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Ryan Grubb: "We Have To Stay Ahead Of The Sticks Early On" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How are we doing very good?
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  Speaker 2: Who's up a lot of time?
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  Speaker 3: Kind of self scouting.
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  Speaker 4: The unita, what's about you?
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  Speaker 1: It's the same struggles we've had the last three games,
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  Speaker 1: self imposed problems. So the penalties, the turnovers are are
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  Speaker 1: the keys. You know, when we're clean. You look at
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  Speaker 1: the second half, we had five drives. First drive ninety
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  Speaker 1: four yards. We're clean, good balance, run, pass, no penalties,
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  Speaker 1: no sacks. It's gonna be a good drive. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: stating the obvious. But right now, the two things we
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  Speaker 1: have to work the most on is clean drives, discipline,
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  Speaker 1: no penalties, no negative yardage right now we're twenty ninth
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  Speaker 1: or something like that in the NFL. And offensive penalties,
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  Speaker 1: so that that's just reality. It's not something you want
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  Speaker 1: to brag about and talk about, but that's where we
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  Speaker 1: have to clean up. And the last two days in
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  Speaker 1: practicemen very clean, no procedural penalties, So feel a lot
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  Speaker 1: better about that. And then obviously on the football over
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  Speaker 1: at critical times, we got to take care of the ball.
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  Speaker 3: What do people learn personally as some selfs do out
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  Speaker 3: and just how to counter what an NFL defense isis.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I think it's the same things you know, you
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  Speaker 1: have to You got to battle, making sure that you're
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  Speaker 1: not trying to do too much in the sense that
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  Speaker 1: you are not simplistic, but at the same time you're
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  Speaker 1: letting you guys attack and play ball. And so for us,
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  Speaker 1: I think that we've got some guys that have seen
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  Speaker 1: a lot of NFL defenses.
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  Speaker 2: You can challenge them a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: But you also have to have the opportunity to let
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  Speaker 1: those guys just line up and play. And the balance
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  Speaker 1: between those two things, between creating deception and things like
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  Speaker 1: that and forcing our guys to play slower is what
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  Speaker 1: we continue to find. You know, we're just we're trying
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  Speaker 1: to chase that edge of what perfection is on that
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  Speaker 1: but right now we just got to operate clean. We
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  Speaker 1: just got to be clean, stay ahead of the chains.
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  Speaker 1: When we do that, our third down has been very
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  Speaker 1: successful when we're not in exl So we got to
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  Speaker 1: focus on those things and just execute at a higher level.
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  Speaker 5: What are you saying from Mike Durrell as he's been
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  Speaker 5: working as a rookie and evolving over the the season.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Mike is uh shows a lot of flashes. Being
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  Speaker 1: really twitchy guy can be a factor in the run
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  Speaker 1: game as well as, you know, just being a guy
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  Speaker 1: that can stay sticky in pass protection. I think for
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  Speaker 1: for Mike, it's just seeing all the looks, all the
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  Speaker 1: third down looks and things like that of the speed
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  Speaker 1: of the NFL and how fast the calls are happening
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  Speaker 1: in hostile environments. So I think as Mike continues to
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  Speaker 1: sort those things out and play faster, I think he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a really good player.
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  Speaker 5: How did how did you feel about the run game
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  Speaker 5: when you're kind of able to get to it in
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  Speaker 5: favorable situation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I was. I was bummed we didn't. We
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  Speaker 2: didn't more obviously in the second half.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we felt like going into the football game,
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  Speaker 1: the Niners were I think thirtieth or something like that
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  Speaker 1: in the league and second half run defense, so we
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  Speaker 1: knew there was gonna be a bit of a softening
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  Speaker 1: process to get to that, and on that first drive
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  Speaker 1: was very optimistic about what we're gonna be able to do.
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  Speaker 1: And they're, you know, first half, their top five in
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  Speaker 1: the league against the run, so they they're good at that,
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  Speaker 1: but they we knew depth was an issue and we
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  Speaker 1: thought we could wear them down a little bit, so
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  Speaker 1: we felt good going into it in the second half,
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  Speaker 1: felt good.
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  Speaker 2: New we're going to just be able.
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  Speaker 1: To clean up a couple of the fits. We just obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you know, didn't get that done right.
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  Speaker 5: What are the keys of starting fast besides obviously what
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  Speaker 5: the hone is doing internally? What are those keys?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I hate to be repetitive, but the fact
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  Speaker 1: of the matter is you just gotta stay out of
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  Speaker 1: the sticks early on, manageable down and distance, and keep
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  Speaker 1: yourself on the field. Again, I know those are really
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  Speaker 1: really obvious statements, but that's the reality. Once you get
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  Speaker 1: behind the sticks, you start having to throw more and
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  Speaker 1: things like that.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's what you can't have.
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  Speaker 1: You get predictable and all of a sudden, you putting
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  Speaker 1: your offensive line, your quarterback in a tough spot where
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  Speaker 1: people are ripping up the field. So I think we're
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  Speaker 1: really good at throwing the ball. I just don't want
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  Speaker 1: to be predictable on that. And we got to keep
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  Speaker 1: focusing on that because we are. I mean, we're a
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  Speaker 1: talented team as far as throwing the football, but we
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  Speaker 1: got to be way way better in the run game
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  Speaker 1: to create that.
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  Speaker 2: And I think those thay wa happen.
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  Speaker 1: I think the play action pass, run game, all those
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  Speaker 1: things can come to life if we learn how to
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  Speaker 1: be more disciplined and stay ahead of the sticks.
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  Speaker 2: And I think.
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  Speaker 1: Our guys had great ownership in that. Our coaching staff
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  Speaker 1: included making sure that we get the right scheme and
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  Speaker 1: our guys in the right spots.
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  Speaker 2: Rate so low as it isn't just that or is
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  Speaker 2: it may.
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  Speaker 1: More to them, No, I think that's a huge part.
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  Speaker 1: Is you know, obviously you got to call the runs.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm I'm in charge of that, so you
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  Speaker 1: got to call the runs, get the run game to
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  Speaker 1: come to life, to to get the respects you need
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  Speaker 1: in the in the play action pass. So I think
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  Speaker 1: there's ownership all the way around myself, especially is you
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  Speaker 1: know you got to get those things called and protect
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  Speaker 1: ginos so you can get the ball down the field
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  Speaker 1: and not doing it predictable positions.
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  Speaker 2: So term ownership.
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  Speaker 4: Around both our quarterback and got our car to take
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  Speaker 4: the blaine for Yeah, those guys, I mean, I know
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  Speaker 4: everybody loves the Twitter picture of me and uh DK
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  Speaker 4: having a conversation on the headset.
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  Speaker 1: Those guys are awesome though, They're awesome. That's what That's
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  Speaker 1: what they're that's who they are. That's how they're wired.
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  Speaker 1: They're not gonna duck those punches. They know what happened,
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  Speaker 1: and that's that's the kind of ownership those guys have.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not surprised at all.
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  Speaker 2: Both those guys reach out to day after.
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  Speaker 1: The game, and I mean, the fact of the matter
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  Speaker 1: was DK was just pissed because I beat him in
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  Speaker 1: a wrestling match the day before. So I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: is what it is. But no, I'm just kidding, But
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  Speaker 1: that's what they are. Those guys will own it. They
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  Speaker 1: want to get better, they want to be elite. And
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  Speaker 1: that's how you get better is you own it.
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  Speaker 2: You move on. You try to fix the mistakes.
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  Speaker 5: How do you handle that in the moment when a player.
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  Speaker 1: You got to get them to point B. Just the
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  Speaker 1: coaches are the same. People get motivated, excited. It's a
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  Speaker 1: passionate game and it's full of guys that are They're
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  Speaker 1: very passionate about their jobs and as DK said, very competitive.
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  Speaker 1: So the last thing you want to do is is
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  Speaker 1: squash the competitive spirit. So as long as you can
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  Speaker 1: get them from point A to point B and move
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  Speaker 1: through the moment and get them back to room temperature.
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  Speaker 2: You're fine.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's not the first time anybody's lost their temper,
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  Speaker 1: so myself included, So it was it was honestly not
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  Speaker 1: a big thing at all.
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  Speaker 2: It was boom, next play, move on.
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  Speaker 1: You have like a dope between on the coaching staff
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  Speaker 1: who talks to the players or talks to Geno.
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  Speaker 2: In doing the series. I talked to Geno every series.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, Gino Uh, after he uh, you know, reconvenes on
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  Speaker 1: the sideline with the guys who'll come over and put
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  Speaker 1: the headset on. We'll go through each series, the coverages,
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  Speaker 1: we're seeing things like that and what he saw on
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  Speaker 1: the plays, make sure the same page, talk about possibilities
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  Speaker 1: for the next drive, and then you know, move on.
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  Speaker 1: So uh, talk to him every series, and then anybody
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  Speaker 1: else that we need to get on the headset. And
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  Speaker 1: then obviously each position coach as their headset and they're
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  Speaker 1: listening and we're talking, Hey, make sure you talk to
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  Speaker 1: this guy about X, Y and Z. So yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: constant communication.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes for the fan aparently miss how fine the line
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  Speaker 3: is when they're making those adjustments. I think like the
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  Speaker 3: Miami game, when something they make adjustments because somebody when
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  Speaker 3: you're a touchdowns there against forty nine ers, they're on
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  Speaker 3: the same page. That pretty fine.
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  Speaker 1: Times, it's very fine, And I think again that's what
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  Speaker 1: we encourage our guys to be aggressive, play aggressive and
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  Speaker 1: play with confidence. And I think you see that and
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  Speaker 1: you know you can't. You can't take one play into
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  Speaker 1: the next. That's the only risk you have is if
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  Speaker 1: you're wrong or the read is wrong, you can't carry
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  Speaker 1: it in the next play. Don't make one play into
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  Speaker 1: five bad ones. But I think overall the guys do
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  Speaker 1: a really good job of that. How challenging has the
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  Speaker 1: situation been at right tackle with all the injuries you
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  Speaker 1: guys have to face there, it's been challenging. Obviously, we'd
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  Speaker 1: love Aid to be back and be healthy. I'm extremely
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  Speaker 1: proud of Stone and how he's played and how much
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  Speaker 1: he's battled and the production that we got out of
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  Speaker 1: him when he was in there, and he's battling to
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  Speaker 1: be back here soon.
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  Speaker 2: And so it's I don't know that we're unique to
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  Speaker 2: any team in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: I think everybody's battling injuries at different spots, So I
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  Speaker 1: don't think that that's something to dwell on.
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  Speaker 5: The Falcons limit explosives quite a bit. They play a
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  Speaker 5: lot of though, and second or third most in the league,
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  Speaker 5: guys played a lot of man teams. What is that
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  Speaker 5: going to demand of you guys differently in this game
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  Speaker 5: than some of the other.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think discipline.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's gonna be harder to get those big
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  Speaker 1: shots and and when we get the right looks and
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  Speaker 1: things like that, we got to make a count and
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  Speaker 1: use that against them. So you got to weaponize it
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  Speaker 1: a little bit too, and show that you can be
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  Speaker 1: disciplined and make the players you need to make when
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  Speaker 1: you when you can. So uh, you know, when the
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  Speaker 1: man looks show up, you got to make them pay,
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  Speaker 1: and when the zone looks are there.
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  Speaker 2: We just got to be able to be disciplined and
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  Speaker 2: make the right throws and decisions.
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  Speaker 3: When he was talking to you on the headset, he
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  Speaker 3: said he wanted you guys to run by defenders.
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  Speaker 2: You guys on the same did you agree with the assessment.
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  Speaker 1: Of Yeah, No, I mean he's he's pretty good at
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  Speaker 1: running by people, So I don't disagree with it at all.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're always trying to find the obviously, the
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  Speaker 1: the balance between having the time in the pocket ball
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  Speaker 1: coming out of Gino's hands and then getting those.
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  Speaker 2: Shots down the field.
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  Speaker 1: So I think a bigger part of that is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the confidence that that DK has in himself that that
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  Speaker 1: he can do that at any point in a football game,
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  Speaker 1: no matter who's on them. So, uh, you got to
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  Speaker 1: love that and we certainly respect that and have that
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  Speaker 1: built into every plan.
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  Speaker 2: The penalty can on for a legal shift there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so anytime we have movement, you know, obviously we
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  Speaker 1: want to make sure everybody's on the same page.
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  Speaker 2: If we have two guys moving, we had an.
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  Speaker 1: Opportunity there for multiple people to try to get a
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  Speaker 1: set and uh, you know, just hold everybody, just stop
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  Speaker 1: if there's if there's a multiple people moving. And so
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  Speaker 1: the good part of that what can come out of
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  Speaker 1: that the opportunity is that we had time on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: since we had a little extra time, we actually built
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  Speaker 1: the session in to talk through that. We obviously move
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  Speaker 1: a lot, so there's a communication element that has to
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  Speaker 1: happen when you start moving people and okay, let's move
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  Speaker 1: two people at the same time, so we have to
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  Speaker 1: communicate what it looks like. If that's happening, you just stop,
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  Speaker 1: make sure everybody's set and then execute the play.
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  Speaker 2: So, uh, there are some good reminders that happened from
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  Speaker 2: that play. Obviously, both guys have to be set in
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  Speaker 2: that case or just you know what.
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  Speaker 1: In that particular case, what you'd want is everybody to
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  Speaker 1: be set, then motion the running back and he can
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  Speaker 1: stay on the move. If it was a single move,
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  Speaker 1: then you'd motion one guy. So those all have different
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  Speaker 1: terminologies on if a guy has to be set or
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  Speaker 1: if a guy can continue to move. So if a
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  Speaker 1: player here is a motion that you know would indicate
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  Speaker 1: that motion player is going to stay on the move,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's got to be set prior to that.
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  Speaker 2: So it was good. It was a good reminder.
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  Speaker 1: We hadn't went over something like that since camp, so
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  Speaker 1: it was it sucked that it came up, but I
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  Speaker 1: think all we can do is continue to correct those
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  Speaker 1: things and move on.
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  Speaker 5: You played a couple of teams in Detroit and San
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  Speaker 5: Francisco that are really clear in their identity physical nature
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  Speaker 5: that they like to play with. How close are you,
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  Speaker 5: guys to figuring out your offensive identity and what do
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  Speaker 5: you want that identity to be?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we'd obviously like to be way closer to fifty
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  Speaker 1: to fifty, and I think for this team, with the
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  Speaker 1: type of runners we have and things like that, we
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  Speaker 1: do want a physical style play and we want a
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  Speaker 1: style that you know, we've been emphasizing that quite a
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  Speaker 1: bit over the last couple of weeks of what it
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  Speaker 1: should look like when we finishing football plays, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And that's something that me and Mike are very much
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  Speaker 1: linked in a mindset. And one of the things that
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  Speaker 1: when we were going through this process of getting together
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  Speaker 1: that you know, it is something that I desire, you know,
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  Speaker 1: is that the offense has more of a physical mentality
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  Speaker 1: of finish mentality that when you put the film on,
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  Speaker 1: people are like, man, that's that's gonna be a long night.
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  Speaker 1: And we're just not there yet, honestly, and I know
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  Speaker 1: the guys are committed to trying to get through that
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  Speaker 1: process and do it's supposed to be done.
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  Speaker 2: Uh no, okay, No, it would be great see Mike.
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  Speaker 1: He's been a long time and he's a he's a
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  Speaker 1: great dude, incredible family, Mike.
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  Speaker 2: Senior and Takeisha, good people. So yeah, it'll be awesome
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  Speaker 2: to see him. Anybody else, Thank you,