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Press Pass | Press Taylor on BTJ, Injuries & Offense Through 4 Weeks · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Press more than be put on Bride's play ballume wise,
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  Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, how's he really responded to that?
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  Speaker 2: Just his confidence he's done a great job. He can
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  Speaker 2: handle a lot. That was one of the things we've
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  Speaker 2: been most impressed with him early on. You'd never see
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  Speaker 2: it to the naked eye, but we change personnel so much.
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  Speaker 2: There's times he plays Z, times he plays X, and
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  Speaker 2: he's able to do that really well. And it's great
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  Speaker 2: communication throughout the receiving corps, the way we sub things
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  Speaker 2: like that, and then just the mental aptitude to be
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  Speaker 2: able to handle a lot of that as a young player.
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  Speaker 2: And we've tried to be intentional about kind of taking
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  Speaker 2: it slow with him and you know, give him a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things, but still things that we think he
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  Speaker 2: does really well. And then we'll continue to expand that
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  Speaker 2: as he shows, you know, the ability to do even more.
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  Speaker 1: Into a different guy. When he's on the food, whether
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  Speaker 1: the first down celebration that he gets flag Hoorn did,
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  Speaker 1: he's like, you can see the will's turning as he
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  Speaker 1: picks up the big plays and he's trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: out what to do to see him come out of his.
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  Speaker 3: Show like kind of use that as fuel form. How's that?
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  Speaker 2: It's awesome? I mean, he's a competitor. That was one
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  Speaker 2: of the things you saw from the jump of You know,
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  Speaker 2: he's not celebrating stuff like that in practice, but you
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  Speaker 2: see a different attitude, different competitiveness show up in those situations,
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  Speaker 2: which is what you always hoped, which is what you'd
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  Speaker 2: heared in the past, and things like that makes it fun.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you make a good play, you deserve to celebrate,
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  Speaker 2: So things like that within the rules. Obviously, we don't
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  Speaker 2: want to get a penalty that sets us back some yards.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I think it's it's fun to see guys
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  Speaker 2: compete and enjoy competing.
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  Speaker 3: Talked about this week Trevor Lawrence and compared him to
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  Speaker 3: the sky cheffhe at the President's cub Adrenaline gets going
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  Speaker 3: sometime you see those deep passes that maybe sail a
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  Speaker 3: little bit. How do you, I guess, deal with that?
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  Speaker 3: You just dialop another one and say, Okay, we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: take another shot, so you can kind of know because
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  Speaker 3: you know he can make that throw, right, So how
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  Speaker 3: do you deal with that?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's we don't lose confidence in Trevor for
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  Speaker 2: missing a throw. It's gonna happen here and there, and
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  Speaker 2: obviously some of the ones that we've missed the other
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  Speaker 2: day were potential big plays. But that doesn't that doesn't
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  Speaker 2: deter us from anything. He has never shown anything to
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  Speaker 2: lack the confidence to let anything like that affect him
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  Speaker 2: to where if you saw that, I think if he
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  Speaker 2: came off and you saw the wide eyes, or you
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  Speaker 2: saw something or he said something that made you nervous,
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  Speaker 2: then it's all right, we got to get this guy
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  Speaker 2: some layups. We got to get him back in the group.
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  Speaker 2: We've never once felt that from Trevor. So as long
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  Speaker 2: as we continue to see confidence from himself, this team,
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  Speaker 2: this offense, this coaches that we have ultimate confidence in
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  Speaker 2: Trevor to deliver every single time we ask him to.
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  Speaker 2: Is he going to No, It's rare that people do
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  Speaker 2: every single time, But you know, we're continuing to work
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  Speaker 2: for that consistency. As an offensive unit, we expect that
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  Speaker 2: from him as well. But there's no lack of confidence.
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  Speaker 2: We'll continue to give him the ball in critical situations through.
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  Speaker 3: How much interaction did you have with Brian?
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  Speaker 2: With Brian, yeah, we had a we had a formal
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  Speaker 2: with them, so a formal at the combine that fifteen
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  Speaker 2: minute speed dating thing, we had a top thirty with
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  Speaker 2: them here, so we got to spend a lot of time.
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  Speaker 2: The top thirty here is where you really get to
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  Speaker 2: sit down, get a feel for him, talk to him,
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  Speaker 2: spend a day with them. They're still obviously out of
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  Speaker 2: their element. They're in a business interview, so tough, but
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  Speaker 2: we had a good feel for a lot. We know
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people at LSU that had worked with
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  Speaker 2: him throughout the course of his career there that had
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  Speaker 2: great things to say about him, and obviously that's that's
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  Speaker 2: important to you, Especially you're going to invest a first
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  Speaker 2: round pick on a guy. You want to know the
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  Speaker 2: ins and outs of the character, the work ethic, the competitiveness,
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  Speaker 2: all that, and so all that came back great. We
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  Speaker 2: had a great feel for him here and he's been
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  Speaker 2: nothing but impressive as we've gotten here.
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  Speaker 1: Like, did you know that going in.
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  Speaker 2: That was a little bit of Yeah, I mean he's
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  Speaker 2: he's to himself and he's about his business and and
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  Speaker 2: that's just kind of how he is. But it was
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  Speaker 2: it won't anything where we felt like we can't work
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  Speaker 2: with the kid because he keeps quiet he's just he's professional,
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  Speaker 2: he's mature. He goes about his business the right way.
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  Speaker 2: If he needs to ask questions, he'll ask questions. But
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  Speaker 2: for the most part, he just kind of goes about
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  Speaker 2: his business the way he does.
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  Speaker 1: Been a little bit more open about like if he
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  Speaker 1: was here when he got here.
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  Speaker 2: Just growing every single day. I don't know if I
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  Speaker 2: put a number on it, but I think you just
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  Speaker 2: see and again I think it you kind of take
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  Speaker 2: it for grant that these guys move to a new
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  Speaker 2: city with new faces and a new building. They're trying
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  Speaker 2: to figure out everything. Where do I stay, how do
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  Speaker 2: I get the work, what are the coaches expecting me?
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  Speaker 2: Who are the coach like all that type of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So I think, just naturally you spend more time around
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  Speaker 2: an environment, you're going to grow into that environment. And
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  Speaker 2: so I think that's just something you're seeing with him.
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  Speaker 1: How much of a negative impact has it been just
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  Speaker 1: not having evany Ingram from the field the last few weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously. I think one of the big parts is
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  Speaker 2: Evan's such a like energy giver for our group, just
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  Speaker 2: the way he plays the energy, He plays with the
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  Speaker 2: energy on the sidelines in practice, that enthusiasm is a
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  Speaker 2: big thing. So I think we've to an extent missed that.
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  Speaker 2: Now we have the other guys that step up into
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  Speaker 2: that role and do a good job, and then just
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  Speaker 2: Evan's production through his time here is something obviously you're
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  Speaker 2: going to miss. Now. We're very happy with Brenton's progression,
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  Speaker 2: the way he stepped into that role, being able to
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  Speaker 2: use Luke a little bit more here and there. But
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  Speaker 2: anytime you're missing a great player, obviously it's going to
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  Speaker 2: impact you in some way, shape or form.
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  Speaker 1: Has that change how you guys might attack the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the field. It feels like there's a lot more outside.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, do you feel that way with that? It
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  Speaker 1: seems like the middle of the field hasn't been attacked
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  Speaker 1: as much. Is that because of Evan or is it
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  Speaker 1: just how the game is gone or what's what we go?
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  Speaker 2: A little bit of both, I mean a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of the covered structures you get and things like that,
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  Speaker 2: of how many people they put inside the numbers, the
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  Speaker 2: way you do certain things, what type of linebacker are
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  Speaker 2: you attacking? Is play action affect them? Does it not?
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  Speaker 2: There's certain things and then obviously, yeah, Evan has the
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  Speaker 2: size and the capability to produce over the middle of
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  Speaker 2: the field. But no, I wouldn't say that that's helped
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  Speaker 2: us back in anyway shap or form, not having Evan
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  Speaker 2: Oh is the.
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  Speaker 3: Short yard of situations? You need one yard? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: is it frustrating when you can you're there, you need
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  Speaker 3: one it's fourth and one. You're on the goal line,
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  Speaker 3: whatever it may be, and you're trying to kind of
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  Speaker 3: dig in your bag of tricks to figure out what
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  Speaker 3: you can do to pick up that one yard.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, every situation is its own, so you're
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  Speaker 2: you're looking at a number of things, and that one,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we decided to go to eleven personnel, spread
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  Speaker 2: them out, had a five man box. Didn't work out
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  Speaker 2: for us, and we want to go back to our process.
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  Speaker 2: How did that play get there? What did we expect?
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  Speaker 2: Did we wrap it against a certain looks, did they
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  Speaker 2: play it a certain way? All those types of things.
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  Speaker 2: But that's different than so we're gonna get in big
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  Speaker 2: people and we're gonna line up and we're gonna run
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  Speaker 2: this play, kill it to that play for a certain looks.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, each situation is its own, will handle
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  Speaker 2: each one its own way and We're always just trying
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  Speaker 2: to do what's best for our personnel against their personnel
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  Speaker 2: in the situation.
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  Speaker 1: What's the what's the I guess the answer. I guess
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  Speaker 1: you would do it if you knew it. But for
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  Speaker 1: the red zone, for the red zone stuff, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what's been the the crux of that.
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  Speaker 2: And really, I mean again, each one's kind of been
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  Speaker 2: a little bit different as we've gone. You know, we
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  Speaker 2: had the fourth and one opportunity at Houston, which again
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  Speaker 2: we were happy with the way it presented itself, but
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  Speaker 2: we didn't you know, for a number of reasons, it
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  Speaker 2: didn't go the way we hoped it would go. You know,
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  Speaker 2: at Cleveland, we had some communication issues that kind of
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  Speaker 2: set us back a little bit, put us in a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of a friends. We scored a touchdown, have
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  Speaker 2: a penalty, get called back. So there's again, each situation
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  Speaker 2: is its own thing. We don't just throw a blanket
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  Speaker 2: over it and say this is why we look at
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  Speaker 2: each one individually, this is why this didn't work, this
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  Speaker 2: is why that didn't work. Whatever it may be, this
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  Speaker 2: is why it did work. Or then we go back
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  Speaker 2: to our process. Are we showing them the right thing
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  Speaker 2: or we the reason for that being on the call sheet.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes it comes down to we're in this personnel, they're
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  Speaker 2: going to play that personnel percentages tell us there and
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  Speaker 2: this coverage that defense. There's a lot that goes into it.
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  Speaker 2: That's why we spend all this time during the week
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  Speaker 2: of doing that, and then we try to prep our
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  Speaker 2: guys off. Here's the expectations. Here's also the outliers we
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  Speaker 2: need to cover and be prepared for as well. Defense
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  Speaker 2: I think very disciplined. I think I wouldn't use the
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  Speaker 2: term simple because it's not simple. But they know what
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  Speaker 2: they do really really well. They know what you're trying
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  Speaker 2: to do to attack them really really well. They spend
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  Speaker 2: a lot of time emphasizing those route concepts, those runs,
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  Speaker 2: whatever that may be, of how you attack them because
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  Speaker 2: they've seen it. They've run. This defense to its core,
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  Speaker 2: has been run since Seattle, Legion of Boom, all that
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  Speaker 2: type of stuff. It's been through this building obviously, so
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  Speaker 2: guys know it really well. They know their issues very well.
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  Speaker 2: They fly around sideline to sideline. They're very disciplined in
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  Speaker 2: their gap assignments. And then they've got the d linemen
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  Speaker 2: to make it go and Grover Stewart has made as
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  Speaker 2: much as an impact as any defensive tackle in the
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  Speaker 2: last two years, probably just getting off the ball and
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  Speaker 2: damaging some things and then it's made I think Zaire
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  Speaker 2: has been top five and tackles and the last two years.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that a lot of that comes from the
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  Speaker 2: way the d line gets off the ball and the
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  Speaker 2: way they understand their fits and how they're making plays
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  Speaker 2: defense like that.
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  Speaker 1: That's so disciplined.
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  Speaker 3: They know how you want to kind of attack them
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  Speaker 3: because of their weakness. Is how difficult is it or
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  Speaker 3: how much pressure doesn't put on guys that do the job.
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  Speaker 3: That's the right way to make sure.
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of it's your quarterback just executing
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  Speaker 2: the simple routine, boring plays over and over and just
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  Speaker 2: being productive. And this is what it takes to find completions,
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  Speaker 2: to move the ball forward, to stay ahead of the chains.
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  Speaker 2: And that's something we feel like we've done well through
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  Speaker 2: the course of it. But it's hard. Sometimes it's hard
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  Speaker 2: to all right, we haven't tried to throw the ball,
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  Speaker 2: we haven't tested them deep. We need to take a
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  Speaker 2: shut all that, and sometimes it's just keep throwing six
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  Speaker 2: yard completions, keep protecting the ball, keep drop, stepping knife
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  Speaker 2: in for extra yards, over and over and over and
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  Speaker 2: over and see where the course of the game takes us.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks