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Mike Macdonald: "I'm Really Pleased With Our Performance" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, all.
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  Speaker 2: Right obviously, uh, you know, really please with our performance.
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  Speaker 2: I thought the guys, you know, we've been getting after
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  Speaker 2: this camp and uh, you know, we had a big
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  Speaker 2: practice two days ago, coming back getting our bodies spirits.
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  Speaker 2: You know, mind's right to go play, go play a game,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, perfect weather for Seattle football.
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  Speaker 1: But just really pleased how we started the game.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, defensively, it would have been great to get off
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  Speaker 2: the field and third down. A little miscommunication there on
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  Speaker 2: that first third down. But I think you know, how
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  Speaker 2: we finished the first half and how we started the
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  Speaker 2: second half was great for us, so we can build
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  Speaker 2: on that.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of stuff to build on.
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  Speaker 2: And look, I mean there's a lot of there's plenty
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  Speaker 2: that we're gonna that we're gonna want need to be fixed.
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  Speaker 2: And then we got to go attack moving forward. And
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  Speaker 2: then you know, it's a big week for us going
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  Speaker 2: to practice against a great Green Bay team and then
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  Speaker 2: finished the preseason out. So looking forward to that trip
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  Speaker 2: and uh do when we go. But really pleased with
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  Speaker 2: with our performances, especially at home.
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  Speaker 1: What are you most like about the running game again tonight?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think I think it's just right now.
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  Speaker 1: Our offensive operation.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very pleased with how we take the ball, the
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  Speaker 2: decisiveness of how we move and shift, and the guys
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  Speaker 2: felt like that we got there, like we called our
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  Speaker 2: targets right, you know, just felt like we were going
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  Speaker 2: to the right guys for the most part until the
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  Speaker 2: really till about the fourth quarter and the backs ran
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  Speaker 2: really hard. You know, every back today I thought, ran
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  Speaker 2: the ball hard and going forward, and how.
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  Speaker 1: We finished plays before. I can't wait to watch it.
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  Speaker 1: Sam on that opening drive going really sharp.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, you know, I'm pretty sure he wanted to keep going,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, we showed what we can do.
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  Speaker 1: So it was really really really great drivet touch.
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  Speaker 3: In the pre season when you're setting your starters out
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  Speaker 3: there is at about the perfect way.
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  Speaker 1: Just go out, drive down the field. That's about it.
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  Speaker 2: Well offensive, I said about your script it defensively, I
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  Speaker 2: thought we would play a little bit better.
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  Speaker 1: You said the word relentless? Is uh at you guys
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  Speaker 1: want to be described as?
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  Speaker 4: Is it tonight?
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  Speaker 1: A good example of kind of.
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  Speaker 2: What you're looking for there?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of great stuff. I mean, can you
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  Speaker 2: can do it within a play, You can do it
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  Speaker 2: within a drive, within a half, within a game, I would.
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  Speaker 1: Love to have covered that punt better.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's that's stuck in the back of your mind,
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  Speaker 2: and our coverage unions need to improved. But I think
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  Speaker 2: it improved from the from the first game for sure.
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  Speaker 2: You know, just the mentality avail. Let's go finish this
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  Speaker 2: thing out the right way.
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  Speaker 4: Young is a guy that's been making plays in camp
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  Speaker 4: and then three catches stage where you see him grow.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously he's been a big special team's guy, been offensively
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  Speaker 1: where you see him grow this year.
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  Speaker 2: I think this is a great system for him because
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  Speaker 2: he can show his physicality in the run game and
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  Speaker 2: he's really fast, so all the vertical, vertical stretch stuff,
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  Speaker 2: and then really I mean I think like just him
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  Speaker 2: in and out of his breaks is just way more,
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  Speaker 2: way more decisive. You feel the burst, You feel the flexibility,
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  Speaker 2: which is to attribute to you know, his work ethic
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  Speaker 2: and the work that he's put on his body.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the guy looks like a figuring out there man.
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  Speaker 1: It's impressive.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of vanilla Vanilla is not, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: way you guys like to run.
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  Speaker 1: Why is vanilla not the way you guys go into
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  Speaker 1: these games? Uh, that's just who we are.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of like it's boring to play like two calls,
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  Speaker 2: but it's it's you know, we're gonna We're not.
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  Speaker 1: We're not.
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  Speaker 2: Like we have a menu that we have throughout the
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  Speaker 2: whole preseason. We run the same stuff every preseason. It's
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  Speaker 2: kind of a smorgas board of all things our system,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just a sampler. But yeah, it's just that's
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  Speaker 2: what we do.
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  Speaker 1: We've been doing it for forever.
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  Speaker 2: I'll side more defensively, but that's something that we're looking at.
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  Speaker 1: What did you the way Jalen played? Just I thought
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  Speaker 1: I thought he did well.
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  Speaker 2: I thought, I mean, there's there's some things operationally we
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  Speaker 2: still want to improve on.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of throws look right.
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  Speaker 2: Down there in the red zone and think he wants
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  Speaker 2: you know, could have been a little bit more on target,
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  Speaker 2: but moved the chains and I think we had like
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  Speaker 2: I think we had like an eight minute drive there
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  Speaker 2: in the in the fourth quarter, got to move forward,
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  Speaker 2: finished with the field goal.
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  Speaker 1: Would have been great to finish with a touchdown there.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned the miss some of the missed opportunities that
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  Speaker 4: first drive for the defense, but six of their less
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  Speaker 4: seven possessions nine or less yards on the offense, How
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  Speaker 4: do you feel about the way that the entire defense
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  Speaker 4: top bottom depth charge.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think you know, coming into this game,
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  Speaker 2: we felt like we didn't finish it right against.
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  Speaker 1: Vegas and these guys, these guys did a great job.
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  Speaker 1: They came in.
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  Speaker 2: I thought we played physical a couple a couple of things.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you're always thinking of like it's great, but
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  Speaker 2: you're thinking of the stuff that, hey, we can build
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  Speaker 2: off of. But the guys are working really hard, making calls,
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  Speaker 2: run into the ball, leveraging the ball. I think we're
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  Speaker 2: tackling really well, which is which is great.
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  Speaker 4: You say operationally with Jane when you're talking about like Prestaps.
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  Speaker 2: Just getting in out of the huddle and motion shift
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  Speaker 2: did and get an all call and everything.
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  Speaker 1: Cannon plays all that Ki Walker still doing with yep.
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  Speaker 4: The play that Julian made the fourth down, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: just have a veteran guy in a preseason game and
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  Speaker 4: go do that was.
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  Speaker 1: That kind of show that Julian Yeah, oh on the
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  Speaker 1: on the on the fourth down?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean, these guys get a lot of
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  Speaker 2: pride to him, man, and uh that was a that
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  Speaker 2: was a heck of a play. You know, but in
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  Speaker 2: order for him to make that, you know, d Lion's
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  Speaker 2: gotta be stout. It's a tough play to stop in
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  Speaker 2: short yardage, and Julian shot his gun made it made
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  Speaker 2: a great play.
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  Speaker 1: That was that was a team stop right there.
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  Speaker 3: Going back to the offensive line, the way the holes
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  Speaker 3: that were there for the running backs, you've allowed one
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  Speaker 3: the sack in two games. Just kind of the the
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  Speaker 3: way you're seeing that kind of whole group work, the
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  Speaker 3: time that they had to throw. What what are you
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  Speaker 3: seeing collectively out of that group and and and the
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  Speaker 3: success they've had it so far.
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  Speaker 1: We're just plugging away, man, like we just.
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  Speaker 2: We're just our our o our offensive line coaches are
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  Speaker 2: doing a heck of a job.
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  Speaker 1: John Benton Rico, j O Quinchewn.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's really clear what we're asking to do.
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  Speaker 2: That are guys that determined, they're playing really hard, they're
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  Speaker 2: practicing really hard. A lot of great stuff, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of great stuff. But I just told the team, hey, this,
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  Speaker 2: you know, this is what we're capable of to a
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  Speaker 2: certain extent. Those are things that, uh, you get a
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  Speaker 2: feel for what we can do. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: stuff that we can improve on and it's also the
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  Speaker 2: second week of the preseason. Like it's it's great, but
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  Speaker 2: it's a it's a building block for us, uh moving
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  Speaker 2: into the season, and we want to be playing our
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  Speaker 2: best football, you know, throughout the season. But we want
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  Speaker 2: to keep getting better, you know, all the way. You know,
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  Speaker 2: from here on out. There's no question about Tory Horton
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  Speaker 2: and whether he was Yeah, Torri got a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of an ankle.
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  Speaker 1: We could have gone back in. We just shut him down.
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  Speaker 1: You want to go back in, we did.
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  Speaker 2: That was my call. Were there any other injuries coming
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  Speaker 2: out of this, Uh, let me see here.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so. Bryce had a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: an elbow, he came back in. Peely had a chest.
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  Speaker 1: We think it's a contusion. We'll see. But he's doing
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  Speaker 1: an interview after the game. He looked pretty happy.
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  Speaker 3: How much is the clarity of mission helping on the
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  Speaker 3: offensive line? Do you think.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's I think it's a driving force behind
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  Speaker 2: what we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: It's just.
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  Speaker 2: There's no gray, there's no changing things, there's no maybe,
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  Speaker 2: there's no kind of sortas these are the rules, this
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  Speaker 2: is how we identify it. You know, these are your targets.
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  Speaker 2: This is your footwork was rock and roll. If I
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  Speaker 2: was a player, That's why I would want it to
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  Speaker 2: be so I can go do my job.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the expectation.
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  Speaker 3: Kenny went down.
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  Speaker 4: How do you feel about the way some of these
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  Speaker 4: young backs like Jaccardi, Wright and ty Is coming in
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  Speaker 4: and those guys that could.
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  Speaker 1: Have embraced this opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, oo, our whole team when these guys, I mean, look,
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  Speaker 2: these guys weren't really hard and we I mean we
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  Speaker 2: ask our guys.
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  Speaker 1: We get a lot of.
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  Speaker 2: Reps like we're gonna take advantage of the time, and
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  Speaker 2: we believe in you know, getting volume and getting experience
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  Speaker 2: and stacking those things and cal singing. These guys take
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  Speaker 2: a lot of it, you know, especially those those bottom
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  Speaker 2: guys in the running back room. Not the bottom, but
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  Speaker 2: like you know, I mean, not the starters. And so
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad they had that opportunity to go show put
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  Speaker 2: their put their work on display. Jake Bubbo hu special
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  Speaker 2: possibility look pretty good back there.
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  Speaker 4: What about Jake lots Night.
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  Speaker 2: I thought Drew was really sharp. I mean he's decisive.
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  Speaker 2: I felt his footwork and his timing, which something we
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  Speaker 2: wanted to work on. Coming after the first game. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: I gotta ask him why he slowed down on that scramble.
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  Speaker 1: That was pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: But uh yeah, Drew's doing a great job, really great quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we love him arm talent, but like I
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  Speaker 2: just I love having him around and he's such a
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  Speaker 2: great guy and he's so great for our football team.
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  Speaker 4: What about Bobo just with the two touchdown catches.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean, look, he's another one just just
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  Speaker 2: just working away doing all the great things.
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  Speaker 1: He hasn't had that many opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I felt like he made had probably been
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  Speaker 2: more opportunity to last camp to.
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  Speaker 1: Like you have to like highlight type plays. But man,
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  Speaker 1: this guy is.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a seahawk man like it just the way
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  Speaker 2: he operates and then he goes in Texas football was
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  Speaker 2: was was great to see.
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  Speaker 1: Him have that opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: Anything else, all right
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  Speaker 1: Great, Thank you,