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Press Pass | Mike Caldwell: "It all goes together, the pass rush and the secondary." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Hey, Mike, when you've got a quarterback like that, who
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  Speaker 1: like Josh Allen, who is so big and so powerful
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  Speaker 1: that if you get into third down and two, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you put yourself at a distinct disadvantage. Does it put
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  Speaker 1: more focus on keeping him in second and long and
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  Speaker 1: third and long to try to take away the run
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  Speaker 1: game from him?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's the plan all the time, is keep teams
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  Speaker 2: in at our advantage in third and longs and second alongs.
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  Speaker 2: But you're right, a big guy like that, that really
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  Speaker 2: great runner, and it's gonna be tough. So we just
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  Speaker 2: go out there and try to understand our game plan
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  Speaker 2: and focus on keeping them in those situations.
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  Speaker 1: This league who can run, and we've seen plenty of them,
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  Speaker 1: but this guy in particular, it's the combination of size
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  Speaker 1: and speed. What's your tackling plan, you know, upfront, what's
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  Speaker 1: your mentality with a guy like that? How do you
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  Speaker 1: account for him?
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  Speaker 3: Really?
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  Speaker 2: The skill set that he has. He's the great runner,
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  Speaker 2: he's the great thrower, so you have to get bodies
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  Speaker 2: around him. He's the big guy that it's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: hard for one guy to bring him down. So our
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  Speaker 2: is getting multiple guys around him and try to get
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  Speaker 2: him on the ground.
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  Speaker 3: Like I get the turnovers coming bunches. But since you've
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  Speaker 3: gotten here consistently on the top teams the league and
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  Speaker 3: forcing turnovers, is that your identity and how do you
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  Speaker 3: continue to sort of, I guess emphasize that and be
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  Speaker 3: successful at.
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  Speaker 2: I think I don't know if it's our identity, but
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  Speaker 2: we want it to be that. We focus on out
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  Speaker 2: a bunch. That's the topic in you know, almost every meeting.
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  Speaker 2: We have to take the ball away from the offense
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  Speaker 2: and give it back to our offense. So that's one
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  Speaker 2: of the things that we like to do. And we've
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  Speaker 2: had a little bit of success here lately of getting them,
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  Speaker 2: so hopefully they'll continue to come.
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  Speaker 3: Mike.
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  Speaker 4: Josh obviously has a couple of huge games. Josh Allen,
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  Speaker 4: Your Josh Allen this year? Did you see a lot
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  Speaker 4: of that brewing last year as well? And maybe he
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  Speaker 4: didn't get to the sack numbers he's at right now
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  Speaker 4: in this first month, but almost there and almost Is
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  Speaker 4: this your expectation for him to deliver games like that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, really, Josh has He's had a bunch of pressures
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  Speaker 2: last year and he went home and you know, focused
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  Speaker 2: on really just finishing, and as a staff and as
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  Speaker 2: a you know, defense, we talked about finishing and he's
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  Speaker 2: been able to finish early on in the season and
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  Speaker 2: we look for that to continue. Josha put the work
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  Speaker 2: in in the off season. He's a talented player. He
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  Speaker 2: came back in it's paying off for him and us.
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  Speaker 4: How good is your secondary playing? It seems like a
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  Speaker 4: different guy's making a play safeties and corners just about
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  Speaker 4: every week.
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  Speaker 2: I think when you look at it, it all goes together,
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  Speaker 2: the pass rush and the secondary. And when the pass
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  Speaker 2: rush is doing well, the secondary is doing well. When
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  Speaker 2: the secondary is doing well, the past rush is doing well.
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  Speaker 2: So it really goes together. And right now, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're working pretty good together.
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  Speaker 5: Just coming back to what was being honest before about
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  Speaker 5: keeping them in kind of thud and long situations. The
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  Speaker 5: one game we've seen Josh Allen struggle this season was
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  Speaker 5: when he did have a lot of pressure on him.
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  Speaker 5: How are your guys finding the balance this week between
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  Speaker 5: finishing like you talked about, but also knowing that if
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  Speaker 5: you go hard and he makes you miss, then suddenly
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  Speaker 5: that turns into a big blay situation.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good question, really you just have to go
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  Speaker 2: out there and execute your game plan. We understand we
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  Speaker 2: don't want to fly by the quarterback. We want to
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  Speaker 2: stay in his face and then just try to get
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  Speaker 2: him on the ground with multiple guys. You know, we
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  Speaker 2: want to be aggressive and try to attack him and
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  Speaker 2: then also be smart with how we rush him. So
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  Speaker 2: there's a plan and we'll go out there and see
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  Speaker 2: if we execute. On Sunday, we saw that your josh
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  Speaker 2: Aden was limits in practice yesterday. How serious is that
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  Speaker 2: and how much of it will you have to adjust
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  Speaker 2: if he's not one hundred percent? Really, we really allow
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  Speaker 2: the media the training staff to answer that question. He
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  Speaker 2: was out there, he was limited, but we let him
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  Speaker 2: handle those questions. Just back to the secondary for a moment.
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  Speaker 4: How much is what they're doing, the familiarity with what
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  Speaker 4: you want them to do in year two of this system.
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  Speaker 2: I think anytime you're in a system for a year
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  Speaker 2: and then the second year you improve just because you've
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  Speaker 2: heard it over and over again and we're preaching the
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  Speaker 2: same message. Now they're able to you know, apply it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it is. You can go back to just early on
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  Speaker 2: in the season. They're able to pass things off. Now
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  Speaker 2: we did have a couple of bad plays against Texas
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  Speaker 2: where we reverted back, but again it's a work in
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  Speaker 2: progress to guys are continued to get better and we'll
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  Speaker 2: continue to progress like that way.
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  Speaker 5: Just in general, for this week being out here for
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  Speaker 5: the full week instead of having to fly, and it's
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  Speaker 5: your second year of kind of doing these London games.
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  Speaker 5: Has this felt like a normal game week to a
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  Speaker 5: normal prep week or have you still had to treat
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  Speaker 5: it differently considering those stresses? It don't behind him no.
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  Speaker 2: Whichever week it was, last week we treated like a
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  Speaker 2: normal week, and this week we're doing the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: Football players are. You know, there are creatures a habit,
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  Speaker 2: and you get into a habit. You want to do
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  Speaker 2: the same thing on Wednesday you did the last Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: and we try to let their habits take over. And
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  Speaker 2: we're trying to keep our schedule the same, and that's
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  Speaker 2: where we go at it. We're here to play the
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  Speaker 2: Bills and our schedule will be the same if we
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  Speaker 2: play three or four more games here.
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  Speaker 3: How much has Cisco advanced in your scheme and specifically
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  Speaker 3: what is he doing better than you did last year?
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  Speaker 2: I think really his understanding of the overall scheme is better,
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  Speaker 2: and he's catching the ball. He had opportunities last year
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  Speaker 2: and he didn't come up with those catches. Now he's
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  Speaker 2: coming down with him. And you know, he's a talented player.
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  Speaker 2: He had all the skill. He had a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: range back there. And you like the way he's attacking
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  Speaker 2: the ball and he'll continue to do that, all right,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you,