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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "You trust them, you put them out there, that's how they learn." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, x Ray's MRI just showed up, you know,
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  Speaker 1: an ankle's brain, and you know he'll be he'll be
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  Speaker 1: pretty tender these next couple of days, and we'll just
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  Speaker 1: keep monitoring him, you know, day to day as we go.
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  Speaker 2: This week he can't go.
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  Speaker 3: How big of a loss is that, not just from
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  Speaker 3: a playing standpoint or for the leadership that he brings
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  Speaker 3: to that one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know it's it's obviously a loss
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  Speaker 1: for the offensive line, you know, pretty substantial.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, his leadership obviously.
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  Speaker 1: With you know, with Anton, you know there and in
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  Speaker 1: the communication they've had and the rapport they've had.
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  Speaker 2: You know, since since the off season.
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  Speaker 1: You know, but you know, if he can't, we're confident,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Shatley filled in well, veteran guy knows the system.
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  Speaker 1: We'll do, you know, we'll do the same thing as
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  Speaker 1: far as the communication goes, you know, with Anton and himself.
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  Speaker 1: So all the confidence in the world that you know
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  Speaker 1: we'll have, we'll have the answers there.
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  Speaker 3: Some of the fourth down short gyardis looking back at
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  Speaker 3: it the day after, what stood out on offense.
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  Speaker 1: Especially just our execution. Honestly, nothing nothing, you know, out
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  Speaker 1: of the ordinary, We knew exactly where they were going
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  Speaker 1: to be defensively and just you know execution. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we were laid off the ball a couple of times
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  Speaker 1: with the noise and things like that. So things we
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  Speaker 1: can we can correct and things we can fix. But
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  Speaker 1: those are all opportunities. I think when you look at
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  Speaker 1: the you know, third and fourth down scenarios that we
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  Speaker 1: had in the game. You know, if you can if
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  Speaker 1: you would, if you had have told me that we'd
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  Speaker 1: have been average third and four for the entire game,
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  Speaker 1: you would be in that you know, sixty seventy percent
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  Speaker 1: range of conversion. And so those are things we'll take
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  Speaker 1: a look at and we got to fix.
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  Speaker 3: Did you decide to hand the keys over to Press
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  Speaker 3: Taylor for play calling? And how do you think he did?
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  Speaker 1: You know, Press and I have been talking about this
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  Speaker 1: for two years now, and uh, you know it's something
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  Speaker 1: that you know, I've thought a lot about.
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  Speaker 2: And it's it's you know, it's not an easy decision.
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  Speaker 1: Without a lot of you know, conversation and just he
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  Speaker 1: and I talking about it. But you know, like I
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  Speaker 1: said after the game, I mean he and I have
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  Speaker 1: been together now seven years. We think alike, we kind
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  Speaker 1: of know each other. I trust him wholeheartedly. That's why
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  Speaker 1: he's my offensive coordinator. You know, uh, he makes he
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  Speaker 1: makes good decisions. He's well prepared, and you know, it
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  Speaker 1: gives me an opportunity to to stay engaged within the
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  Speaker 1: game and decision making in the game, and and and
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  Speaker 1: you know, helping out all three phases you know, a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more, and and dealing with officials and things
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  Speaker 1: like that.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, it's not easy.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, I felt like this was
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  Speaker 1: the right opportunity and he did a good job.
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  Speaker 2: He did a great job for us.
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  Speaker 1: And you know he's thirty one points and and come
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  Speaker 1: away with the victory and in your first one. And listen,
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  Speaker 1: this is not his first time to call plays. Don't
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  Speaker 1: don't misunderstand he he he did this last year, right,
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  Speaker 1: and so you know he's had a lot of experience
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  Speaker 1: doing this.
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  Speaker 2: Areas where you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Are different at all, Like like.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, I'm not gonna give away
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  Speaker 1: a lot of secrets because that that tips the hat
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  Speaker 1: right for for decoordinators.
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  Speaker 2: I'll just tell you that we think like.
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  Speaker 3: You is that a group decision like above the year.
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  Speaker 1: Do you decide to No, that's that's solely on me. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: defense analytics.
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  Speaker 3: Defensively, how'd you feel like they responded, especially the young guys,
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  Speaker 3: our guys.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought the defense played well. Gosh when uh,
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  Speaker 1: I think there was three turnover on downs, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the the three turnovers you know, uh, huge huge goal
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  Speaker 1: line stand there at the end, good tackling in the
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  Speaker 1: back end. I just thought that end, they controlled the
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  Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. I just thought that the defense really
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  Speaker 1: kind of kept the offense in the football.
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  Speaker 2: Game, right.
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  Speaker 1: And and that's the way it is sometimes early in
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  Speaker 1: the season. It's it's kind of your defense is sometimes
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  Speaker 1: ahead of your offense until you get into into a
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  Speaker 1: rhythm and into sync. And and I thought defensively, Josh,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, tremendous game, you know, for him uh to
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  Speaker 1: come out of the gates like he did, I was
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  Speaker 1: really good to see, you know, Tyson with the big interception.
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  Speaker 2: Foyer played extremely well.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it was it was good for those guys
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  Speaker 1: to to get off to a fast start. I think
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  Speaker 1: it was one fourth down where the Colts trying to
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  Speaker 1: hurry up and maybe do be sneak, and the defense
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  Speaker 1: just seemed instantly prepared for it. Is that what you
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  Speaker 1: kind of see in the second year in the system. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, and that's a credit to the
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  Speaker 1: defensive staff, Mike and you know, being prepared for those
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  Speaker 1: situations and you know, excellent, did an excellent job.
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  Speaker 3: Look to your next game. Dangerous is it when you're
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  Speaker 3: playing a team like the Chiefs that are coming off
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  Speaker 3: a loss and we've won.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't think so much that just who you're playing.
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  Speaker 1: It's a different if. It's it's a different animal now right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you have a veteran quarterback versus the you know,
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  Speaker 1: the rookie who I think played well. You know, Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Richardson played well yesterday. And and this is a you know,
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  Speaker 1: a super Bowl winning team, so listen, they're obviously well coached.
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  Speaker 2: It's a disciplined group.
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  Speaker 1: So the challenges are real and and we haven't you know,
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  Speaker 1: fared so well against them, especially last year obviously the
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  Speaker 1: t two losses. But great opportunity for our team. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a home game, it's here, you know, looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to the to the challenge, the game plan this week
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  Speaker 1: and and giving our you know, ourselves and our team
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  Speaker 1: ready to go.
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  Speaker 3: I know this is a new season, but is there
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  Speaker 3: anything too that this is the third time you play
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  Speaker 3: a team in less than a year. No.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm zero to three against Kachrie in my career,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, uh, we've got to try to work
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  Speaker 1: on that.
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  Speaker 3: Get talked about as much as Calvin Christian.
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  Speaker 1: What makes him so reliable and how important is he
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  Speaker 1: to what you do? You know the reason he's so reliable,
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  Speaker 1: Number one of the quarterback trusts him. He knows where
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna be. Uh, they spent now, you know, going
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  Speaker 1: on two years together. Zay is a tremendously hard worker.
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  Speaker 2: He's smart.
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  Speaker 1: He's an intellectual guy that that just understands ball. And
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  Speaker 1: he and Trevor have logged a lot of hours you know,
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  Speaker 1: throwing and catching you know, off to the side and
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  Speaker 1: working on different things, and you know, it's just it's
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  Speaker 1: a there's that trust factor.
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  Speaker 2: Right with him.
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  Speaker 1: And and again not saying he doesn't have trust with
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  Speaker 1: other players, it's just referring to.
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  Speaker 2: Zay, right, and.
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  Speaker 1: Just a great you know double move, you know, throw
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  Speaker 1: and catch for the touchdown and then really the late
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  Speaker 1: in the game throw that Trevor made to him, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just knowing exactly where he was gonna be to make
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  Speaker 1: that throw.
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  Speaker 2: And and you know that's that's whosaya is.
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  Speaker 3: Tank was in on a couple of turn or a
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  Speaker 3: part of a couple of turnover plays earlier in the game.
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  Speaker 3: How much trust do you have to have in a
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  Speaker 3: rookie to turn back to him late in the fourth
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  Speaker 3: quarter and and kind of crucial moments.
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  Speaker 1: No different than an offensive coordinator, right you you you
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  Speaker 1: trust him, you put him out there, and you uh,
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  Speaker 1: that's how they learn, right, He's not gonna grow unless
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  Speaker 1: he learns. And sometimes you have to learn through failure
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  Speaker 1: and through mistakes and and making those errors and and
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  Speaker 1: and Tank's hard on himself. He's he's a guy that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna you know, take this game, uh, the good and
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  Speaker 1: the bad. He's gonna learn from it and he'll be
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  Speaker 1: better this week for it.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, as a staff.
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  Speaker 1: We continue to just we we've we've got to trust him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and we're gonna continue to put him back
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  Speaker 1: out there and and uh.
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  Speaker 2: He'll be he'll be better for it.
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  Speaker 3: You said during the offseason that you guys wanted to
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  Speaker 3: score about a touchdown or uh going.
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  Speaker 2: Into the game. Points per game. How much of that
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  Speaker 2: is reflected on the defense.
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  Speaker 3: Where they can get turnovers and get you guys evolved
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  Speaker 3: back to getting those situations.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's huge, right. I Mean it started with Jamal's
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  Speaker 1: punt return. That was the first one that led to
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're on the forty six yard line, you know,
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  Speaker 1: short field score and then Tyson's interception short field, go
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  Speaker 1: down to score. So I mean there's a there's a
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  Speaker 1: correlation there, right. Anytime the defense can create takeaways or
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  Speaker 1: the special teams can shorten the field for you, it's
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  Speaker 1: sometimes it's advantage offense, and and we've got to do
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  Speaker 1: more of that, you know. I know we were you
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  Speaker 1: know plus one with the turnover ratio yesterday and and
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  Speaker 1: uh you know, offense was able to capitalize on it
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  Speaker 1: and and you know, make really turn them into touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: You know where I look at it too, now.
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  Speaker 1: You you know the middle eight of the football game.
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  Speaker 1: You know where we struggled in the two minute, we
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  Speaker 1: ended up settling for a punt when we were really in.
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  Speaker 2: Field goal range. So that was execution on our part.
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  Speaker 1: And then coming out in the third quarter, that's another
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  Speaker 1: element of that too, where you can you know, really score,
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  Speaker 1: and those are opportunities that we have to we have
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  Speaker 1: to take advantage of.
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  Speaker 3: The team played good enough to win, but probably not
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  Speaker 3: their best football game. As a coach, obviously, you don't
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  Speaker 3: want them to play their best football this earlier in
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  Speaker 3: the season, right you want to?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's not a it's still a work in progress,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I mean you saw it around the league.
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  Speaker 1: I think you know with offenses and defenses that you
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  Speaker 1: know week one is not going to decide your season
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  Speaker 1: at all. You know, how many times have you seen
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  Speaker 1: teams jump out four, five, six, and oh and then
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  Speaker 1: you know falter in December and January, and you want
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  Speaker 1: to be one one of the teams that are going
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  Speaker 1: the other direction. I want to be going up in
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  Speaker 1: December and January. So yeah, it was good to get
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  Speaker 1: the win, but overall, we've got some corrections to make.
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  Speaker 1: We got to get better. Uh, communication has to get better,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll work on those this week.
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  Speaker 2: Were you pleased with yourself? I was? I was?
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  Speaker 1: There was both those guys played extremely hard and physical,
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  Speaker 1: which was great.
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  Speaker 2: Josh.
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  Speaker 1: You know we mentioned him with the with the sacks
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  Speaker 1: and and and being disruptive, you know, and and it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was a good start for both those guys.
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  Speaker 2: Are you guys in the secondary have big ames Tyson Campbell,
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  Speaker 2: Andre Cisco Just the growth you've seen in the year's
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  Speaker 2: time now going into your second.
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  Speaker 1: Year with them, Yeah, these guys have really settled into
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  Speaker 1: their roles. A lot of confidence there. And two young
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  Speaker 1: players and and you know, just excited to see the
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  Speaker 1: continued growth, right, and the continued development, uh with both
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  Speaker 1: those guys, and and two smart players that work extremely
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  Speaker 1: hard in practice during the week, you know, pride themselves on,
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  Speaker 1: you know, doing the right thing. It was unfortunates go ahead,
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  Speaker 1: the unnecessary roughness penalty, but those are gonna happen, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But but overall, both guys played well and look forward
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  Speaker 1: to you know, the weeks to come.
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  Speaker 3: How important is the home crowd going to be for
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  Speaker 3: this game against the Chiefs this week?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be everything, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's an early start, but it might be
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  Speaker 1: a little bit warm, but you know, we'd love to
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  Speaker 1: have a full, full crowd. You know, it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: anytime you start your season at home with the defending
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl champions, it's exciting, you know, it's exciting for
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  Speaker 1: us and as a team, and obviously for our fans,
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  Speaker 1: and uh expect a full crowd and you know, just
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to to Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: The year on the road or at home.
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  Speaker 2: I don't mind the road quite honestly. I think it.
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  Speaker 1: I think it keeps your team kind of kind of
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  Speaker 1: focused just a little bit. It on the road and
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're in the hotel and and all that
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff. And you know, the last two years
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  Speaker 1: we've we've done that, you know, on the road, and
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  Speaker 1: and really I feel like we should have done better
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  Speaker 1: last year, you know, but uh, I don't mind it
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  Speaker 1: all right,