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Speaker 1: Maybe he's going maybe he's prepping for the super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: We're live with him. UM, I didn't know. UM, you know,
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Speaker 1: put the work in. UM, I think it's it's it's
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Speaker 1: a cool one. UM. I don't really have much much
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Speaker 1: to said, but I don't know. I'm lots of words
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Speaker 1: for it, to be honest. He was there, There was
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Speaker 1: a lot of talks you would rock early met in
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Speaker 1: college when you were over game forty two forty one.
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Speaker 1: You have been memories of that game and how it
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Speaker 1: kind of unfolded. Yeah, we uh, you know obviously two
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Speaker 1: different teams, two different times. UM. I remember getting out early,
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Speaker 1: you know, getting out early and then at like five
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Speaker 1: touchdowns in the first half and then um, thing was
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Speaker 1: like the thirty fourteen that half time or something like that,
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Speaker 1: and then end up coming back Kennedy Brooks made a
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Speaker 1: real good run, made like forty two something. Um. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's a it's a good game. Glad one word. UM,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. UM, you know, I think I think
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Speaker 1: I just have to desire to to to win. I
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Speaker 1: think I have a desire to win. UM, I put
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Speaker 1: the work in for it. UM, try and be diligent
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Speaker 1: with everything, trying to be the best teammate leader that
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Speaker 1: I can be and ultimately try and set set the
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Speaker 1: pace UM, and and set the temperature of the room,
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Speaker 1: you know. And you know, I think the thing about
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Speaker 1: leadership I said all the time is people leave because
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Speaker 1: their peers let them lead. And you know that takes
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Speaker 1: a lot of hard work, that takes a lot of sacrifice, UM,
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Speaker 1: it takes a lot of trust, and ultimately all those
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Speaker 1: things bring respect, you know. And I think as a team,
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Speaker 1: you know, we just come a very long way. And
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Speaker 1: the beautiful, beautiful thing about everything is that we've continued
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Speaker 1: to just try and climb UM. I tell him all
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Speaker 1: the time, I said, there there's no point where you
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Speaker 1: will arrived. There's only the journey, and we just want
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Speaker 1: to continue to live on that journey, but definitely trying
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Speaker 1: to take steps in the right direction, making UM daily
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Speaker 1: deposits in UM, putting the work in every day Stan
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Speaker 1: and true to ourselves and our process. Do you even
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Speaker 1: think about how far you've come personally over the last
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Speaker 1: couple of years or was that not really your nature
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Speaker 1: to look back like that. Yeah, it's not the time
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Speaker 1: for me to reflect on that, because I'm not done.
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Speaker 1: Do you have any did you know pro pretty before
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Speaker 1: that game when you guys played on with State and
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Speaker 1: and also what we're your impressions after watching him that day. Yeah, No,
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Speaker 1: I have a I have a lot of respect for him.
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Speaker 1: He's he's always been a a really good player, has
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Speaker 1: a lot of moxie. He makes plays, um, and he's
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Speaker 1: been doing that since college. So there's no surprise to
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Speaker 1: him when he was giving this opportunity to see the
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Speaker 1: success he's having. Now everybody, Um, everybody knows what's at
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Speaker 1: stake at this game. One more when you're in the
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Um, that has become more challenging to keep
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Speaker 1: that day to day focus at this stage. Yeah, I think, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
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Speaker 1: I think it depends on the person. I think we're
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Speaker 1: trying to stay focused on what's important, you know, and
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Speaker 1: that's just you know, truly enjoying the moment, enjoying enjoying
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Speaker 1: an attacking the process in front of us this weekend,
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Speaker 1: taking the day by day. So you kind of want
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Speaker 1: to never get too how I never get too low
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Speaker 1: with it. Ross many of different statistics, that's a top
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Speaker 1: top defense in the fourty niners. What stands out like er, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they I mean, they they're they're really good all across
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Speaker 1: the board, you know, and I think starts off with
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Speaker 1: the front seven and and then having a really good
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Speaker 1: deep it's a bad group. Um. They fly to the ball,
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Speaker 1: They're disruptive at every position. Um. They they're world coach.
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Speaker 1: They're world coach. So we have a task in front
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Speaker 1: of us. We have a really good challenge, really big
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Speaker 1: challenge in front of us, and as always, we just
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Speaker 1: want to go out there and execute, you know, trying
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Speaker 1: to befficient to your work ethic. How important to your
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Speaker 1: development and successes have been having an offensive staff. But
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Speaker 1: like you know, a Davits verse kisell, Um, Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: think I think it's kind of always been that way
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Speaker 1: throughout the years. Um. I think it's always kind of
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Speaker 1: been that way throughout the years because Um, ultimately, the
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Speaker 1: way I play the game is always taken over regardless
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Speaker 1: of how the coach calls the game or what this
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Speaker 1: background is or whatever it is. You know. So I
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Speaker 1: think for us to have time and have had time
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Speaker 1: to grow together being here, this being my first time
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Speaker 1: having to back play college in it in consecutive years. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, I think that has allowed us to build
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Speaker 1: a relationship one another and kind of learn the game
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Speaker 1: and ultimately be on the same page and how we
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Speaker 1: see the game. So we're all kind of clicking on
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Speaker 1: all cylinders and I think that's been good. And obviously,
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Speaker 1: um having you know, being able to play with friends.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm playing with a lot of my friends
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Speaker 1: that I've known for a while now, you know, and um,
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Speaker 1: we all have the same ambitions, we all have the
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Speaker 1: same goal, so we you know, we go out. I
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Speaker 1: think we lay it all, lay it all on the
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Speaker 1: line for one another because we were connected and we
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Speaker 1: had that relationship from this season to say that you've
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Speaker 1: seen those things, um, you know, I think, UM, I think,
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Speaker 1: I think the moments that stand out are the moments
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Speaker 1: of adversity. Um, the moments of adversity, because I think
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Speaker 1: in adverse moments, adversity, adverse moments, UM, that's when you
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Speaker 1: find out, you know, the foundation you lay for yourself
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Speaker 1: long long ago. So UM, you know, I think back
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Speaker 1: of how we've been able to preside through certain situations
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Speaker 1: this year, um, overcome certain things and um, you know,
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Speaker 1: be together through it all. So we have Dallas Goddard
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Speaker 1: early on and in the last game from out the
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Speaker 1: stiff arm and you can slapping the stiff arm and
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Speaker 1: the physical play of the offensive line. Where's the mentality
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Speaker 1: of the physical play, especially when you're facing the defense
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Speaker 1: like this? Yeah, I think nothing changes in terms of
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Speaker 1: how we want to play the game. UM. You know,
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Speaker 1: we want to go out there and control the things
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Speaker 1: that we can control. UM, do our jobs, do it,
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Speaker 1: try and do it at a high level. UM, and
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Speaker 1: and be the team we've been dealing. UM, be this close.
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Speaker 1: We're giving way. How much have you guys healthy where
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Speaker 1: you're talking and in their experience and how much can
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Speaker 1: I help? Yeah, I'm leaning on um, what we've done.
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Speaker 1: I'm leaning on the team that we built ourselves to be.
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Speaker 1: I'm leaning on um, you know, the process that we've
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Speaker 1: had for ourselves. I think we have a standard and
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Speaker 1: you know, sometimes just um, sometimes just if you win,
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Speaker 1: win to lose, you obviously want to lose, But do
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Speaker 1: you play to your standard? Um? That's what I'm meaning
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Speaker 1: on that this stage. Physically, how are you feeling? I
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Speaker 1: felt better, But don't really matter. You know, it's get
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Speaker 1: a guy to get it done. Jamiko is a guy
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Speaker 1: used to watch and Houston when he went to the
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Speaker 1: time practice. Is very anything stand out about him that
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Speaker 1: you guys interrived at all? Now, I was I was
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Speaker 1: a little kid. I was a little kid. Uh. I'm
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Speaker 1: sure I've gotten a sign pair of Cleezer or a
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Speaker 1: sign ball from him or something like that. But you know,
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Speaker 1: I think, you know, obviously going back to Houston, reflecting
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Speaker 1: on it now, I didn't realize how important that was
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Speaker 1: to me and how big it was. Um then winning
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Speaker 1: that game we played the Houston Texans, you know when
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Speaker 1: I went when when I was in the stadium, I
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Speaker 1: kind of realized how cool that was, considering my background
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Speaker 1: of history with the team and growing up in the
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Speaker 1: city and always been in their facilities and all that.
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Speaker 1: But um, but yes, it's it's kind of cool. It's
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Speaker 1: kind of cool. A cool moment to be playing against
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Speaker 1: him and knowing I watched him, you know, saying with
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Speaker 1: J J. Wapp and I watched J J wis a
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Speaker 1: kid played against him this year, So it's cool. From
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Speaker 1: Houston and grew up watching Damiko Ryots now come again
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Speaker 1: as the Niners. Defensive coordinator Jalen Hurt says, I felt better,
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Speaker 1: but it don't really matter. I got to get it done.
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Speaker 1: How you doing. I'm doing good, you know, n SC
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Speaker 1: Championship week, ready to go. How's the ankle? It's doing good,
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Speaker 1: you know, a few days of treatment, a few days
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Speaker 1: of rehab. Excited to get on the practice field and
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Speaker 1: kind of tested out and see where I'm at. But
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Speaker 1: it's feeling good so far. You express it. You'd start
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Speaker 1: treatment the night after the AP You just kind of
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Speaker 1: bring us through what that night was and then these
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Speaker 1: last few days what you've been doing. Yeah. I was
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Speaker 1: able to do some extra testing just to make sure
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Speaker 1: everything was good. Um not after the game and then
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Speaker 1: get a few things done to help the treatment kind
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Speaker 1: of start off. And then the next few days has
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Speaker 1: just kind of been, I mean all day thing where
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Speaker 1: you're just doing neither treatment and rehab, are watching film
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Speaker 1: and uh I had to take Brittany a few places
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Speaker 1: with me so I can be around the kids a
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Speaker 1: little bit. But uh, it's a full day thing where
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Speaker 1: you're trying to make sure that you're obviously prepared for
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Speaker 1: the Bengals and a great football team, um mentally and
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Speaker 1: physically before all that insert Sunday. Probably my toe would
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Speaker 1: probably the toughest injury. I remember when I had the toe,
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Speaker 1: I was like having to had to curl my toes
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Speaker 1: when I walked. So that was probably the toughest injury
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Speaker 1: that I had to play through. Um, but I've dealt
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Speaker 1: with a lot of them, and and uh, you gotta
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Speaker 1: have to mentally just get yourself to focus on what
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Speaker 1: needs to be focused on, and that's the team that
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Speaker 1: you're playing, and you prepare your body all week and
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Speaker 1: then when you get to Sunday, you focused on playing
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Speaker 1: the football game. And uh, that's what I'm gonna trying
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Speaker 1: to do this week. Yeah, It's very similar, just a
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Speaker 1: different ankle, um, especially when you're different ankles to the
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Speaker 1: quarterback position, you're planning and throwing off different stuff. UM.
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Speaker 1: So the last one it was a leg that I
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Speaker 1: landed on, so I had to find ways to throw
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Speaker 1: where I can land and keep it in the right spot.
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Speaker 1: And this time I'll have to find ways to be
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Speaker 1: able to push off and be able to still make
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Speaker 1: the throws the right way. So uh, definitely uh similar
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Speaker 1: in a sense, but obviously different limitations and stuff that
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Speaker 1: I have to work through the first time that she'd
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Speaker 1: come into the playoff game, especially at the home. Basically
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Speaker 1: to your feel you feel more pressure. You feel like
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Speaker 1: it's because you're an underdoge. Man, There's there's not a
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Speaker 1: lot of pressure. Took a lot of peoples. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: mean every time I walk on that field, I don't.
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Speaker 1: I don't think I'm a underdog, especially when I walk
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Speaker 1: on our Arrowheads field. So I just go in with
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Speaker 1: the same mindset of we're at the player best football
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Speaker 1: to win. UM. We know we're playing a great football
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Speaker 1: team that's beat us the last three times, UM, and
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Speaker 1: so we have to learn from our mistakes in the
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Speaker 1: past and be better, Um, in order to win against
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Speaker 1: a great football team. I just this. I think we'll
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Speaker 1: see throughout the week. I haven't got got to go
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Speaker 1: out and practice yet and put myself in those positions.
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Speaker 1: I've done limited stuff kind of in a small, uh
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Speaker 1: small kind of box of what I can do. But
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Speaker 1: I'll push it a little bit today and then then
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Speaker 1: the next day and then the next day again and
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Speaker 1: see what I can do that not re aggravate the
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Speaker 1: injury obviously, but to push you to see why I
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Speaker 1: will I'll be able to do on Sunday. You know. Um,
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Speaker 1: I'm never was a little bit earlier in the week.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you want to you want to push it,
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Speaker 1: but you don't, like I said, you don't want to
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Speaker 1: reaggravate it or do something that you were in the
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Speaker 1: position this last game and it was hurting. But uh,
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Speaker 1: that stuff that you do the rehab and then you
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Speaker 1: do the treatment for is to prepare yourself to go
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Speaker 1: out and practice and go out and play. And um,
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Speaker 1: I mean all you can do is keep pushing and
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Speaker 1: pushing it and uh try to do whatever you can
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Speaker 1: to go out there and win a football game home.
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Speaker 1: But when you're at the house and yeah, I mean
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Speaker 1: I haven't been at the house much, so when I'm
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Speaker 1: at the house, that's usually either studying or going to sleep.
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Speaker 1: So it's just kind of prepare yourself, do whatever I
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Speaker 1: can at the building, and then whenever I can't get
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Speaker 1: off my feet and get some sleep, and I'll go
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Speaker 1: get some sleep. Pleasures that I played through the major injuries, like,
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Speaker 1: what's your awareness of some of that in the past,
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Speaker 1: What do you learn from Yeah, I mean a lot
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Speaker 1: of grades have have done it. I mean, I think
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Speaker 1: it's just about being a competitor. I mean, if you
15:24
Speaker 1: you want to you want to be out there, and
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Speaker 1: especially in these games. Um, and so all you can
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Speaker 1: do is just mentally prepare yourself and your body throughout
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Speaker 1: the week and then, like I said, you get the
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Speaker 1: game that you have to focus on the game and
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Speaker 1: uh that That's what I'll try to do, is prepare
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Speaker 1: my body the best I can and get to the
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Speaker 1: game and just go out there and play and try
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Speaker 1: to find a way to win better than than than
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Speaker 1: you expected. Uh, yeah, for sure. I mean I felt
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Speaker 1: I felt better than I thought I wasn't gonna be.
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Speaker 1: After the game, I mean, moving on it during the game,
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Speaker 1: definitely definitely hurt um, but after the game I was
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Speaker 1: able to rest it and kind of iced it up
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Speaker 1: and do different stuff like that. I felt in a
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Speaker 1: little bit better position, And obviously the next morning I
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Speaker 1: felt a little bit better than I've continued to get
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Speaker 1: better throughout the week. So we'll see how I feel
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Speaker 1: today practice, and I'll get a better better feel for
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Speaker 1: you all, and I'll be able to think answer a
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Speaker 1: little bit better tomorrow. This is the team. You've faced
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Speaker 1: it a few times like a division of com You
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Speaker 1: guys know each other pretty well. You've been able to
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Speaker 1: run on them. What has been the challenge trying to
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Speaker 1: throw against that second there? Yeah, they're coach well man. Uh,
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Speaker 1: their defensive coordinator coach and A Rumo has has doing
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Speaker 1: a great job of changing up the game plan. I
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Speaker 1: think that's been the best thing is very game plan specific. Uh,
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Speaker 1: it's never the same. He gives you different looks out
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Speaker 1: of the same the same look but different coverages. And
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Speaker 1: that's what I think a lot of great defense coordinators
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Speaker 1: do is they're able to coach your team up and
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Speaker 1: do a lot of different stuff and variety of stuff,
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Speaker 1: but still be sound in it. And I think that's
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Speaker 1: what they do well, and then they have great players.
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Speaker 1: I mean, at the end of the day, they have
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Speaker 1: great players that that are they're extremely coachable and go
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Speaker 1: out there and do their jobs the best of their ability.
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Speaker 1: And so when you're at this point in the playoffs,
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Speaker 1: are playing against great teams and it's about who can
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Speaker 1: execute at a higher level in different ways. And for
16:57
Speaker 1: lack of better terms of Bengals have been a little
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Speaker 1: vocal this week. What's been the messaging and internally is
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Speaker 1: to not get involved with that and reacting and that
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Speaker 1: at that type of stuff. Yeah, I mean, we just
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Speaker 1: we just go out there and play football at the
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Speaker 1: end of the day, and all that stuff you can
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Speaker 1: talk throughout the week. At the end of day, it's
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Speaker 1: a football game. You have to go out there and
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Speaker 1: play it. So we believe in just going showing up
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Speaker 1: on Sunday, playing our best football and seeing what happens.
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Speaker 1: We're going to be four and Todd Steve and then saying,
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Speaker 1: but like Patrick a little a little related to that,
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Speaker 1: you're a lot more used to having winning streaks against
17:25
Speaker 1: other teams that happened when going this way, and I
17:29
Speaker 1: how do you how do you work with that? In
17:31
Speaker 1: terms of the motivational point there. I know you you know,
17:34
Speaker 1: look for motivation in different places. Um yeah, I mean
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Speaker 1: we've obviously lost this team three times in a row,
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Speaker 1: and uh they we've had great football games against them,
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Speaker 1: but they've been able to beat us situationally at the
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Speaker 1: end of games. And so how can we be better there? Um,
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Speaker 1: we know it's gonna be a close football game. Every
17:50
Speaker 1: team you play in this position, it's gonna be a
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Speaker 1: close football game. Um, but how can we be better
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Speaker 1: situationally that we go out there and we're able to
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Speaker 1: execute on third down in the red zone and at
17:59
Speaker 1: the end of games in order to win against a
18:00
Speaker 1: good football team. Gets in your head in a negative
18:04
Speaker 1: way in any way, right, I mean I assume it's
18:06
Speaker 1: motivation rather than um yeah, I don't. I don't know
18:09
Speaker 1: how it would be a negative way. I mean, if
18:10
Speaker 1: you've I think you don't want to you won't relax,
18:13
Speaker 1: You'll focus on even more on the details. So uh,
18:15
Speaker 1: I mean I'll be we'll be ready to go, and
18:17
Speaker 1: I'll be ready to go for sure. They've done a
18:20
Speaker 1: nice job of putting pressure on a lot of teams.
18:22
Speaker 1: How much of what they do is scheme stuff and
18:24
Speaker 1: how much of it just physically they're able to do something,
18:27
Speaker 1: uh take to put pressure on the floarbacks. Yeah, I
18:29
Speaker 1: think more than anything, they have no weakness across that
18:32
Speaker 1: whole defensive line and the linebacker position. Um. I mean,
18:35
Speaker 1: they do a good job of pass rushing and they
18:36
Speaker 1: do a good job with their DBS of rushing from
18:38
Speaker 1: the outside, and they keep changing it up. I think
18:39
Speaker 1: that's the biggest thing is you you can't you can't
18:41
Speaker 1: relax back there. You have to make sure that you're
18:43
Speaker 1: really focused on the details. And same with the offensive
18:45
Speaker 1: line and the running backs and the protection plan. So uh,
18:48
Speaker 1: I mean it's a little bit of both. They have
18:49
Speaker 1: have great players all throughout that defense and then they
18:51
Speaker 1: have a great a great coach and the defensive coordinator.
18:53
Speaker 1: So uh, for us, we have to focus on the details,
18:56
Speaker 1: prepare ourselves the best way possible, and at the end
18:58
Speaker 1: of the day, we would go out there and play.
19:00
Speaker 1: You talked about, you know, working for self back into
19:02
Speaker 1: the as far as to it's not limited moving around.
19:07
Speaker 1: What's the what's your message to the offensive line knowing that, Yeah,
19:13
Speaker 1: I think you saw in the second half this last game,
19:15
Speaker 1: man um that they stepped up and did a great
19:18
Speaker 1: job of protecting me and where I was able to
19:19
Speaker 1: throw the ball from within the pocket. Um. And I'm
19:22
Speaker 1: sure they'll be ready to go. But I'm like I said,
19:23
Speaker 1: it's great if it's a line, So it'll be a
19:24
Speaker 1: great challenge for them. Um. But I'm excited for those
19:27
Speaker 1: guys to go out there and accept the challenge. For
19:36
Speaker 1: you think, um, not necessarily, like like I was saying earlier,
19:42
Speaker 1: they're very gamesplan specific and they switch every every time
19:45
Speaker 1: it seems like we play them. Um. And so it's
19:47
Speaker 1: one of those teams you need to be preparing for everything. UM.
19:50
Speaker 1: Play them one time, they pressure a little bit, put
19:52
Speaker 1: them one time they dropp day, you put them in
19:54
Speaker 1: this last game they played it more uh, kind of
19:56
Speaker 1: true to the coverages. So I'm expecting to have a
19:59
Speaker 1: mixture of all that stuff, man, I mean, that's why
20:00
Speaker 1: they're in this position. Um. And so you just prepare
20:02
Speaker 1: yourself to be ready for it and execute the play
20:04
Speaker 1: and moves on to the next one. Thank you. Thank Patrick.
20:11
Speaker 1: Patrick mahomes live on the podium in Kansas City, speaking
20:14
Speaker 1: at the end of lou Ana Rumos. Cincinnati Defense asked
20:17
Speaker 1: what he is going to see on Sunday. You're now
20:19
Speaker 1: seeing Bucky Brooks and Brian bolding Arm and Ruth is silly,
20:22
Speaker 1: I don't Championship Sunday. Bucky was on the field there
20:26
Speaker 1: last week when the Jaguars fought hard but couldn't knock
20:30
Speaker 1: out Mahomes and the Chiefs. And if the headline you're
20:32
Speaker 1: looking for today is is Patrick Mahomes gonna play? Yeah,
20:35
Speaker 1: it sure looks like he is. He's gonna be out
20:38
Speaker 1: there today. Andy Reid said he's fine, but he's not
20:40
Speaker 1: really fine, Bucky. They're gonna have to adjust somehow. So
20:44
Speaker 1: what does his offense look like? Let's say he plays,
20:47
Speaker 1: how do you compensate for a limited Patrick Mahomes shot gun?
20:51
Speaker 1: A lot of shot gun, A lot of shot gun variations.
20:54
Speaker 1: Sometimes the running back could be side saddle. Sometimes the
20:57
Speaker 1: running back could be behind you in the pistol. You
20:59
Speaker 1: will use your running game the way that you want
21:02
Speaker 1: to under center, but you just have to do it
21:04
Speaker 1: from the gun. The one thing that is is going
21:07
Speaker 1: to impact Pat Mahomes not being able to move around
21:09
Speaker 1: is he does a great job of extending plays running around.
21:13
Speaker 1: When they dropped Aid and they played coverage and he
21:15
Speaker 1: manipulates the pocket or he scrambles, that part of his
21:18
Speaker 1: game won't be there. So what does Andy Reid do
21:21
Speaker 1: to adjust to it? That's the big factor because they
21:23
Speaker 1: make so many explosive plays. When he runs around by
21:26
Speaker 1: time and someone falls asleep at the wheel and coverage.
21:29
Speaker 1: I guess what, Bucky, I have a game plan already
21:31
Speaker 1: built exactly what you're talking about. Let's just take a
21:33
Speaker 1: look at it. I mean, it's a great it's a
21:35
Speaker 1: great tea video. Let's just go to the video here, Andrew, okay,
21:38
Speaker 1: because put to your point here here he is in
21:40
Speaker 1: shotgun right, here's Jack McKinnon. He's just personal protector. He's excellent.
21:44
Speaker 1: We we've all seen this block from last week, but
21:46
Speaker 1: this is what he does every week. I mean, Mahomes
21:48
Speaker 1: calls him a straight dog, and so protect Patrick Mahomes
21:52
Speaker 1: at all costs. All right, if you're gonna throw it,
21:54
Speaker 1: make sure your personal protectors on the field. Now, that's
21:56
Speaker 1: Isaiah Pacheco. Guy had a great game on Sunday, Like
21:59
Speaker 1: lean on the offensive line, Dreed, Humphrey, Tray Smith, Joe Touney.
22:03
Speaker 1: Lean on those guys. Lets Pacheco some of the work
22:05
Speaker 1: and then they've picked up car Darius Tony like you
22:08
Speaker 1: can do this even with a bad foot, Like you
22:11
Speaker 1: can just give the pitch, give it it to your
22:12
Speaker 1: playmakers like car Darius. Maybe give him a few more touches,
22:15
Speaker 1: maybe some fly sweeps, little pitch option, let him use
22:18
Speaker 1: his ability to like move the offense along. And then look,
22:22
Speaker 1: you mentioned that Travis Kelsey didn't have big numbers. Fourteen catches,
22:26
Speaker 1: but seven yards of catch, Like you can run these
22:28
Speaker 1: tight end delays. There's a million ways that Andy Reid,
22:31
Speaker 1: Eric Bannamy could draw these plays up. You get the
22:33
Speaker 1: ball in Kelsey's hands, we know he's excellent after the catch.
22:36
Speaker 1: And if you're gonna take a deep shot and they
22:38
Speaker 1: only had one against the Jacks, Bucky, like Max protected,
22:41
Speaker 1: there's no gray on the deep over right here, little
22:43
Speaker 1: sail route, clear out the space for him. This is Kelsey.
22:46
Speaker 1: This is no gray you want to do by the
22:48
Speaker 1: way you just look, you know, yeah so that, but
22:52
Speaker 1: but protect if you're gonna take this shot, Bucky, there's
22:54
Speaker 1: Blake Bell all right, no gray right here? You got
22:57
Speaker 1: jet is a personal protector. Protect the edges. Don't let
23:01
Speaker 1: don't put my homes in a position where he feels
23:03
Speaker 1: like he's got to do what he's always done, which
23:05
Speaker 1: is takeoff, scramble, extend play beyond the extras, and os
23:08
Speaker 1: him stay in that pocket. Like, I think that's a
23:11
Speaker 1: workable game plan where they could still function. They can
23:14
Speaker 1: still move the ball. They might not have some of
23:16
Speaker 1: the dynamic plays that we used to seeing, but this
23:18
Speaker 1: would be a way that you could play around the injury.
23:20
Speaker 1: So it's funny about that is this is where experience
23:22
Speaker 1: matters in game, Andy Reid switz in a moment's notice
23:26
Speaker 1: when right to the max protected stuff, quick game stuff.
23:29
Speaker 1: So now you give him a full week to prepare
23:30
Speaker 1: for it. Yeah, Cincinnati Bings, we have to deal with
23:32
Speaker 1: different stuff that they've seen. Question how much you have
23:34
Speaker 1: to take out of the play, But because we saw him,
23:36
Speaker 1: you saw it again on the field, him struggling, the
23:39
Speaker 1: home struggling with a lot of the stretch handoffs, a
23:41
Speaker 1: lot of the outside zone stuff. You have to cut
23:42
Speaker 1: all that out. Is the run game more predictable when
23:45
Speaker 1: you have to get him out of the shotgun here
23:47
Speaker 1: when you have Jerick McKinnon next to him, or run
23:49
Speaker 1: him out of the pistol and and mahomes your point
23:52
Speaker 1: about creativity. Nobody in the NFL had more passing attempts
23:56
Speaker 1: outside of the pocket this year than Patrick Mahomes, So
24:00
Speaker 1: if you keep in the pocket, by the way, he's
24:02
Speaker 1: still very dangerous, very rangers and likely your m v P.
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