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Geno Smith: "DK Is Such A Special Player" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon. Good you do.
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  Speaker 2: You got to see your cousins player this weekend? Uh
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  Speaker 2: down in Oregon?
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  Speaker 1: What was that experienced like? Oh? It was fun? Man.
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  Speaker 3: It was uh obviously wish they would have won the game,
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  Speaker 3: but that was a great game. Uh was able to
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  Speaker 3: you know, get away and just go see little Cus play.
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  Speaker 1: Man. It was Uh, it was super fun.
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  Speaker 3: I was super proud of 'em man, just watching him
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  Speaker 3: grow up through the years and just all the things
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  Speaker 3: that all the hard work he's put in. You know,
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  Speaker 3: obviously it's paying off, but uh, he's a special player. Man,
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  Speaker 3: it's an even even more special person.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what was that like for you to
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  Speaker 1: take a couple of days off and get away?
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  Speaker 3: You know, no days off, man, I'm I was still
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  Speaker 3: working studying, you know, getting ready for this game. You know,
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  Speaker 3: really just studying the Falcons. But you know, had some
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  Speaker 3: time off. You know, got a lot of time with
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  Speaker 3: my son and just with the fam and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: good to rest the body and just uh you know,
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  Speaker 3: start recovering getting ready for this week.
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  Speaker 2: What are the things when you look.
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  Speaker 4: At the offense the last let's say three games, what
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  Speaker 4: are the positives that you take away?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Uh, there are a lot of positives, you know. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: One of the things that I see is the relentless
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  Speaker 3: effort that we have, the you know, always gonna fight
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  Speaker 3: mentality that we have. Each one of these you know,
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  Speaker 3: previous games and all these games we've been in, it
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  Speaker 3: had a chance to win it at the end. And Uh,
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  Speaker 3: obviously you want to get that done. You want to
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  Speaker 3: you want to make it happen. But you can just
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  Speaker 3: see how the guys out there are fighting their tails
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  Speaker 3: off and doing you know, scratching and claw and doing
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  Speaker 3: whatever it takes, you know, to get a win. And uh,
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  Speaker 3: whenever you fall short, I think that kind of goes unnoticed.
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  Speaker 1: But guys are definitely given effort.
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  Speaker 3: And then you know, what I will say is that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we can be a lot better in a
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  Speaker 3: lot of areas. You know, we left a lot out
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  Speaker 3: there in the past three weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: But some of the positives are the accountability that we've
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  Speaker 3: all taken. You know, every every single player is looking
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  Speaker 3: inward and saying what can he do better?
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  Speaker 1: How can he help this team this offense?
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  Speaker 3: And so you know, when you have guys like that,
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  Speaker 3: who are you know, constantly seeking within themselves to be better. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: it makes for just an outstanding environment, and I think
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  Speaker 3: that's what we have here.
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  Speaker 4: I think, Yeah, in all three you had the ball
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  Speaker 4: with one possession.
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  Speaker 1: Don posession of.
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  Speaker 4: These in the fourth quarter, or did you see when
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  Speaker 4: you look back at those you see anything like the
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  Speaker 4: themes like we just do this different.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Uh, you know, I think for us, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I always speak about execution when I'm up here, and
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  Speaker 3: I always talk about you know, doing the little things
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  Speaker 3: right and just you know, always being detailed, especially in
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  Speaker 3: those you know, those moments where the games on the line.
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  Speaker 3: So the things that I see is just executing just
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  Speaker 3: a touch better.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: It's not like a huge, huge makeover that we need
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  Speaker 3: to make. It's just doing the little things right in
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  Speaker 3: those you know situations where it's dire situations in the
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  Speaker 3: games on the line. Yeah, you want to be in
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  Speaker 3: every single game. We have that type of team. We're
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  Speaker 3: going to be in every single game. We can beat
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  Speaker 3: every opponent on our schedule, but you know, when it
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  Speaker 3: comes down to it, you got to make it happen,
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  Speaker 3: especially in those clutch moments.
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  Speaker 5: The DK said he called you to called you about
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  Speaker 5: that last route, essentially to kind of say, hey, that
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  Speaker 5: was on me kind of thing. What did that mean
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  Speaker 5: to you to kind of hear that from Dk?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it just speaks volumes to the type of person
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  Speaker 3: he is, the amount of character he has. Obviously, honestly,
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  Speaker 3: he didn't have to say that. You know, obviously I'm
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  Speaker 3: happy that he took accountability and said that, But it's
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  Speaker 3: on me as well for throwing the ball, you know,
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  Speaker 3: So it's not just on him, it's on both of us.
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  Speaker 3: It's on all of us as an offense. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: like I said, man, DK is such a special player.
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  Speaker 3: He wants to make the play at all times. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, when you have a guy like that on
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  Speaker 3: your side, Man, I'm onna live and die with that
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  Speaker 3: guy no matter what what happens out there. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I got his back, I know he's got mine, and
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna go out there and make a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: great plays moving forward. And so, you know, sometimes there
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  Speaker 3: are tough moments like that, and they're there are things
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  Speaker 3: that we all can improve on. But you know, from
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  Speaker 3: my perspective, man, he's been great. He's been outstanding, and
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  Speaker 3: he's gonna continue to get better. And you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: my job to help him get there, Oh.
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  Speaker 1: That particular play do you do?
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  Speaker 3: You want to encourage that improvisation and creativity if him
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  Speaker 3: breaking off robs or it's just you know, your offense
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  Speaker 3: to the point where you need to stick the script
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  Speaker 3: as much as fuck. Yeah, obviously we want to stick
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  Speaker 3: to the script. And you know, like I said, do
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  Speaker 3: all the little things right, like whatever it is is,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's you know, me in the pocket, my timing,
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  Speaker 3: my reads, or the receivers you know, running route routes,
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  Speaker 3: it all works together. And so yeah, we want to
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  Speaker 3: stay on script. But we're so great off script as well.
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  Speaker 3: You've seen us make a ton of plays where I've
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  Speaker 3: broken the pocket and been able to scramble and you know,
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  Speaker 3: hit big plays to Tyler or to Jackson or DK
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  Speaker 3: and so in those moments again, man, like you never
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  Speaker 3: questioned the guy's decision making what he saw. You just
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  Speaker 3: talked through it and use those as learning experiences. That's
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  Speaker 3: the best part is that although you know it sucked
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  Speaker 3: at the moment and I hated it and we all did,
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  Speaker 3: we were able to learn from it, a gain from it,
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  Speaker 3: you know, so it doesn't go in vain And like
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  Speaker 3: you said, man, just want to stay on script at
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  Speaker 3: all times. But we are great at improv as well,
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  Speaker 3: and so there's a fine line that you walk with that,
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  Speaker 3: and we just got to keep getting better at itimp
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  Speaker 3: that you held the ball longer in the pocket than
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  Speaker 3: you normally do, and then the timing and.
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  Speaker 1: Keep breaking off the route. All that got thrown up
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  Speaker 1: by that as well.
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  Speaker 3: It could be it could be you know, I'll say,
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  Speaker 3: I've never seen a stat sheet where it says receiver interceptions.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's always gonna go on the quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, I gotta be on time at all times.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I gotta throw the ball and put it
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  Speaker 3: put that put our guys in the right spots to
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  Speaker 3: be successful. And I got to make sure that I'm
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  Speaker 3: throwing on time so that they can feel the rhythm
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  Speaker 3: of the plays and feel good about what we practice
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  Speaker 3: carrying over to the games. And so yeah, I'm taking
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  Speaker 3: ownership of all that. I gotta be a lot better
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  Speaker 3: and I.
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  Speaker 6: Will bee line. I mean, how close is it between
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  Speaker 6: There's plays like that where he makes adjustment. You don't
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  Speaker 6: aception Miami game. You both see something he adjusts. It's
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  Speaker 6: a big touchdown.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah that that uh, that's our offense man, and uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we have we do have the freedom to
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  Speaker 3: if we see something to adjust based on the coverage.
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  Speaker 3: And it's never like we're just going out there just
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  Speaker 3: doing anything. You know, there's stuff that we practice and
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  Speaker 3: we talk about in meetings, and so when it comes
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  Speaker 3: down to it, you know, there's a fine line to it.
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  Speaker 3: We all got to be on the same page, not
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  Speaker 3: just me and dk uh, the entire offense. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we all got to be on the same page. But
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  Speaker 3: that was an instance where we weren't, and so obviously,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it gets magnified in those situations. But for
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  Speaker 3: us as an offense, for me receiver to quarterback, quarterback
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  Speaker 3: to receiver, just knowing that, you know, we gotta be
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  Speaker 3: on script, we gotta be on time, in rhythm, and
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  Speaker 3: then when things break down, we're great enough to make
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  Speaker 3: those plays and we will.
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  Speaker 4: The Sun has played from behind a lot the last
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  Speaker 4: three games. Flipping the script and getting out to an
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  Speaker 4: early lead. What is set open up for everything?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it obviously helps out our defense, allows
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  Speaker 3: them to be more aggressive when we take leads early
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  Speaker 3: in games. Helps our balance because then you can run
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  Speaker 3: the ball, you can control the clock a little bit more.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have to be as pass happy when you're
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  Speaker 3: playing from behind, you know, trying to catch up.
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  Speaker 1: So it just helps the entire team.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you talk about complimentary football, that's what that's
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  Speaker 3: what we say when we say start fast. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you want to start fast, get a lead, let the
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  Speaker 3: let the defense go out there and get a stop,
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  Speaker 3: a three and out, and then go and you know,
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  Speaker 3: expand on that lead. And so those are things that
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  Speaker 3: we're still working through, still working on. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm so excited for this week and you know, just
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  Speaker 3: the way that we're approaching this week and all the
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  Speaker 3: guys are locked in, and you know, we had some
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  Speaker 3: really tough meetings. Coach Mike McDonald was extremely extremely honest
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  Speaker 3: with us and it allowed all of us to be vulnerable,
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  Speaker 3: you know, to express what we're feeling and where we
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  Speaker 3: can be better. And that was something that really helped
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  Speaker 3: us this week.
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  Speaker 5: What does extreme modesty sound like from d coach?
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  Speaker 1: Just being blunt, you know, straight to it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: this is what's hurting us.
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  Speaker 3: Turnovers, penalties, playing behind the chains, those are the things
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  Speaker 3: that are hurting us. When we don't shoot ourselves in
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  Speaker 3: the foot we're a really good offense. We're a really
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  Speaker 3: good team. But when we make it easy on the defense,
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  Speaker 3: we make it easy on the opposing team by giving
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  Speaker 3: them turnovers, extra possessions, you know, putting ourselves behind the sticks,
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  Speaker 3: allowing them to pass rush and you know, kind of
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  Speaker 3: tea off on our old line at times. It just
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  Speaker 3: puts us in a tough situation. And we've been able
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  Speaker 3: to climb out of those situations. But you know, you
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  Speaker 3: don't want to be in that too often.
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  Speaker 5: What do you feel like your running game is right now?
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  Speaker 1: I love it, man.
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  Speaker 3: I think we have the right players, we got the
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  Speaker 3: right schemes. Obviously, like I said, if we take the
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  Speaker 3: lead and we're able to play in the you know,
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  Speaker 3: in a little bit of a less uptempo style, you
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  Speaker 3: can really see it come to life. I think that
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  Speaker 3: first game against the Broncos where the old line took
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  Speaker 3: over late in the game and we ran the ball, well,
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  Speaker 3: that's what we talk about when we say complimentary football.
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  Speaker 1: So I think we're right there where we need to be. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: We got to improve a bunch obviously.
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  Speaker 3: Uh we got to create some more balance, but uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's a long season and and those things
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  Speaker 3: will happen.
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  Speaker 6: You play against Raheem Morris defenses with the Rams a
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  Speaker 6: couple of last couple of years. Does this look similars?
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  Speaker 6: What do you see promiscon Land defense?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, very similar in scheme, obviously different players, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: Raheem's a guy who does a great job at tailoring
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  Speaker 3: his defense to the type of personnel he has. And
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  Speaker 3: so they're using different guys in different spots. You know,
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  Speaker 3: they got you know, Judon, they got uh Jared up front, Uh,
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  Speaker 3: some really good you know interior guys and as well
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  Speaker 3: as some guys on the back end that can play
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  Speaker 3: as well. So similar scheme, but you know, obviously doing
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  Speaker 3: what's best for those guys.
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  Speaker 4: I think cod and when you.
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  Speaker 5: Look at the pass rush of the Falcons or the
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  Speaker 5: number of sacks or pressures or anything like that, what
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  Speaker 5: do you know those guys can do?
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  Speaker 4: The might not be showing up in the statue.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, just knowing the the type of players they have, right,
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  Speaker 3: Like Grady Jarrett has been uh in one of the
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  Speaker 3: better uh interior guys in this league since he's gotten
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  Speaker 3: to the league. He's a He's explosive up front. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: he moves well, he can penetrate, he can get in
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  Speaker 3: your backfield, he can cause havoc.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: You know Matt Judon again, another guy on the edge
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  Speaker 3: who uh is a per perennial pro bowler, a guy
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  Speaker 3: who has you know, speed to power. Uh, he can
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  Speaker 3: set the edge. He does a lot of you know,
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  Speaker 3: things really well. And so uh when you look at
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  Speaker 3: those guys up front, when you look at their back end,
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  Speaker 3: with Terrell and two veteran safeties who are both Pro bowlers,
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  Speaker 3: it makes for a really good matchup for us. And
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  Speaker 3: I think they, you know, have some great guys over there. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: they've been playing well lately and so they're confident, right,
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  Speaker 3: and it's gonna be another test for us. But uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we're we're extremely excited and looking forward to.
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  Speaker 2: You played a lot of man teams earlier in the year,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, Atlanta's one of the heaviest zwing teams with
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  Speaker 2: a lot of cover three. What are generally some of
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  Speaker 2: the things that uh are opened up in in zone
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  Speaker 2: and the cover three versus some of the man stuff
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  Speaker 2: you see.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, the interesting part about this defense is
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  Speaker 3: although it is zone, they play a match style defense,
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  Speaker 3: so it plays out like Man a bunch of times,
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  Speaker 3: and so you know, you can expect it to feel
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  Speaker 3: like man. Even though it's zone. They'll match you. If
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  Speaker 3: you come into their zone, they'll they'll play you like man.
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  Speaker 3: And I think what you see is they're trying to
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  Speaker 3: keep things in front. You know, they're trying to eliminate
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  Speaker 3: the big plays. They've been doing a great job at that.
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  Speaker 3: Eliminate the big plays, make you play mistake free football.
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  Speaker 3: You know, have those long, you know, ten plus play
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  Speaker 3: drives where you gotta you know, check it down a
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  Speaker 3: few times, you gotta you know, convert a few third
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  Speaker 3: downs in order to get into the red zone. And
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  Speaker 3: then that's when they get more aggressive in the red zone,
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  Speaker 3: trying to keep you out the end zone. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean they do play you know, you could say
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  Speaker 3: it's a fire zone or three zone, but it'll it'll
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  Speaker 3: play like man because it's match some of.
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  Speaker 4: The penalties of offense. You guys had stuff like that
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  Speaker 4: ineligible downfield, legal shift OPI, things like that. You guys
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  Speaker 4: have reps out here on practice, have you know, are
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  Speaker 4: they calling it tighter on games than what you've seen
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  Speaker 4: in practice.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it varies game to game.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, and each referee crew has a different you know
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  Speaker 3: emphasis that they look at, and so that's something that
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  Speaker 3: we got to be aware of as well. You know,
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  Speaker 3: just knowing the type of refs that we're facing. You know,
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  Speaker 3: some guys, you know, you'll see it. You know, some
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  Speaker 3: guys don't call it as tight, you know, as far
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  Speaker 3: as you know, lineing downfield or some of those things,
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  Speaker 3: and other games, I mean they're calling it every time.
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  Speaker 3: So you just got to adjust in the game and
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  Speaker 3: just you know, know the type of refs you're you're facing,
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  Speaker 3: and uh know the things that you can't do, which
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  Speaker 3: is obviously some things that have been hurting us.
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  Speaker 1: And so we're we're doing everything we can to correct that.
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  Speaker 5: The first series, you guys make it right down the
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  Speaker 5: field and there was the interception obviously, and then after
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  Speaker 5: that I got a little tough for a future. But
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  Speaker 5: was there something that changed there after that first series.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll just take it back to execution, man Like again,
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  Speaker 3: it's always gonna be what we do. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna face a tough opponent every single week. There's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be drives that you're not gonna score every single
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  Speaker 3: drive in the NFL. I mean, that's the reality, but
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  Speaker 3: we try to you know, that's our goals. Every time
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  Speaker 3: we touch it, we gotta score. And so you know,
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  Speaker 3: if we go through a tough moment, it's okay. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we know that we got the players on our side
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  Speaker 3: that are gonna make things happen, and and we've done
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  Speaker 3: that for the most part. But uh, you know, just
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  Speaker 3: got to get back to winning, so you know it
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  Speaker 3: feels a little better.
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  Speaker 2: You painted when you were younger. Do you still paint?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: I don't have much time at at this uh current moment,
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  Speaker 3: but I'll I'll definitely get back to it once I'm done.
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  Speaker 1: Playing any else. Thank you, Thank you guys.