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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Recaps Week 5, Gives Updates On Injured Players · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, if you and the proud today. Man, it's
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  Speaker 1: been it's been a long day, been a good day.
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  Speaker 1: It's good to be with the guys. Good to watch
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  Speaker 1: the tape. You know, obviously we're not We're not. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's not pleased. We're disappointed in the outcome of the game.
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  Speaker 1: I thought the guys did play hard, we fought the
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  Speaker 1: last second. It's a good it's a good example one
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  Speaker 1: of the NFL works. You know, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: games where in our you know, two year history where
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  Speaker 1: I felt like, uh, you played conpromary football and and
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  Speaker 1: you know, defenses helping out offense and special teams things
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  Speaker 1: like that. Some certain games come to mind. Yesterday was
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  Speaker 1: a game where our offense and special teams had to
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  Speaker 1: pick up our defense and it came down to trying
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  Speaker 1: to get in a stop towards the end or scoring late,
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  Speaker 1: and we weren't able to do either of those things. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we scoured through the tape, made a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of made a lot a lot of corrections, and guys
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  Speaker 1: are on board. Go through not around as we like
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  Speaker 1: to say around here, and but what's important is we
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  Speaker 1: learn from it and we go attack the heck out
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  Speaker 1: of this week and and we come back fresh on
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday and all ice, you know, straight ahead and get
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  Speaker 1: ready for Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 2: What did the tape tell you about the tackling issues?
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  Speaker 1: Is that just yeah, it's the It's the way we
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  Speaker 1: It's the way we felt after the game. We we
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  Speaker 1: missed too many, especially on the perimeter. So it's a
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  Speaker 1: technique thing and and an all eleven type of thing.
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  Speaker 1: So really, as a defense, we have to play better.
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  Speaker 2: We have to take better angles. I think we need to.
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  Speaker 2: We need to practice it better.
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  Speaker 1: I know, we trained the heck out of it, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not showing up on tape right now, so we
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  Speaker 1: got to keep attacking it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, too much space.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we missed tackles ear in the year as well,
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  Speaker 1: but they didn't show up as much because we have
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  Speaker 1: more guys at the point of attack and it's a
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  Speaker 1: lot easier to take your shot when you know I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm next to you and I got three guys behind
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  Speaker 1: me ready to clean it up for me, rather than
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  Speaker 1: just me versus you out in the open field.
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  Speaker 3: When you just look at the passing yards they got.
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  Speaker 3: I guess what do you what do you kind of
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  Speaker 3: attribute the main issues with just how they were able.
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  Speaker 2: To throw the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's obviously way too many.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's like a pet peeve when the coaches
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  Speaker 1: get up here and you're like, yeah, it was all us,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like all those yards would be diminished if
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  Speaker 1: we would have just done X, Y and Z like Tampa.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of credit to Baker's playing at a
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  Speaker 1: high level. I thought they had a good game plan,
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  Speaker 1: they executed really well. They play hard, they're a good team.
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  Speaker 1: Having said that, you know, we have to play better too,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, like I said after the game, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like are I have to have a better game plan
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  Speaker 1: and I have.
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  Speaker 2: To call it better. So it's kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of everybody, everybody involved taking their game to another level
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  Speaker 1: and focusing that, you know, getting all the inputs right
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  Speaker 1: throughout the week.
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  Speaker 3: You said this morning on the show that you call
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  Speaker 3: the plays for who's who, you've gotten the field, got
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  Speaker 3: to coach the players you've got if what the players
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  Speaker 3: need kind of on some of your core tenants, like
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  Speaker 3: maybe you need to bring more pressure and you tend
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  Speaker 3: to not be a pressure blitzing team. What ends up
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  Speaker 3: winning out between those.
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  Speaker 1: Two I wouldn't I wouldn't say it's core tenants. We
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  Speaker 1: like to think of it in terms of like majors
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  Speaker 1: and minors, or a's and b's. You know, what's what's
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  Speaker 1: the right mix? I think I think it's uh a
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  Speaker 1: combination of how you feel how you need to play
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  Speaker 1: the game going into the game, and then as the
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  Speaker 1: game starts to declare uh. I hate to be simplistic,
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  Speaker 1: but it's really just what what what you feel is
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  Speaker 1: going to give the best chance to win the game.
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  Speaker 1: And so you know, that's why we called the things
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  Speaker 1: we did. And you know, you know, I thought, I
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  Speaker 1: like to think of it through the lens. If you're
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  Speaker 1: calling plays for players, not like you know, mitigating risks
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  Speaker 1: for players, you're trying to put people in position rather
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  Speaker 1: than get them out of the way. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: one kind of a more aggressive mindset than a defensive mindset.
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  Speaker 3: How do you how do you hope to show up
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  Speaker 3: for players after a loss? And is it any different
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  Speaker 3: than you hope to show up for them after a win?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you said, I think you have to have a
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  Speaker 1: temperature for your team what they need. I think consistency
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  Speaker 1: is important. You know, you got to double down on
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  Speaker 1: like what your principles are. If you start chasing all
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  Speaker 1: sorts of different things and going down all these different roads.
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  Speaker 2: If I'm a player, I'm like, well, what the heck
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  Speaker 2: is a coach? What does he? You know, what's what's
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  Speaker 2: expected around here?
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  Speaker 1: So hopefully we're clear on what we're chasing and put
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  Speaker 1: things in perspective and tell the truth. I mean, like
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  Speaker 1: to go through, not around things like it's real, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, how do you how do you want to
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  Speaker 1: how do you want to handle adversity? How do you
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  Speaker 1: want to grow as a football team? Well, do you
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  Speaker 1: actually want to grow? You know, do you actually want
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  Speaker 1: to take an next step? Or do you just want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about it? So we prefer to actually do it.
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  Speaker 2: Can you tell us about Spoon? Uh? Spoon and d
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  Speaker 2: Law this week?
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  Speaker 1: You know, we'll see how they They're going to try
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  Speaker 1: to practice in the middle of the week, so no
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  Speaker 1: like designation yet, but the plan is for them to
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  Speaker 1: practice at some point middle to late in the week
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  Speaker 1: and then we'll take it from there.
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  Speaker 2: On Spoons the relatially.
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  Speaker 1: Positive bits, let's think it's fair to say like he's
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  Speaker 1: making progress positively.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's Julian the same kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: Julian's probably a little bit later timeline, probably going to
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  Speaker 1: go to the end of the week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the play with Jack Jaylor Milroe, just just what
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  Speaker 3: what I guess didn't go right on that play? And
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  Speaker 3: what have you thought of the package, the kind of
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  Speaker 3: the package you've.
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  Speaker 1: Had, Well, yeah, I mean, we have more plays for Jalen.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a it's a combination of we we
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  Speaker 1: really like the plays that we have for him, and
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  Speaker 1: we're doing a lot of great things on offense when
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  Speaker 1: Sam's the only quarterback in the game too, so trying
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  Speaker 1: to balance that as well.
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  Speaker 2: I mean these plays.
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  Speaker 1: I think part of the reason we're having success right
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  Speaker 1: now on offense is that we're throwing our fastballs and.
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  Speaker 2: We're running our offense. We're running all of.
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  Speaker 1: Our plays and uh, Jalen's package is a part of that,
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  Speaker 1: and teams have to prepare for it.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's that helps us.
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  Speaker 1: And we're executing it really well in practice and they
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  Speaker 1: look good in practice, and you start getting conservative and
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  Speaker 1: not calling stuff because you're scared or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, we don't want to live like that.
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  Speaker 1: So play didn't go our way, you know, could have
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  Speaker 1: made a better pitch, could have had a better pitch relationship.
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  Speaker 1: You know. We want to take care of the football,
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  Speaker 1: that's number one, But we want to stay aggressive too.
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  Speaker 3: Samples hard on himself for that last player, but just
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  Speaker 3: go overall another dude game. Remember what can you say
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  Speaker 3: about the wagus to played.
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  Speaker 2: It in this season?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think I feel like I'm answering
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  Speaker 1: this the same way every week.
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  Speaker 2: But man, just the consistency, the composure.
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  Speaker 1: It's a tough defense, you know, but be able to
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  Speaker 1: play decisive beyond time. I think he's taking really like
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  Speaker 1: smart calculated risks, ripping it when he needs to, taking
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  Speaker 1: care of it when he needs to.
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  Speaker 2: I know the guys around him are playing really hard,
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  Speaker 2: so it's.
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  Speaker 1: Good to like to see the ball get distributed around,
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  Speaker 1: which is how we envision it tight ends coming alive.
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  Speaker 1: And I think we're protecting him really well too, which
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  Speaker 1: that coincides with the timing of plays and uh him
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  Speaker 1: being on time, receivers getting their spots as well. But
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think everybody sees how well Sam's playing,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't see it any different.
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  Speaker 3: What's your perspective on my Pritchet's game yesterday and and
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  Speaker 3: do you expect maybe Shaquille Griffin to get some more
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  Speaker 3: opportunities going forward.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, me and I came in. He knew what to do. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know the touch the long touchdown on the red zone.
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  Speaker 1: Was was everybody included? So I know Neama seemed to
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  Speaker 1: be at the point of attack right there. But we
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  Speaker 1: need to play that play better as a whole, as
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  Speaker 1: a secondary them.
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  Speaker 2: I has been practicing really well.
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  Speaker 1: Just gotta go rip it when the when when the
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  Speaker 1: lights come on on Sundays and and Shack's doing the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. Shack's ready to go, doing a great job.
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  Speaker 1: So Yeah, will continue to compete for for playing time.
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  Speaker 2: The long throat on third and whatever it was. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we need to play that play better to
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  Speaker 2: rush and coverage.
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  Speaker 1: There's too many mississippis and uh and we got to
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  Speaker 1: play it better in the back end everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Uh the halt anything more about.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Derek, I guess it's called week to week at
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  Speaker 1: this point. Probably not looking at ir so we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: I think that gives you a good picture. It's part
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  Speaker 1: of that because of the bible that you have here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, speaking of of edge, I'm still kind of struggling
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  Speaker 3: to get edge pressure to some extent. You know, you
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  Speaker 3: had some different guys play edge with Marcus out and
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  Speaker 3: Derek Out. Uh do you think that personnel changes might
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  Speaker 3: help help there or do you think it's uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: things you can change from a scheme perspective.
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  Speaker 2: Probably both.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we pride ourselves in having competition
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  Speaker 1: all the time. So, uh, we'll see how the plan
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  Speaker 1: kind of comes into place throughout the course of the week,
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  Speaker 1: see how the guys are practicing how we want to
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  Speaker 1: go into Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Say this all the time. Russian coverage.
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  Speaker 1: You have to work together, and so you have to
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  Speaker 1: create these situations where they're in drop back pass situations
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  Speaker 1: by playing early downs really well. And then when they
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  Speaker 1: are in like action passes and movements, it's the whole
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  Speaker 1: whole group working together and recognize and play action pass
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  Speaker 1: and get into conversions and I mean, all those things
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  Speaker 1: come into play, and yesterday just it wasn't even close
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  Speaker 1: to how we wanted to be. I mean, we've had
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  Speaker 1: we've had some really good quarterback pressure games and yesterday
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  Speaker 1: was was definitely not one of them. And so you know,
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  Speaker 1: those guys deserve some responsibility. How we designed it which
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  Speaker 1: is my job, an AD's job. We can be better
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 2: And then the coverage portion as well. We gave him
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  Speaker 2: too many answers to too early in.
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  Speaker 3: The down think even where he got his first full game.
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  Speaker 3: What was your reflection on tape on his performance?
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was a good start. He gives us
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  Speaker 1: something off the edge. I thought he was his assignment sound.
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  Speaker 1: There's more plays for him out there, so plenty of
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  Speaker 1: room to grow, but it was good to have him
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  Speaker 1: out there.
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  Speaker 3: Sam's pretty hard himself about last play as well. That
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I guess when you looked at that, what
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  Speaker 3: did you see there?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 1: I just I just you know, I'm proud of our
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  Speaker 1: group that when when things aren't going right, we're not
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  Speaker 1: like looking for the other guy of like, hey, you
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  Speaker 1: know so and so could have done a better offense
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  Speaker 1: did this, and defense did that. It's like, now you know,
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  Speaker 1: Sam's going to look at his area of responsibility and
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  Speaker 1: be and be really hungry to grow from it. I
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  Speaker 1: think you go down the locker room of our entire
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  Speaker 1: football team and I feel like they shared the same mentality.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not surprised that Sam said those things. But
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  Speaker 1: the reason we were in the in the game in
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  Speaker 1: the first place is largely because of how well he played.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll learn from it and we'll keep moving forward.
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  Speaker 3: When you, as a defensive play caller are preparing to
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  Speaker 3: play a team.
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  Speaker 1: With someone like Jaylen Milrow on it, does that actually
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  Speaker 1: take up like a good amount of time throughout the
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  Speaker 1: lead to get your guys ready for that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta have rules. You gotta no one's in
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  Speaker 1: the game. If he's in the game, he's not at quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta practice those plays you specialty Earlier, Drake.
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  Speaker 3: Down Down the Tears are kind of been capitulated as
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  Speaker 3: a catch ups in especially seam Well.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think you've seen this version of Dereek
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  Speaker 1: throughout throughout camp, and uh, it's great to see him
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  Speaker 1: do it in games, but he's given this It's kind
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  Speaker 1: of we've been bouncing around with kick returners here for
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  Speaker 1: a minute, and it's great to kind of find find
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  Speaker 1: guys that are going to go be decisives and go
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  Speaker 1: rip it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, George's doing the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: And offensively, he gives us an added weapon as well,
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  Speaker 1: both in run in pass, so.
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  Speaker 2: More great players to be able to put.
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  Speaker 1: On the field, the better for us, and happy for
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  Speaker 1: the riek that he's put himself in that situation where
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  Speaker 1: he can compete for snaps and and play a really
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  Speaker 1: important role in our football team on special teams.
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  Speaker 3: How special was that ninety nine yard drive that at
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  Speaker 3: you guys in front. I was going through your mind
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  Speaker 3: after they finished.
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  Speaker 2: That that drive. Uh, I wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't very happy at the beginning of the drive
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  Speaker 1: if you remember, it was a great drive. Look, I
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  Speaker 1: mean like you got to pick each other up and
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  Speaker 1: so defensively finally got to stop. However it happened, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're putting, we're putting a backed up situation.
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  Speaker 2: It's funny.
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  Speaker 1: We actually that happened to be one of our game
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  Speaker 1: scenarios this week, and they did a great job of
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  Speaker 1: getting out of there. Can you know, I thought the
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  Speaker 1: first run by Sharps is a tremendous run getting it
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  Speaker 1: off the goal line. You know, we were fortunate there
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  Speaker 1: on the second play, and then Coopman and Austin playing
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  Speaker 1: a couple of great conversions and then put us in
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  Speaker 1: a chance to go win the football game where we
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  Speaker 1: can go close it out. So it just shows you
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  Speaker 1: the guy's mentality. Whatever happened, we just kind of just
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  Speaker 1: all right, let's go, what's next. Same thing we did
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  Speaker 1: in there Zona. It's our guy's character. It was a
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  Speaker 1: great drive plays some deep safety.
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  Speaker 2: Stuff to h he can he can? He can? He
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  Speaker 2: can play deep safety, kind of going back to the
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  Speaker 2: the edge of the pass ust just looking at your interior. Guys,
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  Speaker 2: what did you think of them us in the past. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think when you look at our.
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  Speaker 1: Really, by any metric this game on defense, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna be good enough.
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  Speaker 2: So, uh, guys played hard. Guys played hard.
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  Speaker 1: We just uh we didn't affect the game that the
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  Speaker 1: way they usually the way they usually do. And that's
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  Speaker 1: and that's a team that's a team metric, you know, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's team metric.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, you just get it.
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  Speaker 1: Like like I said today, you gotta take on the
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  Speaker 1: gen and you got to figure out how, hey, how
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  Speaker 1: can how can we improve? How can we put ourselves
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  Speaker 1: in a better situation? How can we prepare better? That's
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  Speaker 1: their mentality today. Guys has been guy's been really good today.
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  Speaker 3: You've seen how long it can take to get a
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  Speaker 3: new scheme installed on defense and get the players right.
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  Speaker 3: And get it all going. Are you surprised at all
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  Speaker 3: you've been pressed by how fast Clint Kobiac and that
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  Speaker 3: side of the ball been able to come in here
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  Speaker 3: with all new players and be a hyper highly productive offense.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's a it's a it's a it's a credit
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  Speaker 1: to everybody involved. I wouldn't say that I have a
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  Speaker 1: certain feeling about it or surprised, but I think I
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  Speaker 1: think we might have got this question maybe around a
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  Speaker 1: training camp or going to the first game. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: your expectations are to go nail the process every day. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: that's what I'm looking for from our guys. And I
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  Speaker 1: can tell you that we're really steadfast in our in
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  Speaker 1: our process. And I say, the way Clinton you know, operates, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the way our offensive guys operate, the personnel, they've been
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  Speaker 1: doing it all they did it all spring. And so
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  Speaker 1: when you stack all those reps and you have a
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  Speaker 1: clear vision of what you're trying to trying to trying
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  Speaker 1: to become and and the coach is steadfast and it's consistent,
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  Speaker 1: that's how you grow. And I think that's how you
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  Speaker 1: have the development that we had. So it's a it's
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  Speaker 1: a it's a testament to everybody's approach involved and and
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  Speaker 1: the players we have.
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  Speaker 3: Rieka, is there any update on here?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, he's working through it. I think it's probably go,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully go pretty quick. Hopeing he practice on Wednesday, So.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see, we'll see, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's show up on wednesday's not practicing and
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: I'll look like an idiot.
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: Conrad Toole was active for this and then Derek went out.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: I still didn't play? Was what was the thought there?
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: I just felt like with the guys we had, with
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: Mike Moo, we would would be all right. So he'd
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: go in there and play though he was ready to go.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: Does that mean reached in the protocol or not? To
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: my understanding, he is, Yeah, that's still a potential practice. Yeah,
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: like he's he's working through it quickly. From what I understand.
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: By learners as the picture wasn't playing in that business.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: As well, it was a spark plug for a whole
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: football team. This guy's got a.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: Great mentality, he's got swagged to him, he's got an edge,
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: he's got toughness, he's got he's.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: Got like a great spirit about him.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: Or it's not just for our offense, but cares about
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: our football team, and we love him for it.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: He's doing a tremendous job. He's done a lot of.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Unselfish work on our offense a lot a lot of
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: the time and pass protection, run game. Takes a lot
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: of pride in all those things. And as we like
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: to say, the ball finds energy. And when you do
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: things right and do it consistently, you know, you tend
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: to get rewarded for that type of stuff. And I
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: think that's what we're seeing with him. But when we
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: find in the ball good things have been happening.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: Was his like stepping forward as a leader and being
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: more vocal. Was that something you guys approached him about?
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: Did he approach you or did just happen organically.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: Kind of all the above.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, you're really impressed with when he showed up
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: after like since when we drafted him, all the way
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: through the year, like, man, this guy, this guy's a
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: real deal, and towards the end of the season, you're thinking, oh, okay,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: like you have it starting to have a probably a bigger,
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: clearer vision of what he can become. And to his
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: and to his credit, this is something that he wants.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: He's been chasing, and that's how he approaches offseason, which
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: is great. You know, you want to be able to
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: work towards guy like big goals, big visions for players.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Almost feel for a team that Jackson speA takes putting
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: the big numbers.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: But what he did again and then it's like a
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: forty year catch at least different meats rights. Yeah, how impressive,
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Very impressive.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: The consistency behind his approach I think is showing with
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: like from week to week, I think how complimentary we
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: are on offense and how Sam's been able to distribute
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: the ball and work through his progressions. Ball seems to
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: find him in those critical moments. And I think Clint's
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: calling great games as well. So happy for him. He's
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: got I'm sure he's got a lot of you know,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: got a long way to go from Jackson's point of view,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: but he's playing great football for us.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: He's not necessarily the fastest guy by either Feller super
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: standards or you think six or three guy. What makes
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: him so effective.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Fields, Well, he's got you can track the ball incredibly well.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: I think his body control coming from a guy that
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: can't track the ball deep in the field, I understand
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: how difficult.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: That is so just overall athleticism.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: How you can track ball body position, and how do
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: you keep defenders kind of at arm's lengths without you know,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: creating penalties or anything like.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: That is is impressive. Anything else, okay, all right, thank
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: you