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Press Pass | Liam Coen on Jaguars' Preparation for 49ers · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Roberts salivate some comments about legal signs stealing.
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  Speaker 2: Is there any thoughts to that?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I'm not gonna speak on that fully
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  Speaker 1: right now. You know, have a huge game for us
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  Speaker 1: coming up this weekend. Got a great defense that we've
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  Speaker 1: got to go and attack, and that's where our whole
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  Speaker 1: mindset mentality is right now.
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  Speaker 3: We surprised he went there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, again, I'm just we're really trying to focus on
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  Speaker 1: a darn good defense that we have to go and
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  Speaker 1: try to go attack and offensively get better about us
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  Speaker 1: getting better putting it together for four quarters and trying
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  Speaker 1: to create some explosives in the past game some of
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  Speaker 1: those things that we're you know, trying to get better
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  Speaker 1: at as an offense. And so that's where the focus
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  Speaker 1: is right now.
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  Speaker 3: We're getting his comments. Isn't that part of coaching is
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  Speaker 3: trying to figure out whatever tell your opponent has.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we have kind of typically by formation,
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  Speaker 1: by game plan, by working really hard as a coaching
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  Speaker 1: staff throughout the week, trying to get indicators by your formation, motion, shift,
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  Speaker 1: pre snap. Those are the things that you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: do as a coach if you're you know, trying to
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  Speaker 1: put your players in the best position to be successful,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's attacking man or zone coverage with your formations, motions,
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  Speaker 1: uh and concepts. So it's a lot of hard, hard
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  Speaker 1: work that goes into game planning and putting trying to
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  Speaker 1: put your players in the best position to be successful.
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  Speaker 3: Offense.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier, you said for the show Game Show up on
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  Speaker 1: the practice field, how you felt about the what you've seen.
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  Speaker 2: From the team on practicals.
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  Speaker 1: I look, I think we were a little kind of
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  Speaker 1: banged up early in the week, and just in terms
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  Speaker 1: of soreness, right, getting some of the soreness out playing
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  Speaker 1: two weeks of kind of down to the wire ball
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  Speaker 1: in a physical game last Sunday, So you know, we
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  Speaker 1: try to take care of these guys a little bit
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  Speaker 1: throughout the week. But man, they practiced hard again. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they practiced their tail off. It was hot as heck
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  Speaker 1: out here, but they practiced hard.
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  Speaker 2: We did connect on a few down the field throws
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  Speaker 2: to some of those guys.
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  Speaker 1: That was nice to see, and like we've talked about it,
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  Speaker 1: it has to occur in practice for it to truly
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  Speaker 1: come to life. On Sundays, So excited about the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to have a lot of confidence in these guys to
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  Speaker 1: go out and make plays on Sunday to evaluate the
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  Speaker 1: week the room, Pat.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, I mean I think it was solid.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're trying to take the right steps moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: They're doing a ton of extra in the walkthroughs, They're
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  Speaker 1: doing a ton of extra post practice to ultimately, you know,
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  Speaker 1: go and put ourselves in a position to make those
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  Speaker 1: plays on Sunday. Right, it's just building their confidence to
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  Speaker 1: go out and we've all seen these guys make great
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  Speaker 1: plays and make the routine ones routine and then also, man,
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  Speaker 1: this is the NFL. We do have to go up
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  Speaker 1: and make plays. And the quarterbacks got a responsibility. The
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  Speaker 1: lion's got a responsibility, uh in the past game.
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  Speaker 2: But I've got a lot of confidence in these guys
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  Speaker 2: to go out and do it on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: How much of a challenge of the forty nine ers
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  Speaker 3: on third down on both sides of the ball, because
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  Speaker 3: for all their injuries, they're still converting in a pretty
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  Speaker 3: high percentage on offense and defensively they're only allowing thirty
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  Speaker 3: three percent.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think if you look offensively, they do a
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  Speaker 1: nice job of using their eligibles in the past game.
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  Speaker 1: So if they don't think they're maybe getting a pressure
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  Speaker 1: between a certain window, they do a nice job of
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  Speaker 1: getting five out, maybe having the illusion of a six
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  Speaker 1: man or a seven man protection, but then free releasing
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  Speaker 1: those guys and putting a little bit more stress on
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  Speaker 1: the back end. And then the coverage. You know, obviously
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  Speaker 1: if party plays, he can extend on third downs and
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  Speaker 1: use his legs as well, So you know, definitely a challenge.
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  Speaker 1: And then offensively, I think for us, you know, they
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  Speaker 1: they try to get home with four, but then they
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  Speaker 1: will send some blitzes and play some you know coverage
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  Speaker 1: in the back end that uh is is like a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more five man in coverage and that will
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  Speaker 1: play some man and get hands on in man coverage
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  Speaker 1: when they do want to rush a little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: So huge week for us to improve obviously. I thought
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  Speaker 1: last week we took a step defensively on third down.
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  Speaker 1: This week we got to take the step as a
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  Speaker 1: team on third down and really try to win situational football.
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  Speaker 1: Prepare for a team that seems to kind of be
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  Speaker 1: fumbling his passing game.
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  Speaker 2: Through for every time. Yeah, it's definitely interesting.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think getting DeMarcus Robinson back will obviously
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  Speaker 1: continue to help that. Uh pearceall is doing some good
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  Speaker 1: things out there as well. And when you've got McCaffrey
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  Speaker 1: that you know, is it six man pro is it
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  Speaker 1: five man? Where he's free releasing? Is he out at
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  Speaker 1: receiver position? Is he you know how they motion him
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  Speaker 1: out where he's like almost in between ors ever in
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  Speaker 1: a running back spot. I mean, that's a challenge to know,
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  Speaker 1: especially if you have anything from a coverage standpoint or
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  Speaker 1: a blitz standpoint based on where the back is located. Right,
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  Speaker 1: that definitely presents those challenges. And then as a player,
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  Speaker 1: he's talented, so when you get the ball in his
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  Speaker 1: hands and maybe short of the sticks and he ends
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  Speaker 1: up making somebody miss or breaks the tackle, I thought,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, we took a step last week in
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  Speaker 1: terms of tackling as a team. We're gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: be great at it again this week.
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  Speaker 3: This is a little off topic, but when you first
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  Speaker 3: got here, you met with a lot of different.
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  Speaker 2: Guys just to talk to him, get to know.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see some of those seeds that you play
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  Speaker 1: it way back thing kind of show up now that your.
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  Speaker 2: Vet the blitzer won, You know, I think so.
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  Speaker 1: I think our guys have been very open since we
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  Speaker 1: got here as a team to building relationships. Honestly, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's something that we did put an emphasis
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  Speaker 1: on as a coaching staff. To Look, I've said this
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  Speaker 1: numerous times, We're not going to just get their respect
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  Speaker 1: just because we're coaches, right. They do have to understand
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  Speaker 1: that there is more to it. They have to feel that,
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  Speaker 1: I think as players, and also respect the situations you're
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  Speaker 1: putting them in in games and if you're constantly if
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  Speaker 1: you're putting them in advantageous situations in the game at times,
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  Speaker 1: and they know that, I think there's just a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more buy in in relationships to knowing that, man like,
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  Speaker 1: we are truly trying to get the best out all
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  Speaker 1: you guys for the betterment.
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  Speaker 2: Of the team.
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  Speaker 1: But we want to see every player have success, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's for the next contract, whether it's for their career,
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  Speaker 1: for their family, for their personal goals like those all
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  Speaker 1: mean something to us. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: it is about the team. And I think our guys
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  Speaker 1: have done a nice job of trying to do this
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  Speaker 1: with not just themselves but also with us as coach.
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  Speaker 1: It's been it's been fun to coach him so far.
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  Speaker 3: To evaluate Brent Strange's usage for three weeks and where
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  Speaker 3: it could or should go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean very pleased with Brenton. I mean he
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  Speaker 1: plays his tail off. I mean it's like a car
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  Speaker 1: accident every time he's he's out there, whether he's catching
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  Speaker 1: it and getting hit and staying on his feet and
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  Speaker 1: going and competing to get more or in the run
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  Speaker 1: game when he is blocking and able to spring some
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  Speaker 1: of those runs to get some more explosives. That way,
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  Speaker 1: He's I just very much respect the way he plays
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  Speaker 1: the game. He kind of embodies so many of the
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  Speaker 1: things that we want to be as an offense and
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  Speaker 1: as a team. And I think, you know, as he
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  Speaker 1: continues to go and gets more comfortable within the role
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  Speaker 1: that he's in, I do believe he's just going to
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  Speaker 1: continue to go in the right direction and get more
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  Speaker 1: and more.
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  Speaker 3: Spoken about Anton Harrison meeting the challenge from a skill
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  Speaker 3: set at a talent standpoint, how the league maybe is
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  Speaker 3: too strong, but whereas Anton is just in terms of
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  Speaker 3: his athleticism for the position.
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  Speaker 1: Very very talented, very gifted. He has finished I think better,
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  Speaker 1: he has strained more, he has played for himself, his pride,
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  Speaker 1: but also playing for each other and playing for his teammates.
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  Speaker 1: And look, man, when he's playing and moving and there
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  Speaker 1: is hard to get past them.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he definitely has.
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  Speaker 1: A really good feet, he can anchor down speed, the power,
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  Speaker 1: whatever those rushes rushes are. I think he does a
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  Speaker 1: nice job of using his toolbox as well. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to just say it's raw talent because he's
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  Speaker 1: put a lot of time, I think, into working with
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  Speaker 1: those coaches, working with him, you know, on his individual
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  Speaker 1: and getting the details of how he wants to set
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  Speaker 1: somebody each week and what maybe is going to be
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  Speaker 1: the counter set to those things. You know, been very
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  Speaker 1: pleased with with Anton so far, yourtory of coaching against
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  Speaker 1: the forty nine ers, and maybe Eric Armstead also have
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  Speaker 1: an experience with San Francisco, Liam com or in James
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  Speaker 1: Latschom being out there as well.
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  Speaker 2: Does that make it a unique week of preparation for
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  Speaker 2: this more so than some other games.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and especially off the heels of Houston, because there's
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  Speaker 1: so many similarities there, not just structurally but the way
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  Speaker 1: they play right, their style of play is very similar
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  Speaker 1: to the group that in Houston that we just played,
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  Speaker 1: and so from a mindset, you know going into it
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  Speaker 1: before you even turn the tape on, it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a physical, violent football game. And that's got to be
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  Speaker 1: our mindset going into every week, but especially these games
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  Speaker 1: that you know what their intent is in all three phases,
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  Speaker 1: which is to play physical and violent and get at
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  Speaker 1: for you. And what we have to do to to
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  Speaker 1: continue to take those steps as as a team.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me, and uh, there is a little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we've played against them a bunch, right like we
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  Speaker 1: we definitely have. We played them last year in Tampa,
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  Speaker 1: so there's definitely some things you can draw.
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  Speaker 2: Back on a little.
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  Speaker 1: But also every year is a new year, every team's
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  Speaker 1: a new team, and you know, it's just it's definitely
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  Speaker 1: interesting that you play them twice a year in LA
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  Speaker 1: so you get to kind of know each other. What
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  Speaker 1: are the routes that we like against their coverages, but
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  Speaker 1: then they also start to see those and combat that,
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  Speaker 1: and so it's that chess match really in all three
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  Speaker 1: phases that we can kind of draw back on some experience,
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  Speaker 1: but try not to look too far behind. Came up
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  Speaker 1: with Sean, what is your relationship that are all having
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  Speaker 1: a relationship.
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  Speaker 3: With Kyle maybe early memories of Kyle Shanahan and that
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  Speaker 3: offensive structure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I did get to talk to Kyle a little
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  Speaker 1: bit at the owners meetings. He was, you know, very
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  Speaker 1: supportive and really tried to Over my years being in LA,
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  Speaker 1: you're always watching and watching them, not just when you're
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  Speaker 1: playing them, but I was responsible for breaking down the
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  Speaker 1: opponents explosives right that they had or just around the
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  Speaker 1: league where you're watching around the league, they're explosives, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's in the run, the pass, the screen, whatever it is.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, you have a lot of there's a
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  Speaker 1: ton of respect for the way that he formations things
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  Speaker 1: to scheme up and attack his specific coverages that he's
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  Speaker 1: thinking he's going to get, you know, built on being
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  Speaker 1: physical in the run game, which is something I really
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  Speaker 1: appreciate and have learned probably through watching so much of
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  Speaker 1: the way that they've played in the way that we
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  Speaker 1: tried to do things in LA at times. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I've got a lot of respect for Kyle, and shoot,
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  Speaker 1: he's won so much there that you're like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna have to be on your p's and q's
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  Speaker 1: in terms of the details the scheme, but also the
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  Speaker 1: way in which we play is going to have to
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  Speaker 1: all come to life this weekend in Washington. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't think Kyle was Kyle maybe had just gone
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  Speaker 1: to Atlanta before, I think, but there was all there
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  Speaker 1: was so much there from whether it was you know,
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  Speaker 1: his dad being there prior and Kyle being there. There
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  Speaker 1: was so much of the the you look at their playbook,
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  Speaker 1: you know, from Washington to when we went to Los
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  Speaker 1: Angeles to what it was in San Franco. Like the playbook,
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  Speaker 1: so much of it's the same from like early installs,
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  Speaker 1: when you talk about installs one through five, whatever it is,
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  Speaker 1: there was a lot of similarities.
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  Speaker 2: It's maybe something's.
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  Speaker 1: Called a little bit differently, but the concepts that you
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  Speaker 1: know in the past and the run, it's almost so
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  Speaker 1: you could say it's a carbon copy. And then over
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  Speaker 1: the years, both of those guys, whether they're Saun or Kyle,
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  Speaker 1: kind of you know, you start to diversify and do
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  Speaker 1: things that ended up fitting your personnel a little bit differently,
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  Speaker 1: but the foundation.
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  Speaker 2: Of both of these systems is eerily similar. Yeah, earlier
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  Speaker 2: helping Hunter out a little bit more offense.
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  Speaker 1: Just have you seen him progress just as a receiver
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  Speaker 1: and then also with what you guys have.
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  Speaker 3: Done, but also how how you felt like he's been
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  Speaker 3: used within this offense in tarns of getting.
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  Speaker 2: Touches all that.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I thought last week he definitely made a
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  Speaker 1: play with the ball in his hands, and I think
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  Speaker 1: we can continue to get the ball in his hands
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  Speaker 1: as much as it allows from a you know, formation motion,
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  Speaker 1: the concept the coverage sometimes dictates where the ball goes.
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  Speaker 2: Was very nice to see him on.
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  Speaker 1: A second and long I believe it was catch a
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  Speaker 1: five yard pass and go do something with it, right,
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  Speaker 1: That's so much that's a part of this game, and
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  Speaker 1: it's not something you can necessarily always coach them to do. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think as we continue to go, his
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  Speaker 1: usage will continue to go.
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  Speaker 2: Coach, Thank you very much,