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Mike Macdonald: "It's A Playoff Mindset For Us At This Point" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good to be in the building. And you know, I
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  Speaker 1: know there's a lot going out in our city right
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  Speaker 1: now with the power going out and the storm and everything.
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  Speaker 1: So our thoughts and prayers are with everybody and make
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  Speaker 1: sure everybody hopefully stays healthy and appreciate everybody on the
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  Speaker 1: scene helping everybody out. So but could see everybody in
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  Speaker 1: person with a year, Well, you know, we just we
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  Speaker 1: push some things back. There's some things we don't have
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  Speaker 1: in the building, but it's uh, we're we're just fine.
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  Speaker 2: Coach new kickoff rules this year, a lot of teams
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  Speaker 2: are choosing to kick it out of the end zone.
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  Speaker 2: You guys are not, and you're number one in the
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  Speaker 2: NFL and kickoff coverage. Talk about why you made the
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  Speaker 2: decision to kick the ball instead of kicking it out
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  Speaker 2: of your zone.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think we're you know, from week to week
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  Speaker 1: we're making that decision. So you know, we're really uh
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  Speaker 1: that we're off to a good start with our with
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  Speaker 1: our coverage units, especially on a kickoff, and we feel
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  Speaker 1: like if we can you know, if the numbers are
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  Speaker 1: our favor and we can go stop inside the thirty,
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  Speaker 1: that's a net positive for us. So you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of an ongoing process. But I think our guys,
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  Speaker 1: Jade deserves a lot of credit on some of the
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  Speaker 1: stuff that we're coming up with the week to week
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  Speaker 1: and how we're executing, how we're practicing. Uh So, I
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  Speaker 1: think it's just, Hey, this is a phase of the
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  Speaker 1: game where we feel like our guys, you know, have
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  Speaker 1: a really good chance to give us an edge. So
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  Speaker 1: that's what we've been going for it getting Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he looks good, he's in good spirits, just adding another
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  Speaker 1: great player to our guys and kind of getting back
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  Speaker 1: in the mix with you know, how we're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: able to utilize those safeties and it's exciting times to
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  Speaker 1: see where see how that we will shake out.
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  Speaker 2: He at a point where he'd be sooner than later
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  Speaker 2: or the twenty one days or.
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  Speaker 1: I think it'll be sooner than later. Yeah, how did you.
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  Speaker 2: Feel Tyle Potter used him a lot in that role outside?
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  Speaker 1: How did you felt that way how he played well? Yeah, again,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you're taking Julian and he moved
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  Speaker 1: him from safety and he played some played some down
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  Speaker 1: like second level type stuff at Nickel and Dime. Uh So,
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  Speaker 1: he deserves credit for playing three positions in that game,
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  Speaker 1: and then Tye coming in and playing playing good football
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  Speaker 1: for us, calming everything down, all the communication. So it's
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  Speaker 1: just another example a guy staying ready and really really
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  Speaker 1: working his tail off throughout the week even though he's
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  Speaker 1: not in the you know, starting role per se, and
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  Speaker 1: then when his opportunity comes, making the best of it
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  Speaker 1: and helping us win a football game. So yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: all those guys, you know, they do a great job preparing.
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  Speaker 1: So it was excited for Tie to get an opportunity. Mike,
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  Speaker 1: what do you expect from that safety position in relation
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  Speaker 1: to your defense? Well, I mean, you know we're getting
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  Speaker 1: some depth back. We're missing cave On right now, but
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  Speaker 1: you know Tie being able to step up, getting Raycheon
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  Speaker 1: back probably this week, getting him back, And I mean
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  Speaker 1: it's just good problems to have good players play multiple spots.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to get too cute with it because
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  Speaker 1: then you know, you get kind of getting disarray a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. So trying to maximize our continuity back there
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  Speaker 1: as well as seamlessly getting ray Sean back into into
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  Speaker 1: the fold. So yeah, it's exciting. How did he bounce
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  Speaker 1: back for his first year? He's he's a good spot
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  Speaker 1: to my knowledge. I mean, I'm sure he's a little sore,
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  Speaker 1: but uh, be out there today, good spirits.
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  Speaker 3: Like you spoke after the Rams game about creating a
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  Speaker 3: nightmare at home and just kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of pre established that home field advantage of Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: the picture. How impor that is what you well, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's incredibly important. Start ranking things about what we're
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  Speaker 1: trying to achieve here, and that's at or near the
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  Speaker 1: top of the list. So I know we've you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're on a slide here at home, and we're trying
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  Speaker 1: to do a couple of things, you know, to make
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  Speaker 1: it come to life. I mean, we're treating this like
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  Speaker 1: a like a home playoff game for us. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: so we need the twelves rocking, and uh, you're right,
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  Speaker 1: that's the vision, that's what we're trying to create. So uh,
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  Speaker 1: let's get it started this this Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot that the Cardinals do well on offense.
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  Speaker 3: Is it the one that's driving everything else or is
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  Speaker 3: it Kyler Murray's efficiency that's driving everything that's happening.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's just like a synergy to it on
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  Speaker 1: on how they're playing and how efficient Kyler's playing. He's
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  Speaker 1: playing decisive. Uh. They do a great job. They're they're
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  Speaker 1: a it's a different operation that we've seen. It's you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a ton of gap scheme, ton of pollers. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: They do a great job protecting the football. And then
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  Speaker 1: you know, if all else doesn't go to plan, then
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  Speaker 1: you know, Kyler's one of the best in the business
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  Speaker 1: that extending plays and kind of making you pay late
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  Speaker 1: in the down too. So the easy answer would be
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  Speaker 1: say that the run. The run game kind of starts it.
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  Speaker 1: But they kind of have all the things going, all
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  Speaker 1: the play actions, the movements, the screens, it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: all works together. So they got they got a great system.
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  Speaker 1: Then they're executing a high level right now.
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  Speaker 3: At the defensive kind of things. You've got to think,
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  Speaker 3: like fourteen guys have been in on a sack this year.
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  Speaker 3: What has allowed that sort of rotation of production.
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  Speaker 1: From well, you know, we've we've said like their team
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  Speaker 1: brass rushes is an eleven man operation. So it's a
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  Speaker 1: team pass rush mentality. Getting the quarterback to try to
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  Speaker 1: hold the ball, the let the I mean again, if
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  Speaker 1: you're blitzing, you have less time. So there's a there's
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  Speaker 1: a scale to it rather than or if you're just
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  Speaker 1: rushing for it normally have a little bit more time.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, adopting the game plan understanding, Hey, these are
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  Speaker 1: the stress points. These are the this is the time
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  Speaker 1: that we're trying to you know, create to get the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback to hold it and then executing and ultimately getting
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the quarterbacks these days are so elusive to
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  Speaker 1: try to get him on the ground. And it's not
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  Speaker 1: just a one man job. You got to you got
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  Speaker 1: kind of keep him in a phone booth in order
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  Speaker 1: to make that happen. What did what did you notice
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  Speaker 1: Ape Lucas gaved on offense? Well, I think he just
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  Speaker 1: speaks to like the things we know about Abe that
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  Speaker 1: makes him a really great player. So this guy's just
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  Speaker 1: a physical, physically imposing you know, presence, you know to start,
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  Speaker 1: but just an overall physic me not that the other
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  Speaker 1: guys don't, but Abe, I mean his calling card is physicality.
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  Speaker 1: How hard he plays? Uh, just an anchor point right
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  Speaker 1: now on the line. So it's just great to see
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  Speaker 1: him out there. Is he at the point where you
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  Speaker 1: still need to pitch count him? Not sure? Not sure?
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  Speaker 1: You'd like to say no, but uh, we're not to
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  Speaker 1: that point yet in the week in terms of making
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  Speaker 1: that decision. Julian, it seems like these guys that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: get national or playing, But I was really appreciated Bill
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  Speaker 1: another team play sports. What can you say about his consistency,
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  Speaker 1: like you is a back number, Well, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think you name the things that make him really special.
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  Speaker 1: I think it just under like the why and trying
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  Speaker 1: to do stuff the best way and so just there's
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  Speaker 1: a does this ongoing communication between him and the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the players and the coaches of this alignment that
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  Speaker 1: we're trying to create. And I'm really happy we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have him, you know, have him here long term so
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  Speaker 1: he can help lead the charge. But he's playing really
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  Speaker 1: good football for us, and he can kind of do
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  Speaker 1: all the things, I mean, all the things we're asking
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  Speaker 1: our DB's, especially safety's to play, and he's playing on
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  Speaker 1: the second and third level. He can blitz, does all
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  Speaker 1: the man demand stuff, play the deep area of the zones.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, so he's a versatile versattle piece for us
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  Speaker 1: for sure, outside of just being a great person, great player.
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  Speaker 2: Cardinals are in first place right now. You get him
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  Speaker 2: two out of the next three weeks. How do you
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  Speaker 2: view the sort of like this next stretch in the schedule.
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  Speaker 1: Well, like I said, I think it was going in
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  Speaker 1: a Niners week. I mean we kind of lost, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Put it this way. Look, we've earned the opportun unity
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  Speaker 1: to be fighting for you know, the leading the division
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  Speaker 1: going into the home stretch. So that's why we're treating it.
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  Speaker 1: It's uh, it's very much like a playoff mindset for
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  Speaker 1: us at this point. Can't be can't afford to drop games.
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  Speaker 1: It's just you want to you want to have the
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  Speaker 1: you know, the right to play for these really important
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  Speaker 1: games in December and January. You got it. You got
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  Speaker 1: to be able to execute and put yourself in that situation.
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  Speaker 1: It's basically a December football game. From where it's landed
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  Speaker 1: a team twice. If there's a.
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  Speaker 2: Short span of threepeaks in this space, does that either
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  Speaker 2: packed your preparation or like the land.
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  Speaker 1: All yeah, we're gonna do nothing the second tell Jonathan
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  Speaker 1: that we're gonna change everything the second game. Uh. I
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  Speaker 1: think I think it's easy to just put too much stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, not for me. I'm guilty of charge about
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  Speaker 1: overthinking stuff, but We're not worried about three weeks from now,
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  Speaker 1: at least I'm not. It's it's all what it's going
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  Speaker 1: to take to win this football game. Let's see what
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  Speaker 1: happens and then we'll kind of then we'll go play
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  Speaker 1: the Jets, and then we'll go play the Cardinals again.
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  Speaker 1: But we're not we're not thinking about the weeks from now.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, a lot of coaches are are hesitant to hire
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  Speaker 2: a college OC. I'm curious, do you think people make
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  Speaker 2: too much of the transition from college to pros for
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  Speaker 2: an OC? And how do you feel like the transition's
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  Speaker 2: going for Ryan Grubb?
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  Speaker 1: What was the first part of the question.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of folks don't have are cautious about hiring
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  Speaker 2: a college OC pros. Do you think that people make
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  Speaker 2: too much of that transition? And uh, and that you
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  Speaker 2: jump and how do you keep it's going?
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  Speaker 1: For Ryan Greb, Well, I mean, I can't speak for
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  Speaker 1: other people, but to me, you're hiring. You're hiring the
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  Speaker 1: person that was my plead of the organization when you know,
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  Speaker 1: I was trying to get hired. I've never been a
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  Speaker 1: head coach before. And uh, but you're hiring, You're hiring me.
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  Speaker 1: We hired Ryan Grubb to be our office coordinator, and
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  Speaker 1: so we want him to do what he does, you know,
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  Speaker 1: his best as well, and want the best version of
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  Speaker 1: him to help lead our offense. So I think very
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  Speaker 1: much like with our football team, Ryan and I are
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  Speaker 1: growing together, and I think he's doing a great job.
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  Speaker 1: I think he does a phenomenal job of like doing
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  Speaker 1: the stuff that our players do well and able to
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  Speaker 1: get the you know, to our best players in any
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  Speaker 1: given moment. So now, I mean we're still where we're at.
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  Speaker 1: We got to keep growing, We've got to keep getting better,
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  Speaker 1: keep attacking this thing. But uh, it's been fun to
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  Speaker 1: work with them. D Williams, Uh, I think it's nothing
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  Speaker 1: serious right now. We'll see how it works out today.
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  Speaker 1: I'd say it's day to day at this point. Tried
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  Speaker 1: to go back to the memory bank there you asks, well, sorry,
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  Speaker 1: I got simultaneous questions. I think it's a work in progress, Mike.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's like it's you know, there's there's things
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  Speaker 1: I think we're doing really well. Uh, I would like
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  Speaker 1: it to be a little bit more consistent in terms
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  Speaker 1: of generating pressure. You know, you go back and you
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  Speaker 1: look at last game. I thought we affected Perty in
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  Speaker 1: some certain certain situations the right way, Like he cut
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  Speaker 1: out a couple of times, and those are the ones
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  Speaker 1: that drive you crazy. But uh, he's a great player.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like you know, you're there's gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: couple of plays throughout a course of a game where
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  Speaker 1: you know you might fall short, and you're in your
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  Speaker 1: but your process and you're doing a lot of good
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  Speaker 1: things as well. I couldn't tell you where we land
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  Speaker 1: in like pressures and sacks and all that, but I
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  Speaker 1: think what's helped those opportunities creating more of those opportunities
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  Speaker 1: for the guys. So I think it speaks more to
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  Speaker 1: our progress what we've made on early downs as opposed
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  Speaker 1: to just like pure pass rush stats. Right now, you've
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  Speaker 1: talked about Ernest Jones and how helping many intactors made.
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  Speaker 1: What what are kind of the specific things the defense
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  Speaker 1: really help you guys? Well, when we just I mean again,
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  Speaker 1: we're not this is just this is speaking to Ernest
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  Speaker 1: as a player and the person that we have. This
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  Speaker 1: is not you know, the guys that we're here. We
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  Speaker 1: respect those guys, but it was just best for us
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  Speaker 1: to move on in that situation. But with earnest Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's a strength in the middle of defense
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  Speaker 1: that like he's going to be able to get the
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  Speaker 1: ball down on the ground. And the way we've talked
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  Speaker 1: about how he plays the game, it's very it's very
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  Speaker 1: slow for him. He stays square, he can pace the ball,
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  Speaker 1: and we talked about earlier this week with some points
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  Speaker 1: in emphasis this week on where we want to take
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  Speaker 1: his game to the next level working through that. But
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  Speaker 1: he's a fun guy to work with and just a
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  Speaker 1: point the same guy every day. You know, he loves football.
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  Speaker 1: Those of the guys we like.
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  Speaker 2: Earl Thomas was named a semi finalist for the Hall
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  Speaker 2: of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: He did him for a year platform. What do you
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  Speaker 1: remember a guy who play man? He well, a couple
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  Speaker 1: of things. He was a savant. I mean, we basically
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  Speaker 1: took kind of what Wink was doing in twenty eighteen
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  Speaker 1: and then our roster shifted and we had Earl. So
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  Speaker 1: we did a lot, but we built it a lot
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  Speaker 1: what we were doing around his skill set. But he
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  Speaker 1: would just know he just knew like the route concepts,
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  Speaker 1: where the ball was going, how the quarterback operated, how
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  Speaker 1: to manipulate stuff. So that was really cool to see
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  Speaker 1: him do his thing. He did it unconventionally. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he was playing the post from like some print, some
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  Speaker 1: dangerous alignments, but he got the job done. And I think, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: when listening to your question how hard he plays and
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  Speaker 1: just the energy during the games, Uh, this guy just
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  Speaker 1: played with an elite motor and just it's it's just,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's a shame the way it ended, because
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  Speaker 1: you know, I just I was excited for that second
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  Speaker 1: year customers a little bit, I think in terms of
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  Speaker 1: plus for un and are just see, you guys are
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  Speaker 1: all kind of in a good cluster. That's right.
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  Speaker 3: What is it about the same age if you guys
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  Speaker 3: for trying.
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  Speaker 1: To just get them? That's interesting that we kind of
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  Speaker 1: end up in the same cluster. I wasn't aware of that,
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  Speaker 1: but uh, I think, I mean, we talked about this
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  Speaker 1: in years past. But you're you're trying to you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to stay aggressive and apply pressure. You don't naturally have
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  Speaker 1: to do that by sending extra bodies. So that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of the that's the print, the the founding principle of
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing, and trying to make what's like to
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  Speaker 1: do what's best for your team to win that particular down.
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  Speaker 1: So sometimes it's through the lens of hey, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to give up a sixty yard er on this play.
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  Speaker 1: We got a really good chance at stopping them, not
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  Speaker 1: being you know, might not send an extra body. It's
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  Speaker 1: your personnel, how your roster is shaped up. What guys
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  Speaker 1: do you know certain things? Well, you know you want
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  Speaker 1: to accentuate those types of things. We've talked about that
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  Speaker 1: with Spoon, like trying to get him activated in the past,
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  Speaker 1: Rush too, So I'm sure those guys are thinking through
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  Speaker 1: the same lens.
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  Speaker 2: Teams that have limited James Connor have beat the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 2: Can you talk about what challenges he presents and how
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  Speaker 2: do you have to stop a guy like him.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he's a little bit different type of runner than
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  Speaker 1: we've that we've gone against, but he's a really strong runner.
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  Speaker 1: He guy's tough, really tough. Don't look like he runs
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  Speaker 1: the upright, but he's powerful and he breaks me. I
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  Speaker 1: think he leads the league and broken tackles. But with
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  Speaker 1: the gap scheme, and he's got a good feel for
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  Speaker 1: like kind of when to hit the accelerator versus hey,
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  Speaker 1: it's not there. Maybe take it a gap wider and
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  Speaker 1: then get vertical. But they do a great job of
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  Speaker 1: blocking for them. They get everybody blocked up. They got
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  Speaker 1: all the schemes. But he does have a knack for
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  Speaker 1: kind of getting the extra couple of yards and there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of hidden yardage there that kind of keeps
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  Speaker 1: him on track and ahead of the sticks, which will
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  Speaker 1: be a challenge for us. What's the look for the guy?
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  Speaker 1: Same thing we're taking a day to day by right now,
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  Speaker 1: but I think I think we should have him practicing,
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  Speaker 1: uh in the next couple of days.
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  Speaker 2: Where him and Dee both around Last week, would you
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  Speaker 2: think of how Kenny and the quote he did when
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  Speaker 2: it throw them back?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I thought we made some good decisions. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know Kenny, Kenny didn't He made kind of a
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  Speaker 1: tough play, not bad like, not worse. So I thought
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  Speaker 1: he made a smart decision in that moment. You would
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  Speaker 1: have loved him from to you know, field the the
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  Speaker 1: balancing ball and give us a chance to return that
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  Speaker 1: that that one kick. But other than that, I thought
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  Speaker 1: he made a good decision by taking it out and
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  Speaker 1: h eliminating like a catastrophic play. So guys made good decisions.
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  Speaker 1: There weren't a lot of opportunities for him. Jackie sat
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: taking he is well. I think I think you see
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: he's winning different ways, which makes him that speaks to
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: him as a player. He can he's kind of he's
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: winning in certain man situations where the routes running away
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: from guys and he's winning one on one battles, and
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: then in the zone stuff. Just I think it speaks
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: to like the design and feeling where where the defenders are,
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: Geno norm where to go with the ball, getting through
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: his progressions, having time to kind of get through the
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: you know, through the progression, and then like we said
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: after the game, you know there are some cool extended
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: play moments where you can feel like him and gene
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: are on the same page and that'll that'll get you
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: a couple of sneaky, sneaky catches by the end of
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: the game too. So it's kind of all the things
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: right now, which is exciting.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: Statistically, you're under center a little bit more on offense
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: than you had the priority that just kind of happened
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: in that game or was that.
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: A five or yeah, I mean that was just part
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: of that was our game plan going in on some
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: things that we felt like we could could achieve. But
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: we'll see. We'll take week week to week by Right now,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: a lot of.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: People don't have a threatening tight end. They have Trey
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: McBride in Arizona. Can you talk about what tight end
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: like that does to a defense?
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, Trey's a really, really, really good player. And
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: you know, unfortunately he had his one of his coming
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: out parties against the Ravens last year against when we
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: when we played against him. But there's not a lot
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: of tight ends that can do all the things. He's
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: one of the guys I think that you're gonna you're
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: gonna find doubt that you know, you can be on
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: the end line blocking, you can arc, and you can
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: be in space things. A really good route runner. So
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: we got a lot of respect for me. He's a
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: good player. Anything else, thank you? Okay, thanks, all right,
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: Thanks guys,