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Clint Hurtt: "Everybody Is In This Together" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Hello everybody. Why hello, up to see a few of
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  Speaker 1: your guys. You're recognizing owners.
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  Speaker 2: Uh Yeah, excited, you know, excited for him, Julian and
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  Speaker 2: Spoon and UH and Bobby.
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  Speaker 1: This great accomplishment.
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  Speaker 2: We uh congratulated 'em yesterday as a defense and UH
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  Speaker 2: today the guys that UH were named alternates as well.
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  Speaker 1: It's always good to uh be recognized.
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  Speaker 2: Last week we talked about it, the tackling that it
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  Speaker 2: wills that it hoped that.
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  Speaker 1: Why did it take a step back last report?
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  Speaker 2: Did it take a step back last Nah, it did
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  Speaker 2: take a step back. Now that's the million dollar question.
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  Speaker 2: You know, a lot of it is just guys making
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  Speaker 2: sure like we're tacked. Fundamentals are tackling, not tackling so high, uh,
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  Speaker 2: obviously being low, wrapping the legs, getting guys on the ground. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: the numbers of the ball, you know, having swarming football
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  Speaker 2: with multiple bodies. Those elements of the fundamentals of tackling,
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  Speaker 2: Uh were lacking.
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  Speaker 1: In the in the last game. Obviously. Yeah, I watch
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  Speaker 1: of them just cause like the that issues were tackling,
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  Speaker 1: the stuffy al it was the fits weren't the problem.
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  Speaker 1: It was tackling.
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  Speaker 2: It was tackling issue game UH, and obviously and playing
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  Speaker 2: hide the line of scrimmage. Those things are all the
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  Speaker 2: fundamental parts of it that attributed to uh that performance.
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  Speaker 2: So obviously pad level, the line of scrimmage, and obviously tackling.
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  Speaker 1: The layer's gonna running the ball safe to say that's
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  Speaker 1: the big focuses weak to get that right.
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  Speaker 2: There's no question. I mean, we understand that's the focus.
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  Speaker 2: When you show is a copycat league. When you show
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  Speaker 2: all these issues uh going into games, obviously teams are
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  Speaker 2: gonna try to replicate that within their own system, their
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  Speaker 2: own way.
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  Speaker 1: UH.
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  Speaker 2: So you gotta be prepared accordingly. You gotta answer to
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  Speaker 2: the response or you know the challenge that comes up
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  Speaker 2: every week. So Arizona's gonna do that. We have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of respect for uh, James Conn and all their
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  Speaker 2: backs are really good players, so UH, tackling again is
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  Speaker 2: gonna be at a premium and pad level and resetting
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  Speaker 2: a line of scrimmage, all those things come into play.
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  Speaker 2: What was different as fact that you have that you
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  Speaker 2: guys counted the visit.
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  Speaker 1: I had nineteen for the game.
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  Speaker 2: I loves to see that now, p tred the game whatever,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, everything the communication on the headset where the
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  Speaker 2: coaches is you, we gotta just pad level, We gotta
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  Speaker 2: get down on the line of scrimmage, you know, with
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  Speaker 2: the tackling. Guys gotta get a load, get their cleats
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  Speaker 2: side of the grass. All those things are being said
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  Speaker 2: and constantly repeated, you know, so obviously during the course
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  Speaker 2: of the game. It becomes very frustrating when you constantly
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  Speaker 2: see that, you know, so, uh it pisches you off
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  Speaker 2: to to keep it as c politically correct as possible.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think of y I mean, the tackling
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  Speaker 1: was a new issue in that game, but the run
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  Speaker 1: defense for the last month or so, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of really distruggling. What do you make of that? Well, really,
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  Speaker 2: when it comes down to it, it's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the stuff. It's not necessarily fit ishoes. Maybe a play
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  Speaker 2: here or there. Just guys gotta win one on one matchups.
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  Speaker 2: That's what run defense is, you know, is moving a
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  Speaker 2: man at his own wheel, getting off of blocks and
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  Speaker 2: finishing plays. So those areas gotta be better, coach better,
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  Speaker 2: and play better. We've talked about how what the cold
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  Speaker 2: clinton is practice tackling in the NFL, But who if
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  Speaker 2: you guys thought about where pensing.
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  Speaker 1: The intention you what you can do at tackling.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we constantly always revisit different ways and thin
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  Speaker 2: fin trying to find things to get better, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, in every aspect of it.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, you know, just because certain things might be
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  Speaker 2: difficult doesn't mean you just kind of throw it to
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  Speaker 2: the side. You just gotta continue to find way as
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  Speaker 2: a challenge yourself. Coach talks about all the time of competing, alright,
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  Speaker 2: and that's part of competing is obviously try to find
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  Speaker 2: ways to improve an element that's kind of difficult to
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  Speaker 2: attain in these uh, in these situations in practice, there
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  Speaker 2: are teams that are practicing well. So just because the
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  Speaker 2: rules are like that or however it is, you don't
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  Speaker 2: make excuses. You just gotta find ways to get better. So, uh,
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  Speaker 2: we're constantly working towards.
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  Speaker 1: That Corbard's football.
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  Speaker 2: Now, have you notice that during the back band skills,
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  Speaker 2: the way they play.
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  Speaker 1: The game, there's no normal stuff that goes on.
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  Speaker 2: This has nothing to do Also, while I'm saying this,
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  Speaker 2: this has nothing to do with them why we played
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  Speaker 2: the way we played. So I wanna make sure nobody's
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  Speaker 2: getting that misconscued for an excuse, but there is like
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  Speaker 2: normal fundamentals of football, you know, is getting is changing,
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  Speaker 2: It's different, you know. So obviously he has to continue
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  Speaker 2: to to coach it and detail it. Obviously as kids
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  Speaker 2: get here, so you continue to develop them in their
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  Speaker 2: game without a doubt. But uh, the absolute story seem
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  Speaker 2: like that, w you've been so good as a tackle
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  Speaker 2: where you guys, that's a big tackle number guys, but
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  Speaker 2: you probably getting help eeping available last week.
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  Speaker 1: But to highlight where it's season, what you've been able
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  Speaker 1: to do with the drint you're coming off by just
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  Speaker 1: kind of how.
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  Speaker 2: Much you guys talking to miss them with the fund Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 2: we definitely did. I mean we've missed him. We've missed
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  Speaker 2: guys like Channel, you know, the whole year. I mean
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  Speaker 2: that makes a a big difference. But again, you gotta
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  Speaker 2: have a next man up mentality, and guys gotta be
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  Speaker 2: ready to go when their opportunity is called and you know,
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  Speaker 2: comes to light and their name is called. So but
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  Speaker 2: we definitely miss them without question. We know what Jordan
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  Speaker 2: brings to the table, we know what Chinna brings, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: but the guys who come into their place gotta step
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  Speaker 2: up and answer the bell to and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and the in the some r some aspects of it
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  Speaker 2: was good but not enough where we we needed to
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  Speaker 2: play better it.
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  Speaker 1: It has a pretty well played explosive for the past game.
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  Speaker 1: It's just plainway wait to see. I think, I guess
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  Speaker 1: that's set of play.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what happens is when you don't control the
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  Speaker 2: line of scrimmage in the run game and you gotta
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  Speaker 2: commit extra people into the box some of those opportunities
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  Speaker 2: where the explosives are going to come. You know, that's
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  Speaker 2: what that's naturally the end of the day, ask what
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  Speaker 2: ends up happening. Now, Even then, when you commit the
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  Speaker 2: extra guy, doesn't mean you should be giving up explosive plays,
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  Speaker 2: but it doesn't creates challenges. It makes it harder. So
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  Speaker 2: the explosive pass plays are what leads to points though,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's that's the big part of that. What
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  Speaker 2: have you felt of the impact cloud Leonard Morgan his
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  Speaker 2: days into care in the pre Uh, he's done a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things really really well, you know, commanded and
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  Speaker 2: played double teams. Well, uh, you know, obviously there's some
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  Speaker 2: parts of it where there's certain players here there. Obviously
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  Speaker 2: he wan like to play better, and he's still getting
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  Speaker 2: used to and understanding the scheme and system and whatnot.
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  Speaker 1: But he's done a lot of positive things. You know,
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  Speaker 1: still very pleased that we got him here. Does it happened?
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  Speaker 1: What kind of want to play?
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  Speaker 2: Mostly so get both tackles in this top man uh
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  Speaker 2: unbelievable contact ballance. He kind of you can see he
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  Speaker 2: has an innate sense uh when contact is coming. So
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  Speaker 2: whether it's a spin move, whether it's a straight arm, uh,
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  Speaker 2: lower in his center of gravity to get his pads underneath.
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  Speaker 2: Yours a very tough, competitive downhill runner, uh, constantly staying alive.
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  Speaker 2: Legs are churning. So you like, if guys like him,
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  Speaker 2: you gotta have multiple numbers getting to the football. It's
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  Speaker 2: hard to get a one on one tackle on him,
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  Speaker 2: so you need bodies getting there. You talk about leads
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  Speaker 2: to trying to lift it. That it's changed a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of the NFL, Like they'll be blower the plain.
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  Speaker 1: Yack on like things.
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  Speaker 2: Just a couple of officials and do what you play
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  Speaker 2: at that point.
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  Speaker 1: Side, and it's just it's take it a little bit longer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it's take the topples when there's already The
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  Speaker 2: thing we always talking about is second or third man
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  Speaker 2: into a pile. So if theo's first guys made contact
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  Speaker 2: on the tackle, the second guy is either going for
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  Speaker 2: the football or you need to go attack and get
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  Speaker 2: lower to go attack the legs. If you let the
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  Speaker 2: players stay up right now, you got two, three, four
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  Speaker 2: players coming into a pile and everybody's high. They happened
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  Speaker 2: on one of the touchdown runs. The old line's gonna
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  Speaker 2: get behind it. You get pushed into the end zone.
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  Speaker 2: We don't wanna put it in the hands of the official.
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  Speaker 2: So you either gotta go no, gotta go low and
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  Speaker 2: wrap legs and get the clats out of the grass.
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  Speaker 2: Or sometimes depending on the style of player you have,
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  Speaker 2: you going and you go Kamikazi the legs and go
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  Speaker 2: cut the legs out from everybody you know. But some
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  Speaker 2: now in today's leg a lot today's game, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of guys don't wanna do that. You're thinking about the
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  Speaker 2: head injuries and things like that, and concussions, so the
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  Speaker 2: players play that a little bit more cautious so they
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  Speaker 2: don't get you know, the the concussions and things like that,
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  Speaker 2: head and neck injuries. I would say it's been if
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  Speaker 2: you remember, back in training camp, I said the one
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  Speaker 2: thing I was looking for this year was consistency. And
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  Speaker 2: I would just say we've been inconsistent. There's been games
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  Speaker 2: that we played really, really well, but we've had some
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  Speaker 2: that's been not up to standard. So I would just
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  Speaker 2: say inconsistent. So there's been some really positive spots and
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  Speaker 2: some good things, but not to the standard consistent of
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  Speaker 2: what we would all expect.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it was. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I would say, you know, everything is everybody's in this
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  Speaker 2: all together. You know, there's things again that could be
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  Speaker 2: coached better, things that could be played better. I think
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  Speaker 2: there is some certain spots where you see some youthful
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  Speaker 2: usefulness with some players in certain spots, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: then obviously guys that consistently of people being able to
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  Speaker 2: play together. You'd like to be able to see the
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  Speaker 2: same group of guys with the young the youthfulness we
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  Speaker 2: have on this defense, and obviously some of the veteran
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  Speaker 2: pieces that you expect to have to be able to
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  Speaker 2: have a long period of time to play together, you know,
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  Speaker 2: And going back to offseason, going back to training camp,
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  Speaker 2: you had a lot of guys that were not practicing
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  Speaker 2: together for most of the training camp.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't have screened for most of training camp.
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  Speaker 2: You know, guys that were coming back and off of
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  Speaker 2: injuries like Jamal, like Jordan, you know, things like that,
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  Speaker 2: Leonard being a late mid season in addition to the team.
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  Speaker 2: So the unity and the collective unity of the defensive
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  Speaker 2: guys playing together, it helps with those things. Again, not
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  Speaker 2: an excuse, but those things are tribute and they help
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  Speaker 2: a lot of things. The longer guys can play together.
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  Speaker 1: As the secondary together and expect.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah when you're yeah, when you're dealing with injuries and
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  Speaker 2: things like that along that way and the communication that
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  Speaker 2: comes with it, all those things they play a hand.
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  Speaker 2: And I hate even addressing that because I don't want
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  Speaker 2: anything to come across like as an excuse, but it's
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  Speaker 2: part of reality too.
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  Speaker 1: Everything else. Thank you, all right, you gotta said care