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Pete Carroll: "We Had So Much Fun Tonight" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Oh, we had so much fun tonight. God, that was
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  Speaker 1: fun playing football. One of the first things that comes
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  Speaker 1: to my attention is the guys that continue to step
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  Speaker 1: up and play for other guys.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: We had a mixed match thing going on in the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line again, but it's been three weeks of it.
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  Speaker 2: And.
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  Speaker 1: So proud of that that we have guys that can
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  Speaker 1: answer the call and play at the top level and
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  Speaker 1: give us a chance to compete in these games. But
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  Speaker 1: it's not just that spot though, it's other places too,
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  Speaker 1: And a bunch of guys played on the pass rush today.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody figured in on the pass rush today, which was great,
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  Speaker 1: but it's it just reminds us that we're just getting started.
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  Speaker 1: We're just getting going. We're just putting it together. And
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  Speaker 1: a night like this for our defense to be able
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  Speaker 1: to play that that explosively in three turnovers and whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Double digit sacks I can't remember seeing double digit sacks
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  Speaker 1: is so important to us as we move into this.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're finishing like the first quarter of the schedule,
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  Speaker 1: so with a lot of hope and looking to the
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  Speaker 1: future and developing the young guys, keep seeing them able
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  Speaker 1: to play a role for us just gives us the
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  Speaker 1: confidence that we're gonna keep getting better. So we're not
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  Speaker 1: a finished product. We're just getting rolling. And it's really
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  Speaker 1: exciting to be able to tell you that because it
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  Speaker 1: feels like what I'm probably all together most proud of
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  Speaker 1: is how we played in the second half of the
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  Speaker 1: last three three weeks. We played great football and got
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  Speaker 1: it going and and cleaned up some of the stuff
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  Speaker 1: that happened in the first half of those games, and
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  Speaker 1: we're able to put games away. And so that finishing
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  Speaker 1: mentality is really really valuable to us, and we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: try to keep building on it.
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  Speaker 2: And this feel like it was coming from Devin, this
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  Speaker 2: kind of game where there's WoT I've never thought he
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't play like this. This is the way.
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  Speaker 1: This is why we took him to be active and
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  Speaker 1: to show that he could. He gets this game of
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  Speaker 1: football and it comes easy to him and he's an explosive,
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  Speaker 1: dynamic player.
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  Speaker 2: And we got to play Mt Nickel for the first time.
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  Speaker 2: And this was a process getting him back out there.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't have enough time we thought to have him ready,
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  Speaker 1: although he's been working out the whole time, and he
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  Speaker 1: did a great job. Again tonight, and you can see
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  Speaker 1: why we we like him there so and we're you know,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't have uh already tonight. We we didn't have
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  Speaker 1: trade ground tonight, and so he he had to do
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  Speaker 1: it all night long, unforced, and so it was a
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  Speaker 1: it was a beautiful job he showed me.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, how much does that suit his skill set?
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  Speaker 3: Vn all closer to the ball, which we saw him
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  Speaker 3: blitz early on.
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  Speaker 1: Just making well play in the position is if you
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  Speaker 1: could compare it to playing corner, there's so many more
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  Speaker 1: things that happen, and there's guys on both sides of you,
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  Speaker 1: and you're not playing all the edge, and there's runs
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  Speaker 1: and passes and blitzes and and mixes of coverages and
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  Speaker 1: things like that. That makes it uh uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a position for a guy that can handle all
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  Speaker 1: of that.
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  Speaker 2: Naturally, and it it it is a lot of this
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  Speaker 2: is a.
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  Speaker 1: Natural skill and awareness that he could pick stuff up
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  Speaker 1: so soon and it'd be so dynamic.
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  Speaker 2: In there, and in short order he's just gonna get
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  Speaker 2: better and better.
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  Speaker 1: And so they're really really exciting, uh, you know, thing
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  Speaker 1: to watch for us, and so we'll keep going with it.
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  Speaker 4: You got six sacks today from linebackers and corners.
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  Speaker 1: How how did you see the past rush as a
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  Speaker 1: home come to light and getting this.
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  Speaker 2: Was a great night for Clinton.
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  Speaker 1: The guys on defense, Uh, the mixes and the change ups,
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  Speaker 1: the variety of boys that we came after him used
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  Speaker 1: everybody on the field just about and you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, hitting the calls at the right time.
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  Speaker 1: So the guys could could you know, create some you know,
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  Speaker 1: some explosive plays out of there. You gotta clean a
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  Speaker 1: ton of credit and and uh, I passed. USh isn't
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  Speaker 1: just the guys up front, it's it's everybody contributes to it.
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  Speaker 1: Coverage and and that's where the backers play rolling it
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  Speaker 1: as well. And uh, there was a great illustration of
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  Speaker 1: that to night.
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  Speaker 2: The frustration for Jamal Adams, what did you have possible? Said?
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  Speaker 1: He's okay, you know, he he he got he saw
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  Speaker 1: I get kick in the head, and so he misses
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  Speaker 1: this game. But the preparation to get him to this
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  Speaker 1: and then with the week coming off, he's gonna be fine.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure you're going to be back out there. So
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  Speaker 2: it's just a little glitch.
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  Speaker 4: Right now, not that you necessarily needed any more motivation,
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  Speaker 4: but the hit on geno out of bounds that that
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  Speaker 4: had a little add a little that way.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't see that differently.
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  Speaker 1: It was just looked so dangerous, you know, it was
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  Speaker 1: all all of the effect of a horse collar tackle
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  Speaker 1: happened with the swing of the body that pulls down
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  Speaker 1: on the back of the legs, and he got hurt
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  Speaker 1: on that play. So apparently wouldn't have rectified that, but
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  Speaker 1: it it just looked like such a dangerous play out
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  Speaker 1: of it. It might have wanted to do the second look.
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  Speaker 4: But that that fire your guys up a little more.
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  Speaker 4: That seemed at that point kind of things kind of
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  Speaker 4: started to explode.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know, I didn't see it that way,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe some small looked like he was furious after
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  Speaker 1: he came out of the pentacle ten.
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  Speaker 2: What's your understanding of why he was upset? Yeah, he
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  Speaker 2: didn't he didn't touch.
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  Speaker 1: He couldn't play They told me, couldn't you know, by
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  Speaker 1: the time they got all the assessments done, they couldn't
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  Speaker 1: play it. Uh he if somebody said something that wasn't
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  Speaker 1: with us, was somebody else around that he might have
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  Speaker 1: responded to.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure about that. Have you had the chance
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  Speaker 2: to speak with Jamal yet just hugged him up and
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  Speaker 2: all that you heard me frustrating start.
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  Speaker 1: But all of the work he did to get here
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  Speaker 1: is what preps him for the next time coming around.
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  Speaker 2: And he's he's gonna be a big part of what
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  Speaker 2: we're doing that he want.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know, getting hurt, but as good to let
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  Speaker 3: Drew Lock get some tired get there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know when he's he was he's lugitarated first,
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  Speaker 2: you know him. Uh butt did great and just getting
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  Speaker 2: out there and playing some football. It's so valuable, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for the.
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  Speaker 1: Next time he goes in. It's not the first time,
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  Speaker 1: so it was great to put him back out there.
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  Speaker 1: But you notice we got a chance to get some
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  Speaker 1: of our guys off the field.
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  Speaker 2: I 'em. I can't ever remember picking Bobby out of
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  Speaker 2: a game.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you guys can't buy I can't remember us doing that,
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  Speaker 1: be getting him the rest for the last couple of
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  Speaker 1: drivers or whatever like that. So we did the same
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  Speaker 1: with Gino if you don't and uh it s it
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  Speaker 1: was a nice night for getting that done. We is
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  Speaker 1: Gino does he have an injury or is it just
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  Speaker 1: kind of a paint call or thing or uh?
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  Speaker 2: We had ye had had a knee. He kind of
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  Speaker 2: twisted his knee a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it really really was a knee and ankle at first,
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  Speaker 1: but I think it's I think it's just came down
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  Speaker 1: to being They taped him up in the ankle and
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  Speaker 1: then his knee was a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: He might be sort of worrow. You know, the next
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  Speaker 2: gonna lays don't need to break hands and Damian Lewis. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Phil's ank ankle.
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  Speaker 1: Uh checked calf again. Yeah, it was his calf that
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  Speaker 1: he had had a couple of weeks ago. We were
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  Speaker 1: gonna rotate uh uh Amy in there and I not
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  Speaker 1: overplay him, and we just didn't.
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  Speaker 2: Get them that before it didn't hold up so uh
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  Speaker 2: and I don't uh hol on Uh yeah, he he
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  Speaker 2: got he's got a twisting jaring ree what happened with him?
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  Speaker 1: Uh he had kicked in the shin and uh it
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  Speaker 1: it kind of blew up on a little bit. So
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  Speaker 1: it's good it's not broken or anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be uh, it'll be pretty short for next vie,
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  Speaker 2: but he he'll be alright.
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  Speaker 3: Usually you don't want to buy this early, but three
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  Speaker 3: wins in a row and all the injuries.
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  Speaker 2: Is it's maybe cause, Yeah, this is a really good
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  Speaker 2: time for us. It's a good time for us to.
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  Speaker 1: Come back with new perspective for the young guys and
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  Speaker 1: where we can kind of go back to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: talking about what they've accomplished and where how far they've
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  Speaker 1: come along and and it really to me that there's
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  Speaker 1: so much focus on those guys and their ability to
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  Speaker 1: contribute as we move forward.
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  Speaker 2: I think this is a really good stopping point for
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  Speaker 2: us in that regard.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, we'll, we'll certainly you're in to try to help
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  Speaker 5: them continue to develop. And it's it's so important for
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  Speaker 5: us to get those guys, you know, where they're part
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  Speaker 5: of it, and it uh that it'll be such a
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  Speaker 5: factor from too.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as we get to the mid point of
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  Speaker 1: the season. We hit hitting the second half, it was.
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  Speaker 3: Only nine players, But did you see what three safetyes
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  Speaker 3: Adams can do to the tire tea?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know what he can do. We with that's
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  Speaker 2: why we're playing on there. But we we know we're
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  Speaker 2: doing we haven't seen the benefits of it yet. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he he missed the sack right off the bat.
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  Speaker 1: You know he had a shot at him. He I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure he was maybe a little over excited.
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  Speaker 2: About that one. He was free as you can get.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's some th th the touchdown did what did
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  Speaker 1: you kind of see as that play was unholding up?
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  Speaker 1: I mean he he situated himself right between the the
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  Speaker 1: two receivers that were doing their little return thing and and.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I'm not sure who they were throwing to. They
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  Speaker 2: they thought the guy would slide more, but he was
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  Speaker 2: right in the right spot and they just nailed it. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: The thing I liked the best about the play was
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  Speaker 1: the other two guys, Julian and and to recognizing how
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  Speaker 1: we needed them to help him finish the the play
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  Speaker 1: and the the explosion of those two guys m to
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  Speaker 1: jump out and shield his way all the way to
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  Speaker 1: the ends and was that was incredible.
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  Speaker 2: I love that part of the play.
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  Speaker 3: Y he impacted that play, turning around the game basically
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  Speaker 3: with they.
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  Speaker 2: Were getting close. Yeah, cause they they move, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they had made their way down the field.
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  Speaker 1: I thought QB did a nice job of running you know,
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  Speaker 1: Dan Dan did a good job of being really resourceful
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  Speaker 1: and keeping them alive and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, they kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Moved their way down and in with some nice individual
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  Speaker 1: plays and all ups.
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  Speaker 2: So it was a really big deal to us in
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  Speaker 2: that game. Yeah, it was a huge play.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, Drew's passed to know and I
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  Speaker 1: think it was a certain ten on that play, and
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  Speaker 1: so they.
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  Speaker 2: Floated out and it hit him. A great job of
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  Speaker 2: Noah running. Gosh. So I mean, how about the two plays,
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  Speaker 2: the one with Kenny.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's did he did he hit it or not?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I still don't really know, but they called
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  Speaker 1: it where they did. And then you know, him finishing out,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't get in the end zone. That was a
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  Speaker 1: good call there, but he did stay in balance. We
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  Speaker 1: thought we lose that a bunch of yards there.
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  Speaker 2: That was a tremendous run by knowing Genia has a
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  Speaker 2: touchdown to DK. I don't know how good you was.
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  Speaker 1: I saw a quick flash of the replay. Excellent job
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  Speaker 1: by both guys. You know, the chemistry of understanding here
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  Speaker 1: comes my chance and and and for for a dec
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  Speaker 1: to get open and you know, to rip one in there.
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  Speaker 2: We practice that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: All the time and it was a perfect example of
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  Speaker 1: how we how we practiced that through right there in
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  Speaker 1: the corner.
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  Speaker 2: It was a great job. The big picture, Just where
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  Speaker 2: do you feel like you guys are at after four games?
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  Speaker 2: See this big picture? What do you feel about the
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  Speaker 2: second half the first game? You know?
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  Speaker 1: And then I remember, gonna forgive myself for that. We
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  Speaker 1: just you know, the Rams have done a nice job
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  Speaker 1: since then. They played good football, but we just didn't
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  Speaker 1: play the second half like all the rest of these halves.
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  Speaker 1: This is the way we're supposed to finish, and we
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  Speaker 1: just didn't do it. So I'm gonna be kicking myself
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  Speaker 1: for that one. But you know, Okay, there's a couple
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  Speaker 1: of teams for four no, you know, and it's really close.
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  Speaker 2: Kobe, Ari and Trail have a chance to come back
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  Speaker 2: after the buy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Kobe has a really good chance. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: about Alrity. We gotta wait see because it's a hammy.
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  Speaker 2: We gonna see how he does.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of finishing, you guys have had the issues getting
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  Speaker 3: off the field on third down and they started four
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  Speaker 3: for seven, but then they finished the game six for sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: Is that something coming out of this game that you're
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  Speaker 2: extremely imaging. It's a huge improvement for us.
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  Speaker 1: It's been the number one emphasis on both sides of
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  Speaker 1: the football to be more effective on third downs. That's
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  Speaker 1: of all of the areas in our game, that's where
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  Speaker 1: we have to improve, and it's just happened to be
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  Speaker 1: on both sides.
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  Speaker 2: So it's good to see some numbers go in the
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  Speaker 2: right direction there.
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  Speaker 3: Anthony Bradford's a pretty rugged kid. What's he done on
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  Speaker 3: it seems like he's.
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  Speaker 2: Held his own and so I think so again.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and he he went against the two best guys
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  Speaker 1: and we'll we'll face all year. Those guys are phenomenal
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  Speaker 1: defensive tackles. I don't know what happened so much, but
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  Speaker 1: I do know the way he plays matched up well,
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  Speaker 1: and we had intended for him to play in this game,
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  Speaker 1: even though Phil came back just just to see him
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  Speaker 1: out there. He is very physical and he's he's you know,
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  Speaker 1: three sixty and he and he can handle it well
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  Speaker 1: and he moves his feet well and and all that.
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  Speaker 1: So he's a a a dynamic young kid in the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line for us. And it's a it's great to
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  Speaker 1: see him getting this play right. I mean, it's invaluable playtime.
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  Speaker 2: There we go, thanks, Thank go.