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Rayshawn Jenkins: "I'll Take Our Defense Over Anybody's" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I playing in this defense of a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know what we've been able to do
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  Speaker 2: over the past three weeks. You know, it's just you know,
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  Speaker 2: it shows for itself when you when you cut the
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  Speaker 2: tape on everybody just flying around having fun and making places.
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  Speaker 3: When you're coming up as hard as you do to
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  Speaker 3: make tackles in the running.
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  Speaker 1: What is your read there?
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  Speaker 4: Are you reading back or you're reading Lineman, you're reading
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  Speaker 4: what are you reading to go that exercise with?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: I mean it kind of just depends on the position
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  Speaker 2: I'm in in this defense. I play, uh three different
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  Speaker 2: positions right now, So uh, it really just depends on
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  Speaker 2: where I where I'm at on the field. If I'm
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  Speaker 2: deeper than I'm reading in a man line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 2: If I'm a man, I'm reading my man. If he
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  Speaker 2: touches somebody, then I'm I'm triggering right now. If I'm
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  Speaker 2: a nickel, I'm reading you know the guy in front
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  Speaker 2: of me.
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  Speaker 1: So it's just wherever I'm at on the field. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I have different keys, and.
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  Speaker 2: You know, me being in you know, go on my
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  Speaker 2: eighth year is you know I'm able to just you know,
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  Speaker 2: see the game just a little bit more faster, just
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  Speaker 2: get like clues and stuff even pre snap.
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  Speaker 5: So when you look at this Detroit offense, they're putting
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  Speaker 5: up a lot of yards per game. Which phase of
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  Speaker 5: their offense drives their numbers?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I would say, I mean everything's kind of based
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  Speaker 2: on their running game. If they if you get their
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  Speaker 2: running backs going, then you know, that kind of just
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  Speaker 2: sets up everything else for the rest of their defense.
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  Speaker 2: They got a pretty good team over there, a pretty
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  Speaker 2: good offense, and you know, like I said, if you
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  Speaker 2: if they get their running backs in the in the
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  Speaker 2: game early, then it'll be you know, difficult for any
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  Speaker 2: defense to kind of just just go up against that.
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  Speaker 5: What's different about the way they run their game versus
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  Speaker 5: like the Patriot to also you knew we're gonna.
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  Speaker 2: Sell out to run well, I would say there, their
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  Speaker 2: skilled players are.
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  Speaker 1: You know, just a bit different.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if we're being hon it's just.
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  Speaker 2: A you know, they're a little bit than the Patriots
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  Speaker 2: skilled players, their receivers, their tight ends. So once you know, uh,
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  Speaker 2: they get you drawn up into the run a lot,
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  Speaker 2: then it's you know that that's when the receivers and
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  Speaker 2: stuff come come to life.
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  Speaker 1: And with the Patriots.
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  Speaker 2: It was just like, the focus is on thirty eight,
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  Speaker 2: the running back, and that's just real and uh you know,
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  Speaker 2: uh that's not the case in this offense.
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  Speaker 3: When you're facing a team like Detroit, what's it like
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  Speaker 3: to prepare for and face offense has two pretty different
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  Speaker 3: styles of running backs they vote mean on pretty great heavily.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you just gotta know, like, uh, how they're trying
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  Speaker 2: to attack you. You know, when five's in the game, he's
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  Speaker 2: more of a downhill runner. He breaks a lot of tackles,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, you don't have to really open up
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  Speaker 2: and run on the perimeter as much twenty six. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you may have to open up and run just a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more. He's a he he's really fast. Uh so, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you gotta just play different angles with him, and you
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  Speaker 2: know five, you gotta really just bring your pass.
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  Speaker 6: Do you have a pretty good idea of what style
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  Speaker 6: of run is coming based on which backs are there?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I I would definitely say so. I mean, I that's
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  Speaker 2: just throughout the league. You know, every team kind of
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  Speaker 2: carries that a power back and then in you know,
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  Speaker 2: kind of a scat pack, I mean, a scap back.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean just just taking little clues like that
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  Speaker 2: to kind of give you just just what type of
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  Speaker 2: runs you're you're probably about to get.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned earlier, you're playing three different positions in in
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  Speaker 4: this defense. What's the challenge of that when you're trying
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  Speaker 4: to you know, this defense isn't simple to begin with,
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  Speaker 4: and then you're trying to learn how to do all.
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  Speaker 3: These different spots.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, you just really have to just be focused every play.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we call a lot of personnel, So me
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  Speaker 2: just looking to the sideline every every play, knowing, hey
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  Speaker 2: are we in you know, basse nickel, dime, whatever it is.
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  Speaker 2: That kind of eliminates the play calls I can get
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  Speaker 2: because we can we carry certain play calls until the week,
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  Speaker 2: So it's like, Okay, this is what we're calling this package.
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  Speaker 1: This is what we're calling this package, and so on and
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  Speaker 1: so forth.
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  Speaker 2: So me just being locked in every play, Uh, my
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  Speaker 2: teammates running in, yelling the personnel as they're coming in
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  Speaker 2: and and things like that kind of helped.
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  Speaker 6: How import is it interior pursuit when you're running when
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  Speaker 6: you're playing the past the run defense, I'm sorry, so
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  Speaker 6: you're getting interior suppor and then you also pursue and
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  Speaker 6: then you're getting you're coming up on the edge. How
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  Speaker 6: important is that recognition of the call the run and
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  Speaker 6: then what.
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  Speaker 1: You have to do along with your teammate.
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  Speaker 6: That makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm already following that one, and I was kind
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  Speaker 2: of convoluted, So let me go back just in terms
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  Speaker 2: of the interior pursuit, setting.
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  Speaker 6: The edge and getting guys in the alley, right, and
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  Speaker 6: how important is that in the run defense for you.
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  Speaker 2: Guys, Oh, that's really important, especially for you know, a
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  Speaker 2: team like last week, they they their run game was
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  Speaker 2: focused in the alley, so and we knew that, so
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  Speaker 2: we knew we had to get forced and pursuit from
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  Speaker 2: the inside, and then you know, the safeties had to come, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in the alley and show up. You know,
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  Speaker 2: that's where they wanted to attack. And just like we
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  Speaker 2: were just talking about earlier, you got different backs.
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  Speaker 1: Five.
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  Speaker 2: He's more of Downhill twenty six likes to get in
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  Speaker 2: that alley sometimes, So you really have to show up
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  Speaker 2: in that alley with him because if I mean, if
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  Speaker 2: you don't, it's gonna be a home run play, you know,
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  Speaker 2: more times than not, just because of speed.
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  Speaker 1: He he uh, brings to their offense.
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  Speaker 2: So especially for my position, the safety position, Ali is
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  Speaker 2: is definitely you know, a big, big emphasis in the
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  Speaker 2: run game. You know, we gotta put the cap on
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  Speaker 2: the defense at all times.
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  Speaker 3: You played against these guys a couple of years ago
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  Speaker 3: in Jacksonville. What what stands out about Jared and kind
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  Speaker 3: of how he operates their entire system?
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  Speaker 1: I would say, I what year is that?
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  Speaker 2: That must have been like a while ago because I
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  Speaker 2: haven't played Okay, well, uh, I mean they look completely
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  Speaker 2: different on film now because I mean they just look
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  Speaker 2: like they they're really good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna just say that.
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  Speaker 2: So you really just have to know that you know
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  Speaker 2: this this game is gonna come down to who plays
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  Speaker 2: their best version of football the longest. You know, it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna come down to that one mistake. So it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: r We anticipate this to be definitely a U A
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  Speaker 2: a close game and you know, a uh physical game,
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  Speaker 2: and it's gonna come down to technique and fundamentals at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the day and then surviving. You know,
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  Speaker 2: these little trick plays they s sprinkle into uh the
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  Speaker 2: mix here and there.
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  Speaker 3: What did I like when you see them put a
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  Speaker 3: hooking lateral on on film.
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  Speaker 1: Just run to the ball.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just just run to the ball, hit it, get
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  Speaker 2: it down and next play.
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  Speaker 7: What do you feel like the next step is per
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  Speaker 7: your defense?
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  Speaker 2: I feel like, uh, I would say just g getting
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  Speaker 2: more turnovers if I had to pick one thing, just
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  Speaker 2: getting more turnovers.
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  Speaker 1: We're doing a good.
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  Speaker 2: Job as far as just you know, l uh third down,
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  Speaker 2: red zone, short yardage, and I think the next step
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  Speaker 2: for us woulould just be, uh, just just taking the
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  Speaker 2: ball away.
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  Speaker 4: So when you last couple of games with your your
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  Speaker 4: cornerbacks aren't getting tested a ton by posting offensive. But
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  Speaker 4: when you just watch the tape of the way those
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  Speaker 4: guys are playing, what do you see just coverage.
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  Speaker 2: Twise, I mean they're w at the end of the play,
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  Speaker 2: well at the beginning of the play, they're on their men.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of the play there on their men.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean that's all you can really aks for
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  Speaker 2: in this league, especially.
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  Speaker 1: Against these elite wide receivers.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, like we played last week Turreek Hill uh
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  Speaker 2: and then uh Waddle. So I mean for them to
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  Speaker 2: just you know, be able to do what they did
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  Speaker 2: last week and eliminate big plays.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that that that that shows a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Is is is playing on Monday night still a big deal?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I say, I mean any prime time game, any
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  Speaker 2: any game in the NFL is a big deal. But
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  Speaker 2: just being you know, kind of the focal point of
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  Speaker 2: the night, I think that that's that's I like those
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  Speaker 2: type of games. And you know, even me, like when
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  Speaker 2: we're not on prime time, I'm I know, I'm on
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  Speaker 2: the couch watching you know who's ever on prime time?
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  Speaker 1: So I will say it's a big deal.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what's your coaches message with you guys about it
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  Speaker 4: playing that kind of spot play?
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  Speaker 5: Is anything?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's it's I mean, it's just another game. Really,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's uh something we have to do. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I wanna say, we have four of these this year,
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  Speaker 2: so I mean we're not gonna make two bunch too
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  Speaker 2: big of a deal of it. Just go out there
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  Speaker 2: and just play how we've been playing the past few weeks. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean everything else is just kind of
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  Speaker 2: take care of.
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  Speaker 8: So there's gonna be people that say, uh, there's the
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  Speaker 8: Seahawks defense played. Yet do you think the Lions offense
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  Speaker 8: is played a defense like yours?
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  Speaker 2: Yet?
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  Speaker 1: I I mean, I don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I I I'll take our defense over you
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  Speaker 2: know pretty much anybody's in the in the league right now.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean, I wouldn't say so. I mean we run,
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  Speaker 2: we hit, we're physical, we're smart. Uh, we're discipline, which
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  Speaker 2: is in my opinion, you know, one of the most
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  Speaker 2: important things that you can have on the defense, you know. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: So I wouldn't. I wouldn't say so. So it'll be
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  Speaker 2: a good challenge. They're a good offense, we're good defense.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see.
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  Speaker 7: McDonald said on Monday that he developed trust with you guys,
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  Speaker 7: especially on the defense, by running stuff that works, and
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  Speaker 7: when players see stuff that works, they have confidence. Then
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  Speaker 7: you guys can play faster. Do you remember when you
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  Speaker 7: first realized how well some of his stuff works or
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  Speaker 7: if it was just different early on.
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  Speaker 2: When you were learning it.
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  Speaker 1: For for me personally, it was more of like a uh.
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  Speaker 2: Like a growing process, you know, it didn't I like
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  Speaker 2: when I first got in, it wasn't like too clear
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  Speaker 2: to me. I mean, I under I kind of understood everything,
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  Speaker 2: but I I I really had to dive into like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: why is he calling this? Why does he want you
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  Speaker 2: know the safeties to play this way? Why does he
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  Speaker 2: want the underneath covers to play this way? And then
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  Speaker 2: it just starts clicking as you start seeing like real opponents,
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  Speaker 2: because he's really attacking how they run their scheme. Like
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  Speaker 2: it's not just hey, okay, you're a curl flat player
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  Speaker 2: drop here. No, it's hey, if you're a curve flat
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  Speaker 2: player attached to here and then you know you have
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  Speaker 2: a progress.
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  Speaker 1: I'll just say that, and.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's been really helpful, and I mean it
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  Speaker 2: shows uh, not only you know at you know my position,
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  Speaker 2: but everybody else is on the defense.
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  Speaker 8: So you mentioned how the run game kind of stuck
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  Speaker 8: you up and then make it hard for them to
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  Speaker 8: they did. They throw over Hunter, Henry had some yards
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  Speaker 8: as a tight end. And with the Patriots, have you
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  Speaker 8: guys made adjustments you feel like to to limit tight ends?
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  Speaker 2: I would I would probably say that was just more
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  Speaker 2: so like you know how we were trying to cover
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  Speaker 2: thirty eight that game.
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna just be real with you.
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  Speaker 2: We, like I said, a focal point for that week
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  Speaker 2: was thirty eight. You know, we knew if we didn't
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  Speaker 2: let him affect the game too much, everybody else just
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  Speaker 2: kind of had to, you know, beat us, and I
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  Speaker 2: mean Hunter Herrett had a good game, but.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't enough to win the game. So that's all
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say. All right, thanks uh thiy