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  Speaker 1: You guys have already faced him and you won't be
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  Speaker 1: game planning for him. But with Calvin, you guys got
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  Speaker 1: to spend last year with him. Just what makes him special?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Calvin's obviously super talented, the ability to stop
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  Speaker 2: on a dime, the way he does, the way he
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  Speaker 2: attacks off the line of scrimmage, that just threatens off
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  Speaker 2: coverage all the time. But really, I mean the coolest
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  Speaker 2: thing being around him was just the way he worked.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he did that every single day in practice
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  Speaker 2: and it was impressive. From he wants to be at
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  Speaker 2: the front of line. He's gonna go a million miles
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  Speaker 2: an hour on everything we do. He doesn't walk through two.
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  Speaker 2: So I think if you have the skill set he
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  Speaker 2: has and then you add that work ethic to it,
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  Speaker 2: you're I mean, it's it's a high floor, I guess,
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  Speaker 2: is what I'd say. And so Calvin's done a great
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  Speaker 2: job through the course of his career and it's no
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  Speaker 2: surprise he continues to have success.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, this is.
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  Speaker 2: EU. Why do you feel like there's a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Of talking in the run run game production this year?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's like we said, the run game can
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  Speaker 2: be tough at times. You play certain certain teams that
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  Speaker 2: have personnel issues inside. You know, you play these guys,
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  Speaker 2: their two defensive tackles are really really good players. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: it's the scheme. Is it numbers inside? I think I
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  Speaker 2: think a lot of guys. It just kind of comes
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  Speaker 2: down to a lot of matchups. Though there's a number
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  Speaker 2: of different things in the run game. A lot of
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  Speaker 2: times it's eleven guys doing it the exact same way.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe the quarterback getting us in the right run verse
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  Speaker 2: certain looks, whether we have a kill, or we get
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  Speaker 2: to something better or get out of an issue right there.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's a number of things that come in
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  Speaker 2: to play with them.
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  Speaker 1: It just seems like it's it's virtually impossible for Mac
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  Speaker 1: to have a really solid game if he's not getting
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  Speaker 1: help from the running game. And it's true of a
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  Speaker 1: lot of quarterbacks, but some quarterbacks can make up for
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  Speaker 1: it better than others.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think in the last game, we put ourselves
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  Speaker 2: in so many long yarded situations. You know, we had
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  Speaker 2: more p and ton penalties and we've had all season long,
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  Speaker 2: and so you're playing first and twenty second, twenty whatever
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  Speaker 2: that may be. You know, we wiped out a twenty
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  Speaker 2: four yard to Brian and start a drive. I think
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  Speaker 2: we started two drives there with p and ten penalties,
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  Speaker 2: and then the next one we have the fifteen yeard
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  Speaker 2: run to fumble. So you know, it's just kind of
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  Speaker 2: getting in our own way with stuff like that, illegal formations,
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  Speaker 2: just little things that we're in control of and things
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  Speaker 2: like that. So that gives you the ability to stay
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  Speaker 2: on tasks, to be efficient in your early down runs
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  Speaker 2: and get more runs. And then I think you see
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  Speaker 2: guys kind of get lathered up, not just the running
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  Speaker 2: backs but the linemen as well, fitting blocks, calling repeating
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  Speaker 2: runs to where they get settled into. You know, this
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  Speaker 2: guy made this adjustment on that one. So when I
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  Speaker 2: get this again, here's how we're gonna combo this whatever
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  Speaker 2: that looks like. So I think it's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: things going to play with it. Cole's performance I thought
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  Speaker 2: was a good job. I mean, that's it's like we
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  Speaker 2: talk about with backup quarterbacks. I mean, you're you're one
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  Speaker 2: play away and it could happen the first series, the
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  Speaker 2: first quarter, the second quarter. You got to catch up
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  Speaker 2: to the speed of the game. At that point you're
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  Speaker 2: sitting on the sideline watching and now you gotta go
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  Speaker 2: out there and block a guy that's been lathered up
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  Speaker 2: throughout the course of the game. So I thought col
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  Speaker 2: did a good job, and he's kind of always done
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  Speaker 2: that whenever we've thrown him in the fire like that,
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  Speaker 2: and that that's kind of life as a backup.
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  Speaker 1: Though, Is that opened anything.
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  Speaker 2: Up for Javon?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe necessarily playing with Colon, but like in practice, are
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  Speaker 1: the things that you're gonna wip seed from him? With
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  Speaker 1: national opportunities?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we rotate those guys a lot, especially
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  Speaker 2: your top eight that are going into a game. Those
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  Speaker 2: guys get a lot of rotation throughout the course of practice.
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  Speaker 2: So Sovn will just get more and more opportunities right there,
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  Speaker 2: and we're pleased with the progression has had as a
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  Speaker 2: young player through his first year.
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  Speaker 1: The play call on the fourth and eleven, does that
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  Speaker 1: throw half to be beyond the six?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: But that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And honestly that's the exact same play. We run
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  Speaker 2: that play for a million times in three years. It
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  Speaker 2: was the exact same play we ran on a fourth
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  Speaker 2: and eight and twenty two against Baltimore and we hit
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  Speaker 2: Zay Jones and the same cover is a different variation
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  Speaker 2: of getting to it, but it was cloud and we
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  Speaker 2: threw one up over the top, and you know, you'd
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  Speaker 2: like to see go pass the sticks, But at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day, Mack felt best to put the
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  Speaker 2: ball in play right there, and Deerness tried to run
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  Speaker 2: for it and we came up short. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's something I gotta do a better job communicating that
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  Speaker 2: with Mac of you know what we're looking for, what
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  Speaker 2: the intention of this call is, understanding this situation and
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  Speaker 2: giving ourselves an opportunity to continue the game at that point.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks brother, Thanks appreciate it. For Christmas. Question on YouTube