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Geno Smith: "I'm Getting Better Every Single Day" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon. What you're doing, this was the extra time
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  Speaker 1: and and that we helped you physically feel better. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's definitely helping. You know. I'm getting better every single day.
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  Speaker 2: Been working you know, around the clock, just to you know,
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  Speaker 2: try and get my body as healthy as possible to
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  Speaker 2: go out there and.
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  Speaker 1: Be able to play. Do you think you'll play Monday night? Uh,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll see. Do you like get did you
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  Speaker 1: take it through what happened last a week or whatever? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just you know, kind of got tripped up
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  Speaker 2: in practice, kind of over extended a little bit. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I was all as I was bracing, uh, keeping my
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  Speaker 2: balance and just kind of felt it pull.
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  Speaker 1: What did it feel like going through warm ups? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Sunday morning? Do you feel like you were close to playing? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: I mean I'm always gonna push the play, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, you gotta trust and rely on the doctors,
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  Speaker 2: and uh they felt that, Uh, you know, I wasn't
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  Speaker 2: wasn't you know, gonna be able to be my best self,
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  Speaker 2: and so they helped me back. But shoot, I was
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  Speaker 2: gonna push it and give it all I got. That's
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  Speaker 2: kind of how I'm wired. I'm gonna go until they
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  Speaker 2: tell me, I can't.
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  Speaker 3: What do you want me to do now that maybe
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  Speaker 3: you weren't able to do Sunday?
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  Speaker 2: Like physically just feeling better, you know, just feeling better
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  Speaker 2: in that area, and pretty much my entire body is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, obviously work in progress, but more.
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  Speaker 1: More so than Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: I'm able to be a little bit more mobile other
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  Speaker 2: than I was on on Sunday. You said, a round
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  Speaker 2: o'clock or are you happy to get up in his treatments?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, early in the morning. I'm waking up five am.
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  Speaker 2: And then you know, when I get home from work,
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  Speaker 2: you know about like I get home like seven or
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  Speaker 2: something like that, and then you know, right right back
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  Speaker 2: to it at eight o'clock, so you know, right before
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  Speaker 2: bed as soon as I wake up. Oh yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I have someone come over work on it.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously he wanted to be out there Sunday, but it
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  Speaker 3: was good to see Drew get his chance to go
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  Speaker 3: out there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, like I said, uh, I always believe Drew's
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  Speaker 2: gonna do great things. I think he has the ability.
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  Speaker 2: I think he works extremely hard. I think he deserves
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  Speaker 2: his opportunity when it comes, and I was happy to
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  Speaker 2: see him go out there and make some really nice plays.
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  Speaker 2: You know obviously, Uh I I know that he feels
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  Speaker 2: like he could, you know, do some things better. But
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  Speaker 2: that's all of us, and that's every game, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I was just happy to see him out there having
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  Speaker 2: fun and uh, you know, I thought he did a
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  Speaker 2: great job.
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  Speaker 1: What what was what was that like for you get?
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  Speaker 1: I guess I had to start.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I was trying to help the team, you know,
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  Speaker 2: going out there and you know, trying to coach the
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  Speaker 2: guys up, trying to help Drew as much as I can.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I've been in that role before, so just
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  Speaker 2: trying to help out in any way that I can.
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  Speaker 3: When you look at this Eagles pass rush, you you
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  Speaker 3: guys have faced really good pass rushers in the last
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  Speaker 3: few weeks. In what ways is it different from Dallas.
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  Speaker 2: And the fortieth Yeah, I would say the Eagles, uh
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  Speaker 2: just the uh amount of guys that they have. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they got kind of got that hockey line shift where
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  Speaker 2: they got you know, really two defensive lines and you
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  Speaker 2: know both you know, both of those units are are
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  Speaker 2: really really good.
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  Speaker 1: They got edge rushers, they got.
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  Speaker 2: Interior guys, run stoppers, they got you know, pass rushers
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  Speaker 2: in the interior, and so, uh, I just think they
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  Speaker 2: have a uh a bunch of guys, you know, multiple guys,
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  Speaker 2: multiple packages that they present, and you know, like you said,
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  Speaker 2: every week's gonna be a uh a battle. Uh, we
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  Speaker 2: know that, and you know we're gonna be prepared for
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  Speaker 2: those guys when uh, when Monday night comes.
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  Speaker 1: How do you feel about where the offense is right now?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I think we're we're you know, getting better.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think I think we've improved in a
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  Speaker 2: lot of areas and uh that's something that's positive to see,
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  Speaker 2: especially late in the year. Uh, but there's still a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things that we can do a lot better
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  Speaker 2: at and so uh, just as always, man, it's a
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  Speaker 2: work in progress. It's it's something that we got to
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  Speaker 2: continue to strive to be better. And no matter where
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  Speaker 2: we're ranked or where we're at numbers wise, we can
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  Speaker 2: always improve. And so just working on getting better every
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  Speaker 2: single day and improving every week.
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  Speaker 3: Where have you guys improved has been encouraging in your mind?
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, third downs have been a lot
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  Speaker 2: better the past couple of weeks. I thought, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we did a better job in the red zone at
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  Speaker 2: converting touchdowns and not getting field goals.
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  Speaker 1: And I think overall, man, just the unit.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, we're starting to get some guys back healthy, and
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  Speaker 2: so we're starting to, you know, see that unit that
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  Speaker 2: we're used to seeing out there, and you know, obviously
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  Speaker 2: when we're out there together, we can make some special
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  Speaker 2: things happen.
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  Speaker 1: But what did you feel like the what are the team? Was? Shoot? Man?
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  Speaker 1: I thought guys were flying around.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I never worry about the mood of the team,
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  Speaker 2: with the leadership that we have inside this building, with
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  Speaker 2: type of coaches that we have, with with with the
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  Speaker 2: tip of leaders that we have on this team. You know,
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  Speaker 2: guys are always gonna compete. I mean that's our motto.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, you know, guys are gonna come in with
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  Speaker 2: the right attitude, with the right mindset and go about
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  Speaker 2: it the right way and be professionals. And I thought
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  Speaker 2: that's something that we've consin continued to see every single week,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, it's a sign of a really good team.
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  Speaker 3: What is the type of attitude necessary to to pull
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  Speaker 3: you guys out of this point you're in right now?
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  Speaker 2: I would say, you know, next play mindset, you know,
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  Speaker 2: one percent better every single day you know, you gotta
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  Speaker 2: focus on the process, not the results. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: think overall, like I said, we got a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: great players. Uh, we got really really good coaches and
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  Speaker 2: great coaches that put us in position to be successful.
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  Speaker 2: And I think all we have to do is continue
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  Speaker 2: to buy in, continue to stay focused, lock in on
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  Speaker 2: our assignments, and then go out there and execute, you know,
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  Speaker 2: play free, not press, not worry too much, go out
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  Speaker 2: there and play our game and make plays when they come.
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  Speaker 3: People will always say, it's not how you started till
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  Speaker 3: you finished.
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  Speaker 1: But what has the early scoring, that the the first
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  Speaker 1: quarter scoring sometimes on the opening.
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  Speaker 3: G what has God done for the offense it?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's it's great that we start fast. That's
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  Speaker 2: what you always wanna do. You always wanna come out
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  Speaker 2: and you know, start fast, Try and give your defensive lead,
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  Speaker 2: try and play with the lead, gain.
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  Speaker 1: That momentum early.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, and then uh, obviously you know, we gotta continue
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  Speaker 2: to have that throughout the in the entire course of
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  Speaker 2: the game. I feel like we played great in the
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  Speaker 2: fourth first quarter. Uh, we played really good in the
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  Speaker 2: fourth quarter, and.
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  Speaker 1: Then somewhere in between. You know, we have these kind
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  Speaker 1: of laws.
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  Speaker 2: You know, in between at s at at points, and
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  Speaker 2: so we're working to uh just work on that consistency
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  Speaker 2: throughout the entire game. Uh, be explosive throughout all four quarters.
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  Speaker 2: And then obviously you wanna start fast and finish strong.
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  Speaker 2: So that's always gonna be a thing.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think the source of those goals are? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: I mean the source of it is just not executing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's always gonna be the source of it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if we don't execute to our best ability,
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  Speaker 2: then the we're gonna get stopped and we're not gonna score.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's a lack of executing, do lack of
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  Speaker 1: oxcation or just the way the game.
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  Speaker 2: Uh well, you know, the other team that we play
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  Speaker 2: to get paid to stop us. So that's that's kind
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  Speaker 2: of the battle. We fight every single game trying to
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  Speaker 2: beat them and they're trying to beat us, and sometimes
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  Speaker 2: they get us, and you know, sometimes we get them.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: The goal is to win the game and to you know,
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  Speaker 2: get them majority of the time or more more than
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  Speaker 2: they get us.
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  Speaker 1: So that's kind of how that works.
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  Speaker 3: If when the run game is either not there or
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  Speaker 3: just inconsistent of what ways does that make your job
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  Speaker 3: harder or even change job harder.
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  Speaker 1: On gaming, I couldn't tell you that. I just focus
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  Speaker 1: on EXQ.
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  Speaker 2: I think, like we always talk about, balance is always important.
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  Speaker 2: And so whenever your balance on offense, it gives the
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  Speaker 2: defense that added dimension, uh to to to focus on
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  Speaker 2: right or just you know, if they're running the ball, great,
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  Speaker 2: the play action is gonna open up. The naked boot
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  Speaker 2: games gonna open up, and then obviously your drop back,
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  Speaker 2: your quick game, your deep throws, you know, being able
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  Speaker 2: to connect on those, it's gonna give you.
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  Speaker 1: That balance you need.
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  Speaker 2: So whatever it is, you know, we gotta continue to
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  Speaker 2: find that, and so we're always working towards that.
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  Speaker 1: There's different, you know, reasons for it. Each and every game.
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  Speaker 2: We can point out execution being the main thing. So, uh,
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  Speaker 2: just finding that balance is really important. And I think
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  Speaker 2: that's something that we've done a really good job.
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  Speaker 1: In in in in in some games, but not all.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I think the the goal is to
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  Speaker 1: be more consistent with that. E As a quarterback, do
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  Speaker 1: you do you like the whole push push then? I
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  Speaker 1: mean would you like it? I guess if it works.
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  Speaker 1: I like plays that work, So if it works, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you said you were pushing to play in San Francisco.
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  Speaker 1: How close were you did you think or was it
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  Speaker 1: obvious you couldn't go? Not close enough, you know, not
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  Speaker 1: close enough was some of the thinking.
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  Speaker 3: Don't play in San Francisco so you can play the
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  Speaker 3: rest of the season or was.
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  Speaker 2: That Nah, that's not my thought process. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: wanna play every single game, every snap.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, be out there for every practice. In the podcast,
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  Speaker 1: thank thank you guys.