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Mike Macdonald Gives Updates Ahead Of Week 1 vs. 49ers · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, gotta love the end season cadence. You know,
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  Speaker 1: see each other every day pretty much.
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  Speaker 2: This is great. Uh yeah, go ahead, they.
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  Speaker 1: Might Uh the message of the rookies, just how important
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  Speaker 1: is it that Sunday is not the it's just part
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  Speaker 1: of the process. You know, it's getting arrived anyway, but it's.
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  Speaker 2: All of the journey.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it's a great point. It's it's it's how
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  Speaker 1: we want to operate. It's definitely, you know, it's the
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  Speaker 1: first game. There's excitement, as it should be. That's the
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  Speaker 1: message this week. But we're trying to play the same
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  Speaker 1: thing we just did on a Friday practice.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's the same.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of sounds probably weird to some to some thinking,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we expect to do it every time we
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  Speaker 1: go out there. It's a little bit different tempo, but
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  Speaker 1: the focus is the same, the intense the same, and
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  Speaker 1: they should be excited for the opportunity to have These
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  Speaker 1: guys have worked their tails off and they've earned this
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to go.
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  Speaker 2: Let it rip claim.
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  Speaker 3: Bad memories sometimes, But if you stick back and to
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  Speaker 3: last season, do you feel like you've got ability to
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  Speaker 3: have more confident in the plays that you call on defense,
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  Speaker 3: or potentially a wider variety of things that you can
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  Speaker 3: call based off the additional time of tad of the guys.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting, it's going that way, definitely. Yeah, first game
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  Speaker 1: of the year, trying to keep it pretty tight. But
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  Speaker 1: our guys have been awesome in terms of understand what
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  Speaker 1: we're trying to create. We've gotten some really cool stuff throughout.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see how see how much we can get to
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  Speaker 2: it and into a game, see how the game flow goes.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, yeah, the short answers, yes, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Is there any any part of how you call games?
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  Speaker 3: It's it's kind of refined or different because of the
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  Speaker 3: experience of last year and having a handle being a
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  Speaker 3: head coach as.
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  Speaker 1: Well, or well, I think I think it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: coming from the same area of we're just growing together
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  Speaker 1: and our defense is evolving from what we're trying to
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  Speaker 1: create and from our personnel, and a lot of our
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  Speaker 1: opponents that were playing are different than a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the opponent schemes that we've You know that this system
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  Speaker 1: has went it's faced the last two years, so you
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  Speaker 1: got to kind of move and shift and stay up
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  Speaker 1: with the times and try to stay ahead of your competition.
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  Speaker 4: Carlo's coming defensive plays in the NFC West, but different.
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  Speaker 1: Than the DFC one.
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  Speaker 2: Deserve uh Man.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, when you know, when Cincinnati was playing their
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  Speaker 1: heavy gun, it was heavy spread out. It was kind
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  Speaker 1: of like Peyton Manning esque back in the day, like
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  Speaker 1: kind of pick you apart after the snap. Steelers a vlways,
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  Speaker 1: they've kind of had their version of their offense for
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  Speaker 1: a long time. When Todd Haley just different, like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's different trees of you know, even though Cincinnati was
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  Speaker 1: coming from a more of a West Coast background, they
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  Speaker 1: tailored it to the people they had, so it just
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  Speaker 1: kind of goes in different directions. Cleveland did a great job.
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  Speaker 1: They're kind of like the teams out here out in
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  Speaker 1: the West. We're all familiar with the offenses that we
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  Speaker 1: play in our division now and they kind of come from,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the same.
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  Speaker 2: West Coast.
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  Speaker 1: Style of offense, just but then they've taken their taking
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  Speaker 1: their turns over time.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just it's just different. You know, it's just different.
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  Speaker 1: So at the end of the day, there's only so
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  Speaker 1: many players you can run, but how you get to them,
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  Speaker 1: how you formate formation it uh personnels that you use
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  Speaker 1: tempos are really important, just how they operate overall. It's
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  Speaker 1: just kind of unique to every team.
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  Speaker 4: I know he's not playing this week, pointing, but what
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  Speaker 4: progress have you seen out of the channel since he's
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  Speaker 4: going to have to get back with you get a
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  Speaker 4: lot of it.
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  Speaker 2: It's yeah, it's the same story.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, just it's hard to put a timetable in
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  Speaker 1: this guy because just keeps beating it. He just keeps
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  Speaker 1: he's ahead of schedule. I mean, he looks great. I
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  Speaker 1: think we just need some more exposure for him, uh
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  Speaker 1: before we you know, we go go do it for
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  Speaker 1: real on Sunday. So, but he's he's doing a phenomenal job.
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  Speaker 2: Looks good.
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  Speaker 3: But did Eurekat hurt in practice or something like.
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  Speaker 1: That, or yes, this is tweaked his hammy running a route.
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  Speaker 3: So do you think Jake Bobo maybe more potentially available
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  Speaker 3: next week.
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  Speaker 2: Or what's the hopeing?
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  Speaker 1: So hoping? So he looks good, just you know, you
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  Speaker 1: got to you gotta clear the protocol. He's just in
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  Speaker 1: it right now. So but he's spirits are positive. But
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  Speaker 1: just we just needed to hit a couple more hurdles
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  Speaker 1: before we uh, before we clear them.
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  Speaker 3: Tory Hart kind of catching up with the time past
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  Speaker 3: and howes he for rookies can be hard to.
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  Speaker 4: Gain this time.
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  Speaker 1: You know, well it's a challenge. It's a challenge for
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  Speaker 1: a rookie. But Toy has done a great job, you know,
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  Speaker 1: stand up to part. I think Frizz has done a
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  Speaker 1: phenomenal job with him jayas the rest of the bets
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  Speaker 1: in the room, keeping up the speed, keeping the standard high.
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  Speaker 1: So again he's earned this opportunity and excited to see
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  Speaker 1: him play on Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: With the exception of we have.
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  Speaker 2: To give us the proctice for you yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: You've had that starting buying group together now for a while.
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  Speaker 4: The kind of progress that you've seen from the unit
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  Speaker 4: of five for them over the last three three plus
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  Speaker 4: three four weeks or so is in units to kind
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  Speaker 4: of coat.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'm excited to see him play.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they haven't really played together in a live
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  Speaker 1: situation a little bit in the Green Bay practice Kansas
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  Speaker 1: City game, so kind of itching to see him, do
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  Speaker 1: you know, go out there and play for real, sou
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  Speaker 1: But they've again another group that's worked extremely hard, cut
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  Speaker 1: their head down, stayed together, practicing the way we want
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  Speaker 1: every day. I mean, it's just really excited to see him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, go out there and and go go play
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  Speaker 1: our ball.
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  Speaker 2: You guys were able to get the extension on the day, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: big news.
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  Speaker 4: Your thoughts on that after seeing the way he's fought
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  Speaker 4: back from the injuries and says first got here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great point.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we all know, we all know Abe's story,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean the resilience city has perseverance, toughness. It's
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  Speaker 1: really tone center for us for our offensive line. Him
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  Speaker 1: having his ties of community is pretty awesome too. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: we love him and we're glad he's gonna be here
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  Speaker 1: for for quite a while.
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  Speaker 4: Leo and Karen to lift this, we've got to have
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  Speaker 4: play of teasings this year and some of the things
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  Speaker 4: that you guys have put in.
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  Speaker 3: Place, kind of off field stuff to get guys helped
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  Speaker 3: to keep falling.
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  Speaker 1: But why is that more you can.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of add to that element.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's there's a lot of reasons. I think the
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  Speaker 1: the first thing that at the end of last season,
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  Speaker 1: watching teams in the playoffs, I just it felt like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you get you're pissed off, you're you're not
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: You're watching the games, you're mad. You know that you
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  Speaker 2: should be in the game.
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  Speaker 1: You know you should be out there, and you think
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  Speaker 1: you can beat all those teams.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's it's kind of the natural. At least
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  Speaker 2: that's what happens to me.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what happens to everybody else, but it
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  Speaker 1: just became very just it was clear to me, or
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  Speaker 1: at least I felt like it was clear that like
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  Speaker 1: those teams felt like they were connected and they were tough,
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  Speaker 1: and that's where we needed to get and.
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  Speaker 2: So and that's the team that we want to be.
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  Speaker 1: That that's the that's the initial vision we had, but
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  Speaker 1: just to help clear it up, and we've had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people in our building feel the same way,
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  Speaker 1: and so it was it was it's been a fun
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  Speaker 1: acess to try to get aligned and and and attack
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  Speaker 1: this thing together.
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  Speaker 2: And this is ultimately you know, we're heading in the
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  Speaker 2: right direction.
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  Speaker 1: Of the vision we want to create for for our organization,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, that's exciting.
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  Speaker 2: But that's where it started.
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  Speaker 1: To that point.
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  Speaker 3: Bade Hurts yesterday sent Leo, Jared Reid, and d Law
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  Speaker 3: with the three NI Eagles with a Murphy being a sidekick.
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  Speaker 2: Aware that I haven't.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't heard that yet, but makes sense, tough.
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  Speaker 2: What what do you look for through not around.
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  Speaker 1: Life and football?
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  Speaker 2: You got expecting that to be along thing?
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  Speaker 1: No, hopefully not Well, hopefully we'll practice, we'll kind of
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  Speaker 1: get a better feel in the middle of next week.
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  Speaker 2: Do you plan to have all three quarterbacks active Sunday?
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  Speaker 2: Or uh?
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  Speaker 1: Do you really want me to answer that, Bob? Or
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  Speaker 1: can we wait to the game. Let's wait to the game,
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  Speaker 1: way to the ninety minutes.
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  Speaker 2: It's good, good for us there.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, obvious the first game out of season's a big
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  Speaker 1: time but is there extra emphasis this one since you're
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  Speaker 1: playing the forty nine ers at the last game of
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  Speaker 1: the season, so good way.
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  Speaker 2: To get your startup.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know again, it's like it's it's just is
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  Speaker 1: what it is. It's just it's the it's a it's
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  Speaker 1: we're playing a game Sunday. It's another opportunity for us
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  Speaker 1: to go be our best and it's gonna be awesome
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  Speaker 1: because it's in front of our front of the twelves,
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  Speaker 1: which is a great atmosphere for us, and we're really
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  Speaker 1: excited about that. But I just think it's an eat
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  Speaker 1: if you start chasing you know, gravity a games and
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  Speaker 1: things like that, especially for Look, you're looking at a
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  Speaker 1: head coach that I haven't coached a playoff game yet.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't coached you know, you start saying games are
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  Speaker 1: bigger than they are, then you just sometimes you might
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  Speaker 1: get out of whack. So every game is big and uh,
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  Speaker 1: this is the next one.
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  Speaker 4: Earlier we actually about tyreson camp at him having like
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  Speaker 4: a snapcount. I guess, well, maybe on the table when
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  Speaker 4: we're having to back up, does he need to be
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  Speaker 4: on one?
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  Speaker 1: We let's just say it's it's on the table, it's
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  Speaker 1: under consider Yeah, what kind of mindset do you need
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  Speaker 1: to have a thro out around?
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  Speaker 2: Said?
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  Speaker 3: Is that staying where you're at, where your feed are on,
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  Speaker 3: stay focused.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I get the mind it kind of like
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  Speaker 1: that kind of is the mindset. You know, it's like, look,
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  Speaker 1: are we gonna avoid stuff? Are we gonna take the
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  Speaker 1: easy way out? Or are we gonna do what's best
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  Speaker 1: for the team at all times? You know, are we
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  Speaker 1: gonna go around blocks or were we gonna go through blocks?
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna run reverses all day, or we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna run our offense. You know, it's just you could
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  Speaker 1: take anything. You know, are we gonna we're gonna go
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  Speaker 1: through the process every day and do what's necessary for
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  Speaker 1: us to become a great football team, or are we
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  Speaker 1: gonna take easy way outs and find shortcuts and do
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that. We want to we want to be
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  Speaker 1: going through stuff. We don't want to be avoiding the
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  Speaker 1: right things to do at all times, minimizing distractions as
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  Speaker 1: part of that as well. Yeah, I mean, look, I
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  Speaker 1: just like I think you just I think it's like
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  Speaker 1: an ee things he said, keep everything as simple as possible,
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  Speaker 1: but no simpler. So he's a pretty smart guy.
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  Speaker 3: You kind of have some amount of control over how
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  Speaker 3: things go up until now, and then you enter the
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  Speaker 3: season and there's gonna be overreaction, whether it's goes one
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  Speaker 3: way or the other. How do you kind of prepare
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  Speaker 3: the team and yourself for what comes after the game.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think you know, you have to do a
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  Speaker 1: good job of understanding of what happened and why. And
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  Speaker 1: that's why we kind of debrief on Mondays, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: not all wins you played your best, and not all
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  Speaker 1: losses you played your worst. So sometimes a lot of
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  Speaker 1: it's always somewhere in the middle, and you have to
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  Speaker 1: have that mindset. And it's kind of like you I say,
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  Speaker 1: it's like just keeping your eye on the prize and
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  Speaker 1: where we would go.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, where are we what do we do? What do
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  Speaker 2: we need to do process wise as a team to to.
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  Speaker 1: Make sure we're staying in the right direction is kind
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  Speaker 1: of really the thought we have. But you start you
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  Speaker 1: start overacting the things one way or the other one.
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  Speaker 2: That's not good.
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  Speaker 1: People are you know, guys are watching like that's that's
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  Speaker 1: not how we want to do business.
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  Speaker 2: And too, it's just it's not the quickest way to
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  Speaker 2: get to where you want to get as well.
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  Speaker 4: So picture question with jam and No Robert, just what
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  Speaker 4: you thought of the offseason he's had and where do
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  Speaker 4: you feel like his braininess is to build.
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  Speaker 2: With No one of you guys can endish He's he's
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  Speaker 2: on his way. He's on his way, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, the spirit, the person, the work, ethic, the talent,
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  Speaker 1: all those things.
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  Speaker 2: Love it.
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  Speaker 1: But he's he's going through the process of becoming an
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  Speaker 1: NFL quarterback. So up until that, but until until those
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  Speaker 1: responsibilities are earned, we're going to be, you know, doing
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  Speaker 1: the things that he's great at.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, it can help the team, right now.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's that's that's that was the initial vision
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  Speaker 1: and and uh, that's what we're sticking to is what are.
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  Speaker 2: You most curious?
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  Speaker 1: So even maybe you don't totally known.
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  Speaker 2: Totally play, I wouldn't say cure.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just I'm excited to see our guys play. I
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  Speaker 1: mean I I just go through each position.
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  Speaker 2: Group of.
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  Speaker 1: What they've done and and the work that they put in.
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  Speaker 1: And you're saying, look like, I can't wait to see
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  Speaker 1: you do X. You know, I can't wait to see
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  Speaker 1: our kickoff coverage team. I want to see them, you know,
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  Speaker 1: get off a block and make a tackle. I want
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  Speaker 1: to see her off the line, run off the ball.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: There's just I want to see our offense operate the
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  Speaker 1: way I've seen it in practice every day. There's just
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  Speaker 1: there's so many examples of things that you're excited about
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  Speaker 1: our guys having the opportunity to do on the stuff
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  Speaker 1: they've been training to do.
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  Speaker 4: Everything else.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you,