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Geno Smith: "This Is Going To Be A Great Challenge For Us" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know.
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  Speaker 3: I know it was an entirely different game in coaching south,
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  Speaker 3: But what when you think back to last year's game
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  Speaker 3: in Detroit, what do you take away from that it
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  Speaker 3: might apply.
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  Speaker 4: To this week? Yeah, you know, it just was a
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  Speaker 4: really fun atmosphere. You know, I thought, uh, you know
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  Speaker 4: Detroit that they have a great crowd, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I thought we went in there, Uh we were down
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  Speaker 4: a couple of starters on on our officive line, but uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, winning there against a really good team and
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  Speaker 4: and and got a early win. I thought it was
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  Speaker 4: uh obviously great for our season to start that way.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: But it's a new season this year, you know, like
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  Speaker 4: you said, we got a new staff, they're doing some
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  Speaker 4: new things, and so you know, we gotta play this game.
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  Speaker 4: Uh nothing, none of those, you know, other games really matter.
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  Speaker 4: It's just about this one. And uh, I think we
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  Speaker 4: got a tremendous opportunity. I'm really looking forward to it
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  Speaker 4: a lot of Uh it gets pretty loud. It gets
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  Speaker 4: pretty loud, especially around the end zone when you get
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  Speaker 4: down there and you know around the end zone, Uh
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  Speaker 4: there there fans are like right on you. You can kind
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  Speaker 4: of feel them. You know, being right on you. But uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we handle those those situations pretty well, so
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  Speaker 4: I think we'll be ready for it.
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  Speaker 3: Like those challenges going to a hostile place that's really
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  Speaker 3: loud and chaotic like that.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it, you know, I think it.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, it tests your will, It tests your communication super loud.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I feel like I'm screaming in the huddle
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  Speaker 4: just to get the play out, and then at the
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  Speaker 4: line of scrimmage, you know, voice inflection, you know, making
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  Speaker 4: sure all the guys can hear me, and then you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's just it's something about those environments that you know,
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  Speaker 4: just kind of charge you up, you know, just makes
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  Speaker 4: you want to go out there and perform. And uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we really look forward to any opportunity, but
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  Speaker 4: especially those you know, great road games on the you know,
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  Speaker 4: in environments like Detroit.
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  Speaker 3: Have you ever have a game where you kind of
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  Speaker 3: start to lose your voice that you've had to scream?
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  Speaker 4: Usually it's, uh, it's it's after the game, like when
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  Speaker 4: we get on the plane on the bus and then
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  Speaker 4: you notice, like, man, my voice is gone. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I've been screaming for about you know, two hours now,
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  Speaker 4: and uh, you know, just you know, those are the
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  Speaker 4: those are the parts of the game that you know
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  Speaker 4: you don't love, but it comes with the territory.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned down a couple of tackles that game. Stone
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  Speaker 3: was one of the guys that felled in. Now he's
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  Speaker 3: stepped in again. Just what have you seen out of him?
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  Speaker 3: Is he's grown from last year? How he's playing now?
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  Speaker 1: Man?
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  Speaker 4: I thought he played tremendous last year and I think
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  Speaker 4: he's continuing to grow, you know, like just his calm demeanor,
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  Speaker 4: you know, just the way that he approaches every single
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  Speaker 4: day of practice knowing that you know, he's a guy
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  Speaker 4: who's got to step up and go and do his thing,
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  Speaker 4: and we count on him to do that. You know,
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  Speaker 4: Like you said, last year, he performed extremely well against
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  Speaker 4: those guys and they have a really good pass rush
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  Speaker 4: and I thought Stone really held his own and we
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  Speaker 4: expect the same from He's a great player. He's a
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  Speaker 4: young guy who's you know, still learning, still growing, but
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  Speaker 4: he's got all the tools obviously, you know, six eight
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  Speaker 4: tackle man, that's exactly what you look for. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: we're we're looking forward to him and his performance.
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  Speaker 1: What have you.
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  Speaker 2: Noticed about Detroit defensively, same different from last season.
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  Speaker 4: Any differences, well, you know what stands out on tape
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  Speaker 4: is just their effort.
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  Speaker 1: A Dan Campbell coach team.
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  Speaker 4: They're gonna play hard, They're gonna fly to the ball,
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  Speaker 4: They're gonna try and hit you and be physical. You know,
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  Speaker 4: they want to out physically you. Up front, they want
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  Speaker 4: to load the box. They want to play with you know,
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  Speaker 4: base personnel, three linebackers. Uh really, you know, stuff to
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  Speaker 4: run get you in some second and third long situations
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  Speaker 4: where you know, Aiden Hutchinson and the rest of the
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  Speaker 4: pass rush can come alive. And so just watching them
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  Speaker 4: on film, man, they're you know, they run a different
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  Speaker 4: a lot of different coverages. Obviously, you know coach Glenn
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  Speaker 4: is a is a dB, so he likes to tailor
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  Speaker 4: the defenses to his DB's. But upfront, man, they're stout.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 4: They they can stop the run and they can pass rushing. So, uh,
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  Speaker 4: another you know, tough opponent for us that we look
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  Speaker 4: forward to.
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  Speaker 1: You know, whether it's.
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  Speaker 5: Been Dallas or Detroit or New Orleans, you have some
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  Speaker 5: of your best games in dumb stadiums. It's not always
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  Speaker 5: been something for you or something you liked about playing.
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  Speaker 4: Indoors, I mean there's no weather element. I think, uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, most quarterbacks are really good inside, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and for me, you know, it's it's no different.
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  Speaker 1: I think just playing anywhere for me is good.
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  Speaker 4: But I think, you know, when there's no weather in
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  Speaker 4: you know, the type of spin I get on the ball,
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  Speaker 4: it just allows the ball to you know, just float
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  Speaker 4: nicely through the thin air inside the dome. And so
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  Speaker 4: for me, I don't really think about it that much.
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  Speaker 4: But obviously the numbers are the numbers, and hopefully we
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  Speaker 4: can can continue that well.
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  Speaker 5: Just scored an average of forty five points in the
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  Speaker 5: last three games against Detroit. What has been the formula
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  Speaker 5: for success against these guys.
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  Speaker 1: In the last few games.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we just played well execution, But none
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  Speaker 4: of that stuff can, you know, really matter going into
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  Speaker 4: this game.
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  Speaker 1: It's about what we do when we get out there
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  Speaker 1: on Monday.
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  Speaker 4: I think that you know, we can look back at
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  Speaker 4: that and say, hey, you know, we've we've done some
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  Speaker 4: great things. But they're watching that as well, and I
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  Speaker 4: know they're gonna come in and they're gonna be ready
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  Speaker 4: to kind of put a stop to that. So it's
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  Speaker 4: gonna be a great challenge for us, and like I said,
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  Speaker 4: you know those three games in the past, they mean nothing.
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  Speaker 1: It's about what we do Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Night on two different occasions.
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  Speaker 6: Now you've rallied your your offense to continue forward, Can
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  Speaker 6: you just talk about your leadership and your boy what
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  Speaker 6: it's meant to this team so far.
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  Speaker 4: Uh. Yeah, I just try to be like you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm the elder spokesman on the team now, and I
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  Speaker 4: just try to be there for the guys. You know,
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  Speaker 4: think about being like the thermometer in the huddle. You know,
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  Speaker 4: if it's if it's getting too hot in there, you know,
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  Speaker 4: cool them down. And if it's if it's too cool,
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  Speaker 4: then I need to you know, bring that energy that
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  Speaker 4: we need to the huddle. So just always trying to
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  Speaker 4: encourage my guys.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: You know, last week we hit a lull, you know,
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  Speaker 4: somewhere around the second quarter, and I just felt like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, guys, it's natural for guys to start to
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  Speaker 4: press right, to start to overtry and try to make plays.
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  Speaker 4: So I just wanted to remind the guys that, you know,
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  Speaker 4: just do the little things, not get caught up into
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  Speaker 4: the emotion so much of the game. And uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we need to get going. That was that was the
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  Speaker 4: key thing. We need to get some stuff going. And
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  Speaker 4: so whatever I can do, whether that's vocal or just
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  Speaker 4: by you know, just doing it by example, it's what
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  Speaker 4: I'll do to make sure these guys are ready.
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  Speaker 3: You were pretty hard on yourself after the game when
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  Speaker 3: you went back and looked at the film. Did you
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  Speaker 3: still have the same kind of assessment.
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  Speaker 4: Of it or yeah, you know that's after every game,
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  Speaker 4: as you guys know, and you know, I expect try
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  Speaker 4: to demand perfection from myself, even though you know I'm
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  Speaker 4: far from perfect.
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  Speaker 1: But that's just the way that I approach it. I
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  Speaker 1: felt like there were.
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  Speaker 4: Some things that we left out there as an offense
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  Speaker 4: on the field, some yards that we could have had
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  Speaker 4: that we didn't execute on. And like I said, man,
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  Speaker 4: I placed that blame on me. I gotta be able
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  Speaker 4: to get the guys going, Like we started really fast,
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  Speaker 4: but then we sputter, you know, So like we gotta
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  Speaker 4: be able to play a clean four quarters of football,
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  Speaker 4: eliminate the turnovers, eliminate the penalties, don't shoot ourselves in
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  Speaker 4: the foot, and you know, make the defense beat us
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  Speaker 4: and see what we can get on that you mentioned.
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  Speaker 1: Leads the league in sacks.
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  Speaker 6: You're not thinking about sack total when you're out there,
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  Speaker 6: What are you thinking about in trying to counter what
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  Speaker 6: Aiden Hutchinson can do.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we gotta find ninety seven man. He's off to
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  Speaker 4: a great start obviously, you know, he's a high draft
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  Speaker 4: pick and he's a guy who they're gonna you know,
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  Speaker 4: rely on. And so if we can still may him,
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  Speaker 4: keep him from making you know, big plays and getting
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  Speaker 4: in the backfield and you know, getting TFLs and sacks,
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  Speaker 4: then you know, we make it harder on their defense
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  Speaker 4: to stop us. And so we'll definitely have a plan
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  Speaker 4: for him, know where he is at all times, and
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  Speaker 4: just make sure that you know, we trust our guys
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  Speaker 4: to block him, but also making sure that we have
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  Speaker 4: a plan in place to you know, make sure that
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  Speaker 4: he's just not.
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  Speaker 1: You know, running free all day. Next game.
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  Speaker 4: So cool?
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me?
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  Speaker 3: Moday night games?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I love Monday night games.
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  Speaker 4: I love you know, I love playing regardless, but anytime
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  Speaker 4: you can play on Monday night and for us, you know,
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  Speaker 4: this team uh to be able to you know, to
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  Speaker 4: have that spotlight game to kind of show you know,
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  Speaker 4: I know, in the you know, Pacific Northwest, we don't
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  Speaker 4: get the most spotlight, but you know, to be able
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  Speaker 4: to kind of show the world what we're about, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we really look forward to that.
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  Speaker 3: They like to put you know, get team the second, long,
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  Speaker 3: third and long. You guys had a lot of third
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  Speaker 3: and longs last week. How do you kind of stay
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  Speaker 3: out of those situations?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: You know, it starts, uh with with not having penalties.
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  Speaker 4: It starts with you know, not taking sacks, you know,
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  Speaker 4: being being really efficient on first down, making sure that
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  Speaker 4: we're having positive plays and not negative ones. And then
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  Speaker 4: you know obvious like anytime you're in third and long,
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  Speaker 4: second and long, it's gonna be tough to get a
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  Speaker 4: first down. And those are usually the situations where we
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  Speaker 4: sputter as an offense. And so like, if we can
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  Speaker 4: get out of our own way, you know, and just
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  Speaker 4: go play clean football, we're more than talented enough to
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  Speaker 4: move the ball. And so that's the main thing is
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  Speaker 4: that we just got to make sure we're in manageable
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  Speaker 4: situations so that we can, you know, have the best
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  Speaker 4: opportunity to get the first down.
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  Speaker 6: On the idea of you being like the thermometer, I mean,
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  Speaker 6: there's clips of Tom Brady, like really getting on guys
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  Speaker 6: on the teammates on the sideline. Troy Aikman too, Are
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  Speaker 6: there ever times where you feel like you need to
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  Speaker 6: hold teammates accountable on the sideline for mistakes or sloppy
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  Speaker 6: player or whatever it may be.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think everyone does it in their own way.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Tom Brady won how many Super Bowls? Right,
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  Speaker 4: Troy Aigman won how many Super Bowls? So them yelling
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  Speaker 4: or getting on the guy, you know, they can fall
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  Speaker 4: back on that. For me, I'm not really a negative
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  Speaker 4: type of you know guy. I don't want to like
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  Speaker 4: beat guys up on the sideline or have them thinking
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  Speaker 4: about things that they shouldn't right, So instead of me
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  Speaker 4: taking a negative approach, I take the positive approach, and
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  Speaker 4: you know, I try to uplift them and give them
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  Speaker 4: words of encouragement. And you know that's something I do
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  Speaker 4: for myself as well. So instead of you know, yelling,
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  Speaker 4: you know, sometimes you want to, right, you want to
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  Speaker 4: get mad, and you want to you know, curse the
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  Speaker 4: guy out, but it's not the right thing to do,
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  Speaker 4: especially now at that time. And so for me, it's
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  Speaker 4: always about positive reinforcement and just trying to uplift guys.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know Sam.
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  Speaker 5: Darnold this year, Baker Mayfield last year year, the year
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  Speaker 5: before the revivals? Do you have a perspective on what's
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  Speaker 5: best for a rookie quarterback coming in the league? Which
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  Speaker 5: should they get thrown right into the fire, should they
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  Speaker 5: get a chance to develop?
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  Speaker 4: I think, shoot, man, that's a tough question, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I think for me personally, I can only speak for that.
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to play early, you know, I wanted to
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  Speaker 4: be out there as a rookie and you know, kind
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  Speaker 4: of taking my lumps if I had to. I think,
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  Speaker 4: you know, experience is always the best professor, So anytime
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  Speaker 4: you could be on the field, gaining that experience is
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  Speaker 4: going to help you. And I think that helped me
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  Speaker 4: out a bunch, you know, just playing right away. There's
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  Speaker 4: been many cases of guys who have sat their first
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  Speaker 4: year or even their first three years and have turned
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  Speaker 4: out great, And so I think it's not a cookie
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  Speaker 4: cutter type of thing. I think every single person has
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  Speaker 4: their own journey, their own story, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you just got to stick to that.
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  Speaker 2: The positivity with the teammates is that something you did
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  Speaker 2: starting with the Jets, or is that something that's evolved
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  Speaker 2: as you've got more experience.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's been like that my entire life.
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  Speaker 4: I just don't see the benefit in, you know, yelling
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  Speaker 4: at a guy or cursing them out or making them
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  Speaker 4: feel some type of way when our jobs are hard
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  Speaker 4: as it is.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's not easy.
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  Speaker 4: Guys are out there making mistakes on purpose.
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  Speaker 1: You know, those things happen.
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  Speaker 4: And the more you can positively encourage a guy, I
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  Speaker 4: think the better off you are. But everyone's different, and
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  Speaker 4: I think you know, there's many ways to do it.
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  Speaker 1: You said, when you're.
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  Speaker 6: Talking about sacks, he said, not taking sacks in general.
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  Speaker 3: Are those are sacks usually on the QB or how
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  Speaker 3: much that is protection plans?
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  Speaker 4: Like, how would you do I wouldn't place to blame
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  Speaker 4: on anybody. I'll just say a sacks a sack, just
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  Speaker 4: like an interceptions, the interception.
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  Speaker 1: I think you just.
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  Speaker 4: Got to be be better at not not making it
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  Speaker 4: having that happen.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I think you can look at whatever you want to
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  Speaker 4: look at and say this is the reason or that's
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  Speaker 4: the reason. But the reality is is a sack of
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  Speaker 4: sack and a picks a pick, So.
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  Speaker 1: Not having it happen.
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  Speaker 4: Means all eleven guys you know, are contributed to that,
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  Speaker 4: and I think that's what we're talking about.
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  Speaker 5: We're going to say that contested catches last yesterday. Is
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  Speaker 5: that something that you initiated.
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  Speaker 1: Or he did.
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  Speaker 4: That's something he wanted to work work on on his own,
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  Speaker 4: And I think it's great that he said that. But
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  Speaker 4: I thought he was already a really good contested catch
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  Speaker 4: a guy and now, you know, I think DK is
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  Speaker 4: just trying to continue to improve. That's something that we
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  Speaker 4: love to see. We worked a bunch during the off
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  Speaker 4: season on those. We still do every day at practice,
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  Speaker 4: and so giving him an opportunity in a fifty to
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  Speaker 4: fifty situation is always going to benefit us. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we think the world of him. I think he's one
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  Speaker 4: of the best guys in the game. And the more
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  Speaker 4: I can get him touches and get him.
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  Speaker 1: Ops at the ball, the better off will be your
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  Speaker 1: tight ends. We're part of the bassing game. Obviously.
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  Speaker 6: Ten receptions of your twenty sixth you had you talk
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  Speaker 6: about that.
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  Speaker 1: Unit, and then also at Farah Brown, only one who said,
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  Speaker 1: but what he.
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  Speaker 4: Brought, Yeah, I think that unit is you know, they
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  Speaker 4: bring a lot of life to our team, and they
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  Speaker 4: really close the circle on our offense. They're blockers you
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  Speaker 4: talk about Pharaoh, really good pass blocker, great in the
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  Speaker 4: run game, also can catch the ball. Uh, and good
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  Speaker 4: after after the catch. You talk about Noah Brown, I
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  Speaker 4: mean not no Brown nor sorry, you know, just one
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  Speaker 4: of the better tight ends in my opinion, in the league.
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  Speaker 4: He's got it all, you know, physical guy, great after
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  Speaker 4: the catch.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's tough as nails, Brady doing his thing.
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  Speaker 4: Any time he steps in there, he's making plays.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's just great to see all those guys.
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  Speaker 4: And then we got the young buck who's stepping in
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  Speaker 4: and stepping up as well. And we rely on those
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  Speaker 4: guys a lot. We trust those guys to make plays.
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  Speaker 4: Any one of those guys can step in and do
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  Speaker 4: their thing, and you know, it was great to see
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  Speaker 4: Noah have a great game last week. We hope that
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  Speaker 4: continues and we got to use all our weapons and
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  Speaker 4: that tight end room is definitely a part of that.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you guys.