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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "We have to stay disciplined." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, unfortunately it's gonna be season long. Um gosh, you
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  Speaker 1: know it's he was in a really good spot and
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  Speaker 1: playing well. Um you know, my heart was out to him,
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  Speaker 1: and and uh obviously a speedy recovery, but um, you
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  Speaker 1: know when he comes back next year, he'll be ready
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  Speaker 1: to go. I wish we're taking this place. Is that
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  Speaker 1: you know, having a bedroom like him on the team,
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  Speaker 1: is that what you know, kind of helps out you
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  Speaker 1: guys in that area. Yeah, I mean anytime you have
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  Speaker 1: veteran you know, backups, um, swing guys that go a
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  Speaker 1: couple of multiple spots is a beneficial Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Shatley is one of those guys, whether it's whether it's
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  Speaker 1: guard or center. Um, you know, it's just valuable to have.
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  Speaker 1: And uh you know you got him, you got Walker
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  Speaker 1: sitting there. Uh, Colvan Landing can obviously play guarden tackle,
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  Speaker 1: so we got we've got options. Um with John Miller
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  Speaker 1: being added, is that more death or is that the thoughts? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean when you when you lose a player like Ben,
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  Speaker 1: obviously get that spot right. And so, um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we we did our due diligence the last couple of
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  Speaker 1: days and and I brought a few guys into to
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  Speaker 1: work out and and um, you know, really feel comfortable
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  Speaker 1: with him and now we just got to get him
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  Speaker 1: caught up to speed and and um you know he'll
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  Speaker 1: be um you know in that rotation for for potentially
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  Speaker 1: that that seventh eighth spot. Yes, yes, playing the Colts
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  Speaker 1: again after playing a week two if you had that
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  Speaker 1: quick return around and playing a team twice your coaching group,
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  Speaker 1: oh yeah, oh yeah, NFC East the last four games
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  Speaker 1: of the year, we played our division four games and
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  Speaker 1: I believe it was the Giants twice, you know, so yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's a quick turnaround. But you know, um, we're excited
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  Speaker 1: for the opportunity. Um, you know going to their place
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  Speaker 1: should be a great environment, great you know, a great
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  Speaker 1: fan base there looking forward to it. We know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's obviously a different it's gonna be a different, different game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and um, uh just gonna take a
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  Speaker 1: good week of preparation and um, you know, guys are
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  Speaker 1: guys are excited for that because easier you got on
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  Speaker 1: just recently. You know, It's it's never easy. Preparation is
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  Speaker 1: never easy. Um. You know that's the one thing about
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  Speaker 1: knowing your opponent. Um, they know you and we know them,
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  Speaker 1: and you know you're not gonna fool anybody or trick anybody.
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  Speaker 1: And it just comes down to your hard work and preparation.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, listen, this is a this is a
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  Speaker 1: well coached team. It's a good football team. It's a
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  Speaker 1: disciplined football team. You see it on film. Um and
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  Speaker 1: I expect a much different ballgame than than the first time.
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  Speaker 1: With obviously going up against the cover two of the
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  Speaker 1: Texans this past weekend, knowing it's more of the cover three.
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  Speaker 1: I Gus Bradley runs, but try I do, try hang
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  Speaker 1: out um uh, knowing that there are two different defenses.
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  Speaker 1: But you saw week two, Trevor really kind of took
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  Speaker 1: what the defense gave him. Not so much this past weekend.
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  Speaker 1: What's the commerce station with them going into it doesn't matter. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's just the conversation that that is the conversation, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And and the thing is when you play teams defenses
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  Speaker 1: like this like last week Houston now now this week.
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  Speaker 1: You know, these the lovely Smiths, the gust Bradley's of
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  Speaker 1: the world, those those coordinators. Their defense is they don't
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  Speaker 1: do a lot, but what they do, they do it well.
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  Speaker 1: And they're very disciplined. And so from an offensive mindset,
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  Speaker 1: we have to stay disciplined and we have to be patient.
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  Speaker 1: And even as play callers you know myself, we have to, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, be patient with that sometimes. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: they keep everything in front of you. They don't want
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  Speaker 1: to give up the big play, you know. So uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's just that's what's that's the mentality, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And that's the mindset. Um as you play, as you
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  Speaker 1: play teams like this, maybe you crossed a little bit
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  Speaker 1: too much because he was trying to go for the
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  Speaker 1: kill shot as opposed to just playing within what they get.
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  Speaker 1: It can happen. And and again that's that's why these
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  Speaker 1: defenses play this style. They want to frustrate the offense.
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  Speaker 1: They they want you to make the mistake and um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, uh it's like playing New England. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to give you the same thing over and
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  Speaker 1: over and they expect you, the opponent, to make the
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  Speaker 1: mistake and and that's when you lose the football game.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, games are lost, you know, more than
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  Speaker 1: they are one And you know, we've got to have
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  Speaker 1: a we've got to have a good week this week.
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  Speaker 1: And get ready to play. You've been consistent in saying
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  Speaker 1: that Trevor is going to be good, He's gonna be fine,
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  Speaker 1: everything's gonna be okay. How tough is it as a
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  Speaker 1: coach to wait for that like to go on and
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  Speaker 1: sort of stay on. Doesn't mean that he can't have
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  Speaker 1: a bad game here or there, but where you're waiting
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  Speaker 1: for that consistency to kick in, there's gotta be patience,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with that. UM can't wait too long, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, you know, it's our job
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  Speaker 1: as coaches to make sure that he's he's improving every
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  Speaker 1: week and and and pointing out the good and the
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  Speaker 1: and the bad. And that's just how you grow, That's
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  Speaker 1: just how you learn. And you know, I remember back,
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  Speaker 1: you know, my days in Green Bay, you know, under
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  Speaker 1: Mike home Gran Andy Reid coaches like that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, learning just that system and it was very
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  Speaker 1: vanilla basic compared to what we're teaching today. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we always said three years, We always said that's the
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  Speaker 1: that's the benchmark. But I don't think you have three years.
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  Speaker 1: I think you you've got to get your players ready
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  Speaker 1: to go now. And and but there has to be
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  Speaker 1: subtle improvement, right, There has to be and you can't
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  Speaker 1: just put it all on one player. UM. We know that.
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  Speaker 1: And UM it takes you know, it takes all three
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  Speaker 1: phases to to win games most of the most of
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  Speaker 1: the great ones. Year two is usually a year that's
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  Speaker 1: usually pretty good, substantial you see growth from your point.
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  Speaker 1: But this is year one for Trevor in your system.
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  Speaker 1: How much does that impact it? A little bit? I
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  Speaker 1: think it impacts it some, you know. But again, you
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  Speaker 1: look around the league at some of the places where
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  Speaker 1: you know there has been turned over this year, and
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  Speaker 1: some of those teams are having having success, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but you've got to look at the whole, the whole picture, right,
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  Speaker 1: and and what we're trying to do, what we're trying
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  Speaker 1: to get accomplished, and and um, you know, we have
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  Speaker 1: a young quarterback that that is learning and growing. I
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  Speaker 1: do strongly feel that that he's he's going to be
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  Speaker 1: good in this league and it's it's going to be sustainable. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And and that's that's why you know, I'm here, That's
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  Speaker 1: why Press is here, Mike is here so that we
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  Speaker 1: can get him, you know, heading in that direction to
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  Speaker 1: put NISI criticistic in previous because he sat but Colly
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  Speaker 1: and starting to work for Chever for the first time
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  Speaker 1: with their things as he went over with him that
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  Speaker 1: maybe he should have then after one year in this league,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe he did because last year was kind of
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  Speaker 1: lost year for again, like I said, I'm not trying
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  Speaker 1: to make excuses, but in a sense, is this his
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  Speaker 1: rookie year. And some ways it's really hard for me
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  Speaker 1: to go back and get into the minds of you know,
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  Speaker 1: the coaches that were here and and you know, I
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of respect for them and what they do.
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  Speaker 1: But I just know that that you know, uh, Trevor's young,
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  Speaker 1: He's learning this game. And one thing I appreciate about
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  Speaker 1: Trevor's his his work ethic and how hard he uh
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  Speaker 1: wants to improve and get better and help this team win.
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  Speaker 1: And and I also want him to understand that he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have to do it himself, you know, UM, and
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  Speaker 1: that there's you know, ten other guys out there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: plus obviously the coaches to to put him in position
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  Speaker 1: to be successful. Um. And so it's it's it's the
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  Speaker 1: fact that I keep going back to this, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: new coaching staff and coordinator at last year. You know,
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  Speaker 1: then you come out of college a couple of years
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  Speaker 1: ago again this year. When you have that kind of turnover, UM,
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  Speaker 1: you're learning, you're learning a new language every single year.
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  Speaker 1: There's there's hard to get consistency. And that's what we're
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  Speaker 1: trying to get to. UM within the time with the
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  Speaker 1: whole off and really with the whole team, is just
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  Speaker 1: building that consistency weekend and week out, showing that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as we say, one percent improvement every day every week, UM,
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  Speaker 1: and building off of that and and you know, finding
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  Speaker 1: the positive and everything and and um uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: going from there, it seems like officiating out in Wake
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  Speaker 1: Up to AH has now taken They were really going
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  Speaker 1: to protect quarterbacks. You know we've seen the lasts Tom
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  Speaker 1: Radian and don't know whatever the money I was, Um,
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  Speaker 1: do you have to talk with your team about reminding
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  Speaker 1: them that A this is now wait very forced this stuff. No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't have that conversation. I just want
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  Speaker 1: our guys to play hard. I've obviously play within the rules, UM,
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  Speaker 1: but play hard, play fast. Um. You know it's a
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  Speaker 1: physical football game, and and and it's just you know,
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  Speaker 1: things are gonna happen. You know, calls are gonna happen
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  Speaker 1: that we may agree or not agree with. But um,
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  Speaker 1: I just don't go there. I just don't want to
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  Speaker 1: put that in in our players minds or in their heads.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, you still want them to play play fast.
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  Speaker 1: How would you evaluate the pass rush this past weekend? Um,
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  Speaker 1: it can improve, it can get a little bit better.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we pride ourselves on getting after the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: and and uh, you know there were flashes of it,
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  Speaker 1: you know where we disrupted Davis a little bit. Um
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  Speaker 1: could have done better there, you know, but the guys
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  Speaker 1: take a lot of pride and in their work and
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  Speaker 1: that's something that they'll get back here on the practice
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  Speaker 1: field this week and then fix are you started getting
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  Speaker 1: more and more Munthi a little more. He is he's
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  Speaker 1: understanding his role, he's understanding his responsibility within the offense.
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  Speaker 1: He's he understands the offense and you know, and even
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  Speaker 1: where each week, you know, where we're trying to use him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, within the within the framework of a formation
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  Speaker 1: or play, and he's done a nice job with that.
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  Speaker 1: He's handled it well. And and when he's had an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity he's he's he's impressed and and um, you know
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  Speaker 1: we gotta keep him going. How much you help the offense.
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  Speaker 1: One is, maybe he had a roll of times. I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's a boost. You know, it helped us Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as we moved the football, you know, early
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  Speaker 1: in the game, he got some big runs there. And um,
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  Speaker 1: just like James a couple of weeks ago, I had
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  Speaker 1: a couple of nice runs and you know, but that
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  Speaker 1: that's all a spark sometimes you need, you know, you're
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  Speaker 1: just looking for one guy or one side of the
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  Speaker 1: ball to make a play. And and um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he he has he has been able to do that
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  Speaker 1: for us. And you know, our our goal now is
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  Speaker 1: to you know, finish those drives in the red zone.
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  Speaker 1: That's been kind of the struggle, especially last week. Um,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta make sure that we do a better job there.
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  Speaker 1: Caleb is just gonna miss some time. You know, he's
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  Speaker 1: just gonna miss some time. So he should he should
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  Speaker 1: make a full recover and be back. How much of
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're trying to balance trying to you know,
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  Speaker 1: be a pass first offense and trying to get Trevor
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  Speaker 1: acclimated to that, but also knowing that maybe Travis is
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  Speaker 1: the hot hand or James is the hot hand and
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  Speaker 1: you want to run the ball. How much of of
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  Speaker 1: a balancing act is that for you as a play caller,
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  Speaker 1: especially a game like Sunday. It's a it's a challenge,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's a challenge. Um, you do whatever it
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  Speaker 1: takes to win the game, whether it's throwing it or
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  Speaker 1: running it. Um. I think we saw on the two
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  Speaker 1: wins there was a nice balance there, which is typically
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  Speaker 1: the case, you know, for most teams. Um. And so yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so you're looking for that again, that one spark and
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  Speaker 1: it might be a you know, t j rallan off
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  Speaker 1: of you know, a thirty yard run or or we
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  Speaker 1: we get an explosive pass you know to Evan down
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  Speaker 1: the middle, you know, something like that. So you never
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  Speaker 1: know what it's gonna be. Um, you still stick to
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  Speaker 1: the game plan as much as you can, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and what you've practiced during the week, and um and somewhere, somehow,
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  Speaker 1: some way, somebody needs to make him play and you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of get things going. Do you think you guys
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  Speaker 1: got the ball out fast enough this past weekend compared
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  Speaker 1: to the winds over the Colts and the Chargers, I thought, so,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we kept the quarterback, you know,
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  Speaker 1: kept Trevor pretty clean all day. You know, protection was good. Again,
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  Speaker 1: it's just a matter now of just we have to
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  Speaker 1: evaluate the scheme. Was the scheme you know, appropriate for
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  Speaker 1: for what we saw and and that that falls back
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  Speaker 1: on us and so as a staff, we can we
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  Speaker 1: can do better and help our guys out better that
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  Speaker 1: What do you like about Evan Ingram so far five
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  Speaker 1: weeks into the season? Is that as advertising as you thought? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and he's he's a guy we'd we'd try
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  Speaker 1: to get the football too, obviously. Um, you see his
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  Speaker 1: physicality in the run game. You know, he's he's not
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  Speaker 1: a big guy, but he still wants to pride himself
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  Speaker 1: on being physical and he does that and um, you
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  Speaker 1: know you saw Sunday how he can stretch, stretch the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the field and it's just um and even
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  Speaker 1: the even the first game you know against the Colts,
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  Speaker 1: playing physical, playing tough, taking some tackles, keith their downs,
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  Speaker 1: things like that. Um, just exactly what you want, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And again one football trying to get everybody some opportunities. Um,
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  Speaker 1: is a bit of a challenge, but he's he's he's
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  Speaker 1: everything you want them hands layer, But there's a general
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  Speaker 1: little toss, a little bit of laugh all of them.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you go back and look at that
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  Speaker 1: seam throw, and most of those seam balls, those were
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  Speaker 1: over the top of you know, second level defenders and
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  Speaker 1: those are those were as pretty a throws as you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna see in the NFL. Um And you know, every
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  Speaker 1: throw is different. You know, throws to your left, throws
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  Speaker 1: to your right, um, you know, the short flat throws
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  Speaker 1: to your left for a right handed quarterback can be
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  Speaker 1: a little difficult at times, you know, because it's all
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  Speaker 1: about getting your transferring your weight and opening your hip
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  Speaker 1: and shoulders and getting your eyes and your target line
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  Speaker 1: hitting in that direction. And then on top of that
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  Speaker 1: you get the rush barrel down on you and then
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  Speaker 1: out of standing there making an accurate throws. So that's
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  Speaker 1: why I said, That's why I said, all the throws
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  Speaker 1: are pretty tough. All right, all right, thank you, Thanks
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  Speaker 1: app