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Brian Fleury On The Team's Confidence In Drew Lock · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How this stuff works, you say when you're having a
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  Speaker 1: conversation with Drew about what he's comfortable with, is that
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  Speaker 1: still from the menu of plays that were in the
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  Speaker 1: game plan, or would you ever go to something that
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  Speaker 1: is like soap, bread, and butter.
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  Speaker 2: Because he's comfortable with it?
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  Speaker 3: We did go to a couple things in the game
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  Speaker 3: plan that weren't originally in there, but it was not
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  Speaker 3: because of Drew. It was more because of how New
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  Speaker 3: England came out and played us in a four-down nickel package,
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  Speaker 3: which was not what we expected. So we were able
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  Speaker 3: to adjust to that pretty quickly as a coaching staff.
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  Speaker 3: When it comes to what Drew was comfortable with, I
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  Speaker 3: go through an absurd amount of contingency plans. They're like
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  Speaker 3: all those calls on the call sheet are if this
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  Speaker 3: and this happens, if A, B, and C happens, like
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  Speaker 3: these are the things I'm going to. So it's all
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  Speaker 3: thought out ahead of time in regard to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the tragedies that can unfold. I've been through losing quarterbacks
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  Speaker 3: and unfortunately challenging circumstances before.
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  Speaker 4: What goes into sequencing plays? How much do you feel
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  Speaker 4: like you need to, you know, show something in order
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  Speaker 4: to get to something versus just get to it right away?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, I would say a lot goes into it. There's
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  Speaker 3: definitely thought into the order that you want to call stuff.
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  Speaker 3: More in terms of the effect it has on individual
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  Speaker 3: players and how they're seeing, reading their keys and the
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  Speaker 3: conflicts that you can create from that. It's more about
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  Speaker 3: those sorts of sequences than anything else.
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  Speaker 4: Is it more based off of what you see in
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  Speaker 4: the game that can adjust that from how the defense
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  Speaker 4: is playing or how the offense is working?
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  Speaker 2: It's a combination of both.
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  Speaker 3: You have a thought going into it and then you
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  Speaker 3: have an order of maybe you want to get to, say,
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  Speaker 3: four plays in a certain order. But then after two,
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  Speaker 3: you change your mind about three and four. And you
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  Speaker 3: have an idea of which ones can potentially be more explosive.
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  Speaker 3: So the circumstances the game dictate to, like, what the
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  Speaker 3: score is, if you need to, like, get down the
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  Speaker 3: field a little bit quicker than you expected at certain times.
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  Speaker 1: Jadarian Price, when you self-critique how that game went, are
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  Speaker 1: you satisfied with the reps he got, especially.
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  Speaker 2: In the first half?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we were very deliberate about the reps that he
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  Speaker 3: was going to get and how he was going to
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  Speaker 3: be used. I mean, he didn't play in the preseason.
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  Speaker 3: It was the very first NFL game, huge stage, and, like,
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  Speaker 3: We just wanted to be cautious in terms of his workload.
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  Speaker 3: He obviously earned more reps moving forward, and we'll continue
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  Speaker 3: to bring him along and develop him.
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  Speaker 5: The right way.
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  Speaker 2: So it's still a ramp up for him? For sure.
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  Speaker 2: It's not because of anything physical. It's just being a rookie.
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  Speaker 4: The pre-staff penalties in the game, was there a theme
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  Speaker 4: to those?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're obviously all controllable. There was the delay of games,
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  Speaker 3: the false starts. A couple of them were on me,
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  Speaker 3: getting the play in sooner. A couple of them were
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  Speaker 3: just situational stuff. Obviously we have to call the A.J.
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  Speaker 2: Barner sneak. We have to coach that a little bit
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  Speaker 2: better in terms of how.
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  Speaker 3: They're officiating that. So we've been working on that. And
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  Speaker 3: it's all stuff that we're able to address in practice.
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  Speaker 3: Luckily they're all correctable.
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  Speaker 4: On that play, they kind of talked about that before
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  Speaker 4: the season, right? That they were going to call that
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  Speaker 4: a little more tighter?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: We did address it before the season, but obviously we
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  Speaker 3: failed to get the message across appropriately.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll make sure that we're good on that moving forward.
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  Speaker 4: How's the continuity of your offensive line helping with changing
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  Speaker 4: quarterback and new running back?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it helps with everything. Obviously, continuity at that position,
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  Speaker 3: it's four bodies functioning as one. They have to have
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  Speaker 3: a hive mindset. And so when you have continuity there,
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  Speaker 3: it just makes it so much easier. Anytime that there's
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  Speaker 3: a disruption, it just adds another layer of communication.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a huge luxury to have that.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned previous instances where you've had to turn to
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  Speaker 4: backup quarterbacks in San Francisco. What have you learned from
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  Speaker 4: those experiences that maybe helped prepare you for last week,
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  Speaker 4: this week, and the next?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it just helped me know how to handle
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  Speaker 3: Drew in the situation. There's no reason to panic. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: we've done a great job. Jake Peets has done a
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  Speaker 3: great job preparing all of those guys. And so I
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  Speaker 3: didn't have any concerns in handing it over to Drew.
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  Speaker 3: As you can see, we got the result we wanted.
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  Speaker 4: For people that don't know Daniel Stern or don't get
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  Speaker 4: access to see what he does, where does he show
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  Speaker 4: up in how you guys play offense?
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  Speaker 3: He does a great job just in terms of diving
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  Speaker 3: into the far-reaching corners of how the opposite coordinator might
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  Speaker 3: be thinking, tendencies that you might not have time in
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  Speaker 3: a normal week to dig up. He does a great
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  Speaker 3: job finding those and just kind of helping me choose
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  Speaker 3: the right plays within the game plan at the appropriate
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  Speaker 3: time to take advantage of something that he found.
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  Speaker 4: When you're getting ready to game plan for a coming week,
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  Speaker 4: how much are you looking at numbers for tendencies versus
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  Speaker 4: film for tendencies?
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  Speaker 2: I lean heavily on the film.
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  Speaker 3: I call plays more based on the techniques that I
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  Speaker 3: see players implementing as opposed to just what the coverages say.
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  Speaker 3: To me, there's a whole other world within how different
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  Speaker 3: players play the same coverage.
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  Speaker 2: So that's more how I function.
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  Speaker 3: But there's other guys on staff who kind of, we
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  Speaker 3: complement each other well in that regard.
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  Speaker 2: There's a little bit of both.
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  Speaker 5: Mike's talked about, this is a rare situation where you
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  Speaker 5: have a new coaching staff in Arizona, but they have
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  Speaker 5: the same defensive coordinator that they retained and the multiplicity
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  Speaker 5: that they have from week to week. Do you view
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  Speaker 5: this as kind of a season opener from that perspective
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  Speaker 5: just because of who you're going up against?
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  Speaker 2: For sure.
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  Speaker 3: Interestingly enough, there's been a lot of familiarity just in
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  Speaker 3: terms of this will be the seventh time that Nick
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  Speaker 3: and I have coached against each other, but every single
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  Speaker 3: time he comes out with some unscouted look. So you've
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  Speaker 3: got to be prepared for anything. He does a great
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  Speaker 3: job using his personnel in creative ways and just mixing
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  Speaker 3: up packages and keeping you guessing. So whether he was
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  Speaker 3: being retained or not, that function is still going to
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  Speaker 3: be the same in terms of games early in the season.
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  Speaker 4: One of the differences between Kyle Shanahan and Clint in
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  Speaker 4: terms of how they've called things is how many people
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  Speaker 4: they sent out into routes versus keep in for protection.
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  Speaker 4: What's your philosophy in general? How do you look at
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  Speaker 4: making those decisions?
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  Speaker 3: I would guess that for both of them that's more
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  Speaker 3: personnel based than anything and so I would function the
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  Speaker 3: same way. Obviously Kyle feels comfortable based on the quarterback
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  Speaker 3: getting more people out into the routes especially with Christian
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  Speaker 3: there and he wants to get George involved. If that
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  Speaker 3: weren't the case if he didn't have those two pieces
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  Speaker 3: and a quarterback that maybe needed a little bit more
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  Speaker 3: protection in the pocket he would call it differently so
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  Speaker 3: I know Clint thinks of it the same way, and
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  Speaker 3: I think it's just more a reflection of the players
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  Speaker 3: they've had.
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  Speaker 1: When a play comes in late, is it usually just
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  Speaker 1: as simple as you're deciding between two calls, or is
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  Speaker 1: there more to.
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  Speaker 5: It than that?
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  Speaker 3: It's communication about the exact situation, knowing what yard line,
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  Speaker 3: down and distance, kind of functioning within what section of
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  Speaker 3: calls we want to be on, and then just doing
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  Speaker 3: a better job of getting it communicated faster.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously, Jalen Milrow moves up now as well. How did
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  Speaker 4: you assess his training.
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  Speaker 5: Camp and preseason?
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  Speaker 3: I thought he did a great job working on the
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  Speaker 3: things we asked him to work on. I thought he
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  Speaker 3: played really well in that Kansas City game. I'm excited
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  Speaker 3: to have him active now, and it just allows him
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  Speaker 3: to get more work in practice and continue that path
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  Speaker 3: towards development.
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  Speaker 5: When it comes to getting the plays in a little
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  Speaker 5: bit quicker, as the season goes on, do you start
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  Speaker 5: to look at some ways that maybe you can shorten
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  Speaker 5: or abbreviate the verbiage a little bit so they can
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  Speaker 5: get those calls in a little.
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  Speaker 3: Bit quicker yeah it's always a thought process also just
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  Speaker 3: different circumstances usually going on the road you want to
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  Speaker 3: minimize the amount of motions and stuff that you have
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  Speaker 3: to communicate when it's going to be difficult to hear
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  Speaker 3: because anytime you have to repeat something you're just adding
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  Speaker 3: five seconds to the play clock so we try to
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  Speaker 3: shorten things on the road and make it easier regardless
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  Speaker 3: of those circumstances
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  Speaker 5: Thanks