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Press Pass | Mike Caldwell: "They All Work Together..." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Your defense seems to do a really good job a
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  Speaker 1: controlling the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 2: I know you come into the.
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  Speaker 1: Year every year wanting to do that, But how have
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  Speaker 1: you seen it sort of unfold and what has sort
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  Speaker 1: of made it look so easy for you guys to.
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  Speaker 2: Do so far this season?
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  Speaker 3: I think the guys that we play with and the
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  Speaker 3: style that we teach uh Coach Buckner and Coach siguris
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  Speaker 3: they do a great job of teaching our techniques and
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  Speaker 3: the guys get in here and they work them.
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  Speaker 2: They work them and it's paying off for 'em.
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  Speaker 3: They're trusting the technique, they're shooting their hands, they're staying
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  Speaker 3: in their gaps, and that enables the other guys in
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  Speaker 3: every plays. But at the end of the day, it's
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  Speaker 3: really the players that take the technique, execute the technique,
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  Speaker 3: and en they're working well for us.
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  Speaker 1: Is that something that Traybond in particular is pretty good at.
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  Speaker 1: We might not see it on the stat sheet, but
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  Speaker 1: just in terms of being able to control the line
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  Speaker 1: of scrimmage, maybe take up some blockers things like that,
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  Speaker 1: Is that something he's good at.
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  Speaker 3: That's the thing that really goes unnoticed. You know, if
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  Speaker 3: you're a outside of rush here. Only thing you worry
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  Speaker 3: about his sacks, But we focus on stopping a run here,
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  Speaker 3: and he does a great job of handling tight ends,
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  Speaker 3: handling tackles and squeezing off gaps. So it enables us
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  Speaker 3: to play the defense. We wanna play yard carrier down
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  Speaker 3: around the league kept defenses shifted and started doing something
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  Speaker 3: or something different that you've noticed. I really, I really
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  Speaker 3: just focus on us, haven't haven't seen it, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: we emphasize stopping the run. We wanna, you know, make
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  Speaker 3: offenses one dimensional and take away the running game and make.
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  Speaker 2: Him throw the ball. So that's what our focus is.
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  Speaker 3: And we commit to doing that and our guys uh
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  Speaker 3: are bought into it, so they're doing a good job
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  Speaker 3: of it.
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  Speaker 1: Very few penalties for your unit, I mean one defensive
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  Speaker 1: passing appearance thought the whole season so far. Is that
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  Speaker 1: a consequence of coaching technique or is it the maturity
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  Speaker 1: the guys in the defense?
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  Speaker 3: W W what do you attribute back to your Really defensive
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  Speaker 3: penalties come with uh, your eyes being in the wrong
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  Speaker 3: spot and your feet being in the wrong spot. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, coach Twenton, he does a great job of
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  Speaker 3: of making him understand that, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, see what you need to see before you look elsewhere.
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  Speaker 3: And our guy has done a good job of keeping
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  Speaker 3: the hands in themselves and you know, making plays on
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  Speaker 3: the ball.
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  Speaker 2: But it's it goes hand in hand, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes you have big receivers, sometimes you have small, quick ones.
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  Speaker 3: If your eyes are on the right spot and you
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  Speaker 3: play the right technique, you should be able to keep
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  Speaker 3: your hands off of him. About how Bluster played last
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  Speaker 3: week and does it give you any extra confidence if
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  Speaker 3: you need to lean on him again this week?
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  Speaker 2: It really does.
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  Speaker 3: For him to be able to step up and make
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  Speaker 3: the plays that he made, it it was huge just
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  Speaker 3: going back like he hasn't had the opportunity, but we
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  Speaker 3: saw the work in practice and we understand that he
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  Speaker 3: has the talent and he had a chance to show
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  Speaker 3: show case his ability and he went out there and
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  Speaker 3: he did a great job and we just know that
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  Speaker 3: going forward he gonna continue to build on it. Hopefully
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  Speaker 3: gained some confident because he played a heck of a
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  Speaker 3: game well.
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  Speaker 1: And Devin laid or do they want of the better?
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  Speaker 1: I mean your bias, but we are they one of
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  Speaker 1: the better linebacker groups in the league right now you
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  Speaker 1: know just just how they're playing.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's hard for me to really talk about a
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  Speaker 3: ranking of linebackers. Could lie You're right, I'm biased, But
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the day, those guys are starting
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  Speaker 3: to get a little recognition, which is good because Foyer
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  Speaker 3: has been doing it a while and doing it at
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  Speaker 3: a high level and you really don't hear about it.
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  Speaker 3: But being a former linebacker coach, I understand that what
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  Speaker 3: a Pro Bowl caliber linebacker looks like. And I'll watch
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  Speaker 3: it every week and then Devin his maturity from last
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  Speaker 3: year to continue to get better the work he's put
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  Speaker 3: in of understanding the game and doing what he's capable
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  Speaker 3: of doing.
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  Speaker 2: It's really good to.
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  Speaker 3: See those guys being able to, you know, put their
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  Speaker 3: stamp on its defense taking his play up to like
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  Speaker 3: a big step it. It's funny you can really look
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  Speaker 3: at it that way because like he's getting his hands
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  Speaker 3: on well he's getting one hand on on.
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  Speaker 2: The ball, but the other one and that that that'll come.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, it's funny.
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  Speaker 3: We talked to him and I was like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: when you're away, take this time to like look at
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  Speaker 3: it as a coach, like step back, don't look at
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  Speaker 3: it as you're lined up in front of a three
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  Speaker 3: hundred pounder.
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  Speaker 2: Just look at the game from just a coach.
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  Speaker 3: Perspective, and I think that's helped him and you know,
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  Speaker 3: hopefully he continues to continue to play well like he's doing.
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  Speaker 2: Did you guys do.
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  Speaker 1: Anything special for him for that first touchdown of his career?
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  Speaker 2: Say anything or you know, no, nothing special.
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  Speaker 3: He got a game ball, which he probably could get
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  Speaker 3: one every week, but he, uh, he got a game ball,
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  Speaker 3: which is important. But his focus was, you know, on
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  Speaker 3: the next week. That's a that's a mindset and that's
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  Speaker 3: that's what you want.
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  Speaker 2: Out of your leader.
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  Speaker 3: You know, last week's games, last week's game, and we're
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  Speaker 3: on to the next one.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what his mindset was. And we'll follow that.
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  Speaker 1: Does you get Davon back in the lineup?
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  Speaker 2: Is it full go or how to have to ease
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  Speaker 2: him back at anything?
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  Speaker 3: I think he's he practiced this week and he was
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  Speaker 3: doing a good job out of practice, and we'll just
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  Speaker 3: see how it goes. Let the training staff handle that,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, coach Peter's going to make that decision.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, he was out of practice and he's
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  Speaker 3: continued to work to get his self back ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean for you in terms of the
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  Speaker 1: pass rush being able to push it seemed like last
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  Speaker 1: year at the end of the season he was doing that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, he's another option. You know. He's a guy
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  Speaker 2: that does it a different way.
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  Speaker 3: He's strong inside, He's able to push the pocket, like
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  Speaker 3: you mentioned, and that enables our outside guys to rush
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  Speaker 3: more freely and rush a little higher because the quarterback
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  Speaker 3: won't be able to step up. And at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the day, he also has a skill to go
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  Speaker 3: from left to right and make a guard or center
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  Speaker 3: miss and be able to push the pocket that way.
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  Speaker 2: So he gives you a little versatility.
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  Speaker 3: And we have, you know, multiple guys down there, and
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  Speaker 3: all of them do it a different way.
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  Speaker 2: He'll uh adjust his way of doing it and help
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  Speaker 2: us out.
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  Speaker 3: Is it tough to know where the team's pass for
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  Speaker 3: us stands right now since you haven't been able to
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  Speaker 3: see the full picture.
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  Speaker 1: De Vaughn's been sidelined. You just got smoothed back.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's kind of hard, but at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the day, we play with who we have and we
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  Speaker 3: have this next man up mentality and the guys that
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  Speaker 3: are filled in for d Ham when he's been gone.
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  Speaker 2: They've done a good.
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  Speaker 3: Job and now that he's back, will continue to you know,
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  Speaker 3: work on pass for rush and it all goes together.
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  Speaker 3: You know, inside guy can have a great rush, outside
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  Speaker 3: guy can come inside and quarterback escapes or quarterback steps
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  Speaker 3: up and there's no push. So they all work together
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  Speaker 3: and we're working to rust a passers one.
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  Speaker 2: So what do you make of the Steelers' offense?
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  Speaker 1: What are they sort of excel at?
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  Speaker 3: Really they look different when eighteen came back he was injured.
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  Speaker 3: Now he's back, him and fourteen out there together along
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  Speaker 3: the two backs and a quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Their offense that presents a bunch of problems.
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  Speaker 3: And they're big outside and they have quickness outside with speed.
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  Speaker 2: So there are offense that you know, we have to
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  Speaker 2: you know, account for.
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  Speaker 3: A bunch of the guys and it's just, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like every week in the NFL, it's gonna be a
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  Speaker 3: tough time asked. We have to go out there and
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  Speaker 3: play our game and do our best to stop them.
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  Speaker 2: All right, thank you,