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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Recaps Week 4, Gives Updates On Injuries · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: We had a great morning with the guys. Still meeting
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  Speaker 1: right now. It's been a great day so far. Excited
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  Speaker 1: to keep it rolling. Mike, you.
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  Speaker 2: Guys still are one of the best defenses in the
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  Speaker 2: NFL outside the red zone. I think you're now ranked
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  Speaker 2: 31st in the red zone in EPA. Anything new that
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  Speaker 2: you're noticing coming out of this game?
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a point of emphasis. It's not
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  Speaker 1: just one thing. I think we just need to focus
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  Speaker 1: on As a whole football team, it's like a moment-by-moment mindset.
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  Speaker 1: When the ball gets down there, we need to kind
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  Speaker 1: of recalibrate and refocus and take it one play at
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  Speaker 1: a time and play our style of ball. There will
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  Speaker 1: be some things throughout the week that I think we
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  Speaker 1: might tinker with with our process, but I think we
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  Speaker 1: just keep chipping away at it.
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  Speaker 3: Is that process with the whole team or just.
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  Speaker 4: On the defensive side of things?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think it was good to get the ball
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  Speaker 1: in the end zone on red zone, in the red
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  Speaker 1: zone on offense. We put our attention to short yardage
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  Speaker 1: and red zone last week. It's not like we're going
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  Speaker 1: to ignore it now on offense, but red zone is
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  Speaker 1: always going to be a point of assist with us.
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  Speaker 1: We practice it every day. We've been a good red
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  Speaker 1: zone team on defense here for a while, and offensively
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we're getting better, so we'll keep chasing it.
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  Speaker 3: Last week you talked about special teams and that you
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  Speaker 3: wanted to see coverage tighten up a little bit better.
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  Speaker 3: On kick coverage, what did you see in special teams yesterday?
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  Speaker 1: I thought we took a step. Guys are trying. I
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  Speaker 1: think there's some details we still want to detail up
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  Speaker 1: and get better at, but again, it's another game. There's
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  Speaker 1: some more observations, some really good stuff, but I think
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of just the next part of the process.
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  Speaker 1: Back to the film, what did you think of the
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  Speaker 1: run game yesterday? I thought the run game was effective.
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  Speaker 1: I think we ran it like 4-4 carry for 100
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  Speaker 1: and whatever yards. His hand told me today, it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: I go, how many yards did we run for? He goes,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. Love it. I think there's spots where
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  Speaker 1: it could be more effective for sure. Room for improvement,
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  Speaker 1: like with the rest of the team, but given JD's
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  Speaker 1: situation through the middle of the week and Emmanuel stepping
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  Speaker 1: up and playing, I I thought everybody handled it well.
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  Speaker 5: It seems like you've had some success off the running
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  Speaker 5: back screen game too so far to start the year.
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  Speaker 5: What have you liked about it and how those guys
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  Speaker 5: have kind of factored in to that part of it?
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  Speaker 1: It's another example of why we just shift our focus
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  Speaker 1: to where we want to get better and guys make
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  Speaker 1: it come to life. The linemen have done a great
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  Speaker 1: job hitting their targets out in the perimeter and the
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  Speaker 1: alley and our runners have been more decisive once they
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  Speaker 1: got the ball so Again, we've had good returns. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean we just stop working on it. We just
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  Speaker 1: keep hammering away, but it's great to have that asset
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  Speaker 1: of our offense because it's tough to defend. Any more
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  Speaker 1: clarity on Leonard Williams? Nothing new, but nothing that would
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  Speaker 1: change what I said this morning.
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  Speaker 2: You guys have had 12 penalties, I think, on defense.
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  Speaker 2: Six of them have come on third down. How much
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  Speaker 2: of the message to the defense is clean up our
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  Speaker 2: own stuff to get where you want to go?
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  Speaker 1: I think the context behind probably overestimated the importance of
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  Speaker 1: the context behind the penalty in terms of the down
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  Speaker 1: and the distance. We want to play great football all
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  Speaker 1: the time, no matter the circumstance. I don't like the phrase, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're in our own way. Chasing edges means something around here.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, hey, we want to play a certain way.
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  Speaker 1: We want to bring it up to the line, and
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  Speaker 1: then we don't want to cross the line. There's some
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  Speaker 1: plays yesterday where we went over the line. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to learn from it. We're going to move forward. The
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  Speaker 1: guys are great today. But in order to play our
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  Speaker 1: style of defense and play physically and have waves of
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  Speaker 1: the football and be able to take aggressive angles to
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  Speaker 1: the ball and taking shots on the ball, things like that,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to live that life. Sometimes you go over
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  Speaker 1: the line a little bit, and we'll learn from it
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  Speaker 1: and keep Keep rolling.
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  Speaker 4: What did you see from Trayvon Diggs and the handful
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  Speaker 4: of snaps he played?
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  Speaker 1: Tray did a great job. He had a good game.
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  Speaker 2: There's some reports out there you guys are close to
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  Speaker 2: signing Joe Mixon or brought him in for a visit.
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  Speaker 1: Any comment you can provide on.
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  Speaker 3: That or not this time?
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  Speaker 1: Joe worked out this morning and he's going through the
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  Speaker 1: process right now of whatever else it entails of how
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  Speaker 1: the process goes. Is that process going to result in
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  Speaker 1: him joining your practice squad? It would be for the
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  Speaker 1: practice squad, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: What was the thinking behind bringing Joe in and having
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  Speaker 3: him try.
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  Speaker 4: Out?
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  Speaker 1: We're down runners. We need running backs. He's a good
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  Speaker 1: running back.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe on that topic, with Rasheed kind of getting a
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  Speaker 5: couple carries there yesterday, was you guys wanting to get
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  Speaker 5: him some looks there as a result of being nicked
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  Speaker 5: up in camp, or was that something you would have
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  Speaker 5: wanted to try to do anyway?
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  Speaker 1: We've had that in all camp. This isn't a quote
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  Speaker 1: from Fleury, but it just felt like it's appropriate because
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  Speaker 1: of JD going down and gave us some speed. That
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  Speaker 1: was cool.
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  Speaker 4: Receiver blocking, I think last week or a couple of
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  Speaker 4: weeks ago, a couple of the big touchdowns. You had
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  Speaker 4: Cooper Cupp, you had Jackson making plays. What does that
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  Speaker 4: do for a team when the receivers downfield are.
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  Speaker 1: Putting those blocks in? It's... that's how we want to
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  Speaker 1: play football. So we need to be able to block,
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  Speaker 1: you know, second and third levels. That's how you get
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  Speaker 1: explosive plays. That's how you get runs off the ground. Um,
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  Speaker 1: it's really just, it's how we want to play, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to be kind of just blunt about it, honestly. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but the guys did a great job yesterday. They really
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  Speaker 1: deserve a lot of credit and, um, Coop had a
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  Speaker 1: tremendous game. Jack's blocked. Well, Tori did some good things. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: We've got to keep it rolling on that front so
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  Speaker 1: we can pop runs.
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  Speaker 2: Do you expect Ty Okada to be practicing this week?
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  Speaker 2: And if he is, do you expect him to be
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  Speaker 2: practicing to start?
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  Speaker 1: Ty will be practicing this week. Yeah. The things we
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  Speaker 1: said earlier about him possibly playing is in play.
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  Speaker 3: Aside from maybe the penalties, how did you think Nick
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  Speaker 3: did a lot.
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  Speaker 5: Of good things.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to remember, he's in no training camp. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't have a preseason. He's had limited practice snaps. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's a good example for our team. This is
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  Speaker 1: a new team. This is a new year. We've got
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  Speaker 1: to go back through the process of how we want
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  Speaker 1: to play certain things. Nick did a lot of great
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  Speaker 1: things yesterday. He's only going to get better. We've got
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  Speaker 1: to do a great job as coaches to keep it
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  Speaker 1: in his wheelhouse and let him do things that he
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  Speaker 1: does really well. He's holding up his end of the bargain.
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  Speaker 1: Some room for growth, but a lot of good things
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 2: What does it say about this team that when you
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  Speaker 2: need it the most, that last drive, defense comes up
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  Speaker 2: with the play that they did to put this thing in?
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  Speaker 2: What does it mean that they were able to do
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  Speaker 2: that in that moment when it mattered?
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad we closed the game out. It was just
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  Speaker 1: we had so many opportunities to close it out before
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  Speaker 1: then and fell short. And so we just keep chipping
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  Speaker 1: away and just keep, you know, go to the next play.
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  Speaker 1: Like we talked about the red zone, it's the same mentality.
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  Speaker 1: Things don't go your way. The ball ends up in
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  Speaker 1: the red zone. It's not for a good reason, but
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  Speaker 1: you got to be able to kind of rinse, repeat
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  Speaker 1: and kind of refresh your brain and get back at it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they had a first down, they got the
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  Speaker 1: drive going, but the guys got, got set again. Jenna got,
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  Speaker 1: you know, got his cleats in the ground, got a
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  Speaker 1: great get off. Murph pushed the pocket. guys cover the routes,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's, that's when a good football shows up.
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  Speaker 3: I heard you mentioned that you hadn't watched a lot
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  Speaker 3: of film of the Niners yet, but you're going to,
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  Speaker 3: what have you seen from San Francisco so far?
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  Speaker 1: Nothing. I've been meeting since I got two more meetings
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  Speaker 1: after this and then I can start.
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  Speaker 2: Opportunity for Herb Charles potentially start practicing this week.
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  Speaker 1: There's a possibility.
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  Speaker 3: Zach gets some team reps this week, or that was
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  Speaker 3: the hope, I guess. Is that just a couple of
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  Speaker 3: reps here and there, or are you trying to get
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  Speaker 3: him five, ten reps to see sort of how he responds?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know the exact number, but it's the next
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  Speaker 1: stage in his return to play progression, and we'll kind
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  Speaker 1: of go from there. So it's exciting. It's exciting. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure he's excited to get some team reps on Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: and pads on. It should be great.
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  Speaker 3: How well did he play yesterday?
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  Speaker 1: Great. Byron's playing great football. Really great football. Run and pass.
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  Speaker 1: He'd be the first to tell you there's things he
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  Speaker 1: can get better at still, but he's really playing great
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  Speaker 1: football right now.
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  Speaker 5: I know you guys were looking to get more opportunity
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  Speaker 5: for him in the pass rush game this year. What
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  Speaker 5: have you liked about his game so far on that
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  Speaker 5: front with the opportunities he's had? Obviously, he won that
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  Speaker 5: won pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 1: He won his one-on-one when they, when they turned to Leo.
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  Speaker 1: And then when they, um, when he gets double teamed,
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  Speaker 1: he pushes the pocket, sets up success for the next guy. So,
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  Speaker 1: What else do you want? He's just a great player
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  Speaker 1: that does a lot of things that go unnoticed. I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad you're asking about him because he deserves shout-outs.
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  Speaker 4: Last week, you mentioned on Friday, it would be kind
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  Speaker 4: of a special game for Jay going against his dad
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  Speaker 4: to get a turnover on teams. Was that pretty fun
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  Speaker 4: for Jay.
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  Speaker 1: To I don't want to speak for Jay. I think
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  Speaker 1: the fact that the game is over is a relief probably.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't want to speak for him, but
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  Speaker 1: I can't imagine. I just, you know, again, I can't
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  Speaker 1: imagine my dad being on the other sideline, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so kind of wild. But one for the history books,
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  Speaker 1: I think.
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  Speaker 2: There's some new news about the Tariana Arnold case. Do
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  Speaker 2: you have any more information about his situation?
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  Speaker 1: I don't, no, no.
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  Speaker 5: Torrey's made a couple good plays for you the last
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  Speaker 5: few weeks in the limited chances he's got. What's the one,
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  Speaker 5: how do you feel like he's looked so far this
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  Speaker 5: season and the balancing act of trying to find some
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  Speaker 5: chances for him?
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  Speaker 1: Torrey's doing a great job. He probably deserves some more opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: Who do you take off the field is kind of
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  Speaker 1: the problem. Not the problem, but the question you've got
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  Speaker 1: to ask. He's definitely earned those opportunities. I'm excited to
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  Speaker 1: see where that goes. That's a good Good thing going on.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a lot of good players that we want
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  Speaker 1: to get out there and get the football. Torrey's doing
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  Speaker 1: a really good job. Anything else? All right.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.