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Head Coach Mike Macdonald On The Win vs. Saints & Status Of Injured Players · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, how are you doing? The only new uh
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  Speaker 1: injury update is Robber Heats has an ankle, So Josh
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  Speaker 1: Jones has an ankle. So we'll we'll see, uh, we'll
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  Speaker 1: see how those that goes over the next few days. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see you over the next couple of days. Like
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned Carl Scott.
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  Speaker 2: Top times, he's also you guys herefore.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor, I'm sorry, Scott.
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  Speaker 2: What what does he bring to that job that makes
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  Speaker 2: him so fun?
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  Speaker 1: Making sure that I was at it right myself? I
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  Speaker 1: guess what about him?
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  Speaker 3: Do you like it?
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  Speaker 1: Bout his coach and what helps man? Yeah? Just first
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  Speaker 1: of all, just a phenomenal guy I have on the
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  Speaker 1: staff forwards a message. He's phenomenal with with the group,
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  Speaker 1: gets the guys to play the right way. I love
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  Speaker 1: the spirit when he coaches, it's it's it's his own style,
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  Speaker 1: which I appreciate and great teacher. And then he's bringing
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  Speaker 1: a lot to the table game plan wise as well.
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  Speaker 1: So he's doing a heck of a job.
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  Speaker 2: You guys added Josh Job and Darren Kendrick without making
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  Speaker 2: a trade, without he's been in a draft pick without
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  Speaker 2: sending big pread dollars. What's the process of partnership between
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  Speaker 2: front office to identify and coaching to develop those players.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, shout out John and the crew man. It's I
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  Speaker 1: can't take you through what how they're doing it every day,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean it's a I think it's the same
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  Speaker 1: mentality of we're kind of in everything and we're chasing everything,
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  Speaker 1: and we're always looking to make our team better. And
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  Speaker 1: I just really I appreciate that that mentality, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and us learning how we both operate and being
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  Speaker 1: all in together. I think that's how you make those
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  Speaker 1: types of types of things happen.
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  Speaker 2: Seems like there's a lot of heroes on that flip turn,
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  Speaker 2: but the job nea my appreach it did to kind
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  Speaker 2: of create the create the labe and not get called for.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he got started, he got it started. And there
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  Speaker 1: was a couple uh there's some other great decisions on
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  Speaker 1: that play that you know, guys are in position where
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  Speaker 1: they could have got a block in the back or
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  Speaker 1: uh having up I can't think of the word, but
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  Speaker 1: like blocking back towards your your your goal. Yeah, that
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  Speaker 1: blindside block thanks where they just they made smart decisions
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  Speaker 1: in those in those moments and obviously was a heck
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  Speaker 1: of a tour return by by Torri talking.
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  Speaker 3: On the radio about how the sequence and plays before.
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  Speaker 1: That allowed him to be more aggressive, and the return
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  Speaker 1: is that, Yeah. Does that mean like when it's a
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  Speaker 1: fourth and one you have good you can't be that
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  Speaker 1: aggresive because you got to worry.
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  Speaker 3: About the thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: You talked in training camp about what he see Mike
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  Speaker 3: Morris translate was happing on the practice field to the
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  Speaker 3: game field.
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  Speaker 1: How do you feel about the way he's played the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 3: He had a tap for loss on Kamara yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Seems like he's Mike did it, Mike did a Mike
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  Speaker 1: had a really good game yesterday. He's really he's really
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  Speaker 1: kind of responded to to, uh, the competition that's created
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  Speaker 1: in his room, and we expect him to keep going.
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  Speaker 1: And look, that's why we create competition, is this, You're
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna get the best version of guys. Your team's
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  Speaker 1: going to be better and uh, and Mike's kind of
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  Speaker 1: living proof of that. And then it's happening on a
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  Speaker 1: lot of positions on our team right now.
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  Speaker 3: Communications skills needed to be a good special teams coach
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  Speaker 3: because you're dealing with players from three different phases.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, can you elaborate on that? Yeah, I mean, look,
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  Speaker 1: you know Jay's been around the best of them is
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  Speaker 1: uncle and dad are pretty too, good communicators, his grandpa.
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  Speaker 1: You're coaching the whole team, so it's really important. And
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  Speaker 1: and Jay's a great communicator. And I'm sure he loves
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  Speaker 1: sitting in his meetings and he's got again, our coaches
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  Speaker 1: they do it. They're in their own style, which is
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  Speaker 1: true to them, but it's like by our principles, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what we appreciate about.
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  Speaker 2: Him through three games. What do you like most about what?
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  Speaker 1: It's being efficient, decisive, accurate, tough, extending plays when he
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  Speaker 1: needs to, being aggressive when he needs to, taking care
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  Speaker 1: of the ball where he needs to. So let's keep
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  Speaker 1: it rolling, perfect throwing to rowling doos left to thrown
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  Speaker 1: across his body yesterday? How honest does that keep your defense?
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  Speaker 1: Is that specific trade something you guys looked at. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we knew that he was good throwing on the move,
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  Speaker 1: and he was comfortable doing that, and that's obviously a
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  Speaker 1: big part of our system, so that that played a role.
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  Speaker 1: But being able to go both ways helps, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in terms of tendencies, and pulling up boots things like that.
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  Speaker 1: You got to play everything, honest. Does that put a
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  Speaker 1: defensive cord in or specific mind?
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  Speaker 3: If you know what quarterback can do that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, anytime you have to play it straight play plays
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  Speaker 1: straight up and just play the play. Now you're kind
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  Speaker 1: of evening the odds, so advantage offense in that situation.
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  Speaker 2: And updates on Riley Mills progress and whether you guys
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  Speaker 2: expect him to be back at all this year.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't. I haven't gotten a timetable that would give
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  Speaker 1: you an update on the that. But he's looking looks great,
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  Speaker 1: he's training, he's in all the meetings, looks great. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't have a timetable, though, I think the expectation
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  Speaker 1: is at some point he'd be available this year though.
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  Speaker 2: Competition, how would you evaluate the goods and the bats
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  Speaker 2: of your tight.
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  Speaker 1: End room through three weeks ago? Man, they're playing complimentary ball,
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  Speaker 1: they're playing tough, they're playing unselfish football. I think there's
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  Speaker 1: a receiving yards after the catch is important. Not a
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  Speaker 1: lot of critiques. I mean, just keep keep rolling, keep
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  Speaker 1: playing hard, playing our style of ball. Maybe there's some
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  Speaker 1: more explosives in there as we get going, but they're
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  Speaker 1: helping the team win and that's what's the most important.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk about places that you want the defense to
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  Speaker 2: maybe take a step forward. You guys are twentieth and
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  Speaker 2: pass rate success right right.
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  Speaker 1: Now, And you always give me these stats, and I have
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  Speaker 1: no idea that those I really don't. I really don't.
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  Speaker 1: So anytime you're telling it's a lot of times it's
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  Speaker 1: first time or twentieth and what.
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  Speaker 2: Success rate and drop back so okay. And also while
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  Speaker 2: you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Are high twentieth and drop back drop.
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  Speaker 2: Back success right, so some things are staying on schedule
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  Speaker 2: when they're.
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  Speaker 1: Passing it against you guys, okay at this point.
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  Speaker 2: And they're also doing a lot of that with quick
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  Speaker 2: passes where even the Saints are pretty effective yesterday with that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, uh, what do you see is the.
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  Speaker 2: Key aspects to kind of, you know, take the next
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  Speaker 2: step there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad they're successful in quick passes and not like
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  Speaker 1: seventy yard passes, so that's a positive. I mean, last year,
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  Speaker 1: I think our drop back stats were top of the league.
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  Speaker 1: The more dropbacks you forced teams into, the better in general.
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  Speaker 1: So nothing's really sticking out and on top of mind
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  Speaker 1: of like what we're not doing poorly, but I'd like
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  Speaker 1: to get him to more third and lungs. You know,
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  Speaker 1: third and longs a lot more fun than third and three,
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  Speaker 1: third and two and plus territory. Our talk yes about
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  Speaker 1: like a big things being saying we're gonna be harder
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  Speaker 1: round like you get brought up on us.
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  Speaker 2: Good for you, like how much of that when when
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  Speaker 2: you're playing it right, the defense is just guys like
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  Speaker 2: ever physicality versus the scheme.
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  Speaker 1: And an execute play well, I can tell you that
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  Speaker 1: it's not really the scheme. Our guys are when you
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  Speaker 1: play with the light boxes, which is what we do
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  Speaker 1: a lot, somebody's got to take two and that's why.
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  Speaker 1: You know the one point nine that gets you to
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  Speaker 1: twelve is important. And you also have like you can't
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  Speaker 1: just be cookie cutter. This is where I fit and
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  Speaker 1: then I don't do anything else. It's now I relate
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  Speaker 1: to the ball a certain way. I playoff guys in
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  Speaker 1: front of me. A we're trying to be aggressive up front,
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  Speaker 1: to be disruptive as we possibly can, and ultimately it
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  Speaker 1: takes reps so you can build that chemistry so guys
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  Speaker 1: could play off one another.
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  Speaker 2: What you've seen out of your your run game on
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  Speaker 2: offense right now, you.
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  Speaker 1: Just got to block it better and run it better.
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  Speaker 1: That's really that's simple. It's really that simple your offense though.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Sam's getting rid of the ball as fast
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  Speaker 2: as any quarterback in the league, and you guys are
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  Speaker 2: the most explosive passing team in the league. As a
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  Speaker 2: defensive mind, how hard is it to have a guy
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  Speaker 2: get rid of that quickly and still be explosive.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's like the layup question of the century.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's hard. It's hard. We gotta keep that going,
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  Speaker 1: and we got to run the ball more effectively so
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  Speaker 1: we can keep that, keep that trend going. So teams
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  Speaker 1: don't just sit back and make us pass splim window
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  Speaker 1: every game worked out, did any other doumble guys doing
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  Speaker 1: the tag? And when they came down, Jillian and those
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  Speaker 1: guys could uh, none of those guys tested to go once.
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  Speaker 1: Once Sunday came, became pretty apparent they weren't gonna go. THO,
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  Speaker 1: certain game made a good pluck out there, Gay, I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't say so. I wouldn't say so. No, I know
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of funky, but it's just a different injury.
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  Speaker 3: What's the time why now this week?
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  Speaker 2: Is the game plant already in or.
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  Speaker 1: Is that you give them to them tonight or uh,
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  Speaker 1: we're about to do early downs today and pass down
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow on red zone the next day. Kind of just
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  Speaker 1: every day is kind of like a day and a half.
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  Speaker 3: Up.
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  Speaker 1: Sure questions packs Yeah, they said, actually definitely. Yeah. It's well,
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  Speaker 1: it's an acronym for efforts, effort, angles and tackling. So
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  Speaker 1: it's just a it's a mindset on how we finished plays.
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  Speaker 1: I want to do it a certain way. Pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a state of mind, way of life. Uh
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  Speaker 1: CP really is the guy that started it, and we
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  Speaker 1: did it last year on defense, and we're doing on
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  Speaker 1: both sides this year. Justin Ountin heads it up on offense.
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  Speaker 1: Both do a tremendous job, put their own spin on it.
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  Speaker 1: The guys love it. They do a phenomenal job. It's
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  Speaker 1: all about tackling, how we attack the ball, how we
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  Speaker 1: protect the ball, how we get upfield, how we handle
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  Speaker 1: the sideline, all those little kind of hitting yardage type
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  Speaker 1: stuff that we're chasing. Specifically with the run game.
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  Speaker 3: You guys are twenty fifth right now in the yards
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  Speaker 3: before contact so teams are obviously getting into the backfield
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  Speaker 3: more than you like. But what are you seeing from
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  Speaker 3: the blocking of fraud than needs be better to try
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  Speaker 3: to mitigate that, because it seems like yes to Earth
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  Speaker 3: that there was the leakage quite a bit in the run.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's a right. Now, you can probably
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  Speaker 1: bring up a bunch of run stats. It's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: the descript of the same thing. At the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, we're calling the players are fine, we gotta
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  Speaker 1: we got to execute better, gotta block it better, got
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  Speaker 1: to run it better. Unfortunately, it's just really that simple
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  Speaker 1: for you. It's not really a huge story behind it.
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  Speaker 1: We just got to play better.
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  Speaker 2: This morning you took ownership and there on radio they're
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  Speaker 2: being a need for better communication.
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  Speaker 1: Can you elaborate a little bit on that or defense? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you just said generally, Yeah, yeah, I just look, our
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  Speaker 1: place is rocking, and when we're doing we're supposed to
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  Speaker 1: do at home, it's rocking, and uh, we have to
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  Speaker 1: take that into account on what we're asked, like on
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  Speaker 1: how much communication I'm doing with EJ and how that
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  Speaker 1: gets trickled down to the rest of the defense.
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  Speaker 3: You want to take a look at a.
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  Speaker 2: Couple of thespause you had what what you kind of
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  Speaker 2: make up them when you had a dance game.
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  Speaker 1: Of Oh, we we're gonna we're gonna get some clarification
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  Speaker 1: on them. But in those moments, we just we just
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  Speaker 1: I think we just have to have a better idea
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  Speaker 1: what's going on around us? Yeah, I mean it's really
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  Speaker 1: that simple. It's not out of like bad intent or
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  Speaker 1: selfish behavior. I think we just got to be a
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  Speaker 1: little smarter in those moments.
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  Speaker 3: How many of those have you won with the league?
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  Speaker 3: When you say what is this about?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, they don't matter. I mean, like you know, you
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  Speaker 1: never win anything. It's to lose, lose. Proposition stacking wins.
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  Speaker 1: How long have you had that or is that?
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  Speaker 2: Where did that come from?
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  Speaker 1: It kind of the original like Harves had a thing
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  Speaker 1: just like in terms of stacking, which was what he
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  Speaker 1: was talking about, like compound interests and things like that
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  Speaker 1: we did at Baltimore And so that kind of got
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  Speaker 1: me thinking about, Okay, well how does that apply to
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  Speaker 1: how we want to operate from day to day? And
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  Speaker 1: then the w I N is what's important now it's
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  Speaker 1: a lou Holtz thing. Shout out to Haley Haley Holtz.
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  Speaker 1: But so just kind of putting it together and try
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  Speaker 1: to try to paint up sure about how we want
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  Speaker 1: to operate. I think his first career star played every
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  Speaker 1: stamp this last year. Yeah, he shows it. Go in
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  Speaker 1: and play winning football and this is we saw it
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  Speaker 1: in the San Francisco game last year. But he's a
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  Speaker 1: guy that stays ready and works tremendously hard, and there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of communication that is required to that position
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  Speaker 1: and he you know, he communicated great yesterday. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't miss a beat in the back end and
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  Speaker 1: he did a great job. Anything else all right, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you,