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Press Pass | Mike Caldwell on Year 2 Growth, Tackling, CJ Stroud · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What just stood out to you most about I guess
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  Speaker 1: the defense's efforts and their energy on some of that.
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  Speaker 2: Just uh, guy's playing together.
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  Speaker 3: I think they understood the game, planing, went out, did
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  Speaker 3: a good job executing, and you know it just had
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  Speaker 3: fun going out there playing.
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  Speaker 1: Hard, like he feels like just a defense in general,
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  Speaker 1: and especially the secondary's morning to seek. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: a lot of that's just second year and assist them
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  Speaker 1: or second year together?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, you know, guys playing together, understanding each other, and
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  Speaker 3: the calls are called or the calls so they know him.
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  Speaker 2: So they're just going out there and executing.
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  Speaker 4: Last year, right around this time, you guys played the
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  Speaker 4: Texans Dot Home Treyvon had of course that personal cow penaldeed.
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  Speaker 4: You know that sort of impacted the game. But I'm thinking,
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  Speaker 4: how much maturity growth have you seen from him since that,
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  Speaker 4: since that play, since that game has taken place.
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  Speaker 3: I think when you look at him, his games improved,
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  Speaker 3: his games, uh, and he's matured to the at the
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  Speaker 3: person and at the player. You see a lot of
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  Speaker 3: stuff that is a second time for him. So he's
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  Speaker 3: more comfortable doing different things. And you know he's a
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  Speaker 3: he's locked and loaded ready to go.
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  Speaker 4: Is there positive to playing rookie quarterbacks early in the season.
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  Speaker 2: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so because there's so much unknown. You
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  Speaker 3: go back and you look at college film and you
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  Speaker 3: try to see what they did in college and see
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  Speaker 3: what the system they're going into, how that will fit them.
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  Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Guys are gonna, you know, go back to what's comfortable
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  Speaker 3: for them and what they're good at. And I think that's,
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  Speaker 3: you know what we face, just a lot of uncertainty,
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  Speaker 3: But we just go out there and try to play
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  Speaker 3: our game and try to make them adjust.
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  Speaker 1: Us offensive line that's as banged up as the Texans
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  Speaker 1: group is.
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  Speaker 5: How important is it for your.
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  Speaker 3: Defensive one group to take advantage of those matchups. I
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  Speaker 3: think every week you go out there and you want
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  Speaker 3: to control the line of scrimmage, and that's one of
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  Speaker 3: our goals and that's what we look to do every week.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, if we do what we're supposed to do,
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  Speaker 2: go out there.
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  Speaker 3: And control the line of scrimmage and play well at
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  Speaker 3: the total defense, and things will fall in the place.
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  Speaker 2: I think strouded for more than three hundred yards last week.
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  Speaker 5: Just what is he's showing you in these persons just
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  Speaker 5: a couple of the games.
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  Speaker 3: He's the guy kind of knew a little bit coming
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  Speaker 3: into the college. For my brother in law was with
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  Speaker 3: him and I kept hearing about him. You know, great
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  Speaker 3: college quarterback and he can do this. But when I
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  Speaker 3: watch him on film, he's he's poised, he's poised back there.
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  Speaker 2: He hasn't thrown an interception yet, and.
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  Speaker 3: He's completing so many I think he's like up in
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  Speaker 3: the sixty percent of his completion.
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  Speaker 2: So he's a guy that's poised, has good.
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  Speaker 3: Accuracy, and you know, he's a quarterback that stands back
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  Speaker 3: in the pocket and makes good decisions.
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  Speaker 2: Texans have that wide receiver.
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  Speaker 3: They're big outside, they're big guys and once they gets
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  Speaker 3: the ball in their hand, they're hard to tackle and
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  Speaker 3: the guys are going to go up and compete for
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  Speaker 3: the ball. So he's a quarterback that can throw the
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  Speaker 3: ball and put it in the right spot and they're
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  Speaker 3: big receivers that can go up and fight for it
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  Speaker 3: and go get it.
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  Speaker 5: Jamian Fears had a game last time here, Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Just what has to change?
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  Speaker 5: So that kind of contained their ready at time.
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  Speaker 2: We just have to you know, continue to focus on tackling.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Uh, we.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't tackle as whether we wanted to last week, So
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  Speaker 3: another inphasis this week. But we have to go back
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  Speaker 3: and focus on it and try to get as many
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  Speaker 3: guy as we can to the ball. Understand, let's do
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  Speaker 3: what we teach in practice, how to get guys down
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  Speaker 3: on the ground and go out and have another go
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  Speaker 3: at it this week.
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  Speaker 1: Hundred How special hope play was that just had that
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  Speaker 1: kind of range to make that play.
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  Speaker 3: It was a good one because he missed one early.
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  Speaker 3: That's the thing. You know, he's a guy that's gonna
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  Speaker 3: get his hands on a lot of balls. He's that
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  Speaker 3: talented and he has a great anticipation.
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  Speaker 2: But he missed it one early and.
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  Speaker 3: I was, you know, like it's gonna come back to you,
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  Speaker 3: and it came.
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  Speaker 2: Back to him.
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  Speaker 3: He made a great breakout of the middle field and
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  Speaker 3: you know, made a play.
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  Speaker 1: Did you kind of tell sometimes early in the game
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  Speaker 1: and interception was gonna happen? It seemed like before that,
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  Speaker 1: before his interception, there were a couple of passes.
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  Speaker 5: That were like right there.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of hard because you know you'll get opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: You just have to come down with them, But you know,
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  Speaker 3: we touched the ball a couple of times early on
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  Speaker 3: in the game, gave the quarterback a few different looks.
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  Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, they come in bunches,
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  Speaker 3: turnovers do, takeaways do, and we just want to put
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  Speaker 3: ourselves around the ball and put ourselves in a good
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  Speaker 3: position to be able to make You know a couple
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  Speaker 3: of plays, did you feel.
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  Speaker 5: Josh Allen's pressure impacted that interception? Because if if Mahomes
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  Speaker 5: gets more air under the ball, it's probably a touchdown
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  Speaker 5: that he wasn't able to really It looks like he
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  Speaker 5: wasn't able to really step into the ball the way
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  Speaker 5: he wanted because of the pressure Josh had.
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  Speaker 2: I think that we say that all the time.
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  Speaker 3: They go together. Coverage and the rush go together. Sometimes
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  Speaker 3: you'll be in a step behind and the pass rush
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  Speaker 3: will effect to throw. Sometimes you'll be in great coverage
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  Speaker 3: and pass rush won't be there. You'll need a couple
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  Speaker 3: of seconds. So they go together, and Josh does a
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  Speaker 3: good job of pressure in a quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: He had a big hit. But you never know when
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna need your team mate. So that's why you're
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  Speaker 2: always accountable for you guys.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta go out there, and I gotta get to
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  Speaker 3: the quarterback, I gotta cover and it all goes together
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  Speaker 3: that that ball.
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  Speaker 5: Was sort of coming down. Sometimes when a defender knows
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  Speaker 5: he's got to play catch up to go to get
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  Speaker 5: people with the receiver, he focuses on that and forgets
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  Speaker 5: to look up for the ball. But Andre's found that
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  Speaker 5: ball pretty early on where instead of you know, spending
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  Speaker 5: all the energy on just running and not looking up,
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  Speaker 5: you know, he shows some awareness.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah he did, But if you look at the play,
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  Speaker 3: really a Trey Herndon within great position. He was on
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  Speaker 3: top of the receiver and he threw the ball to
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  Speaker 3: the opposite hash and we had to have feel safety
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  Speaker 3: over there, which was Andre, and he ended up, you know,
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  Speaker 3: where he was supposed to be and made a good play.
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  Speaker 1: Is there something you can put your finger on as
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  Speaker 1: to why the defense has been able to get off
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  Speaker 1: to such a strong start.
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  Speaker 2: To the year.
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  Speaker 3: We're one on one, so strong start is we won
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  Speaker 3: one and lost one, So I don't know. I wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: call it a strong start. We're a work in progress.
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  Speaker 3: Or go out there every week and try to do
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  Speaker 3: the best we can to give our team a chance
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  Speaker 3: to win.
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  Speaker 2: The appreciated.
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  Speaker 5: Just at the day. Sorry, we gotta we got a
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  Speaker 5: win last week