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Mike Macdonald: "That Was A Big-Time Win For Us" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Man, what was Obviously it's a great football game. It's
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  Speaker 1: a big time win for.
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  Speaker 2: Us as a team.
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  Speaker 1: We all knew that was a big game, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for obvious reasons. But uh, just really proud of the
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  Speaker 1: guys you know, sticking in there. I mean I thought,
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  Speaker 1: you know, all the points memphasis we made, uh you
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  Speaker 1: know throughout the last couple of weeks trying to take
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  Speaker 1: the next step as a football team, just really you know,
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  Speaker 1: showed up. So the challenge anwly, Let's just keep stacking
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  Speaker 1: this thing and doing it one week at a time,
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  Speaker 1: one day at a time. That's been the message, you know,
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  Speaker 1: from from when we showed up till now, and and
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  Speaker 1: it will always be like that way. So but it's
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  Speaker 1: proud of the guys.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: It was just a really exciting football game. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, close it out there at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the two minute was was big time.
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  Speaker 2: Oh. I mean, he's dynamite. You know.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about, you know, after after the pick, just
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  Speaker 1: take sticking with it, man, like we talk about clearing
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  Speaker 1: the next room, Like just go clear the next room
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  Speaker 1: and rock and roll. After you through the pick, we
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  Speaker 1: got to stop on defense, forced the field going war, right,
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  Speaker 1: back down for the touchdown, and uh really put us
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  Speaker 1: in position to you know, to go up two scores defensively.
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  Speaker 1: You know, those third downs would have been great to
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  Speaker 1: uh to get a win on that to force force
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  Speaker 1: him to kick a field goal. But uh, yeah, two
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  Speaker 1: minute drive with him all guys, the poise, the play calling,
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  Speaker 1: the protection, all that stuff was you know those that's
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  Speaker 1: really important.
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  Speaker 2: And then you know, for Gina to close it out,
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  Speaker 2: it was h was pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Him who took the field to the final drive, even after.
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  Speaker 2: The interception from Gino. I mean, you could tell he's up.
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  Speaker 2: You know, of course you're gonna be upset after.
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  Speaker 1: Throwing a pick, but it's just the same same guy
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  Speaker 1: we always see me Like, this guy's massive.
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  Speaker 2: Big time competitor, and so just try to build him
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  Speaker 2: up and let him know he got his back.
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  Speaker 1: And he knows that four catches on that last drive
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  Speaker 1: for a time, but another hundred yard games just what
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  Speaker 1: do you see that him the US. It's it's great
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  Speaker 1: because they're kind of happening within like the flow of
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  Speaker 1: the progressions and then you know, I think Gino feels
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  Speaker 1: that late in the down that Jackson is going to
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  Speaker 1: find a way to get open to. So they're building
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  Speaker 1: a cool chemistry you know that we can keep the
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  Speaker 1: ball moving forward and converting on some of those you know,
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  Speaker 1: big time like medium medium range convergence. I'm sure you'll
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  Speaker 1: have a I'm sure you'll have a better idea when
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  Speaker 1: you watch the film. But under eighty rushing yards for
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  Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, how much did the inside linebackers contribute to that?
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  Speaker 1: Seem they were all like, you made a big deal
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  Speaker 1: about the inside backers, But I mean, guys, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying that the whole time, it's all eleven guys
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  Speaker 1: on defense. So in order for those guys to do
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  Speaker 1: their jobs, we got a set edges up front. We
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  Speaker 1: got to play with, knock back and stay alive, especially
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  Speaker 1: against the wide zone stuff. So it's a team shout
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  Speaker 1: out on playing good run defense and inside backers need
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  Speaker 1: to make tackles. And I think we made a ton
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  Speaker 1: of tackles and inside backers today and that's great for us.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a it's a fold.
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  Speaker 1: Storry, it's a full defensive effort that we took a
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  Speaker 1: step in the less.
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  Speaker 2: You know, really, you know, since the Rams game.
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  Speaker 3: Wouldn't like this do for you in terms of getting
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  Speaker 3: players to be believed and what you guys trying to
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  Speaker 3: install here and start to stack stuff that you've seen.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean I think, I mean, look, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think our guys have been they believe the whole
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  Speaker 1: along the way. I mean, it's just it's it's been
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  Speaker 1: frustrating when you're not getting the results that you want.
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  Speaker 1: But I just feel like we've been really steadfast in
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  Speaker 1: our message, what we're trying to do, and the resolve
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  Speaker 1: in the locker room. We haven't you know, we've been
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  Speaker 1: like this. We talked about twelve is one. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's what we're going to be. That's what the
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  Speaker 1: guys have done. And you know, you want you want
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  Speaker 1: better results, you want to win every game, and when
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  Speaker 1: you don't, when you fall short, it's it gets frustrating.
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  Speaker 2: But our resolve has been has been in the whole way.
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  Speaker 2: It's overall.
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  Speaker 1: Would you think of the defense two hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 1: total yards for them, A couple stops in big moments,
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  Speaker 1: including at the end. Yeah, I mean it kind of
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  Speaker 1: feels like it did the beginning of the season. It's like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we had a really there's a winning performance good enough
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  Speaker 1: to win the football game. There's things that we're going
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  Speaker 1: to be chasing as well, you know, third down effectiveness,
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  Speaker 1: how well we're rushing the quarterback with four, some of
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  Speaker 1: the communication as the drive start to extend.
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  Speaker 2: I mean those things that we.
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  Speaker 1: Have to be really really good at, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: to take the next step as a defense. So that's
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  Speaker 1: going to be our challenge. But the effect, like I think,
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  Speaker 1: the communication, the preparation, all that type of stuff that
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  Speaker 1: we're chasing on the front end Monday through Saturday into
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  Speaker 1: Sunday morning.
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  Speaker 2: And I've gotten really good feedback from.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of some of our leaders, So that's encouraging that. Like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we feel like we're on the we're on
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  Speaker 1: the right path on how we're getting these guys ready
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  Speaker 1: to go.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll keep doing that.
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  Speaker 1: Today I thought, look, people take people have been shooting
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  Speaker 1: and taking shots at our offensive line. But I thought
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  Speaker 1: our guys played really well today. They protected Gino. I
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  Speaker 1: thought we had a really good protection plan. He's a
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  Speaker 1: little more plays than we want him to play, but
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  Speaker 1: he was right out his number going into that.
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  Speaker 2: Last drive, so uh, he fought through it.
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  Speaker 1: Man. I mean that guy's an absolute warrior's proud of him.
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  Speaker 1: Some challenge. They're done steep to sell you the flag
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  Speaker 1: and your man you're to drop. Yeah, they told me
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  Speaker 1: that they had a you know, a replay assists from
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  Speaker 1: h from up top or from the so I didn't
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  Speaker 1: feel like it was you just be banging your head
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  Speaker 1: against the wall at that point.
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  Speaker 3: Going back to your defense, just talk about getting guys
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  Speaker 3: to the ball, the tackling and the resolve.
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  Speaker 1: They had throughout Well, I think there are some really
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  Speaker 1: great open field tackles, but when you talk about tackling,
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  Speaker 1: it takes you guys. You have to get guys of
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  Speaker 1: the ball, and if you eliminate space, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: easier to make tackles. So it's kind of two different
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  Speaker 1: types of situations. So I thought, like, again, it's team defense.
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  Speaker 1: When there's not massive like vertical seams in your defense,
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  Speaker 1: you know you can make you it's a lot easier
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  Speaker 1: to make tackles and phone booths. And then just the
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  Speaker 1: just the our guys having the making, having made the
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  Speaker 1: decision that they're like, we're going to get to the
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  Speaker 1: football and play team defense. Is just how we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to is how we want to play, and how
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  Speaker 1: we played the night.
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  Speaker 3: Wednesday, you were telling us how well Devin Witherspoon's playing
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  Speaker 3: despite the numbers not being there. Good to see it
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  Speaker 3: kind of show up in this game where he causes
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  Speaker 3: the interception and gets three pass breakouts.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you just you felt him out there and did
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  Speaker 1: a lot of great things. I mean, you know, their
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  Speaker 1: offense does a lot of things that put a lot
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  Speaker 1: of stress on you consistently, motions and.
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  Speaker 2: Guys in different spots.
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  Speaker 1: So when you have a guy with that that can
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  Speaker 1: play He's played corner and nickel today and play with
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  Speaker 1: energy and I'm kind of be ahead of plays.
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  Speaker 2: It just sets the tone for the rest of the guys.
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  Speaker 2: It does a great job.
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  Speaker 3: Could you tell when you took off on that on
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  Speaker 3: the on the could you kind of tell it was
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  Speaker 3: open and who's gonna be there?
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  Speaker 2: Before I did?
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  Speaker 1: He said, But like a couple once he broke through
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  Speaker 1: the line of scrimmagey and kind of look down the
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  Speaker 1: field and.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, oh, shoot, he's.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty chance he's going to score. I'm thinking about how
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  Speaker 1: much times left after that so.
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  Speaker 2: Worked out perfectly.
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  Speaker 1: His last Yeah, I mean when he has decided to
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  Speaker 1: do it. Look, I mean I think he's kind of
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  Speaker 1: doing it at the right pace here. It's not like
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  Speaker 1: we're wanting to you know, it's not like we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be running read option fifty times a game. But uh,
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  Speaker 1: when he does do it, and that's definitely a threat
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  Speaker 1: to defenses for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Like you talk about the offensive buying in general, that
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  Speaker 3: his first.
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  Speaker 1: Start, Yeah, I know, I know we had the ones
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  Speaker 1: app that that we mishandled, but I think that was
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  Speaker 1: just I think, you know, just missed it. I think
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  Speaker 1: that looked on target to me. But we'll figure out
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  Speaker 1: what I'm there. But I mean, you got a game
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  Speaker 1: ball just for really the whole offensive line. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: a guy going into Wednesday not knowing he's starting and
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  Speaker 1: getting ready to go, you know, go that you know
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  Speaker 1: throughout the week and play, Uh, says a lot about
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  Speaker 1: him and his you know, preparation, what he's been doing.
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  Speaker 2: So he deserves he deserves a lot of credit. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I saw it.
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  Speaker 1: I can't like critique any of the stuff right now,
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  Speaker 1: but as a defense is a winning performance, like we said,
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  Speaker 1: I think with room to grow, which is exciting. You know,
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  Speaker 1: It's like this isn't our, it's good football. It's it's
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  Speaker 1: some of our best football, but it's not our absolute best.
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  Speaker 1: So I think he'll be the one to tell you
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  Speaker 1: that as well.
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  Speaker 2: So hopefully we'll keep growing. The penalties were way down
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  Speaker 2: today for you guys too. I just kind of point
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  Speaker 2: out emphasis the whole time that it kind of paid
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  Speaker 2: off or you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just about making smart, consistent decisions. Yeah, of
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  Speaker 1: course you're gonna have size it. And I think you know,
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  Speaker 1: you kind of get what champhasized to a certain extent,
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  Speaker 1: but I think our players are deserve a lot of
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  Speaker 1: credit as well, making those smart students those critical moments,
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  Speaker 1: you know, do I let go, am I holding get
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  Speaker 1: my hands inside, I'm i gonna run my feet. Operation wise,
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  Speaker 1: I thought was cleaner. I think we had you know,
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  Speaker 1: we had the one off sides or fall start on offense,
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  Speaker 1: So we'll keep chasing it. I mean, if you gotta
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  Speaker 1: keep your foot on the gas, that type of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And decision on that for us, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's just gotta make a better decision in
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  Speaker 1: that moment where we're out on the field, Let's go
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  Speaker 1: punt the ball and go play defense.
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  Speaker 3: Williams, what happened with him?
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  Speaker 2: He's got an ankle right now.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not broken or anything, I don't think, because
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  Speaker 1: I think we got the X ray. But we'll see
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  Speaker 1: this week after we get it, get it, get it
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  Speaker 1: imaged and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: On those short guard this has an oblique extent, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not sure. I'm not sure. So we'll get we'll get
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  Speaker 2: that image as well.
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  Speaker 3: And on the short place, weren't able to pick those
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  Speaker 3: up this week. Any thoughts on that, anything from exact erminator,
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  Speaker 3: the line or the general while whatever.
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  Speaker 2: I'll look at the second one that we didn't get
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  Speaker 2: on the fourth down in real time.
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  Speaker 1: It felt like the sneak out there, you know, but
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  Speaker 1: they they got the assist and so I thought that
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  Speaker 1: was a good place. It was really you know, we're
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  Speaker 1: in terms of I'm sorry, in terms of I do
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  Speaker 1: the pause thing I gotta think about. So sorry, but
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  Speaker 1: I actually felt like our short guards took a step
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  Speaker 1: this week, you know. So, but we'll look at the
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  Speaker 1: one that we felt short on and see.
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  Speaker 2: What we need to do better. I'm sorry, but you
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  Speaker 2: don't do thet No, I didn't see that, no anything else, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: thank you,