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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Previews Upcoming Week 2 Matchup vs. Steelers · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, all right, good to see everybody. Uh, I'll
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  Speaker 1: see a big Wednesday for us. Had a great morning
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  Speaker 1: so far, great meetings. Guys are locked in, so looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to practice. Obviously going to Pittsburgh, so it was
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  Speaker 1: our first ten am game of the year. Had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of experience at last year, so in terms of process,
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  Speaker 1: be more of the same rather than a bunch of changeups,
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  Speaker 1: and looking forward to playing in a great environment against
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  Speaker 1: a really good football team that we respect a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and quite a few changes on their end from last
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  Speaker 1: year in terms of roster. So you know, just one
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  Speaker 1: game exposure is a little interesting in terms of how
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  Speaker 1: we're scouting them and game planning and stuff. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: as usual, we'll keep it in our wheelhouse and go
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  Speaker 1: have a heck of a week and go play a
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  Speaker 1: great game.
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  Speaker 2: Agree does have that one game on tape due for
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  Speaker 2: both sides, either scouting them or just kind of developing
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  Speaker 2: your own game plan.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the second game of the year is really tricky
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  Speaker 1: because the easy thing to do is put all your
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  Speaker 1: eggs in the first game basket, and as we know
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  Speaker 1: you can just hear it, it's probably not the most
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  Speaker 1: sound thing to do given that, so you kind of
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  Speaker 1: have to take the nuts and bolts so of who
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  Speaker 1: they are, how they operate. You know, they have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of history, how they work on defense offense. Seems
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  Speaker 1: like there's a good bit of carryover from last year
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  Speaker 1: and then let's go go play our game.
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  Speaker 3: Steelers like to stack the box on defense. They did
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  Speaker 3: it against the Jets quite a bit. What discourages a
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  Speaker 3: defense from staying in a plus man.
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  Speaker 1: Boxes, Well, if you throw it over their head, that's
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  Speaker 1: good sometimes, Like especially in wide zone game, like it's
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  Speaker 1: really wide zones really built so you can have an
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  Speaker 1: eighth guy in the box and you can still run
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  Speaker 1: the ball effectively because of the keeper game on the backside.
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  Speaker 1: And that's probably the biggest thing. And there's the windows
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  Speaker 1: of being in single high, assuming your meeting single high,
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  Speaker 1: whether you're in cover three or cover one are a
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  Speaker 1: little bit different, but you know, the passes tend to
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  Speaker 1: be a little bit more explosive. The run game as well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Greg, run game as well. If like you
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  Speaker 1: get in the alley and you're on the post safety
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  Speaker 1: like that's that's tough. You know, you put everybody in
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  Speaker 1: the middle, you're a the light outside, you know.
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  Speaker 3: What's the biggest for you to scheme against Aaron Rodgers?
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  Speaker 1: What's the biggest child? Just I mean, obviously the arm
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  Speaker 1: talent and the quarterback ability is there, but the Aaron Rodgers,
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  Speaker 1: the operator is second to none. He's just it's on
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  Speaker 1: his game. He kind of like knows everything. So you
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  Speaker 1: have to assume that going in and not a lot
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  Speaker 1: of tricking going on. So it's gonna be a like
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna have to win our one on ones to
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  Speaker 1: have a good game on defense. You know, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to play a great run defense in the past game,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna have to We're gonna have to win our
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  Speaker 1: one on one battles.
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  Speaker 4: They'ren added challenge in game planning when it's a quarterback,
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  Speaker 4: a new quarterback in that system, a newish offensive coordinator,
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  Speaker 4: and the head coach has been there forever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you mean you can attribute some things that you've
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  Speaker 1: seen in the first game to kind of all three buckets, uh,
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  Speaker 1: some things from from last year. Like I said, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's tricky, you know. So if you're gonna start like
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  Speaker 1: making if I want to start playing like doctor and
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  Speaker 1: diagnosing everything, that's not a smart thing to do. So
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  Speaker 1: as a game unfolds, I think you'll start to get
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  Speaker 1: some of those answers about you know, how they're trying
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  Speaker 1: to attack it and by situation and how they're you know,
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  Speaker 1: using their people again, like you know, it's the same
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  Speaker 1: similar roster. Obviously DK's there now, but and they lost pickings,
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  Speaker 1: but you know a lot of the same like core
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  Speaker 1: guys were playing last year, you know, like the tight
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  Speaker 1: ends in the in the backs.
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  Speaker 5: So Rogerses are known for his stab counts, but his
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  Speaker 5: play action place as well combined what does that do
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  Speaker 5: to the past rush?
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  Speaker 1: But what do you have to do? Well? I said,
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  Speaker 1: his operations is just really great. That includes throughout the
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  Speaker 1: play as well. So I mean Saron Rodgers for a reason,
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  Speaker 1: like all the details add up over such a long
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  Speaker 1: period of time.
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  Speaker 4: Familiarity with their defense numbers aside from week one, what
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  Speaker 4: do you know to be true about the.
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  Speaker 1: Way they play on their defense? Yeah, they're they're an
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  Speaker 1: opportunistic group, they play with a great spirit, they play
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  Speaker 1: with physicality, they do you know, they're they're they're different
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  Speaker 1: than us and how they're kind of built and how
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  Speaker 1: they play some of their coverages. So that's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a big point of emphasis for our our offense
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  Speaker 1: and our look team this year to give a great
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  Speaker 1: look or this week, excuse me, to give a great look.
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  Speaker 1: So our guys have a great field going to the game, you.
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  Speaker 2: Look different about how they're using DK or how to
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  Speaker 2: have it him kind of change their offense.
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  Speaker 1: At all, or again, it's it's one game, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you have one game of how many plays they play
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  Speaker 1: fifty something plays. The things that he does well are
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  Speaker 1: the things that they're doing with him, which is great.
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  Speaker 1: It's runaways, it's outside, outside lane throws, you know, all
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  Speaker 1: the I'll say, he runs really well. He's running those routes.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean it's frankly, it's similar the stuff
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  Speaker 1: we were doing with them last year. Yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: we've got to be ready for everything, right, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's they're allowed to put them over anywhere they want
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  Speaker 1: and he can He's allowed to run any route that
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  Speaker 1: they got called for him.
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  Speaker 5: What do you need to see from your run game,
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  Speaker 5: because I know you talked about the leverage and the
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  Speaker 5: backs meetings.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just stick with the process. Look, I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's a handful of runs that didn't go our way
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday, and a handful of runs went our way.
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  Speaker 1: You know that sometimes it goes like that we wanted
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  Speaker 1: to go more in our favor than not. It's not
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  Speaker 1: for a lack of effort. And we've done a lot
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  Speaker 1: of great things throughout the preseason, which which you saw
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  Speaker 1: in all three games. So let's stick with it, man.
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  Speaker 1: You know we're doing a lot of great stuff. Let's
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  Speaker 1: just keep getting better.
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  Speaker 3: You see teams utilizing quick passing game a lot. Is
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  Speaker 3: that usually to help, you know, alleviate pressure on the
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  Speaker 3: offensive line or the quarterback or beating blitzes for are
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  Speaker 3: some of the reasons people teams relying.
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  Speaker 1: I think you got to look at it in context.
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  Speaker 1: You know, is it quick passing game on third and short, Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of expected. The non expected thing is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the balls downfield, which by the way, Rogers probably does
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  Speaker 1: better than anybody, and then some of those higher leverage
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  Speaker 1: throws that he throws. So well, is it quick game
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  Speaker 1: on third and long, which you probably wouldn't expect, which
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  Speaker 1: also they do. So it's just context is probably the
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  Speaker 1: driver there isn't on first and ten. You know, normally
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  Speaker 1: it's court it normally to get the quarterback going and
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  Speaker 1: get him in a rhythm. Bob wants me to stop talking,
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  Speaker 1: so clearly that's all right, go ahead, go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Bob, and I'm gonna go back ahead. Update any update
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  Speaker 2: on Nick Evan worried and where and where things sandwich?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I said that we're gonna have a decision
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  Speaker 1: here in the next year too. I think we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: take it throughout the week to decide what we're gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: So sorry about that.
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  Speaker 4: The energy of the guys, you're turning the leaf into
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  Speaker 4: a new league, putting the top home.
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  Speaker 1: Behind him on us. Yeah, the guys are doing great
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  Speaker 1: and that it's look, it's it's it's a disappointing outcome
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  Speaker 1: when what happened on Sunday, But we got our mind ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: We're not work. We haven't worked the last you know,
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  Speaker 1: six six or so months the way they have just
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  Speaker 1: for one game. You know, you're doing it for the
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  Speaker 1: long haul, and it's really important that we stick to
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  Speaker 1: our process that we were very bought in going into
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  Speaker 1: the game, that we've been doing a lot of great things,
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  Speaker 1: which I believe that we have and the guys believe
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  Speaker 1: we have, and we're going to stick to that and
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  Speaker 1: trust that we're we're gonna keep getting better.
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  Speaker 4: You guys, you talked about how well how fast Sam played,
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  Speaker 4: only had I think two quarterback hits on him. How
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  Speaker 4: do you feel like you balance that with also being
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  Speaker 4: able to push the ball down the field.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it depends on the type of passes. Same thing.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what's the timing of the play that we're
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  Speaker 1: looking for. I think that he's he's executing that of
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  Speaker 1: what we're asking him to do. So if the plays
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  Speaker 1: are called where it's a longer timing play, longer developing
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  Speaker 1: play than Sam's done that as well. If it's more
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  Speaker 1: of a rhythm passing type play, then that's what that's
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  Speaker 1: what he was executing on Sunday. So I'm sorry, go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: Do you have a general like benchmark of, Hey, this
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  Speaker 4: is how many explosive passing plays you feel like you
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  Speaker 4: need to get in a certain game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we have a number that we're shooting for on
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  Speaker 1: a per game basis of explosive like plays that we
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  Speaker 1: want to get on offense, and we didn't hit that
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  Speaker 1: mark on Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: Some teams do it, like I think it's sixteen yards
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  Speaker 4: is an explosive passing play twelve is an explosive run.
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  Speaker 4: What's your definition of.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of like you, I don't know what's the different,
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  Speaker 1: Like you have a sweet play and it's fifteen yards,
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  Speaker 1: you're not going to count it. I think that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of nitpicky. So it's more like you know when you
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  Speaker 1: see it type of play.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, when you introduced Clint Koviak, you said that a
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  Speaker 5: dk metcap plan was a top of mind for a
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  Speaker 5: lot of the coordinators you interviewed. Do you think things
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  Speaker 5: would have been different in maybe how you interviewed some
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  Speaker 5: of those guys if your roster was constructed the way
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  Speaker 5: it is now.
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  Speaker 1: That's an interesting question. Uh. I think it's always it's
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  Speaker 1: always going to be through. You're always you always have
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  Speaker 1: to consider the guys, like the personnel on your team,
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  Speaker 1: like we're having when we were standing here last week
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  Speaker 1: and we're talking about, you know, like Kyle's system versus
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  Speaker 1: our system versus mcveigh's system. It's all kind of built
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  Speaker 1: on the same nuts and bolts, but a common denominator
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  Speaker 1: that separates. I think these these kind of trees of
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  Speaker 1: offense is how they minute how they use their personnel.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that I think it's smart to include
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  Speaker 1: that in the conversation about what you're looking for. But
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  Speaker 1: there's principles too that like, are are gonna be consistent
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  Speaker 1: no matter whether offensive coordinator. I mean obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously there's gonna be things through a lens of how
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna run our offense that we're gonna ask, But
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  Speaker 1: there's also things that you want to ask in terms of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the people that you want to bring into
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  Speaker 1: your team.
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  Speaker 5: You've talked about Josh Jobs's play on the field, but
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  Speaker 5: what is his constant readians?
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  Speaker 1: What does that tell you about him the moments? Notice, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I love telling the story because you know, this time
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  Speaker 1: last year he wasn't playing for us, And this is
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  Speaker 1: a guy that has come in and really bought into
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  Speaker 1: the process and the details matter for him, and he
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  Speaker 1: does it every day and it's just there's a there's
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  Speaker 1: a consistency there that you respect and he's earned these opportunities,
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  Speaker 1: which is really cool. You know, I mean, what if
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  Speaker 1: you were the coach of a team, wouldn't you want
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  Speaker 1: it to work like that? Like guys coming in, earning
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  Speaker 1: their opportunities, developing, growing as players as people. That's what
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  Speaker 1: he's done.
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  Speaker 2: Just when when the receiving numbers are the way they are.
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  Speaker 2: Jackson had so many of the receptions compared to anybody else.
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  Speaker 2: The perceptions maybe other guys weren't.
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  Speaker 1: Open or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: How did you how did you kind of when you
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  Speaker 2: looked at it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think after looking back at it, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's where the ball should have gone. And we have
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  Speaker 1: plays designed for other people as well. But I think
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  Speaker 1: I think that you're looking at a combination of Jack's
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  Speaker 1: playing at a high level, you know, being being a
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  Speaker 1: being adition where Sam can pull the trigger wherever he at,
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  Speaker 1: where he's at in the progression, but the ball find
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  Speaker 1: its way around. I'm convinced of that.
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  Speaker 5: All more plays for the other guys.
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  Speaker 1: I think we were calling place for other guys just
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  Speaker 1: that's he's either the prime, he wasn't the primary, Maid's
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  Speaker 1: number two and that's where Sam got to or something
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  Speaker 1: like that. But yeah, I mean you're gonna use your
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  Speaker 1: people in different ways and try to call plays for
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  Speaker 1: their strikes. For sure. You meant you just talk about
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  Speaker 1: guys stepping up.
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  Speaker 3: Cody Whites, another one who you know wasn't playing for
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  Speaker 3: you got last year, was on the practice squad, had
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  Speaker 3: a nice kicker turn this game.
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  Speaker 1: What is about him? It seems like when he's gotten
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  Speaker 1: the opportunities he's always been taking. Yeah's, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: saw in the Rams game last year. We've seen you
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's definitely a record of this throughout the
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  Speaker 1: off seasons. And he's another guy that's earned his opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, it's a great lesson for young guys
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  Speaker 1: how important special teams are to the equation. At the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, you can't dress everybody. And he's
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  Speaker 1: earned that right to be a special team stalwart for us.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, you know when when asked upon offense, he's
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  Speaker 1: he's produced for.
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  Speaker 3: Heavy eleven personnel last year and they were heavy uh
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  Speaker 3: twelve in this first week game without Nick. How does
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  Speaker 3: that affect you know, your ability to you know, defend
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  Speaker 3: tight ends?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well probably, I'm not gonna tell you. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: match him this week. Let him figure that on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, they do a great job with their personnel.
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  Speaker 1: They play, They play a lot of their people, They
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  Speaker 1: play all their tight ends, you know, including Hayward. It
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  Speaker 1: was it was a good player, Uh, mixing match receivers.
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  Speaker 1: They just they play a lot of guys. So Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a little different than you know, most teams
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  Speaker 1: that you play that kind of have their their crew
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  Speaker 1: and they stick with it. So uh, that's that's how
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  Speaker 1: they choose to operate and it works for them.
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  Speaker 4: With Nick and waiting until later in the week, is
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  Speaker 4: that just a matter of giving it more time to
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  Speaker 4: see how his ankle was doing and responding.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, that's that's a bar. That's a big part of it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: With what do you see from Drake Thomas? That is
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  Speaker 5: it confidence them that, like you said, he's earned the
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  Speaker 5: right to play, I think.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly, he has. He has. He's Uh, I
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  Speaker 1: think you, I think you. I think you would agree
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  Speaker 1: with me. He had a great training camp. Uh and
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  Speaker 1: when putting it, putting those positions in preseason games, he
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  Speaker 1: produced and I thought he did that on Sunday. So
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  Speaker 1: he's keeping you know, look like we're gonna have competition
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  Speaker 1: on our team. I mean, you start saying this guy
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  Speaker 1: is the guy, and it's just there. You can easily
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  Speaker 1: fall like we don't want to operate like that, You
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  Speaker 1: fall into the trap that you've made. It not saying
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  Speaker 1: our guys think that, but we we want a sense
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  Speaker 1: of urgency that we're competing all the time. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at Leo right here, but like this guy's
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  Speaker 1: I'm putting his I'm putting him up against anybody else
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  Speaker 1: in the league. But he still knows like he's got
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  Speaker 1: to when it's time to rush, he's got to produce
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  Speaker 1: because we got guys that want opportunities to And so
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  Speaker 1: it's the same thing with the defensive line. It's the
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  Speaker 1: same thing on their offensive line, same thing a linebacker.
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  Speaker 1: We're seeing the same thing right now with Reek. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: so it's great, man, our guys are getting better. I
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  Speaker 1: mean that just tells you we have multiple people that
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  Speaker 1: have earned rights to play, and that's good for us.
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  Speaker 1: People are going to get better from the competition.
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  Speaker 5: You know, a few games now, I think even the
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  Speaker 5: Miami game last year too, where you've rotated the backers. Uh,
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  Speaker 5: there is there something that's maybe more sustainable about doing
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  Speaker 5: it there versus like last year you said you didn't
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  Speaker 5: want to do the right guard rotation in game. There
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  Speaker 5: is something different about the backers spot where you can
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  Speaker 5: maybe do it longer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so. I think so. I think you
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  Speaker 1: can depends on like, like you know, we we were
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  Speaker 1: in and out of different personnel, especially when Nick was available.
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  Speaker 1: We still got to three different sub subgroups on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: And we've always operated like that. We've always had that ability.
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  Speaker 1: So now, I mean, you're multi moving and shifting everybody's
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  Speaker 1: probably not the best thing, you know, you like, you'd
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  Speaker 1: like to have some consistency in the middle, especially with
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  Speaker 1: the green dot. Like you don't prefer to change guys
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  Speaker 1: with the green Dot. But if it's best for us,
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  Speaker 1: I think I think that's sustainable.
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  Speaker 3: If a China is able to go this week?
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  Speaker 1: What does he bring to the team? Man, I mean
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  Speaker 1: talk about layup of this century. He's he's uh, I
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  Speaker 1: mean out outside of what hell, we don't know what
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  Speaker 1: he brings. I mean the guy, it's incredibly smart. He's
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  Speaker 1: tough as crap, great all around football player, great game runner,
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  Speaker 1: great intuition.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean he's a leader for us. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is a guy I know him felt it on
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: the field as much in the last year, but he's
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: bringing it every day in the meeting room in the
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: building for our football team. So it's just gonna be
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be awesome. If you know, whenever he gets
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: back just to have him out there.
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: Is he going to practice in full today?
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not sure he's not going to practice
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: the whole practice. I don't think, but he'll be out
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: there watch me watching practice full today.
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: You've had Dan Kendrick and Chess for a weekend.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: What have you kind of learned about those guys as
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: they jumped in the mix? Two great competitors, felt Chaz
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: on Special Teams did a good job. Uh, DK just
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: kind of soaking it up right now. But great competitor,
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: a great spirit, great energy about him. Smart guys.
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: Is he mentioned there and that answers about guys competing?
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: Is he gonna start this week?
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: We'll see, we'll see.
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: Responded to this, he's.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: Great, He's great. I mean we had a similar situation
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: last year, and I mean, look all of our guys,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: every every person we've had a conversation about what their
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: role is going to be and things like that. One.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, you have to you need to operate that
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: as a coaching staff. Keep it, keep it, keep it
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: real with them. But they've been tremendous, you know, tell
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: them with love, tell them the truth and let's go
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: to work. So anything else, thank you all right, thank you,