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Mike Macdonald: "We're Still Hungry To Improve" · Seahawks Press Pass

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Speaker 1: All right, go to see everybody in person. What we
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Speaker 1: got you look at what your defense did yesterday.
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Speaker 2: What part of that should give them the most confidence.
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Speaker 3: Moving toward Just I think we're we're confident in our
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Speaker 3: process and you have to go through all the steps
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Speaker 3: to have confidence stepping out there on Sunday. So you
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Speaker 3: can't skip steps, you can't go around stuff. You got
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Speaker 3: to go through it. And the guys know that. But
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Speaker 3: and this is we've been doing it the whole time,
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Speaker 3: but trying to get better our process. Look, we're still
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Speaker 3: we're still We're always gonna have the mentality of you know,
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Speaker 3: how do you find an edge here?
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Speaker 1: How do you find an edge of their process? Wise?
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Speaker 3: H But I think it's coming into focus on on
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Speaker 3: what it takes to, you know, to play at a
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Speaker 3: high level.
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Speaker 4: Nice speaking of confidence in the process as coaches about
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Speaker 4: to us too much, what is the how important is that?
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Speaker 1: How you more contunity?
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Speaker 5: Still got confidence.
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Speaker 3: In the players? Just clarity, You give them clarity and uh,
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Speaker 3: if you're if you're together, then they you have to
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Speaker 3: then you'll have confidence. You know, like you don't have confidence,
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Speaker 3: you have to have clarity. You have to have done
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Speaker 3: it on the field. You have to play with the anticipation,
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Speaker 3: you have to know what to do. Uh, you got
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Speaker 3: to trust the guy next to you. So it's kind
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Speaker 3: of all the things. But I'd say clarity drives that
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Speaker 3: whole that whole thing you guys are doing.
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Speaker 6: Defensively And I went to that starts to run the
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Speaker 6: fast early down.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great point, John, Uh, everything starts with that.
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Speaker 3: I mean, if you're behind the sticks and you're you're
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Speaker 3: chasing your tail, then it's tough sledding.
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Speaker 1: You're you're fighting uphill battles.
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Speaker 3: So if you want to really play on your terms,
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Speaker 3: and you gotta got to try to make teams one dimensional.
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Speaker 7: You mentioned this morning on the radio show that you know,
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Speaker 7: you're getting to know all these coaches you hadn't had
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Speaker 7: a lot of time that had a lot of time together.
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Speaker 7: It seems like, uh nfl S is like a submarine.
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Speaker 7: Like I same faces close core. There's a lot of
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Speaker 7: pressure if you were to give advice.
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Speaker 1: I've heard that one.
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Speaker 7: But if you were to give advice to a new coach,
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Speaker 7: new head coach, would you prioritize having more relationships prior
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Speaker 7: relationships with player at coaches or what have you?
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Speaker 3: Learned over that I've thought, I've thought about this. I
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Speaker 3: think that's a short term answer to that. So I
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Speaker 3: don't know if that's the long term solution. So there's
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Speaker 3: definitely trade offs just hiring people that you know, But
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Speaker 3: is that the best thing for your team long term?
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Speaker 1: You know, I don't.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if it's kind of it's probably different
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Speaker 3: for everybody.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 3: If you're someone that runs a specific system and you
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Speaker 3: guys that run your stuff, it might be the way
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Speaker 3: to go. But yeah, there's a lot of lessons learned
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Speaker 3: on things that hey, if I do this thing over again,
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Speaker 3: how could we kind of get ourselves in better spot
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Speaker 3: get you know, understands something absolutely like that. That's that's
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Speaker 3: going through our minds all the time. If you don't
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Speaker 3: have that luxury though, you know, the luxury you have
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Speaker 3: is tomorrow, you know, and the rest of the day.
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Speaker 3: So you try to make the best of that.
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Speaker 6: Supporting about your optimism with the run game or offense,
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Speaker 6: the technic right direction with what are you seeing one
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Speaker 6: film that's suggesting.
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Speaker 3: That out, Yeah, sure, you just see you looking through
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Speaker 3: it of from hey, like how we're coming up with
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Speaker 3: our plan, how we're implementing it, how we're practicing it,
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Speaker 3: how it's coming to life on the field. Uh, there's
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Speaker 3: some good stuff out there. It's just not as much
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Speaker 3: as we want it or as consistent as we want it,
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Speaker 3: but uh, there's some good stuff. And our guys are
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Speaker 3: working really hard at our coaches are divides some really
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Speaker 3: good plans in my opinion, that we're still going to
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Speaker 3: still try to improve on.
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Speaker 1: But we're on the right track.
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Speaker 6: How would you.
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Speaker 2: See the running backs handle that?
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Speaker 3: Like they want four yards on the ground, But it.
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Speaker 6: Doesn't seem like they are like outwardly frustrated? Client Does
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Speaker 6: that make sense?
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Speaker 2: Like they're they're willing to go with the process.
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Speaker 6: How would you?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're they're they're they're part of the crew.
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Speaker 3: They're part of the team, And uh, everybody wants everybody
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Speaker 3: wants more yards on the on the ground. Everybody wants
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Speaker 3: more points, everybody wants less takeaways. I mean, you can
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Speaker 3: go in any any building in the NFL and they're
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Speaker 3: gonna they're gonna tell you the same thing. But it's
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Speaker 3: about how connected you are, how how bought you bought
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Speaker 3: in you are on the process. Are you doing the
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Speaker 3: right things? Our runners are great runners. They're really and
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Speaker 3: they're really great players, and we got all the belief
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Speaker 3: in the world and these guys, but they also have
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Speaker 3: things that they need to improve on in the run
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Speaker 3: game as well.
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Speaker 1: So it's not just one guy.
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Speaker 3: It's just like when we talked about in defense, it's
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Speaker 3: all eleven all the time. So it's how it's how
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Speaker 3: we design it, how we call it, how we execute it,
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Speaker 3: how is what makes it come to life?
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Speaker 7: Think of that, do you think the tight end room
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Speaker 7: has some room to grow in terms of helping them
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Speaker 7: the run game?
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Speaker 1: And and they're they're blocking everybody does. But I think
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Speaker 1: our tight ends are playing at a high level right now.
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Speaker 3: The guys are playing really hard.
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Speaker 1: I think Max coaching the heck at them. He's doing
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Speaker 1: a great job.
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Speaker 5: A couple of the defensive players we've talked a few
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Speaker 5: times about the meetings that they had kind of heading
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Speaker 5: ended it by a week and coming out of by
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Speaker 5: of course, impossible to quantify how much that matters, I
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Speaker 5: guess like game day, But from your from a coaching standpoint,
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Speaker 5: I guess how important is that when they kind of
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Speaker 5: take over the ship of it in that way and
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Speaker 5: kind of those.
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Speaker 1: Kind of things having what do you mean meetings just.
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Speaker 6: Shy of talked about some of the meetings they had
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Speaker 6: with each other for kind of the talks they had
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Speaker 6: like different Jereedy kind of talked about you know what
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Speaker 6: I would still a certain attitude and practice toe and
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Speaker 6: things like that.
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Speaker 3: Like player only meetings or with Yeah, just stuff they had. Well,
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Speaker 3: I mean I wasn't not really not aware of like
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Speaker 3: player only meetings that we got going on. If the
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Speaker 3: guys are talking to another that's great, like keep it talking.
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Speaker 3: Maybe it's because when the lights are out, you know,
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Speaker 3: it's the only operation they add. I think it speaks
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Speaker 3: to like just what we're trying to build and the
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Speaker 3: guys are leading the way. Uh, try and create an
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Speaker 3: environment where people feel they're empowered to especially the vets,
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Speaker 3: Like we want to know how they see things, where
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Speaker 3: they stand. All those things get him on board. So
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Speaker 3: we're headed in the same direction. And uh, and that
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Speaker 3: comes with like building trust and you know, you know,
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Speaker 3: you know the deal. So but our guys are doing
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Speaker 3: a great job with you know, communicating with me and
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Speaker 3: the rest of our coaches, and our coaches are doing
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Speaker 3: a great job. Just we're not going around stuff just
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Speaker 3: hit him him between the eyes and tell him the truth,
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Speaker 3: tell him with love and and move forward.
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Speaker 2: When you look at a couple of the picks that
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Speaker 2: you has had last couple of games, what do you
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Speaker 2: make of those circumstances? Freens, He's forcing him a little
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Speaker 2: bit as he trying to do that little bit extramunity
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Speaker 2: defense is trying to do at times like what do
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Speaker 2: you kind of see other?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't want to put words in uh, I
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Speaker 3: don't want to speak for Geno. You know, Look, he knows,
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Speaker 3: he knows how important ball dominance is us and and
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Speaker 3: do not turn the ball over. So, I mean, he
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Speaker 3: knows that we can't do that in those situations, and
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Speaker 3: we know he can't. But it's not like we're not
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Speaker 3: gonna we're losing trust in him.
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Speaker 1: Anything. We got.
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Speaker 3: We got his back and a lot of the things
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Speaker 3: that makes Gino a great player is his playing making ability.
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Speaker 3: So there is a fine line of I mean, arguably
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Speaker 3: won us the game at the end of the day
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Speaker 3: with you know, zero checks and extending plays and commanding
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Speaker 3: the line and giving him autonomy to do what he
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Speaker 3: feelates he needs to do in that moment.
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Speaker 1: So there's a balance there.
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Speaker 3: You never want to take the playmaker out of the player,
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Speaker 3: so making making some decisions to protect the ball in
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Speaker 3: those moments.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you could probably you.
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Speaker 3: Know, be a little be a little more careful in
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Speaker 3: those situations, but you know there was a fine line there.
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Speaker 2: Along those lines and bounce back after each of the
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Speaker 2: those interceptions last couple year, still the touchdown drive against
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Speaker 2: the Yeah, it's a great point. And kind of see
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Speaker 2: his numbers.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a it's a great point. Just next thing, man, now,
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Speaker 3: like what's important. Now, let's rock and roll.
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Speaker 1: After a good example. Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 3: I mean it's a great example just buying time off
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Speaker 3: the line, you know, blocking their tails off for the
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Speaker 3: play and the extended play and then the receivers, uh working,
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Speaker 3: you know, you gotta work to find space, ball finds
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Speaker 3: energy like you gotta go, and DK that wasn't his
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Speaker 3: primary route, found an open spot in the zone, and
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Speaker 3: and Gina made a great throw.
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Speaker 1: That driver at least what made itself. We play these
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Speaker 1: guys a couple of weeks.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you can watch the tape and realize some
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Speaker 3: of the things that we're getting to versus some zero looks.
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Speaker 1: But uh, that's just him being really prepared.
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Speaker 3: Being, you know, having command of what we're doing, because
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Speaker 3: you gotta have it's got to happen fast to be
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Speaker 3: able to operate and get the ball off.
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Speaker 1: But some good stuff, some good stuff, Mike, how does
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Speaker 1: three months have played out? You learning what especially on defense,
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Speaker 1: what they're good at.
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Speaker 2: Doing, honing in on that? Is that mirror what you
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Speaker 2: when you took over at Baltimore? How long it took
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Speaker 2: to learn what they were good at.
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Speaker 4: In the adjustment?
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Speaker 3: I think, uh, I think that I think the learning
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Speaker 3: curve in Baltimore was very much my responsibility of having
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Speaker 3: I should I didn't have a clear enough vision of
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Speaker 3: what we were trying to do early enough, and when
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Speaker 3: we traded for Roquan and we decided to play a
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Speaker 3: certain way, it kind of forced our hand. So I
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Speaker 3: realized there's parallels in like when they when it's happening
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Speaker 3: in the season. But I but it was just under
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Speaker 3: a little bit different circumstance. I think here it's we
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Speaker 3: have a vision, we have we have a very clear
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Speaker 3: vision of what we're trying to achieve, and we're just
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Speaker 3: hammered away at it until in trying to make incremental improvements,
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Speaker 3: until it's kind of coming to life. And again it's
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Speaker 3: a new crew of folks, staff, players, coaches, and so
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Speaker 3: this is gonna you know, there's a process of this
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Speaker 3: thing much rather you know, have it come to life
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Speaker 3: and stay that way the whole way. And and there's
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Speaker 3: just going to be an expectation here on a standard
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Speaker 3: of playing elite defense. And if you know, if we're
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Speaker 3: doing that, great, you know, if we're helping our team win,
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Speaker 3: then that's good for us. And when we're not, we're
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Speaker 3: not holding our end of the bargain on defense, then
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Speaker 3: that's not the standard we want to be. We want
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Speaker 3: to be an elite unit and uh, we want to
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Speaker 3: be an elite football team. So if we're not playing
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Speaker 3: at an elite level, then everybody knows that's not the
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Speaker 3: standard and we're gonna have to low up to it.
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Speaker 5: One of the reason I ask is timing the bro
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Speaker 5: Coin Smith and Ernest Jones.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's the parallels are crazy. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I get it.
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Speaker 2: Was that similar that you need it. Oh, I need
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Speaker 2: what I just see what I need.
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Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna go get to Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I think, uh, these these decisions aren't just like me
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Speaker 3: just sitting there being like you know, I need a linebacker.
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Speaker 3: It's it's I think it's really bolso happens that. I
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Speaker 3: mean in Baltimore, how the player acquisition is very is
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Speaker 3: unique to them versus how we do it here, and uh,
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Speaker 3: I think you know what we how we handled it
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Speaker 3: here was Hey, there's an opportunity to get a great
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Speaker 3: inside backer that uh will really help our defense kind
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Speaker 3: of move forward and talking about force multiplier things like that,
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Speaker 3: and a person that we really feel strong about in
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Speaker 3: earnest and just what happened that you know, I think that.
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Speaker 1: You know, adding a.
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Speaker 3: Great player at that that position at that point in
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Speaker 3: time was going to be great for us. So but
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Speaker 3: both you know, obviously given returns for both units, it's
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Speaker 3: been good. So I think that the mentality of I
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Speaker 3: always trying to get better, always chasing these edges of
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Speaker 3: like how to how to improve?
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Speaker 1: I mean that that's that's the important thing.
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Speaker 5: You've also talked about having narrowed your approach on defense,
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Speaker 5: so they could you librate on to you met night.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think we just we have a
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Speaker 3: as a staff, we have a we have a clear,
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Speaker 3: a clearer process that's a.
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Speaker 1: Little more honed in.
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Speaker 3: Earlier in the week and we're just we're operating well together,
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Speaker 3: going through all the cadences and hitting all those benchmarks
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Speaker 3: you gotta hit throughout the week. And uh me as
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Speaker 3: the kind of the guy driving the ship making sure
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Speaker 3: that we're not going in a thousand different directions. It's
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Speaker 3: ultimately like we got we can go. You can go
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Speaker 3: anywhere you want, so you got to make sure you're
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Speaker 3: going here. And that's that's my that's my responsibility to
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Speaker 3: make sure that it's it's focused and it's clear so
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Speaker 3: we can get some clean rules to our guys that
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Speaker 3: they can practice the whole week. And talking about having
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Speaker 3: confidence going into Sunday. So I've improved in that area
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Speaker 3: as well.
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Speaker 7: You think you expected China to us to start practicing
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Speaker 7: this week?
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Speaker 1: Uh yeah.
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Speaker 3: I think the plan is we'll have him out there
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Speaker 3: tomorrow in some capacity return to play. In terms of
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Speaker 3: how long, I can't tell, you know, the window will
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Speaker 3: open and then we'll go from there.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do a little bit from up field.
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Speaker 6: And this is actually working with some size cologe this morning.
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Speaker 1: Okay, some seismic activity. Nice jumping up and down for sure.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, not quite beast clake about two thirds of what
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Speaker 2: past Clake was all those.
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Speaker 1: Years ago than only two thirds. Okay, we got some
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Speaker 1: work to.
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Speaker 5: Do, roughly speaking at a one point, Oh the pritage
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Speaker 5: that's in you said to speak.
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Speaker 3: But what's your reaction to it?
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Speaker 4: You got you talked about bringing the.
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Speaker 3: Energy Honestly, Honestly, my reaction is I had a terrible
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Speaker 3: radio spot that Dave made me do, and initially and
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Speaker 3: it sounded like a I'm Mike McDonald, you're a head coach.
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Speaker 3: Let's set a new world record at lumen do just
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Speaker 3: the worst radio spot ever to buy tickets. Sorry, Chuck,
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Speaker 3: I don't know if that worked or not, but uh,
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Speaker 3: it'd be cool to set a new world record.
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Speaker 1: Maybe that's better, a little bit more impromptu. Almost, Look,
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Speaker 1: you know it.
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Speaker 6: Does the Mark Shawn Dive in THENTO. He does like that.
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Speaker 2: Soever we have those up aventures and that sort of it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was all I don't know how much it's
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Speaker 3: gonna get fine for it, but uh, and honestly, in
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Speaker 3: the moment, I didn't realize how loud. I mean, I
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Speaker 3: didn't realize how loud it was. And then I listened
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Speaker 3: to the TV copy of it and.
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Speaker 1: It was rotten me. It was rocking, it was awesome.
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Speaker 3: It's my all my family and friends there, tell me
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Speaker 3: how cool it was, so the place erupted so special moment, man,
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Speaker 3: it's really cool.
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Speaker 2: Extended to look at Christian ages, the staff that he's had,
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Speaker 2: How did you feel what he played it?
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Speaker 1: How much do you think he's gonna benefit him?
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Speaker 6: Obviously you don't want injuries.
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Speaker 3: But if Anthony's not out there this week, going into
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Speaker 3: the week knowing I'm gonna be the starter, the right guard.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well well it's still gonna be.
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Speaker 3: It's you know, Satala is uh someone that we're gonna
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Speaker 3: take a long look at as well. So, but Christian
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Speaker 3: played winning football for us. But want them to grow,
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Speaker 3: keep growing, man, you know, like you gotta go prove
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Speaker 3: it every week on the on the practice field and
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Speaker 3: in preparation. And but right now, I mean just happy
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Speaker 3: that like, look, there's a lot of credit for having
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Speaker 3: a guy that was rotating in then ab kind of
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Speaker 3: took over, still prepared, knew all knew all the things
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Speaker 3: that we you know, no metals on the day, but
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Speaker 3: some technic stuff we've got to get cleaned up.
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Speaker 1: But overall enough, you know, good enough to win the game.
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Speaker 3: So happy with this abillity to step in and help
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Speaker 3: us win the football game at.
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Speaker 1: Different person, How good was on the film?
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Speaker 6: We actually watched every staff.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's really good, just as we thought. I mean,
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Speaker 1: just great, great football game. Should be player of the
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Speaker 1: week in my opinion. Hey, Lucas in a second game back,
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Speaker 1: would you see can.
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Speaker 3: Then uh taking steps? You know, it's good to begin
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Speaker 3: the whole game. I know he's sore. It's gonna be
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Speaker 3: a process now getting a full speed, all the reps,
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Speaker 3: all the things. But it's great to have him out there.
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Speaker 1: The two formation battlements.
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Speaker 5: What did you make it up?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's just he's too far away from the line
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Speaker 1: of scrimmage. So you mentioned.
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Speaker 2: Stalin or what have you seen of him since the
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Speaker 2: start of the season, what he's been for given.
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Speaker 1: In the background? Yeah, same thing.
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Speaker 3: Just a guy continues to work his craft and uh
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Speaker 3: take it day by day, but can play both left
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Speaker 3: and right guard.
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Speaker 1: Just a guy.
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Speaker 3: We're really excited about bringing him in and then to see,
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Speaker 3: you know, his approach every day and you know, now
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Speaker 3: he gets an opportunity. It's another example of hey, what
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Speaker 3: are you gonna do with it? You know, go to work, you.
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Speaker 4: Know, schooms wired the way he is in regards his.
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Speaker 1: Motor talked about radio. Do I know why? No, I don't.
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Speaker 1: I mean I wish and we would hardwired into everybody else.
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Speaker 1: How did you consistency on defense? I'll get Mike's fault.
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Speaker 4: I don't know. What is it about his energy effort
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Speaker 4: that brings some of the stuff people to do on.
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Speaker 1: Defense to that?
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Speaker 3: Man? I uh, I mean he could be in any system,
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Speaker 3: any any scheme, and it's got to be infectious, right,
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Speaker 3: I Mean, it's just how could you not want to
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Speaker 3: play that way when your teammate's doing it just all
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Speaker 3: the time.
16:35
Speaker 1: It's fun, man, It's fun to go out there and
16:36
Speaker 1: play with guys like that. So yeah, we could be
16:39
Speaker 1: we could be.
16:39
Speaker 3: Running covered to mean, it's just it's not what we're doing,
16:43
Speaker 3: it's how we're doing it, who's doing it, all that
16:44
Speaker 3: type of stuff.
16:45
Speaker 1: So, but it's definitely infectious. How would you grade consistency
16:50
Speaker 1: of the defense?
16:50
Speaker 3: It seemed like you were just almost waiting for Kyler
16:53
Speaker 3: Murray to go on a big run and he was
16:54
Speaker 3: contained the whole time. But consistency wise, where I was,
16:58
Speaker 3: I wasn't really waiting him to go on a run.
17:01
Speaker 1: I just I think, yeah, consistently, Yeah, we're consistent. We're
17:09
Speaker 1: I give him a good grade. I don't know what.
17:10
Speaker 3: Maybe explosive wise in the past, there's still some there.
17:14
Speaker 3: I think we left some meat on the bone on
17:16
Speaker 3: some situational stuff. But just this is the again, like
17:21
Speaker 3: you go out there with the approach, the attitude, the intent,
17:23
Speaker 3: the communication, the urgency, how we played the run, can
17:30
Speaker 3: still apply some of the calls.
17:32
Speaker 1: And like the spirit of calls and what we're doing.
17:33
Speaker 3: I mean, there's still there's significant room for improvement, as
17:37
Speaker 3: much as you feel like, hey, we played a really
17:39
Speaker 3: good game, which we did, but you're leaving the game
17:41
Speaker 3: and hey, we're still hungry to improve as well.
17:43
Speaker 7: He talked about narrowing and maybe getting more focus on
17:46
Speaker 7: what you guys do best on defense a few weeks ago.
17:49
Speaker 7: With the consistency you've seen over the last three weeks,
17:51
Speaker 7: is there now an opportunity to build off of that
17:53
Speaker 7: and potentially do more variation.
17:54
Speaker 3: That's a trap now maybe yeah, Maybe I think it's
17:59
Speaker 3: just you got to feel for it's kind of as
18:02
Speaker 3: an art to like how much they can handle.
18:04
Speaker 1: What's what's the offense doing what.
18:05
Speaker 3: Do you feel like you need to carry into a game.
18:08
Speaker 3: There's only so many reps to go around, so you
18:10
Speaker 3: got to be careful on you know how you kind
18:12
Speaker 3: of get to your non primary calls and make sure
18:16
Speaker 3: you can execute those things.
18:18
Speaker 1: What all the dime give you with Job and Jenkins?
18:23
Speaker 1: What did that?
18:23
Speaker 3: Yeah? Well, I mean Cobey's been playing so great at
18:25
Speaker 3: safety and then you know, to be able to kind
18:27
Speaker 3: of utilize ray Sean in a cool way move them around.
18:31
Speaker 3: I think this adds an extra a layer of speed
18:35
Speaker 3: and you know, just getting our best players on the field.
18:38
Speaker 1: They were able to get.
18:39
Speaker 7: To Geo for four sacks in the first half of that.
18:41
Speaker 1: How do you feel up to this point that you
18:43
Speaker 1: know the.
18:43
Speaker 2: Ryan has done as far as trying.
18:45
Speaker 4: To find ways to help the quarterback maybe mitigate.
18:48
Speaker 1: A little bit some of that pressure.
18:49
Speaker 3: Well, I've actually, I've actually felt like we've grown in
18:51
Speaker 3: that area. You look at you look at the stat
18:55
Speaker 3: the sacks from this game, and it's not just like
18:58
Speaker 3: we're dropping back and guys are get beat one on
19:00
Speaker 3: one them.
19:01
Speaker 1: It's it's some communication things. It's it's uh, you.
19:04
Speaker 3: Know how we're reading things throughout in the progressions. So
19:07
Speaker 3: it's not like just one thing that you're looking at it.
19:09
Speaker 3: So I think we're doing a good job. We're not
19:11
Speaker 3: doing a good enough, good enough job. I mean four
19:13
Speaker 3: sax is too many or however many they ended up with.
19:17
Speaker 3: But yeah, this is I mean again like you're looking
19:20
Speaker 3: at the process that went behind it rather than just
19:23
Speaker 3: the result, and uh optimistic with where we're going process wise.
19:27
Speaker 1: Can you get a field for how long? The kind
19:29
Speaker 1: of might need the practice afford? He's very good, No,
19:33
Speaker 1: I don't.
19:33
Speaker 3: I mean this week is gonna be pretty limited, so
19:36
Speaker 3: we won't be seeing him this week, and then we'll
19:38
Speaker 3: take it from there.
19:39
Speaker 5: You missed out on the radio the looks you got
19:41
Speaker 5: from your scout team quarterbacks actually neat Paul and until
19:43
Speaker 5: I guess.
19:44
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, just kind of how do those guys He'll be, well.
19:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean each guy kind of adds an element
19:51
Speaker 3: of their own, their own flavor, and then you try
19:53
Speaker 3: to mix it up on the guys.
19:54
Speaker 1: You know, put Jr.
19:55
Speaker 3: In. They're expecting some sort of run around, but he's
19:58
Speaker 3: it's a play action pass. You gotta play true. Same
20:01
Speaker 3: thing with Sam, Like Sam's a mobile guy, and those
20:05
Speaker 3: guys just do a great job, like trying to mimic
20:07
Speaker 3: their you know, mannerisms and things like that that they
20:11
Speaker 3: don't have to do because they're you know, they're they're
20:13
Speaker 3: getting ready for a game in their own own respect,
20:15
Speaker 3: you know, to kind of go the extra mile to
20:17
Speaker 3: try to give us a great look.
20:18
Speaker 1: We really appreciate that.
20:19
Speaker 2: What if you made a Jason Myers this season since
20:21
Speaker 2: a good picks for the last couple of weeks and
20:22
Speaker 2: fift year to put it in this.
20:24
Speaker 3: Discord, Yeah, he's really built us out in some of
20:26
Speaker 3: those situations where we need to keep the ball moving
20:29
Speaker 3: in the fringe like he did against San Francisco and
20:32
Speaker 3: then you know, effectively put the game away last night.
20:36
Speaker 1: Was that was huge.
20:37
Speaker 6: Like you've talked about what you do and how you
20:40
Speaker 6: do could.
20:41
Speaker 4: You explain the importance of how the players look d
20:43
Speaker 4: into the why you do that and why that's important
20:46
Speaker 4: in the process.
20:48
Speaker 1: I just think you owe it to your players on
20:51
Speaker 1: why you do stuff.
20:52
Speaker 3: I mean, they're coming out here, they're putting in the work,
20:55
Speaker 3: they're doing all the things you're asking them to do,
20:57
Speaker 3: all the you know, this route, this match, this, this
21:01
Speaker 3: personnel package. You know, it to them to let them
21:06
Speaker 3: know the why behind it, and you better have a
21:09
Speaker 3: dang good reason because these guys, these guys know, you know,
21:12
Speaker 3: they know, and so if you stack good reasons and explanations,
21:16
Speaker 3: that builds trust and UH and understanding, and that's really
21:21
Speaker 3: what we're chasing.
21:21
Speaker 1: Ultimately.
21:22
Speaker 4: Is there an a coment process with that as well?
21:25
Speaker 4: Once they know the why them wage can also empowers themselves,
21:29
Speaker 4: the players to be.
21:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would talk about with clarity.
21:32
Speaker 3: It's you know, if you're gonna go tell me to
21:34
Speaker 3: spin over there and my head on the goalpost, like,
21:38
Speaker 3: I hope you have a good reason. So you know,
21:40
Speaker 3: if there's a good reason, then I'll probably do it,
21:42
Speaker 3: you know, especially if I trust you. So that's what
21:44
Speaker 3: we're building, all right, anything else, all right, Thanks guys,