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Press Pass | Mike Caldwell: "It’s a true team that’s rolling right now.” · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I think he's uh, he's a unique talent. He's a
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  Speaker 1: guy that, uh he blocks well and he had the
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  Speaker 1: knack for getting open. He runs the whole route tree,
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  Speaker 1: and they utilize him a bunch. So you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: a guy that will have to focus on and make
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  Speaker 1: sure we are able to try to sw him down.
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  Speaker 1: And Devon said something interesting yesterday and surprising the rookie
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  Speaker 1: kind of do this for it. Devin Kelsey had a
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  Speaker 1: quarterback background at some point and he said that he's
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  Speaker 1: got a quarterbacks when he's out there in the tattery
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  Speaker 1: or is that something that you can see there's that's
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  Speaker 1: something supportive part of Well, that's the thing you talk about.
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  Speaker 1: You talk to the players about being able to understand
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  Speaker 1: the game and the way he's able to find holes
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  Speaker 1: in the defense or find weak areas or drift away
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  Speaker 1: from coverage guy and zone coverage. You can tell that
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  Speaker 1: from being a former quarterback that he's able to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: see the soft spot in the defense. So that's the
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  Speaker 1: things we talked about, and you know, you just have
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  Speaker 1: to be aware of it. I need to prepare for
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  Speaker 1: the end of stract homes and in particularly that's what
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  Speaker 1: they are. And you know what they do with that.
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  Speaker 1: That's the thing we need to focus on, trying to
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  Speaker 1: keep him in the pocket so he can't improvide. But
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  Speaker 1: at the same time, that's what he does, and he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be off time, and we just have to understand
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  Speaker 1: that we still rest the pastor be relentless and in coverage.
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  Speaker 1: Just got a plastered receivers. It's it's gonna happen. He's
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  Speaker 1: gonna break the pocket. We just have to understand that
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  Speaker 1: staying coverage, don't come across, and then let our front
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  Speaker 1: go up. Try to contain him. Patrick's numbers against the
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  Speaker 1: blizz of his career kind of otherworldly man. How do
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  Speaker 1: you really defend a guy like that? Dude, no matter
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  Speaker 1: what you throw at him, he said, for me, plus
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  Speaker 1: that's the same at the same time, like you either
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  Speaker 1: go four, you go five, you go six, you go seven.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we have a variety of defense that we
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  Speaker 1: can throw at him. Will study him, try to take
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  Speaker 1: advantage of what we do well and just go out
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  Speaker 1: there and play our game and let the chips fall.
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  Speaker 1: And how big Harris been for you guys got the stretch,
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  Speaker 1: He's been huge. You look at it. When we lost
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  Speaker 1: smoot Smooth was such a big part of the defense,
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  Speaker 1: the pass for us, just being able to play the
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  Speaker 1: run from a different body type. I think Royce jumped
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  Speaker 1: into that role. Now he's able to help us out
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  Speaker 1: on third down as well the first second down, and
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  Speaker 1: he's been a big part of that pass for us
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  Speaker 1: and that pressure package being able to stay in. Looking
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  Speaker 1: back at the Chargers game, you guys are down twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven five turnovers on offensive special teams. What what are
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  Speaker 1: you telling the guys in that moment? Do you even
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  Speaker 1: have to say anything to them or what are those
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  Speaker 1: conversations like on the sideline? It was funny on the sideline,
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  Speaker 1: it was just, you know, we so much worry about
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  Speaker 1: what we need to do and what's going wrong with
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  Speaker 1: our you know, our plays. We try to correct those
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  Speaker 1: on the sideline. But the funny thing we went in
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  Speaker 1: a halftime and I walk around the corner and all
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  Speaker 1: the guys are sitting there had this look on their
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  Speaker 1: face like, okay, coach, what's up? And I think we
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  Speaker 1: try to emphasize was get a stop offense to goo
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  Speaker 1: score and get another stop offense, go score. And it
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  Speaker 1: was a belief that it was gonna happen, and it
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  Speaker 1: was incredible because the guys, they didn't waiver. They understood that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we didn't play our best in the first half,
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  Speaker 1: and get the ball back to the offense, they'll handle
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  Speaker 1: their business. And it happened. You've been around a lot
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  Speaker 1: of ball. Have you ever seen anything like that in
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  Speaker 1: your experience, whether as a player, coach, whatever, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: I don't like to talk about it, but it happened
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  Speaker 1: in Tampa when I was down there. When you have
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  Speaker 1: a guy and we had Brady and I'm not comparing
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  Speaker 1: the two treviors, his own guy, but when you have
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  Speaker 1: a guy that you believe in at the defense, it
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  Speaker 1: matters to you. And when you're down twenty seven and
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  Speaker 1: you still believe you can win because you know who
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  Speaker 1: you have on the other side of the ball, it matters.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the big point. Because there was no hanging
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  Speaker 1: your head, there was nobody worried about anything. It was
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  Speaker 1: get a stop, get the ball back to the offense,
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  Speaker 1: get another stop to get the ball back to the
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  Speaker 1: offense because of who we know we have on the
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  Speaker 1: other side. And that's that's something that's this year. It's
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  Speaker 1: offensive belt us out a bunch of times we've helped
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  Speaker 1: them out. It's a true team that's that's rolling right now.
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  Speaker 1: How rare is it to see the team coming together
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  Speaker 1: like this and in the first year together, everybody new
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  Speaker 1: new coaches, new players. How rare is that? It's it
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  Speaker 1: really goes uh goes to Doug. It's about the messages
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  Speaker 1: brought to the entire team, and the guys believe. We
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  Speaker 1: believe in each other, and when you believe, you know,
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  Speaker 1: anything can happen.