, who's played a lot of football and been
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  Speaker 4: to a lot of places, he said he's ever been
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  Speaker 4: on a team that really plays just the way you
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  Speaker 4: guys do and the emphasis on it. What is it
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  Speaker 4: about the way you guys coach it or emphasize it
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  Speaker 4: that you think makes a difference?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'd say the rest of his position group deserves
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  Speaker 3: a lot of credit, you know, in terms of their
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  Speaker 3: buy-in on how we want to play. I think our
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  Speaker 3: coaches do a tremendous job of, you know, they're not like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they're not like crash dummies out there. We're
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  Speaker 3: trying to put them in positions to be effective and
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  Speaker 3: be productive. So it's like our D-line, like your job
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  Speaker 3: is not just to eat up double teams, it's Sometimes
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  Speaker 3: we're going to ask you to do that, but we
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  Speaker 3: also want you to understand the game plan, understand when
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  Speaker 3: you can be aggressive, things like that. There's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of work that goes into it, but guys like Josh
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  Speaker 3: Bynes has done a tremendous job, Chris Partridge, Justin Hines,
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  Speaker 3: AD obviously leading the charge. I think those guys do
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  Speaker 3: a great job coaching them up and getting it clean
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  Speaker 3: and clear enough so we can go in the game
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  Speaker 3: and you can go play the right way.
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  Speaker 1: With Nick out last week, you had the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: get Tyrese out there a little bit more in the
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  Speaker 1: packages you used. What did you kind of make of
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  Speaker 1: him jumping into that role, and how does he kind
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  Speaker 1: of fit into that adjustment when you.
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  Speaker 4: Guys were asking him to go out there?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's done a great job. I think that's just
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  Speaker 3: one example of how he said if you kind of
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  Speaker 3: earn your right to get on the field and make
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  Speaker 3: it undeniable for us, we'll figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: There's different ways that we can do it.
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  Speaker 3: There's other personnel groups that other guys– may or may
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  Speaker 3: not have earned it up to this point. I think
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  Speaker 3: that's something that just shows you third year in the system.
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  Speaker 3: I think things that we can get to a little
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  Speaker 3: bit less expensive than the cost of our first couple years.
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  Speaker 2: That's T.
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  Speaker 3: Knight's credit, Zach's credit for coaching it up. It's been
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  Speaker 3: seamless going in there as well as the other.
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  Speaker 2: Stuff going on. What do you mean by less expensive?
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  Speaker 3: It's just less investment, less reps. Hey, you're going in,
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  Speaker 3: you're just doing that. Less transition costs. You don't have
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  Speaker 3: to do this wholesale change. It's within our system and
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  Speaker 3: we can get to it quicker without all the consternation.
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  Speaker 1: Mike, the new Russian coverage, you talked about the D-line.
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  Speaker 5: How important awareness and trust of the back end of
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  Speaker 5: that defense so they can play.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of yeah um it's a timing thing right it's
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  Speaker 3: like the ball's out then we have to be able
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  Speaker 3: to deny the ball if the ball's not out then
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  Speaker 3: we have to be able to get to the quarterback
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  Speaker 3: so down and distance um drives that kind of formula
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  Speaker 3: uh the type of the type of routes the type
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  Speaker 3: of pass drives that formula and that that obviously is
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  Speaker 3: gonna you know drive the type of decisions we want
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  Speaker 3: to make schematically on how we want to build it
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  Speaker 3: but The front needs to be tied into what we're
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  Speaker 3: expecting in the back end and vice versa.
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  Speaker 2: It's all connected. We don't operate in silos.
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  Speaker 3: It's a 12-1 type of thing.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about plays versus players earlier this week. How
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  Speaker 1: much of the game plan changes for you after injury
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  Speaker 1: reports come out, either for your game plan, who's going
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  Speaker 1: to play for you, or who's going to play for
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  Speaker 1: your opponent?
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  Speaker 3: We're fortunate enough that we don't have to be coy
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  Speaker 3: to our people. We're on a common understanding about what
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  Speaker 3: it looks like throughout the week. Now, it's frequent that
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  Speaker 3: it'll shift throughout the week, which is sometimes great, sometimes
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  Speaker 3: not so great, but that's life in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: With the other team, it just depends. It just depends.
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  Speaker 3: It's probably not as much as you might anticipate Once
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  Speaker 3: you get deeper in the week, it's hard to make
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  Speaker 3: wholesale changes.
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  Speaker 2: But it depends. It could vary on how drastic a
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  Speaker 2: game plan shifts.
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  Speaker 1: Any more of an update on Zach Sharma today?
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  Speaker 2: Zach's doing great.
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  Speaker 3: We're getting down to him possibly finding a date where
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  Speaker 3: he can start practicing again. So that's coming soon. When
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  Speaker 3: that exact date is... we haven't finalized that yet, but
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  Speaker 3: it's coming soon.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's, he's, he's the same guy.
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  Speaker 3: It's just like, it's, it's a very, very process oriented
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  Speaker 3: with him. I think Thomas Hammock has done a tremendous
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  Speaker 3: job coaching him up the rest of his room, but
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  Speaker 3: it's seamless.
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  Speaker 2: It's the same thing. It's like, There's going to be
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  Speaker 2: plays as a first-year player.
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  Speaker 3: That we want to improve on, just like anybody else
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  Speaker 3: on the roster, but it's how you attack it and
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  Speaker 3: move on from there and grow. That's the business we're
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  Speaker 3: in right now as a football team.
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  Speaker 2: We need to keep growing. We need to keep stacking.
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  Speaker 3: Jadarian's a great example of that, of just one play
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  Speaker 3: at a time, one game at a time.
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  Speaker 2: Keep attacking it, man. The rest of the team, we
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  Speaker 2: need to follow suit.
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  Speaker 3: Brady's always been a guy that when given the opportunity,
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  Speaker 3: he's made the most of it, both out of the
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  Speaker 3: backfield and as a tight end. I think it gives
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  Speaker 3: you some flexibility on where you can align him and
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  Speaker 3: things that you can do.
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  Speaker 2: Him in more of a receiving type of role, but.
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  Speaker 3: Our offense is going to include big people, and he's
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  Speaker 3: one of the big people that we can put out there.
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  Speaker 2: He's done a great job. He's taken advantage of it.
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  Speaker 3: Again, another example of one week's worth of good work.
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  Speaker 3: Let's keep stacking some plays. Let's keep rolling and see
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  Speaker 3: what kind of roll you can carve out for yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else?
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.