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  Speaker 1: Travis has brought it every single week. It continues to
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  Speaker 1: be one of our best playmakers, and we'll continue to
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  Speaker 1: do everything we can to give them opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: One of them wasn't really pissed ball. How do you
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  Speaker 2: feel like the offense, It just seemed like they had
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  Speaker 2: a more rhythm, a better flow to it overall.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we made plays. We had explosives here
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  Speaker 1: and there, so we're able to maintain possession of the
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  Speaker 1: ball and just continue to get through certain things. You
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  Speaker 1: have plays that are built off other plays, but if
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  Speaker 1: you're not able sustain drives and stay on the field,
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  Speaker 1: those situations would be it drops penalties, not converting on
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  Speaker 1: third down. That makes it tough. It's tough to get
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  Speaker 1: yourself in that rhythm to get going and starts with
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  Speaker 1: the first down and bleeds into whatever the second down
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  Speaker 1: situation is. If you're inefficient on first down and your
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  Speaker 1: second long, you're in a tough spot and now it
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  Speaker 1: kind of feels like you're sledding uphill a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: It felt like the other day we were able to
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  Speaker 1: have success on first down led into second manageables, led
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  Speaker 1: into just converting and playing a lot on first and
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  Speaker 1: second down normal downs as we call.
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  Speaker 2: It, where I believe I've had a statement correctly where
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  Speaker 2: Trevor took the shot. I believe in Oliver on the
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  Speaker 2: touchdown pass. This is a I think that was the
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  Speaker 2: play where.
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  Speaker 3: Oliver was like lined up in front of Shurf, but
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  Speaker 3: he kind of went in said, but you couldn't tell
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  Speaker 3: from looking at the film whether Shurf's responsibility was.
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  Speaker 2: Oliver or whether there was something else, or whether it
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  Speaker 2: was supposed to be foreigner. So I was wonder if
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  Speaker 2: you could shed some.
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  Speaker 4: Weight on that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I believe based on the protection call we had.
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  Speaker 1: Within the call, I believe he thought he had inside help.
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  Speaker 1: And I can't remember exactly what happened, but I believe
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  Speaker 1: Brandon set him on the outside thinking he had inside help,
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  Speaker 1: and for whatever reason, help on there necessarily. So I
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  Speaker 1: think that's kind of what caused us to be a
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  Speaker 1: little leaky and protection there, and Trevor took a hit
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  Speaker 1: for it kind of.
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  Speaker 4: Finally looked like the line was getting to where you
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  Speaker 4: wanted it, and something else kind of pops up. How
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  Speaker 4: much how difficult is it when those constant shuffles along
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  Speaker 4: the whole line have been happening all year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, honestly, that's just life in the NFL. I mean
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  Speaker 1: to say you're going to be healthy throughout the offensive
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  Speaker 1: line throughout a season is rare. That doesn't happen often.
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  Speaker 1: So again, this is something we've always tried to prepare
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  Speaker 1: for with guys moving in and out. Obviously, we knew
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  Speaker 1: cam situation, so we knew all along Week five there's
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  Speaker 1: a possible shuffle within the line room, so we try
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  Speaker 1: to prepare for that as early as we could. But
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  Speaker 1: it is there's a lot of comfort in knowing who
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  Speaker 1: you're playing next to, communicating with the guy next to
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  Speaker 1: you for the long haul. You guys are on the
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  Speaker 1: same page, see it the same way, hear the same voice.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that that's obviously valuable. But that's not
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  Speaker 1: that's not real. That doesn't happen often enough, so you're
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  Speaker 1: always kind of prepared for that shuffling. Those guys, I
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  Speaker 1: think do a great job. It starts with just the
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  Speaker 1: culture they create in their meeting room of spending time.
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  Speaker 1: They're all on the same page of what they expect,
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  Speaker 1: so when it is next man up, everybody has confidence
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  Speaker 1: to that guy can go do his job at a
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  Speaker 1: high level.
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  Speaker 3: How challenge is that though you as a play caller
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  Speaker 3: and then the rest of the offense, when you have
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  Speaker 3: such shuffling on the offensive line, you know, protection issues happen,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes run issues.
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  Speaker 5: So what's the challenge there and how do you overcome it?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean that's always the challenge. You hope that
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  Speaker 1: you've put your guys in position to be able to
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  Speaker 1: handle those certain things, whether it be can't just practice.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we shuffle our guys every single rep on
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  Speaker 1: practice just to get through what you think could potentially happen.
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  Speaker 1: Who we go through all the injury contingencies throughout the week.
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  Speaker 1: This guy goes down, he goes there. If that guy
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  Speaker 1: goes down, now we move these two. You know, there's
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  Speaker 1: a constant shuffle, a constant planning for it, and I
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  Speaker 1: think calling a game working through it, you're always mindful
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  Speaker 1: of the offensive line because I think that is one
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  Speaker 1: of the toughest, most underrated matchups in the games, the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line or stephensive line. So you're doing everything you
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  Speaker 1: can to try to either minimize mismatches or maximize mismatches
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  Speaker 1: if they're in our favor throughout the course of the game.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I think our guys do a good
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  Speaker 1: job playing well together. Whatever that looks like, whatever combination
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  Speaker 1: it is, they're in sync and in unison, continue to
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  Speaker 1: try to work together.
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  Speaker 4: There are a way to sure up some of the
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  Speaker 4: interior penetration. Maybe the play that Gene mentioned it was
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  Speaker 4: a third and one where guys in tanks face the
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  Speaker 4: second he gets the ball. Is there a way to
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  Speaker 4: kind of shure up some of those this happens.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're always self scouting to make sure that there's
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  Speaker 1: not a certain tendency of we're you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: the one you're referencing was the third and one early
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  Speaker 1: in the game, to making sure it's not always the
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  Speaker 1: same combination to where a defensive line can start to
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  Speaker 1: tee off. And that's kind of the same thing of
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  Speaker 1: minimizing or maximizing matchups we have on the defensive line
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  Speaker 1: because our offensive line versus defensive line, because I think
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  Speaker 1: that's what it was. We feel like, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: were hat for hat. We just got beat inside and
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  Speaker 1: we got beat too quick, and so that that obviously
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  Speaker 1: makes life tough, and especially in short yarded situations. So
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  Speaker 1: it's something we continue to try to self scout ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: make sure We're not don't have any certain tendencies one
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  Speaker 1: way or the other in terms of what we try
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  Speaker 1: to do in those situations.
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  Speaker 5: There was a stat that came out this week. You
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  Speaker 5: guys are the lowest team in terms of rate of
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  Speaker 5: running the ball and second down second ten halfter an completion.
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  Speaker 5: It wasn't important just to kind of stay ahead to
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  Speaker 5: schedule if you get maybe an a completion run first
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  Speaker 5: down instead of trying to go for a running game.
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  Speaker 1: I think again, it's kind of case by case. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I saw the same stat somebody show that to me
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  Speaker 1: because we were the only team without a rush attempt
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  Speaker 1: or something like that, so we kind of did our own.
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  Speaker 1: I think we only have eleven of those such situations,
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  Speaker 1: so we have a low number. It's obviously early in
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  Speaker 1: the season, but I think part of it too, we've
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  Speaker 1: been pretty good when we have thrown the ball in
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  Speaker 1: first down and putting the ball in play. We're scrambling
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  Speaker 1: for positive gains, so we don't have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: those situations. And then it's just a matter of what
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  Speaker 1: defenses are we getting, we're getting pressure, what are we getting.
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  Speaker 2: Weak to weak?
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  Speaker 1: So we'll always try to do whatever we think is
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  Speaker 1: best in that situation, and that kind of comes from
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  Speaker 1: the study we give throughout the week of how are
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  Speaker 1: they going to play second long versus how do we
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  Speaker 1: want to play second long? How can we create a
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  Speaker 1: matchup in the past game and then when the time
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  Speaker 1: is right or when the look is right of running
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  Speaker 1: the ball. There's a lot of times too where maybe
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  Speaker 1: you have a pass called that's killed to a run
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  Speaker 1: or vice versa. It's a run killed to a pass
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  Speaker 1: versus the right look. So a lot of that happens.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's a lot of time if you get
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  Speaker 1: into disparity of run pass in certain situations, well maybe
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  Speaker 1: you call the play that was a run and for
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  Speaker 1: whatever reason the ball got thrown, quarterback checked it, it
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  Speaker 1: had a kill with it. Of our runs have throws
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  Speaker 1: on him based on certain defenses.
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  Speaker 5: My last one Travis's second touchdown run Britain strangers block
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  Speaker 5: on there. Just I mean, what have you guys seen
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  Speaker 5: from him just in that regard, you know, run blocking,
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  Speaker 5: his ability to kind of make an impact.
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  Speaker 1: He's done a great job just bringing a level of physicality,
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  Speaker 1: which for a young player or rookie in this league.
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  Speaker 1: Five games in, it's been impressive to see. We've been
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  Speaker 1: really impressed having him and kind of just getting our
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  Speaker 1: chance to work with him and see him day in
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  Speaker 1: day out. Of the physicality he can bring. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's athletic on the second level, he's physical on the
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  Speaker 1: first level. He hasn't had a lot of opportunities as
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  Speaker 1: a ball carrier, but he's a really good ball carrier.
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  Speaker 1: When those opportunities come as the season goes, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're excited to see him shine. And those chances you
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  Speaker 1: mentioned explosive plays there was.
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  Speaker 2: There was a few more this week than than prior weeks.
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  Speaker 2: It seemed like you guys were getting more air on the.
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  Speaker 5: Ball, pushing the ball down the bildle bit more.
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  Speaker 3: Was that an emphasis, what were you guys trying to
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  Speaker 3: do that or was that just opportunities for presenting themselves
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  Speaker 3: this week?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think a little bit was just opportunities to
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  Speaker 1: present themselves. I mean we had you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: we ended with ninety something plays or something like that,
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  Speaker 1: plays called or place started. So anytime you get that,
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  Speaker 1: you're getting more opportunities. Anytime you're staying effishent on first
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  Speaker 1: and second down, you're in those normal down situations where
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  Speaker 1: it's not an obvious pass situation, and then you're just
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  Speaker 1: trying to put the ball in play. You're keeping the
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  Speaker 1: pass rush at bay first and second down. We try
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  Speaker 1: to utilize the threat of the run, so whether it's
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  Speaker 1: play action movements, running the ball, play action screens with
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  Speaker 1: the ability to kind of present a look to the
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  Speaker 1: defense and not let them tee off and just pass rush.
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  Speaker 1: So that allows us to maybe create a bigger pocket,
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  Speaker 1: get guys down the field, not necessarily pass block the
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  Speaker 1: whole time, but play action protect a little bit. So
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  Speaker 1: now you're getting guys twenty thirty yards downfield being able
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  Speaker 1: to push the ball at times. So I think that's
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  Speaker 1: all a byproduct of it. I don't think it was
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  Speaker 1: necessarily we have to do this. It was just that's
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  Speaker 1: how the game played out and presented itself, and we
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  Speaker 1: were able to stay in those situations where that was
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  Speaker 1: a good thing for us.
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  Speaker 3: Before the thirty two yard pass complete to Ridley, obviously
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  Speaker 3: you don't have you you know, you can't communicate with
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  Speaker 3: Trevor after he's already at the line of scrimmage. Were
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  Speaker 3: you saying yourself, what's your right?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, look, you're right. Look what we
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  Speaker 2: got on the right side.
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  Speaker 1: No, I mean we we always talk about we do
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  Speaker 1: it every single week, we do it through the off season,
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  Speaker 1: through training camp. We have our SOPs, which is our
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  Speaker 1: standard operating procedures, So you can't cover every single situation
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  Speaker 1: that could come up in a game that week. So
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  Speaker 1: we know they had zero blitz in their in their inventory.
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  Speaker 1: We know they brought it before we talked through it
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  Speaker 1: all that. We spend time in a meeting room. You
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  Speaker 1: only have so many reps, but a lot of that
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  Speaker 1: you just fall back on what you know, what we've
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  Speaker 1: trained them to do. So we were in an empty set,
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  Speaker 1: we had our tight end an unique spot. They showed
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  Speaker 1: a zero pressure and Trevor just kind of fell back
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  Speaker 1: on what we've trained him to do in that situation.
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  Speaker 1: And I think a credit to everybody of just he
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  Speaker 1: gave a signal. You got about three seconds once it
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  Speaker 1: play signaled to be able to know what to do,
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  Speaker 1: to be able to execute your job at a high level.
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  Speaker 1: He put himself in a situation where he knew he
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  Speaker 1: was hot. He took a hit in the back of
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  Speaker 1: the head and made a great throw and Calvin made
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  Speaker 1: a great play right there. So It was awesome by
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  Speaker 1: those guys to execute in that moment.
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  Speaker 4: Wasn't the only.
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  Speaker 2: Third down where Trevor was able to sort of lean
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  Speaker 2: on Calvin?
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  Speaker 1: Is that I guess that trust an example of that
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  Speaker 1: conraaderie trust building a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: I think.
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  Speaker 1: So it feels like that chemistry of you know, knowing
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  Speaker 1: when he runs this route, how it's gonna look for
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  Speaker 1: stack coverage or that type of leverage or I think
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  Speaker 1: you are seeing that a little bit, and and part
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  Speaker 1: of it that's just you know, I don't necessarily think
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  Speaker 1: that was a concerted effort just we're gonna throw the
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  Speaker 1: ball to Calvin all the time. It just ended that
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  Speaker 1: way based on the way the coverages dictated themselves. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that's something you see with Trevor and our
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  Speaker 1: offense as a whole, is the ball goes where the
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  Speaker 1: ball needs to go. We're not trying to force feed
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  Speaker 1: anybody any certain way. And you know, I think we're
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  Speaker 1: at our best when our targets are spread between our
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  Speaker 1: playmakers because we have a lot of good playmakers, be
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  Speaker 1: it you know, the receiver room, tight ends, running backs,
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  Speaker 1: all that, and that's just a good job by Trevor
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  Speaker 1: to work those progressions and get the ball where it
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  Speaker 1: needs to be.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks cool I guess