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Sam Darnold: "It's Important To Evolve As An Offense" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Doing good, doing good. Yeah, another another good challenge this week.
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  Speaker 1: You know, obviously going against this team coach Coach Morris
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  Speaker 1: and coach whole brick over there have a really good
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  Speaker 1: scheme with really really good players. So just you know,
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  Speaker 1: another week for us to to be sharp, have a
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  Speaker 1: really good week of practice and go out there and execute.
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  Speaker 1: You have a blitzing team.
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  Speaker 2: How do they do it differently than the.
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota Yeah, you know they are. They are a really
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  Speaker 1: good blitzing team. I think, you know, just rush and coverage,
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  Speaker 1: all kind of working together. But again, you know, kind
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  Speaker 1: of like Minnesota, and you know, any team that pressures
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  Speaker 1: well against the quarterback, they they're really smart. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they're tied together in the back end and with the pressure.
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  Speaker 1: So again we you know, kind of like I just said,
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  Speaker 1: we got to do a really good job during the
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  Speaker 1: week of preparing for everything and going from there, you
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  Speaker 1: guys blitz.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think just overall communication is the biggest thing, making
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  Speaker 1: sure we're all on the same page, especially in a
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  Speaker 1: in a loud environment being on the road. So we
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  Speaker 1: just got to continue to improve that and going from there.
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  Speaker 4: Throw the ball a ton in the second half because
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  Speaker 4: you're playing from a head, But do you feel like,
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  Speaker 4: did you like the adjustments you made to some of
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  Speaker 4: what Minnesota's doing?
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I thought we made some good adjustments at
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  Speaker 1: the half for sure.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Just again like I said, we just gotta you know,
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  Speaker 1: got to continue to improve on things that we can
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  Speaker 1: improve and and for me, that's uh, you know, understanding
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  Speaker 1: you know when I'm gonna be hot, you know when
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  Speaker 1: to when to get the ball in my hands.
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  Speaker 3: Seems kind of crazy that any quarterback manages to hold
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  Speaker 3: on the ball when one of these guys hits them
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  Speaker 3: as hard as you guys get hit. Is it just
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  Speaker 3: kind of luck when it falls out? Or are their
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  Speaker 3: strategies to hold on it more?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think it's all the work you
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  Speaker 1: know that you put in the in the off season,
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  Speaker 1: you know off season, including you know, working in Orange
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  Speaker 1: County when I'm at home, and then it's it's when
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  Speaker 1: we get here in April, when we get here in
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  Speaker 1: training camp, and then throughout the week, like just being
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  Speaker 1: really good about you know, keeping two hands on the
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  Speaker 1: ball at all times, you know, when whether I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to escape the pocket or I'm in the pocket. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's some things you can't avoid. But again, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just being really hard on myself. Uh, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: got to continue to hold on to the football. We
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  Speaker 1: look at some of their young.
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  Speaker 3: Guys up front. How much of it is their talent,
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  Speaker 3: their skill versus the scheme they've been put in to
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  Speaker 3: get some of those sacks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, you know, it all works together, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, but they got they got really good talent,
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  Speaker 1: you know, watching it on tape, like the speed and
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  Speaker 1: the power that that they rush with. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be a really big challenge for us.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I think step one is communication, like I said, and
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  Speaker 1: kind of rolling from there just after after communicating all
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  Speaker 1: being on the same page and then being able to
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  Speaker 1: use obviously fundamentals and technique to to get them blocked up.
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  Speaker 3: When you look at the film, what did you see
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  Speaker 3: how they defended JSN and what you guys kind of
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  Speaker 3: need to do to counter that in the future.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you know what it's rolling safety of
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  Speaker 1: the top, just delp the straight up doubling, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and some of the certain techniques that they were playing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just kind of understanding when that's happening, you know,
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  Speaker 1: having a plan for it, understanding what routes he might
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  Speaker 1: be able to get open, you know, on those certain things,
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  Speaker 1: but also for me having a good understanding of when
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  Speaker 1: to move on in the progression. I love.
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  Speaker 3: Let's focus on you know, downfield throws and the difficulty
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  Speaker 3: of completing those. What are some of the ning challenges
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  Speaker 3: of the screen game, timing and getting to pass around
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  Speaker 3: all that traffic.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I think again, it's it's something that
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  Speaker 1: you got to work on. You got to work on
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  Speaker 1: the screen game, especially going against different looks on third down.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they have different fronts and different pressures. You know,
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  Speaker 1: running screens against man coverage are a lot different than
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  Speaker 1: running screens versus zone. So it's just being ready for
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  Speaker 1: all those things, and again going through all that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: throughout the week, and yeah, just just being ready for
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  Speaker 1: all the different looks in the screen game.
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  Speaker 3: How do you feel like the connection with Rashichi he
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  Speaker 3: has been coming as you guys had the least amount
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  Speaker 3: of time to kind of get on the same page
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  Speaker 3: compared to the other guys.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's it's great. You know, I think
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  Speaker 1: just being able to work you know, as consistently as
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  Speaker 1: we can throughout the week to get full speed reps
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  Speaker 1: and we're not you know, when we're not able to
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  Speaker 1: get you know, all the reps. Just being able to
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  Speaker 1: talk about the routes, and I think the dialogue and
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  Speaker 1: just being able to talk to each other really really
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  Speaker 1: helps out with kind of my understanding of where he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be and for him to understand kind of
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  Speaker 1: what I'm thinking with certain routes.
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  Speaker 2: Going back to.
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  Speaker 4: How they defended Jacks, Mike McDonald mentioned Cody's catch as
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  Speaker 4: an example of like, all right, they do this to Jacks,
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  Speaker 4: somebody does their thing. What was from your view?
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  Speaker 2: What was different about what worked?
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  Speaker 4: Will I guess on Cody's catch there versus me some
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  Speaker 4: of the other times that they were giving attention to Jackson.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, you know, just for me, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: playing fast and understanding kind of what what the coverage
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  Speaker 1: is and when to move on in progression, not only
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  Speaker 1: when it's Jack's, but you know, when it's somebody else
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  Speaker 1: as well, and you know, understanding when to move on
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  Speaker 1: I guess in the progression, you know, and that goes
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  Speaker 1: for everyone. Like I said, like if we're running a
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  Speaker 1: concept versus you know, we want single high and it's
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  Speaker 1: cloud like just being able to just being able to
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  Speaker 1: move on and go through my progressions like I would
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  Speaker 1: in training camp.
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  Speaker 3: I do avoide a situation where I mean, you guys
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  Speaker 3: are the number three scoring team in the NFL. You've
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  Speaker 3: been really successfully had the one game against the Rams
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  Speaker 3: and things went wrong. How you avoid like over correcting
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  Speaker 3: and like kind of losing what.
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  Speaker 1: Was all working until Yeah, I think, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: understanding our identity, you know what got us to this point,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just understanding that and being able to work
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  Speaker 1: and continue to grow. It's it's what I said kind
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  Speaker 1: of in the beginning of the year. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I got kind of redundant in these interviews, but just
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  Speaker 1: saying like, you know, we're always you know, chasing that
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  Speaker 1: edge of like what gets us to the next step,
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  Speaker 1: but also understanding like who we are as an offense.
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  Speaker 1: But you're always trying to evolve, and the coaches do
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  Speaker 1: a really good job of creating schemes that put us
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  Speaker 1: in really good positions at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 1: So for us, it's just about going out there and
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  Speaker 1: executing executing the play.
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  Speaker 2: Coming out of the Rams game. I know you were
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  Speaker 2: like talking at the time about how not all sex
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  Speaker 2: can be awful, like sometimes of the right boating, I
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  Speaker 2: don't Mike said this weekend that if a couple of
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  Speaker 2: the ones you made with good decision to kind of
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  Speaker 2: see that, maybe take that step in that regard where
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  Speaker 2: you have a couple go down and just what'd you
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  Speaker 2: kind of make of that?
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  Speaker 1: For the pre this week is Yeah, you're talking about
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  Speaker 1: like looking at the tape from last week or going into.
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  Speaker 2: This one a couple more.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, yeah, I think sometimes you know, it
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  Speaker 1: can be a good thing. It's definitely better than you know,
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  Speaker 1: turn the ball over. But you know, I think they're
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  Speaker 1: all are sometimes as well. You know, I can even
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  Speaker 1: if a guy's covered or doubled, you know, in Jackson's case,
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  Speaker 1: like I can throw it at his feet or you know,
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  Speaker 1: find a way to throw it away because you'd rather
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  Speaker 1: throw it away than take a sack. But if there's
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  Speaker 1: nowhere to throw it away and I'm in the pocket,
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  Speaker 1: like sometimes a sack is the best. So it's just
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  Speaker 1: evaluating every situation as its own.
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  Speaker 3: Julian was named the team's Man of the Year nominee.
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  Speaker 3: I know he hasn't been able to play time this year,
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  Speaker 3: because injury. But he's he's around doing everything.
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  Speaker 2: What is his presence being around?
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  Speaker 3: What does he mean to the team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Julian's a he's an incredible leader. You know, he's
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  Speaker 1: he's someone that you know, everyone can look to and
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  Speaker 1: he's always it always seems like he's doing the right thing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's always in the right spot. And whether
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  Speaker 1: it's on the field or off the field, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's just doing everything that he can to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for right now, just get healthy and and be on
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  Speaker 1: the field with his brothers. And you know, he's he's
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  Speaker 1: just a really good leader in all aspects of of
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  Speaker 1: the game. And you know, as a person off the field.
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  Speaker 3: Have you seen your guys run game involves The season's progressed,
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  Speaker 3: and specifically with Kennac, he starts to look better and
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  Speaker 3: better inewek.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like, Yeah, I think just communication. I think
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  Speaker 1: continuing to continuing to get better, you know, as a group,
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  Speaker 1: understanding kind of what we're looking for in the run game,
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  Speaker 1: and our offensive line doing a great job as they
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  Speaker 1: have all year of of you know, opening great running
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  Speaker 1: lanes and uh yeah, I just feel like our backs
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  Speaker 1: are continuing to to see the offense the you know,
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  Speaker 1: the best way possible and kind of understand the flow
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  Speaker 1: of the defensive line, you know, what gaps they want
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  Speaker 1: to take away and when they hit that cut that
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  Speaker 1: they are very confident in it. And uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as they always have been.
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  Speaker 4: A kind of the last.
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  Speaker 3: Things that end up coming together when you're working with
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  Speaker 3: a new receiver, like choice routes or versus zones and
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  Speaker 3: sitting down and like, what are the things that to
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  Speaker 3: take the longest to get on the same page of Yeah, I.
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  Speaker 1: Think it's it's it's kind of the the you know,
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  Speaker 1: look where you know, you got maybe a guy pressuring
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  Speaker 1: off the side of the choice route and you got
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  Speaker 1: a guy come you know, a safety maybe coming over
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  Speaker 1: the top trying to trying to defend him. It's trying
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  Speaker 1: to understand that leverage as a receiver and as a quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: like you know, you want to try to stay patient
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  Speaker 1: with him, but you also you also need to be
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  Speaker 1: able to throw it in the timing of the play.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a you know that that can be sometimes
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  Speaker 1: the hardest look for those type of routes, but it's
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  Speaker 1: it's being able to talk about it, you know, throughout
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  Speaker 1: the week and getting on the same page so that
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  Speaker 1: you're not, you know, second guessing yourself out there on
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  Speaker 1: the field on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Big picture, how did you guys are tied with the
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  Speaker 3: Rams forty nine ers have nine leins as well, kind
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  Speaker 3: of five games left?
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  Speaker 1: Tell you, how do you sort of you pay a
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  Speaker 1: lot of attention to that.
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  Speaker 3: What else is kind of going on.
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  Speaker 2: Or how do you kind of look at that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm not evaluating it like crazy,
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  Speaker 1: but definitely you know, understand the big picture of the
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  Speaker 1: things and the the playoff picture, all those things in
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  Speaker 1: the division. Yeah, I'm always paying attention to that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, like that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily matter with what we want to do today. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going out there trying to have a good
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  Speaker 1: practice today, communicate and kind of go from there and
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  Speaker 1: get ready for Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Twelve games into the season, everybody's stuff is on tape
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  Speaker 2: at this point. You kind of do what you do.
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  Speaker 2: How how how much more challenging is this closing stretch
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  Speaker 2: of the season. One, There's not really going to be
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  Speaker 2: many surprises out there to kind of know what's giving
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  Speaker 2: you problems and how does that change down the stretch
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  Speaker 2: of a season.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you know, it's kind of like what
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  Speaker 1: I said before. It's it's being able to evolve as
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  Speaker 1: an offense, understand where teams are, you know, exploiting us maybe,
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  Speaker 1: and being able to adjust off of those looks. And
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  Speaker 1: it's I think it's as simple as that.
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  Speaker 3: You haven't played much for this With Timmy.
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  Speaker 1: What's what was his full name? That was good though
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  Speaker 1: No Lose always been awesome. And you know, I was
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  Speaker 1: able to get a ton of reps with him in
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  Speaker 1: the training camp, you know, him splitting reps with Sundell,
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  Speaker 1: so you know that was that was good for us
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  Speaker 1: to be able to get those reps in training camp together.
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  Speaker 1: But A Lose a stud and he's a veteran, a
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  Speaker 1: guy that you can fully trust when he gets in there.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate it us