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Pete Carroll: "It Was A Very Difficult Game" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: H m.
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  Speaker 2: Hm, Hello everyone, Jen.
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  Speaker 1: Did I know that there was a lot of tough
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  Speaker 1: numbers from yesterday, But what if anything was a positive
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  Speaker 1: from that game?
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  Speaker 3: Well, that we had a game that maybe we can
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  Speaker 3: put behind us and and and get a whole lot
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  Speaker 3: better from winning one week. Not many positives really here.
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  Speaker 3: It was a very difficult game and we struggled throughout.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of started all right, but then I had a
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  Speaker 3: chance at halftime, and when we didn't converted halftime and
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  Speaker 3: and turned that that turnover into you know a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of a point change change. That second half was
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  Speaker 3: hard and they they played really well.
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  Speaker 1: Well could you tell about the contributions from Leonard Williams.
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  Speaker 3: He played He played good solid technique the whole day,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and and uh uh played line of scrimmage
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  Speaker 3: really well, got in the backfield a couple of times.
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  Speaker 4: He did a nice job.
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  Speaker 2: Corbyn pe with the issues you mentioned the tackling yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: But the issue is the last few games giving up
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  Speaker 2: a lot of rushing yards. What are you seeing from
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  Speaker 2: the edge group in regard to that, and how much
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  Speaker 2: do you think the team is missing at Chinanuosu right
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  Speaker 2: now in that regard, No.
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  Speaker 4: We miss Jenna.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Jenna is a really good football player, and I said,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we wouldn't be able to replace his contribution.
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  Speaker 3: We'd have to do it in different ways with different guys.
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  Speaker 3: And so there's that's a little bit of a factor.
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  Speaker 3: We just faced the two top running teams in the
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  Speaker 3: in the NFL also, you know, basically, and so these
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  Speaker 3: guys they know what they're doing. We didn't expect to
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  Speaker 3: shut them down. We were hoping to control it a
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  Speaker 3: whole lot better than we did. But that's I think
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  Speaker 3: it's really just running those two teams back to back
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  Speaker 3: that makes it look look like, you know, there's some question.
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  Speaker 4: Here, Maddy.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Kind of following on from that is that case of
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  Speaker 6: the players kind of need to see those plays in
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  Speaker 6: real game action. Was this off you feel that you
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  Speaker 6: and the coaching staff can do the better prepare the
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  Speaker 6: players or a position the players? I know it's quarterback
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  Speaker 6: heavyly involved in the run games.
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  Speaker 3: So well, the the biggest, you know, the hard difficulty
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  Speaker 3: is that the speed of the quarterback. You know that
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  Speaker 3: that Lamars can can run like crazy and he gets
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  Speaker 3: you know, he gets on the edge and then he
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  Speaker 3: looks like he got a shot to get him at
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  Speaker 3: your responsibility's got him and he makes eight yards on
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  Speaker 3: the play, you know, So that's that's that's a difficult
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  Speaker 3: part of it. But yeah, we can. We saw the
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  Speaker 3: plays we worked on. There was a couple of things
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  Speaker 3: that the little wrinkles that they put in, but basically,
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  Speaker 3: they they run their offense. They have a wide variety
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  Speaker 3: of runs and concepts and formations that they run their
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  Speaker 3: stuff from. So it is it's a challenge when you
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  Speaker 3: play these guys down balanced in the things that they
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  Speaker 3: did they did in the game, but that's that's how
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  Speaker 3: they do it. So it's it's not a surprise, it's
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  Speaker 3: just it's a big package of running game that you
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  Speaker 3: got to deal with.
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  Speaker 7: John Boyle, Yeah, Gino is always pretty tough on himself
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  Speaker 7: after games like that. Is there anything you conversation you
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  Speaker 7: have to have with him or anything you do to
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  Speaker 7: kind of make sure he's in the right place after
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  Speaker 7: these or do you like the way you process it?
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  Speaker 3: No, certainly, Yeah, we've already we've already talked about it,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and and started the conversation and you know,
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  Speaker 3: and moving forward, you know, we struggled across the board
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  Speaker 3: on offense, you know, and so that everybody had had
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  Speaker 3: some difficulties in this game, and it just added up
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  Speaker 3: to where the quarterback is in the middle of that
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 4: And so we have to do a lot better.
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  Speaker 3: We've got to protect better, we gotta you know, we
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  Speaker 3: had some communication things that we can clean up, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and and all of that. But I think that Gino's
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  Speaker 3: you know, consistent accountability, I think is really a strength
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  Speaker 3: of his and it helps the guys around him.
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  Speaker 4: But we got to help him. We got to make
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  Speaker 4: sure we're doing our part mods feed up.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Pete, I think you touched a little bit on this,
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  Speaker 6: but on third down? What has to happen on first
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  Speaker 6: down execution? Was that a mentality to get to third
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  Speaker 6: and manageable?
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  Speaker 4: It's strutching first down on that.
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  Speaker 3: So that's a good question. It's a good question. Is
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  Speaker 3: it a mentality? It is to some extent, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and it's that's why when you are effective running the football,
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  Speaker 3: then mentality kind of follows that along, or maybe the
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  Speaker 3: mentality comes first, but it's all connected so that you can,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you want to stay in third and five
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  Speaker 3: or less if you can, you know, the third and
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  Speaker 3: five four three right in there by, you know, by
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  Speaker 3: making your yards when you're not chunking, you know, when
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  Speaker 3: you're not trying to chunk the team, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: then going for your your plays down the field and all.
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  Speaker 4: So.
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  Speaker 3: Uh so there's a mentality that does come along with
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  Speaker 3: it that we're still you know, seeking we we haven't
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  Speaker 3: found that yet.
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  Speaker 4: And uh there's there's there's no time like now.
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  Speaker 3: But we wanted to run the ball to these guys
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  Speaker 3: and we couldn't get rolling, you know, couldn't get it
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  Speaker 3: going good enough. And and uh but it's it is
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  Speaker 3: your first and second down play that does you know,
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  Speaker 3: present the third and really manageable situations for you and
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  Speaker 3: your ineffectiveness also you know, puts you in the hole too.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you can go ahead and throw the football
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  Speaker 3: in those situations you can run the ball, make no
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  Speaker 3: your hearts and it still winds up being third and lungs.
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  Speaker 3: So but it's there's a balance there that we're seeking.
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  Speaker 8: Right wed in the fourth quarter, how much consideration did
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  Speaker 8: you give to giving Gino the rest of the day off,
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  Speaker 8: and what were the factors of keeping them in? What
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  Speaker 8: were your objectives of keeping them in at that point.
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to get going.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I wanted to show that we could get
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  Speaker 3: the ball moving and start to make some progress, and
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  Speaker 3: so thinking positively that we would be able to do that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's it. That's it's one that to have
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  Speaker 3: some success before the day was over.
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  Speaker 2: Nico, Thank you coach.
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  Speaker 1: Now that you've had time to kind of digest the
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  Speaker 1: game and maybe look at some tape, what was.
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  Speaker 8: It that you felt like when so wrong when it
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  Speaker 8: came to.
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  Speaker 1: Defending the rush of the opponent, And how can you
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  Speaker 1: break it down for the guys, whether it's given big
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  Speaker 1: plays or is it concepts?
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  Speaker 8: You know, how do you break that down to learn
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  Speaker 8: from this?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well we've already we've already addressed that, you know, Nico,
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  Speaker 3: in terms of the the discipline of the of the
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  Speaker 3: fits in the running game. That's it's how you adjust
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  Speaker 3: to their emotions and things like that. We can do
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  Speaker 3: that better. We've been doing it really well. And for
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  Speaker 3: some reason in this game we were behind it some
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  Speaker 3: and uh and some plays got out. We we didn't
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  Speaker 3: handle the quarterback as well as we wanted to we had.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we went into it with a real thought
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  Speaker 3: of that we're keeping him out of the big play category,
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  Speaker 3: but he took off on a couple of them, made
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of yards.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so that was that was part of it.
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  Speaker 3: And then and then as we as the game were on,
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  Speaker 3: we got sloppy with our tackling, you know, and we
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  Speaker 3: we tackled poorly later on later on in the game
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  Speaker 3: to kind of taking some shots instead of you know,
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  Speaker 3: being really disciplined about the technique of it. And and
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  Speaker 3: so you know, so it's it's a combination of things
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  Speaker 3: that we we you know, we dealt with today, Bob.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, Pete, what what did you think of the right
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  Speaker 7: tackle rotation yesterday?
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  Speaker 3: You know, we we we moved them in and out,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the guys that's okay. You know, we're trying
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  Speaker 3: to get play time for both guys and see how
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  Speaker 3: they're doing. So we're still working at it.
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  Speaker 1: Tim Uh, Pete, Tyler and DK have missed some time
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  Speaker 1: lately in practice because of what they're dealing with injury wise.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that's led to any of the miscommunications
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  Speaker 1: that have led to some of the interceptions with GENO lately.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it doesn't help us, certainly. You know, we need
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  Speaker 3: to be out there. The practices is very valuable to us.
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  Speaker 3: So anybody that misses, you know, you stand to lose
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  Speaker 3: a little bit. And UH, and particularly with the intricacies
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  Speaker 3: of of the throwing game, it does affect us some
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  Speaker 3: because of the some of the time in those practices
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  Speaker 3: we can't be we're not at full tempo, so that
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  Speaker 3: that affects us. As far as the communications, I would
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  Speaker 3: like the guys to be out there with the younger
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  Speaker 3: guys because we've got a couple of young guys that
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  Speaker 3: are out there that need the need to feel that
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  Speaker 3: continuity too. You know, they have to make some calls
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  Speaker 3: too out there and when we're together, they'll they'll be better,
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  Speaker 3: you know, when they're out there more more time in practice.
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  Speaker 3: So we would love that those guys are both. I
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  Speaker 3: think they made it through pretty good this week and
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  Speaker 3: should have a chance to be in pretty good shape for.
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  Speaker 4: For this upcoming week. But we can only do what
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  Speaker 4: we can do.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we got to get those guys to game time,
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  Speaker 3: So you are going to lose a little bit and
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  Speaker 3: continuity wise.
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  Speaker 1: And do you have an update on the shoulders guys
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  Speaker 1: Derek and DJ from yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a first time injury for DJ and UH.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we gotta see what happens in the coming
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  Speaker 3: days here. He's pretty sure today and uh, we'll have
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  Speaker 3: to wait and see. But he's he's a tough guy,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, first and foremost, and he's thinking like he's
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  Speaker 3: going to get get back and jump back out there.
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  Speaker 3: So so that's his attitude. But we got to make
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  Speaker 3: sure that the docs are all square away on it.
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  Speaker 3: But he did, he got, you know, his shoulder pops,
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  Speaker 3: so he had a legitimate injury there, d Hall. He
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  Speaker 3: reaggravated his shoulder that's been bothering him and it doesn't
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  Speaker 3: seem to be so bad today, so maybe that's a
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  Speaker 3: good sign for him.
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  Speaker 6: Maddy, you mentioned the intricacies of the throwing game, and
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  Speaker 6: from watching tape, it seems there's been a few examples
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  Speaker 6: of receivers not quite being on the same page with
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  Speaker 6: do you know for whatever reason. But is that an
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  Speaker 6: instance of the rout running maybe needing to be more
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  Speaker 6: defined or details more striped, stripped back moving forward, or
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  Speaker 6: is it the opposite where guys, you know, they've just
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  Speaker 6: mispracticed time they need to execute better as a whole.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think it's it's a little combination here.
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  Speaker 3: We need the continuity because it's very intricate work. We
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  Speaker 3: need to make sure and help help our young guys,
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  Speaker 3: help us communicate to you know, they're they're we're asking
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  Speaker 3: a lot of them to play as much as they are.
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  Speaker 3: And there was a couple of times, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: then just it's just transferring of the information sometimes, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and realizing that have a conscience that you need to
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  Speaker 3: help the guy outside of you as well, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and we did, and also the older guys that have
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  Speaker 3: been around help the younger guys and make sure that
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  Speaker 3: they're you know, double checking, you know, so that we're
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  Speaker 3: doing a good job. So we slipped a little bit
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  Speaker 3: and h on a couple of situations. But it certainly
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  Speaker 3: helps us when we're all out there together, and that's
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  Speaker 3: you know, getting back to the other side of it,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 4: We it just helps. That's why we practice.
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  Speaker 8: Curtis.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, Pete, when you look at it, what do you
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  Speaker 9: what do you think Baltimore did against your running game
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  Speaker 9: as effectively as they were able to in this one.
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  Speaker 3: What they're one of the things they're doing is they're
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  Speaker 3: really varying their their looks and mixing their their pressures
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  Speaker 3: and so U and they disguise really effectively. They're really
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  Speaker 3: good at it's an experienced group and they do a
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  Speaker 3: really nice job of making it difficult on the guys
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  Speaker 3: up front to identify the fronts. And they disguise their blitzes,
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  Speaker 3: but they also use them too. They you know, they
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  Speaker 3: went into zero blitz a couple of times in earlier
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  Speaker 3: downs just to make it hard on you and uh
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  Speaker 3: and so that when they disguise it, you got to
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  Speaker 3: honor it, you know. So it's it's they're they're really
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  Speaker 3: well equipped. This is a very very good defense. So
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  Speaker 3: I would expect they're going to give people problems all year.
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  Speaker 3: I think that it's that the the players that they
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  Speaker 3: have on the defense are kind of serious U serious
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  Speaker 3: experienced dudes, and they know what they know how to
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  Speaker 3: play the game, and they work together really well. So
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  Speaker 3: I give them a lot of credit.
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  Speaker 4: And they're very effective.
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  Speaker 9: And it looked like you guys activated Austin off pup today.
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  Speaker 9: What do you hope and he can he can bring
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  Speaker 9: to you now that he's up and active with you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he's practiced, he's practiced. Well, we're anxious to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: see what we can get done there. You'll see how
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  Speaker 3: we work it, you know, and see how it fits together.
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  Speaker 3: I can't tell you yet, but he has. He's been
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  Speaker 3: impressive enough to get a chance, John, Jack and.
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  Speaker 7: Smith and Jack mad pretty solid numbers again, just over
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  Speaker 7: the last four weeks compared to how we started the season.
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  Speaker 7: Just have you seen him progress.
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  Speaker 4: He's really turning into one of the regulars.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you can just feel him. He's making good choices,
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  Speaker 3: good decisions. Unfortunately, and it's you know, it's just one play,
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  Speaker 3: but the ball that he bobbled early on on the
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  Speaker 3: first first down conversion, third down conversion would have been
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  Speaker 3: a really nice one to grab. You can see we're
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  Speaker 3: using them. We're going to him and we really trust
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  Speaker 3: him and so he's going to be a big factor
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  Speaker 3: and he's doing well. And remember we remind you that
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  Speaker 3: he had a broken wrist to start the season, so
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  Speaker 3: he's he's in great shape with that now and it
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  Speaker 3: makes a difference.
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  Speaker 2: Corbyn, going back to the third down issues.
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  Speaker 5: With all the musical chairs you guys have had to
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  Speaker 5: play up front, do you feel like Shane's hands had
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  Speaker 5: been tied a little bit on some of those second
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  Speaker 5: and third and mid and long plays with like the
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  Speaker 5: type of drops that he can call with Geno.
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  Speaker 2: If you sensed that early in the season here, Well.
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  Speaker 3: We're working hard at mixing, mixing the protection so that
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  Speaker 3: we don't expose anybody, you know, and uh, that's part
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  Speaker 3: of it. You know, if you've got five guys that
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  Speaker 3: can just hold up versus everything, then then that's a
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  Speaker 3: that's a great bonus. Our guys are still working together
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  Speaker 3: and we're still developing. So but I, you know, he
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  Speaker 3: has to he has to be very conscious of who's
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  Speaker 3: going up against who and what the situation is and
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  Speaker 3: where we're helping and chipping and all that kind of stuff,
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  Speaker 3: and so he's mixing it to try to help those guys.
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  Speaker 4: Bob, Yeah, I can sneak in too real quick ones.
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  Speaker 3: Any more of an update on Abe Lucas And how
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  Speaker 3: did you think Leonard Williams did yesterday?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Abe, it looks like Abe's going to be back at
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  Speaker 3: practice next week.
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  Speaker 4: That's what we're looking at.
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  Speaker 3: And so he's really close right now, and there's still
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  Speaker 3: some question whether we can get him out this week
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  Speaker 3: or not, but it seems like the next week for sure,
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  Speaker 3: we'll get him out there.
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  Speaker 4: If not sooner.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought I thought Leonard did a nice job,
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  Speaker 3: you know, with all the stuff he had to pick
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  Speaker 3: up and said, short short notice.
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  Speaker 4: And all of that.
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  Speaker 3: He played really tough and really good technique like he
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  Speaker 3: does and gave us, you know, a good healthy dose
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  Speaker 3: of plays out there.
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  Speaker 4: Greg.
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  Speaker 8: He said yesterday, you were concerned with the turnovers from
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  Speaker 8: Gino Smith. Was is there anything particularly concerning about that
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  Speaker 8: or has there been a common thread that you can
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  Speaker 8: sign them by.
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  Speaker 3: Battling with this this bug right here, I got them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we we you know, we're so conscious of taking care
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  Speaker 3: of the football. It's such a big deal to our program,
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  Speaker 3: has been for years, you know, and and uh it's
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  Speaker 3: just always paid us back. But that we're that we're
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  Speaker 3: so conscious of it. So when they're they're you know,
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  Speaker 3: one or two keep kind of popping up. We need
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  Speaker 3: to throw those goose eggs, you know where we go
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  Speaker 3: out games and we don't give any and uh.
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  Speaker 4: So, yeah, just concerned. You know.
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  Speaker 3: It's and one of the things that I want to
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  Speaker 3: help Gino with as much as I can is not
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  Speaker 3: over trying, you know, pressing to make a play. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he feels like he's got to go you know, above
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  Speaker 3: and beyond.
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  Speaker 4: You know, and and you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, find a throw that you know may not be there,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and and and work too hard at He's
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  Speaker 3: a great competitor, and he's you know, he believes in himself.
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  Speaker 3: And so there's times that's all great quarterbacks that they
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  Speaker 3: think they can get in there, and so they'll take
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  Speaker 3: their shot at it. But I would like to make
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  Speaker 3: I would like to make the point to anybody that's
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  Speaker 3: watching our program, we're doing everything we can to not
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  Speaker 3: give them the football. And so so anytime anytime we
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: were turning the ball over, it it hurts and that
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: does not play into the way that we feel like
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: when we're at our best.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, everyone, thank you. We'll see you Wednesday.