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Press Pass | Liam Coen on Improvements in Red Zone, Important Matchup at Home vs. Colts · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: A little bit more people here than last week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, statistically, the red zone offense has improved dramatically since
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  Speaker 2: since the bye week. Just what do you attribute that
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  Speaker 2: to and what challenges have you guys been able to
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  Speaker 2: overcome there?
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, just more shots on goal. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's probably helped with just being down there, more
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  Speaker 1: better execution probably from within the normal field as you
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  Speaker 1: get into the red zone, to just get more shots
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  Speaker 1: on goal down there. And you know, you've always wanted
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  Speaker 1: to kind of remain balanced in the red area so
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  Speaker 1: often you can get there and even myself, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you want to get the ball in the end zone
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  Speaker 1: right you're you get a little antsy and want to
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  Speaker 1: throw it in quickly or whatever it is. And I
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  Speaker 1: think just trying to remain patient as you get down
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  Speaker 1: into the red zone and making sure that you come
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  Speaker 1: away with points is the biggest thing. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think our coaching step has done a nice job
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  Speaker 1: of of kind of tightening the red zone plan each
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  Speaker 1: week so that we can continue to use carryover plays
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  Speaker 1: from the plan and but also have a few red
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  Speaker 1: zone specific plays based on how the defense changes and
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  Speaker 1: what yard line it changes at, creating a lot on
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  Speaker 1: the line this one.
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  Speaker 2: How big can be to have this game at home?
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  Speaker 1: Huge, you know, got to throw back Unis back up
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  Speaker 1: and you know, great opportunity for our for our organization,
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  Speaker 1: for the city, for the fan base to come out
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  Speaker 1: and help support. And you know, as much as they're fans,
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  Speaker 1: you know, fans of us, we're fans of them, you know.
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  Speaker 2: From from all of us want to continue.
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  Speaker 1: To put a product on the field that everybody can
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  Speaker 1: be proud of and entertaining. You know, we are in
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  Speaker 1: the entertainment business, and I got to believe that our
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  Speaker 1: players are going to play their tails off, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for our city on Sunday, close past Rush Bliss in
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  Speaker 1: terms of their personnel.
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  Speaker 3: But also send five six seven guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a ton.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Lou Lou's been doing this at a high
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  Speaker 1: level for a while and got a lot of respect
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  Speaker 1: for him, not only as a coach but as a person.
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  Speaker 1: And he definitely is game plan specific within some of
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  Speaker 1: the roles and responsibilities he has his players in and
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  Speaker 1: not quite obviously like Arizona in terms of the structure,
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  Speaker 1: but in terms of some of the uh frustrations and
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  Speaker 1: things that it can cause. You from a game planning
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  Speaker 1: standpoint can be similar in a lot of ways, where
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  Speaker 1: you know, like you said, there's they'll rush for, they'll
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  Speaker 1: rush by, they'll rush six, the rush seven, and you
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  Speaker 1: don't quite always know when it's going to happen. It's
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  Speaker 1: that's why they've they've been pretty good. So something that
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  Speaker 1: we have to be patient with throughout the week in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the plan and and going out on Sunday
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  Speaker 1: and hey, look it's we may not always be perfect here, guys,
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  Speaker 1: but let's just make sure we're communicated from a protection standpoint,
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  Speaker 1: and hey, understand where your quick element throws are in
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  Speaker 1: case maybe we do miss something that we have to
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  Speaker 1: get the ball out and be able to kind of
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  Speaker 1: live and play another day.
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  Speaker 3: In regards to Jonathan Taylor, what stands out about his game,
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  Speaker 3: it seems like he's good everything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely one of the more talented players in the league.
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  Speaker 1: If you try to arm tackle him, you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: that's not exactly a recipe for success. You know, he
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  Speaker 1: can take them eighty and ninety and he also can
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  Speaker 1: get some of the tough hard yards and in the
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  Speaker 1: past game they've used him I think at a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good click This year as well, so very talented. We
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  Speaker 1: have to be at our best this week in terms
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  Speaker 1: of clamp tackling, pursuit to the football. It's gonna truly
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  Speaker 1: take all eleven when it comes to getting him down
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  Speaker 1: on the ground as a.
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  Speaker 3: Quarterback yourself, have you ever heard of quarterback playing with
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  Speaker 3: a fibular fracture?
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  Speaker 1: I mean I think, yeah, you know, I have seen
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  Speaker 1: some crazy stuff in terms of what you're able to
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  Speaker 1: play with at the quarterback position, especially if you know
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  Speaker 1: you understand that as a staff and try to mold
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  Speaker 1: the the plan to let them go operate without maybe
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  Speaker 1: putting him in you know, situations where you're asking him
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  Speaker 1: to go and do too much without knowing that. You
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  Speaker 1: know the players are going to happen scrambles movements, but
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  Speaker 1: you know he's playing at a high level all season
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  Speaker 1: this year. They've protected him at a really high level
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  Speaker 1: as well. I think their old lines played played well
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  Speaker 1: this whole season, so it's definitely doable.
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  Speaker 2: D Jones, you talked.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier this year about quarterback development and timing and circumstance
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  Speaker 1: meaning a lot for Dames.
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  Speaker 2: I mean outside looking in. Why is the timing a
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  Speaker 2: great example?
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  Speaker 1: He's always been a very natural pure passer, Like the
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  Speaker 1: ball comes off of his hand really well.
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  Speaker 2: I think that his footwork.
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  Speaker 1: And like show his shoulder balance, his balance of his
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  Speaker 1: body position this year is.
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  Speaker 2: Much much improved.
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  Speaker 1: Like he's just always throwing from a good foundation in
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  Speaker 1: base not getting leaned one way or the other. The
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  Speaker 1: ball is able to come out when his back foot hits,
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  Speaker 1: and it's been very accurate for the most part this season.
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  Speaker 1: So you can definitely tell that he put a lot
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  Speaker 1: of work into himself in the offseason program and their
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  Speaker 1: coaching staff there has definitely done a nice job of
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  Speaker 1: collaborating to get the.
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  Speaker 2: Best out of him, and you're seeing that.
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  Speaker 1: So they've got they've built it to have some good,
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  Speaker 1: you know, skill players around him as well. The old
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  Speaker 1: line's playing at a high level. So when the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: can kind of just go play free and it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have to all be you having to make every single play,
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  Speaker 1: that typically ends up leading for a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: success for the quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: You guys early.
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  Speaker 3: And you're.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think that you look at the
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  Speaker 1: Chargers game and then you go to Arizona and then
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  Speaker 1: you you know, obviously win the game the other day,
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  Speaker 1: and is it perfect, No, But I think the guys
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  Speaker 1: understand that what we're trying to do throughout the week,
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  Speaker 1: even though limiting some of the practice full speed reps
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  Speaker 1: is we had a meeting about it this morning with
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  Speaker 1: the players and coaches is like our individual during the week,
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  Speaker 1: Like it can't just be edds like everyday drills and
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  Speaker 1: just go do you know whatever to get them loosened up.
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  Speaker 1: Like everything that we do on the grass has to
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  Speaker 1: be super intentional for some drill, a fundamental, a technique
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  Speaker 1: that needs to show up for this game to win
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  Speaker 1: this game on Sunday and also to improve, right if
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  Speaker 1: there's fundamentals and techniques at every position that ultimately you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to improve upon, and I want our coaching staff
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  Speaker 1: and players to be very deliberate about that throughout the
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  Speaker 1: week of practice in preparation this week, you know, knowing
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  Speaker 1: that you still got to save their legs and their
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  Speaker 1: bodies and be smart with them. But we don't have
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  Speaker 1: any time to waste out there, and I think our
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  Speaker 1: players and staff have done a nice job of that
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  Speaker 1: so far. Part of a wins ten in a row.
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  Speaker 1: I've never yeah no to answer your question, and look,
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  Speaker 1: you know the message to the team today was I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure you guys are all going to ask them the
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  Speaker 1: same question. And every year is a new year, every
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  Speaker 1: team's a new team, and I think we understand that
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  Speaker 1: we're different. Everything's new and different and every years is different.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I think you can hold on to that
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  Speaker 1: as a something in your back pocket as a as
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  Speaker 1: a player. But ultimately, we got to go beat the Colts,
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  Speaker 1: this year's Colts and this team on Sunday, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully our crowd and fan base is a big part
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  Speaker 1: of that.
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  Speaker 2: Do you mention it for a game?
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  Speaker 3: We don't want to be the.
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  Speaker 1: Team loose, he says, Nah, no, no, no, it's not
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  Speaker 1: anything that I'm thinking about.
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  Speaker 2: I hope our players are not thinking about that either.
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  Speaker 3: Like when a pass rusher kind of gets on a
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  Speaker 3: rule or gets in a groove.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think confidence is a hell of thame.
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  Speaker 2: Momentums hell of the thame.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when you're able to go play freely and
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  Speaker 1: not be thinking about you know anything, you know, guys
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  Speaker 1: just going out and playing and letting a rip. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, once you start to get a few and
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  Speaker 1: you get next closer to the queue and you're affecting
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  Speaker 1: the game that momentum we all feel like everybody feels
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  Speaker 1: and in all three phases, and you know that when
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  Speaker 1: you get people in known passing situations, well there's a
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  Speaker 1: different feel. Now, there's a little bit of a different
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  Speaker 1: vibe to knowing when the coverage and the trust that
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  Speaker 1: maybe that rusher those guys have up front in the
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  Speaker 1: guys behind them that they're going to be able to
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  Speaker 1: be in the right positions to do their jobs to
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  Speaker 1: help those guys be able to go up front. I
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  Speaker 1: think that's some of the stuff you're seeing in terms
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  Speaker 1: of the back.
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  Speaker 3: End defensively for you guys countering the various skilled players
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  Speaker 3: that they have on offense. What did you think of
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  Speaker 3: Jory and Jordan both on the field together this past weekend?
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  Speaker 3: Moving forward? And then of course obviously if you get
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  Speaker 3: Eric back, how does that back durings the matchup?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you know both of those guys. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: Jordan was just coming back. Jarian's done a really nice
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  Speaker 1: job in his absence in a lot of ways. So
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  Speaker 1: you want to continue that ascension and that development because
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  Speaker 1: it helps us on the grass on Sundays, either whether
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  Speaker 1: it's tackling, whether it's coverage, whether it's making a play
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  Speaker 1: on the ball, communication, So you've got to be unique
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  Speaker 1: and creative in terms of rep count, packaging and making
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  Speaker 1: sure that you're getting your best eleven on the grass
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  Speaker 1: as much as possible. And then, like I mentioned with okay, safeties,
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  Speaker 1: is it, dime, is it, you know, little, whatever those
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  Speaker 1: packages are to ultimately get guys in positions to do
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  Speaker 1: what they do best. And I think that that's been
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  Speaker 1: a work in progress and hopefully something we can continue
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  Speaker 1: to build off of Tyler Warren.
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  Speaker 2: To air with that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean like the play that I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you guys saw the play that he made at
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  Speaker 1: the end of regulation against that land on the fourth
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  Speaker 1: and two. I believe it was where they kind of
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  Speaker 1: got bluffed into a zero check. He throws the flat
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  Speaker 1: route out there. Then Nickel is literally in the best
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  Speaker 1: position that you could possibly be in to make a
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  Speaker 1: play to end the game, and Daniel puts it up
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  Speaker 1: to Tyler like right up here, and he just eats
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  Speaker 1: the ball and makes the play and throws the guy
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  Speaker 1: off of them, and like right, They're gonna make some plays,
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  Speaker 1: there's no question. But I think that if we can
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  Speaker 1: get some of our you know, whether it's LB's.
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  Speaker 2: Safeties, whatever it is.
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  Speaker 1: From a matchup standpoint, we've got to go get hands
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  Speaker 1: on these guys a little bit more and try to
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  Speaker 1: stop them early in the down. That's why the coverage
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  Speaker 1: and the rush is so important. From your tight end room,
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  Speaker 1: the game coach they plays for Britain Shrane see morison
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  Speaker 1: Er gets So is that just fundamentally something.
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  Speaker 2: A part of your offensive.
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  Speaker 1: Steam where you're going to feature multiple guys in the team.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just a good example of guys stepping
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  Speaker 1: up and making plays when their numbers are called. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, Brenton's a guy that we've wanted to continue
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  Speaker 1: to get more to as a player that you know,
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  Speaker 1: when he catches the ball can do something.
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  Speaker 2: With it, right.
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  Speaker 1: And the more you can get those guys in space,
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  Speaker 1: the better, and it allows you to be a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more balanced than the run in the past when
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  Speaker 1: you have twelve personnel and tight ends that can do both.
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  Speaker 1: So all those guys have made some made a play
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  Speaker 1: for us at some point this season, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully to continue to use those guys maybe in more
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  Speaker 1: you know, twelve thirteen, whatever it is to get those
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  Speaker 1: guys on the grass. What Cole van land And has
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  Speaker 1: done this year, Yeah, pretty impressive, you know, the guys
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  Speaker 1: just he doesn't say a ton, but he cares a
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  Speaker 1: lot and and really prepares the right way, doesn't flinch
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  Speaker 1: when his when his numbers called, and and has really
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  Speaker 1: helped us get to the point of where we're at
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  Speaker 1: right now. You know, I think he played pretty darn
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  Speaker 1: good on Sunday as well, So you know, he's a
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  Speaker 1: guy that everybody trusts, believes in, and really happy to
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  Speaker 1: have him right now.
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  Speaker 3: Ever, said this game everything that because it's the next
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  Speaker 3: game up, or because there's a different deal with this matchup.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think that it's we all kind
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  Speaker 1: of know what's riding on these kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of games, right, division games in December.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the season doesn't end one way or the
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  Speaker 1: other on Sunday, right, and it's just that it's our
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  Speaker 1: next opportunity against a very quality opponent that just so
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  Speaker 1: also happens to be in our division. And we were
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  Speaker 1: all fighting for it, right Like, we're all fighting to
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  Speaker 1: stay up there and to compete each week to give
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  Speaker 1: yourself a chance at the end of the year. But
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  Speaker 1: your ops are starting to get a little bit smaller, right,
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  Speaker 1: You just the windows starting to close in terms of
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  Speaker 1: opportunities on Sundays. Our players work really hard from all
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  Speaker 1: year round for these opportunities on Sunday, and to know
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  Speaker 1: that as you get into December, well you're only getting
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  Speaker 1: so many more of these. We're gonna practice a whole
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  Speaker 1: heck of a lot more than we're gonna play, ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: so taking advantage of the ops that are here, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, hey, we got to go seize the moment
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  Speaker 1: as well. Attic, But which Florida getting me brand liney?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Brad is.
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  Speaker 1: Brad's one of the smarter guys coaches I've been around
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  Speaker 1: at any level, true teacher of the game. I learned
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  Speaker 1: so much from Brad in terms of the way that
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  Speaker 1: he saw the game, the way that he would He
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  Speaker 1: is one of the more detailed organized coaches I've been
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  Speaker 1: around in terms of his process throughout the week, his
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  Speaker 1: checklists throughout the week, and then his game plans to
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  Speaker 1: be able to go and cause issues for people. It
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  Speaker 1: gave me problems every day in practice. It's multiple, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and he knows how to scheme people up.
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  Speaker 2: He does.
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  Speaker 1: And so aside from that phenomenal person in human being,
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  Speaker 1: you know, really adds to everything that somebody's going to
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  Speaker 1: be about in that place hopefully is going to be about.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm really happy to have those guys is as neighbors.
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  Speaker 1: Our families were very close, and I mean Brad's from
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  Speaker 1: Rhode Island.
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  Speaker 2: Like we're high school rivals.
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  Speaker 1: So it was crazy that two coordinators in the SEC
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  Speaker 1: we're both from Rhode Island. And you know, I was
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years younger than Brad, but like I
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  Speaker 1: went and watched Brad play.
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  Speaker 2: I think I was in eighth grade.
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  Speaker 1: He was playing at Bishop Hendrick in high school with
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  Speaker 1: Will Blackman, and my dad was the head coach at
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  Speaker 1: Salve and we were going there to scout and watch
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  Speaker 1: those guys play. I still remember Brad with his big
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  Speaker 1: neck role playing linebacker and full back there. So we
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  Speaker 1: go way back and we're very close.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah,