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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Previews The Divisional Round Matchup vs. 49ers · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, good to see everybody Thursday for us, Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: for you.
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  Speaker 2: Off we go, Like, I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Curious when how much of a difference does it make
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  Speaker 3: for the personnel that's on offense versus where they line up,
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  Speaker 3: like if you have a receiver in the backfield versus.
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  Speaker 2: Different personnel happiness. Yeah, it's uh, it's week to week.
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  Speaker 1: Who you're playing, what defense you're in, you know kind
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  Speaker 1: of depends, you know what what world are you in
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  Speaker 1: on defense? And then you know, how do you account
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  Speaker 1: for who's out there? So you know, if you're in
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  Speaker 1: some sort of man idea, normally you're trying to find
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  Speaker 1: your guy. If you're not, only you're going off of
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  Speaker 1: some sort of account and then how you how you
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  Speaker 1: how you account for those things? So and San Francisco
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  Speaker 1: does a great job with putting guys in weird spots
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  Speaker 1: and making sure you understand where everybody is.
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  Speaker 4: The last two games, you're a third down conversion.
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  Speaker 2: We've talked about the third lungs, but just third down
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  Speaker 2: over away has been over forty five percent.
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  Speaker 3: What have you seen either in communication, personnel execution in
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  Speaker 3: those situations.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just one of those examples of US
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  Speaker 1: just stand the course and just chiseling away at it
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  Speaker 1: and really everybody playing good football, you know, and then
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  Speaker 1: and that's what we've gotten, so you know the challenges,
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  Speaker 1: keep it rolling and understand what the next iteration is
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  Speaker 1: of what we're trying to achieve and how they're trying
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  Speaker 1: to attack us, and off we go. Today we're doing
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  Speaker 1: some third down stuff out there and excited to see
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  Speaker 1: how it looks.
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  Speaker 3: We've talked about.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of the progression of defense from leak one until now.
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  Speaker 2: Offense was talking about how they progressed.
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  Speaker 3: At what point could you truly start playing at.
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  Speaker 2: Complimentary st football that you envisioned.
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  Speaker 1: On both sides? Well, I felt like I felt like
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  Speaker 1: we were on our way as soon as training camp.
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  Speaker 1: OTA's you know, I felt like we we're forging identity
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  Speaker 1: and in really all three phases. And when you're doing
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  Speaker 1: it against another team, you know that that's that's kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of a reassuring sign.
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  Speaker 1: And then just what you see every day, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's not like we got to week four and
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  Speaker 1: we're like, oh, shoot, now we're going to be a
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  Speaker 1: complimentary team now. I think it's something that we've been
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  Speaker 1: seeing signs of really since since the beginning of the
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  Speaker 1: season or beginning of the spring.
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  Speaker 4: When you're playing a team that, like an offense that
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  Speaker 4: does such a good job of setting guys up for
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  Speaker 4: yards after the catch and the past catchers do that
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  Speaker 4: so well. Are the teaching points about tackling any different
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  Speaker 4: than they are in any other week.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'd say the it's kind of like a principal's
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  Speaker 1: method saying, like the principles is the same, and they
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  Speaker 1: they're probably the probably.
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  Speaker 2: The best run after catch team in the league.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how the stats back that up, but
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  Speaker 1: it feels like preendally that's that's the case with with
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  Speaker 1: this offense. So it's just a it's a really big
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  Speaker 1: emphasis on making sure that we're having multiple people breaking
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  Speaker 1: when the ball has like declared, you know, so try
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  Speaker 1: to live and try to eliminate as many one on one.
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  Speaker 2: Tackles as possible, goes back to eat, you know, eliminating space.
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  Speaker 2: So all those principles are at play with these guys.
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  Speaker 4: It seems like you did a pretty good job of
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  Speaker 4: that in the Week eighteen game.
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  Speaker 2: The guys did a great job. They really did. They
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  Speaker 2: really did.
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  Speaker 1: There's some plays where guys are in tough spots, but
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  Speaker 1: guys are playing with great effort, and when you do that,
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  Speaker 1: you can take some of those you know, more aggressive
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  Speaker 1: angles to eliminate some of that space.
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  Speaker 2: And the guys did a great job of that.
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  Speaker 1: A coach once pats to the ball in pursuit of
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  Speaker 1: the ball, Every coach in the history of football says that,
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  Speaker 1: why did these guys doing maybe more than another teams
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  Speaker 1: you've come. I think it's probably a byproduct of their
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  Speaker 1: connectedness and the process that they bought in on. And
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  Speaker 1: it's team football, you know, it's really what it is
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day. And if you decide
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  Speaker 1: they want to play that way, then that's the standard.
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  Speaker 1: And then's something that you're chasing every day. And it's
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  Speaker 1: it's nice when it's not just you know, AD or
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  Speaker 1: me or CP, you know, just run to the ball.
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  Speaker 1: It's like it's a team thing that we're trying to
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  Speaker 1: achieve every day and they understand you know, the power
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  Speaker 1: of that too, and that you know, the synergy behind it.
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  Speaker 1: Hats on the film and just stop the film and
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  Speaker 1: say here's nine.
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  Speaker 2: Here's ten.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, we're looking for like a feeling, yeah, like
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  Speaker 1: a yeah, I mean, not every plays the same. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's unrealistic to say that you need X amount
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  Speaker 1: of people to the ball, But I really have a
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  Speaker 1: feeling of like a that we're we're there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: When you have a nickel corner who's as bigger, bigger
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  Speaker 3: than some of the linebackers out there, what makes him
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  Speaker 3: nickel versus a linebacker? The responsibility is different.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the coverage response, some of the things you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: ask Nick to do are a little different than you'd
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  Speaker 1: ask linebacker to do. But in terms of you know,
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  Speaker 1: how you how you manage your roster, I mean, really
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  Speaker 1: he's playing a linebacker position. I mean we're really kind
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  Speaker 1: of turned into like a four to three base team
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  Speaker 1: with like a crazy athletic Sam is really what we
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  Speaker 1: are when we go to dime, we're really, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a nickel four three team, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I think that the cool thing that our.
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  Speaker 1: Front allows us to do, and what nickols to do,
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  Speaker 1: is we get some some front variety that normally you
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't get out of a normal like a true like
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  Speaker 1: four down team.
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  Speaker 2: And I think.
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  Speaker 1: That's been pretty cool that what we've been able to create.
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  Speaker 3: When you have two of maybe the best nickel defenders
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  Speaker 3: in football on the same defense, what kind of freedom
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  Speaker 3: does that give you as a play color?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I actually think we've been freed up more with
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  Speaker 1: Spoon's development at corner where he felt like he can
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know that, like he doesn't have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of stats at corner, but he got he's playing
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  Speaker 1: great football out there, and so you don't feel like
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  Speaker 1: like his competitive advantage of where he's playing is that
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  Speaker 1: that different. So that's probably the first thing. But two
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  Speaker 1: great players, man, two great players in the slot, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, like on first down, you know obviously going
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  Speaker 1: Nick in there for runfits and things like that, and
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  Speaker 1: Spoon's great at those stuff, but he's also ground on
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  Speaker 1: the outside.
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  Speaker 3: In the first time in five six years that twelves
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  Speaker 3: have been able to see a playoff game at that stadium,
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  Speaker 3: how exciting is it to give that to them, and
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  Speaker 3: how exciting is to think about what.
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  Speaker 2: That atmosphere is going to be.
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  Speaker 1: Like, Yeah, it's It's one of those things where I think,
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  Speaker 1: I think we're proud of it.
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  Speaker 2: We're proud of being able to deliver this to.
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  Speaker 1: The twelves and to our city. We're excited about it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, But it also is like in the future,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so like right now, it's, uh, it's on
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  Speaker 1: our minds, but really we're focusing on doing the doing
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  Speaker 1: the proper preparations so we're ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: But it's it's great, man, it's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like one of your absolute goals
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  Speaker 1: throughout the year, like this isn't having a home playoff game,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't guarantee a championship or all those things that you're
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  Speaker 1: really shooting for. But it really is part of the
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  Speaker 1: things that we do want to you know, achieve or
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  Speaker 1: deliver you know, to our to our fans, is having
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  Speaker 1: these home playoff experiences, and it's part of the really
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  Speaker 1: like the overall bigger vision of what we're trying to
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  Speaker 1: care eight. So you know, you're definitely proud of that,
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  Speaker 1: and you know we expect to, you know, do it,
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  Speaker 1: do it a lot, hopefully. Particularly challenging about seeing a
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  Speaker 1: team for a third time and then also about seeing
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  Speaker 1: them in back to back weeks. Well, I think the
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  Speaker 1: timetable probably drives that answer a little bit. You know,
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  Speaker 1: having played these guys the first week, having such a
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  Speaker 1: big break between the you know, on the book ends
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  Speaker 1: of the season, you're really looking at it through the
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  Speaker 1: lens of like, you know, how much do you you
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  Speaker 1: can discount some of the you know, we've changed, We've
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  Speaker 1: changed a lot since first week, so they probably more
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  Speaker 1: of the back to back thing that just doesn't happen
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  Speaker 1: that often. So, but don't make it more than it is.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it was the last game. This
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  Speaker 1: is this is another game and trying to keep our
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  Speaker 1: process the same.
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  Speaker 2: Charles and Kobe looked to you since getting.
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  Speaker 1: Back out on the field. Yeah, you know, there's a
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  Speaker 1: process of them getting back and getting in full swing
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  Speaker 1: and they're doing the best they can. They're practicing some
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  Speaker 1: capacity and you know, we'll work through it the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the week, but the guys are doing good job.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about that process. This is your first time, even
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  Speaker 2: as a head coach.
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  Speaker 1: What if anything feels different about this week knowing.
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  Speaker 2: You know what's ahead of it. Yeah, this is I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this is this is how do I put this?
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  Speaker 1: It's it's this is the message, right, it's a it's
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs, but it's this is week nineteen.
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  Speaker 2: This is week nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: This is the nineteenth week of the season for us.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's right.
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  Speaker 1: You know, week nineteen and it's Thursday, so I'm thinking
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  Speaker 1: about how we're going to play the red zone today
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  Speaker 1: and some of the early down and stuff we got to
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  Speaker 1: fix from yesterday, and how third down game plan looks
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  Speaker 1: in all phases. And that's what I expect our team
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  Speaker 1: to be thinking about, is what can we accomplish right
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  Speaker 1: now within our power to get ready for our week
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  Speaker 1: nineteen game. You know, you start again, you start making
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  Speaker 1: it bigger, and you start including all the other stuff
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  Speaker 1: out there that takes you away from from how we
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  Speaker 1: want to play and how we want to operate.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, that's how we approach it for coaches.
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  Speaker 3: Who really know the exits and o's, but maybe you
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  Speaker 3: are struggling to figure out how to teach that to
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  Speaker 3: their players and really convey their their scheme and their idea,
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  Speaker 3: their vision. What advice would you give coaches coming up
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  Speaker 3: in that way.
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  Speaker 2: Need reps? You got to put yourself out there.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm there's a lot of meetings in my in
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  Speaker 1: my past where it's not very good, very good coaching.
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  Speaker 1: I still have meetings now where you leave the meeting
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  Speaker 1: you're like, shoot, though that wasn't good enough. You know
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  Speaker 1: I could I could have thought that better, So just
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  Speaker 1: keep attacking it and don't be afraid to fail, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and then just come back at it. And it's really
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  Speaker 1: it's like that Chasing Edge's attitude is, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: keep trying to make those incremental games to make it better,
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  Speaker 1: you know. But at the ultimately, you know, the satisfact
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  Speaker 1: that one of the what makes coaching so great is
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  Speaker 1: you get to see other people do things they weren't
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  Speaker 1: able to do prior. So that's that's the reward. It's
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  Speaker 1: not how much you know, it's how much you can
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  Speaker 1: get your guys.
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  Speaker 4: To do a few times this year about kind of
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  Speaker 4: the path prequel and season has taken from you know, Week.
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  Speaker 2: One to work the way he's playing.
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  Speaker 3: Now, what do you learn about a player the way
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  Speaker 3: they handle that adversity in season and kind of respond
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  Speaker 3: to it.
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  Speaker 2: I think this is.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think those are kind of expectations you
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  Speaker 1: have for your guys, you know, and that's how we
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  Speaker 1: want to handle these those situations. And sometimes it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: it comes different.
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  Speaker 2: Ways and guys different ways of reacting to it.
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  Speaker 1: But that's kind of that's kind of the types of
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  Speaker 1: guys going around here and reached one of those guys.
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  Speaker 1: So he's done a great job.
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  Speaker 2: Is there a danger of overthinking?
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  Speaker 3: And I don't mean because it's a playoff game, but
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  Speaker 3: because of the different looks that the Niners could give
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  Speaker 3: you on offense or where they're lining up on defense
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  Speaker 3: with your players in.
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  Speaker 2: Particular, for me, yeah, that's but that's every week.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm overthinking everything right now, I'm thinking about
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  Speaker 1: your question, but I'm thinking about other stuff too, Like
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  Speaker 1: I'm an overthinker.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: It's also kind of like our job as coaches to
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  Speaker 1: like make sure we're thorough but with our players. I
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  Speaker 1: mean again, is there a danger of guys overthinking things
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  Speaker 1: in a game plan?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, that could happen.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, but that's that's part of one of the
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  Speaker 1: reasons and why we build our game plans is the
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  Speaker 1: way we do.
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  Speaker 2: We want them really clear, we want them simple.
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  Speaker 1: Make it as simple as possible, but no simpler and
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  Speaker 1: let's go rock and roll. You know. So for sensing
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  Speaker 1: indecision throughout the week, then you know, probably not gonna
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  Speaker 1: call that play.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably gonna be out joke.
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  Speaker 3: About being an overthinker.
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  Speaker 2: But have you had any.
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  Speaker 3: Experiences where an observation you've had the day of the game,
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  Speaker 3: the date night before the game is actually helpful.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, I see Leo back there.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we've installed stuff on Saturday night and Sunday
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  Speaker 1: morning halftime sideline that happens.
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  Speaker 2: All the time.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, he's you know, the Achilles is something
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  Speaker 1: that he's just he's had. It's not it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: a non of new things. So something we're managing.
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  Speaker 4: You're not worried about not having him, Sir Ricky Arsal
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  Speaker 4: didn't play the last game for them.
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  Speaker 3: How different do they look with him?
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  Speaker 4: And there?
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  Speaker 2: What kind of skills does he bring to the.
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  Speaker 1: Game if you' out there, Well, they have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of talented receivers, but he's he's definitely one of them.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, we definitely compliments the rest of the guy
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  Speaker 1: as well in terms of what he does in his
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  Speaker 1: skill set and how they use him. So, but the
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  Speaker 1: other guys that are playing for him as well, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: are are really good players you have to account for.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not like it's like he's a great player,
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  Speaker 1: but they it's.
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  Speaker 2: Not like it's worse offense and he's not out there, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, going back to the red zone because that's on defense.
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  Speaker 3: What are some of those intangibles in terms of alignment, physicality, communication,
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  Speaker 3: and field.
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  Speaker 2: A red zone.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it starts with the mentality like there's never been
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  Speaker 1: a drive on defense that starts that ends up in
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  Speaker 1: the red zone and you're happy about why I got there,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So it's it's a mentality of hey, look like,
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  Speaker 1: drives not over. We're defending the blade of grass and
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  Speaker 1: you've got to reset and go to the next play.
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  Speaker 1: You know, field shrinks, so you got to eliminate run
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  Speaker 1: game past game changes. So it's really just understanding situations,
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  Speaker 1: what what the formations are telling you, what the tendencies
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  Speaker 1: are telling you, and going to play.
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  Speaker 2: Ball, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But it starts with the mentality that you know, drives
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  Speaker 1: not over. You know, we gotta gotta go play football.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned field a couple of times at least have
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  Speaker 4: a how do you do.
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  Speaker 3: You teach that?
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  Speaker 1: Is it? It?
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  Speaker 2: Feel?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're talking about the field of play or you know,
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  Speaker 1: field players at the point of attack? How do you
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  Speaker 1: is that?
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  Speaker 4: How do you teach that?
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  Speaker 2: Or well, I don't think.
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  Speaker 1: I think what we're trying to achieve is how we
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  Speaker 1: play football as a team and when it you see
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  Speaker 1: it enough, you get it. It kind of feels you
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  Speaker 1: know what it feels like when you're watching it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: simpling as symbol as like we just had a great
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  Speaker 1: walk through. It felt like we had a great walk through.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't watched it yet, but it feels like it
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  Speaker 1: was a great walk through because of the intent and
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  Speaker 1: the communication and you know, guys are losing focus and
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of right on the sweet spot of what
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  Speaker 1: we're shooting for in terms.
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  Speaker 2: Of what a walk through wants to look like.
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  Speaker 1: So we have a vision about how we want our
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  Speaker 1: red zone defense to look like, you know so, and
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  Speaker 1: when we're hitting that mark, that's that's when you that's
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  Speaker 1: when you feel that fact. To Witherspoon, Julian says, he's
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  Speaker 1: probably your favorite player. Witherspoon probably your favorite player.
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  Speaker 2: What is say the one more time.
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  Speaker 4: Julian Love thinks of Witherspoon's your favorite player, you're playing favorite?
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  Speaker 1: What is it about him that makes it so attractive
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  Speaker 1: for a coach?
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  Speaker 2: Spoon?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, I could go on for a long time, but
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  Speaker 1: it starts with his passion for the game and the process.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's got a. I think he loves his teammates,
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  Speaker 1: he loves his team, so there's not there's a selflessness
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  Speaker 1: behind what he does as well, and like he's an
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  Speaker 1: incredible competitor and that comes out with like the standard
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  Speaker 1: of what he expects from himself and the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the team. So, I mean he's he's a he's a big, great,
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: fun loving personality. But at the end of the day,
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: he expects us to play great football and his actions
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: back that up, you know, And so that's contagious and
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: how he plays, you can't you can't turn our tape
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: on and watch twenty one play and have any inkling
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: of an idea that it's okay to not play with
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: your hair on fire one thousand miles an hour every play.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: So and he's incredibly smart too, like you can do.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: He gets it and he sees things. He's reactive, he's inquisitive,
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: he cares about he wants to learn. I mean, sounds
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: like a guy you want to coach.
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: Maybe was it an intending consequence that you put when
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: you put even or in the roles you have that
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: witherschool and go back outside and be more of a corner.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: Is that kind of evolved well, yeah, we we we
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: wanted we our vision for nick and on early down.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: So it was the play Nickel and the byproduct of
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: that was Spoon going outside and by doing that, he's
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: gonna get a lot of reps outside, you know, probably
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: threefold more than he got last year. And I think
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: his play reflects that. But it's the same attitude that
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: he's just going to keep chipping away at it until
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: he becomes great at that skill set.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: And I think that's what he's done.
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: Said, he's grown in terms of the outside stuff, like
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: what what are some specifics you've seen there?
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Just just playing it, like just technique, you know, your
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: your day to day what it takes to play outside corner.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wasn't really thinking anything specifically.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: Focus. That's one we hear from you from players a lot.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you use a head coach, where is kind
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: of find the balancer of like, hey, we got to
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: be serious and get the football stuff done versus letting
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: them have fun with it.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: To him, yeah, we got we gotta be us. I
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: mean it's just you know, think about.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: What how would you want your experience to be at work?
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Like do you want to walk around all rigid, afraid
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: that you're gonna get yelled at about because you're not
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: walking on the right direct or you said the wrong thing,
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: or don't you want you know, hey, I meant the
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: right right, you know, I'm my intent is right, you know,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: So work with me. That's that's what we expect from
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: our players and our coaches for that matter. And then
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: let's let's enjoy each other, you know, let's get after it.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: And then that'd be like by You're not like hunting
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: for fun, You're hunting for the process and the feeling
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: of what you do, and then the byproduct of that
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: is fun.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Now it is, It is fun now to.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Go to work every day because of how we operate.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: It wasn't necessarily fun last May, you know, but now
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: it is.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: Anything else.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Okay, all right, thank you,