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  Speaker 1: Still in the protocol. Um, today is kind of the
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  Speaker 1: final day for him. Uh, so he'll be he'll be
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  Speaker 1: out there to practice to day. No, you gotta go
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  Speaker 1: through all the steps. You gotta go through all the steps,
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  Speaker 1: and tomorrow would be the day that you could Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: last day could be Saturday. Yes, he's fine, he's good.
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  Speaker 1: So he'll travel to Kansas City with him. Yes, so
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  Speaker 1: what's the No, one's really been able to do it.
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  Speaker 1: But what do you think is the best way to
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  Speaker 1: kind of slow anything else? What has kind of worked
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  Speaker 1: in the past from what do you see? Okay, it's
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  Speaker 1: artist difficult. I mean he's such a great player, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's the ability is just for him to wiggle,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And and really um runs great routes. You know.
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  Speaker 1: He just solid player, you know, and and and has
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  Speaker 1: learned you know him and you know, my homes being
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  Speaker 1: on the same page, so that they kind of sometimes
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  Speaker 1: do their own I want to say, do their own thing,
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  Speaker 1: but it's like they're it's like they're doing their own thing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, playing pitch and catch. But you gotta do
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  Speaker 1: the best you can to maybe disrupt timing. It's the
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  Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. Um, you know, obviously, you know, pressure
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  Speaker 1: on the quarterback helps a little bit with that UM.
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  Speaker 1: But it's it's something that you gotta, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: really gotta I think, focus on you know, UM throughout
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  Speaker 1: the course of the game from the standpoint like kind
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  Speaker 1: of preparing that you know, if he gets in trouble,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll get in trouble, he's looking for Kelsey first,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Yeah, And and really sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I know, you know, probably in the red zone might
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  Speaker 1: be looking for him. But sometimes it's all the guys.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you one thing, All the guys on offense
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  Speaker 1: do a great job of you know, their scramble scramble rules,
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  Speaker 1: UM and and it's it's tough, you know, you just
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  Speaker 1: again you just have to you know, plaster on a
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  Speaker 1: receiver tight end and and you know, hopefully the uh
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  Speaker 1: either get him to throw it away or you know,
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  Speaker 1: a short game. I mean as to practice the last
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  Speaker 1: two days. But Hardeman, whether he can or can't go,
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  Speaker 1: what sort of dimensions he brought to that offense. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean he's a speed guy, you know, and and
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  Speaker 1: UH just they do a lot of you know, jet
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  Speaker 1: sweeps with them and you know, get him, get him
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  Speaker 1: in space in the passing game, and of course you
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  Speaker 1: know the specialist the return game. You know, it's obviously
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  Speaker 1: big and um, you know he's a he's a good
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  Speaker 1: player too, you know, and and uh um again just
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  Speaker 1: for us, it's just you know, we have to prepare
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  Speaker 1: it if he's going to be out there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and and go into the game that way you
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  Speaker 1: have to worry about. They got a lot of other guys.
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  Speaker 1: Last week you saw you saw Patrick, you know, do
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  Speaker 1: this crazy scramble in third and seventeen gets up twenty
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  Speaker 1: two yards especially probably you know, is the key play
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  Speaker 1: to get them to overtime. How tough is it, particularly
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  Speaker 1: for defensive linement is for reporter, you're already tired as
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  Speaker 1: it is, and you've got this guy that's got these
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  Speaker 1: provisational skills that are off the charge. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's the that's the hardest thing. That's what makes him
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  Speaker 1: makes him special, you know as a quarterback, the ability
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  Speaker 1: to do that. And you know, I know every defense
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  Speaker 1: that faces Mahomes, you know, probably preaches the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: You just gotta continue to finish. You gotta play to
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  Speaker 1: the whistle and um, you know, do what you can
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  Speaker 1: to try to try to get to him, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but again those are all the those are all the
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  Speaker 1: things that make him make him great, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you just try to minimize as many of those plays
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  Speaker 1: as possible. Type of pass wrestlers, Chris Jones, He's pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: He's pretty good. He's he's got great quickness, crowds, line
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  Speaker 1: of scrimmage. Um, you know, his first step is explosive.
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  Speaker 1: He's powerful, and he he gets right into the you know,
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  Speaker 1: into the offensive lineman. And then when you put him
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  Speaker 1: on the edge, he's got the speed to you know,
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  Speaker 1: to go around tackles and playing at home crowd noise,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Um, great anticipation you know, with with getting
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  Speaker 1: off the ball, and uh, you know, can can get
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  Speaker 1: to the quarterback that way and and really be disruptive.
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  Speaker 1: So good pass rusher, Um, I just gotta know where
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  Speaker 1: he's at. Back to the offense. Zone read quarterbacks has
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  Speaker 1: kind of been a thorn in the defensive side over
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  Speaker 1: the last you know, against the Giants, against the Eagles
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  Speaker 1: with Hurts and then Jones, what do you do this
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  Speaker 1: week to prepare them for I don't even want to
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  Speaker 1: call Patrick like a zone read quarterback is obviously he's
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  Speaker 1: so much more than that. But how do you prepare them?
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  Speaker 1: You know, their style too, is a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: the RPO game. UM ball is going to come out
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  Speaker 1: quick to the tight end or a receiver and no situations.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously Patrick can run. It's just it's a discipline game.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's trusting your read, trusting your keys. You can't
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  Speaker 1: you can't get out of out of whack of what
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to do, right, You just gotta stay within
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  Speaker 1: the framework of the defense called and and um you know,
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  Speaker 1: just do your job that way and and you know,
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  Speaker 1: the more that you can st disrupt that and kind
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  Speaker 1: of get them out of that um can be helpful
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  Speaker 1: as the game goes on. How much can you learn
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  Speaker 1: about your team in a big matchup like this one,
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  Speaker 1: I think you can learn a lot, you know, one,
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  Speaker 1: the character your team, you're on the road, hostile crowd, noise,
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  Speaker 1: all that, um you know, and really how we respond
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  Speaker 1: to after after a win last weekend, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: and building off of that. This is a great opportunity
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  Speaker 1: for our guys, you know, to go in there and
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  Speaker 1: play a a really good football team, you know, well
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  Speaker 1: coached team, disciplined, football team. It'll be a nice, uh
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  Speaker 1: you know, benchmark game for for us to see where
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  Speaker 1: we're at. They play a lot of cover too, obviously
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  Speaker 1: that's been something that second most in the league or
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  Speaker 1: most in lea, something like that what they're calling it anyway, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so what do they do mix up their coverages? But
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  Speaker 1: for whatever the reason, I mean, have you felt like
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  Speaker 1: with the cover two and maybe it's just whatever. The
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  Speaker 1: Texans run their style of the defense that Trevor has
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  Speaker 1: struggled and three times he played them, so how have
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  Speaker 1: you seen him maybe progress against scheme over the last
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  Speaker 1: few weeks. This is um. I wouldn't categorize this as
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  Speaker 1: much as Cover two like Houston. Thus it's more middlefield,
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  Speaker 1: open um and spags. You know. You go back and
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  Speaker 1: watch his teams, the Giants when when I faced him before,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with Philly, and there's a lot of a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the same similar style of defenses even back then,
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  Speaker 1: probably even the same type of pass rushers, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so you see a lot of the same things he
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  Speaker 1: Now he does sprinkle the traditional cover two um, but
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  Speaker 1: this is more of a red style and and really
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  Speaker 1: you know, much like Cover two principles, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: eyes are on the quarterback right, and then they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: rally and and they squeeze passing lanes. So ball's gotta
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  Speaker 1: come out. It's gotta be accurate. Receiver has gotta be detailed,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you gotta catch, put your foot in the ground,
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  Speaker 1: get up field. All those things. Um against this, you know,
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  Speaker 1: against his style of defense, especially the shell defensi