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  Speaker 1: Good. What do you think the key is to sort
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  Speaker 1: of jump starting the offense or getting it to run
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  Speaker 1: more consistently.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think the biggest thing is making plays early
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  Speaker 2: in games. You know, when you've been able to do that,
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  Speaker 2: we get off to that fast start that we had,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the three games prior to this, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: converting the first third down of the game, which has
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  Speaker 2: been you know, one of our engines to kickstart us,
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  Speaker 2: and then getting everybody opportunities, making sure we find a
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  Speaker 2: way to settle into the game, whatever that may be,
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  Speaker 2: getting our best players touches early, giving them opportunities to
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  Speaker 2: impact the game from the jump, get everybody settled in,
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  Speaker 2: and then be able to go execute. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: it comes out of making plays and executing.
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  Speaker 3: As we go.
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  Speaker 4: For the second week in a row, one of the
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  Speaker 4: defenders on the other team made a comment that that
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  Speaker 4: you if they can get Trevor off his first read,
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  Speaker 4: they think he'll struggle. Is there something to that.
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  Speaker 2: I would imagine this defensive philosophy for every quarterback. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think they're saying that, whatever that may be.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously we've been pretty good at being able to deliver
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  Speaker 2: the ball to the first read. When that comes down
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  Speaker 2: to it, I think Trevor's you know, sixty seven, sixty
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  Speaker 2: eight percent completion something like that. So a lot of
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  Speaker 2: that comes from being able to get the ball out
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  Speaker 2: early to your primary read.
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  Speaker 3: But no, I mean it's.
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  Speaker 2: Hitting quarterbacks, affecting quarterbacks, making quarterback hold the ball. That
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  Speaker 2: that seems pretty universal for defending good quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like every week we're talking about the opposing front.
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  Speaker 4: What is it about this Titans defensive front that can
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  Speaker 4: maybe have some challenges?
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  Speaker 2: I could Jeffrey Simmons, j Nico, Autry, arden Key, Harold Landry,
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  Speaker 2: just Peko, you just you name them. They're very strong,
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  Speaker 2: very stout inside. They do a good jobs stop in
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  Speaker 2: the run. They've done it for a long time there,
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  Speaker 2: getting Ard and getting Harold Landry back from injury that
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  Speaker 2: he was in last year. You know, that adds the
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  Speaker 2: pass rush unit for him. But it's a big, physical,
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  Speaker 2: stout unit that does a good job stopping the run,
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  Speaker 2: stuffing interior gaps, really making it hard to get to
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  Speaker 2: the second level and block the linebackers and get explosive
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  Speaker 2: runs off them. So it's just something you got to
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  Speaker 2: find ways to be able to do it. You got
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  Speaker 2: to manipulate their eyes in some way, shape or form,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, at some point in time, you gotta
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  Speaker 2: be physically gets strained. You got to be able to
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  Speaker 2: finish blocks to convert on run situations.
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  Speaker 5: How big was last week for you?
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  Speaker 3: Just seeing it's specifically Deans Johnson.
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  Speaker 6: You know what he could do?
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  Speaker 3: They do some extended raps and touches.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's continued to play well when he's been given opportunities,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, you earn more opportunities, so there'll be
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  Speaker 2: chances for him to get out on the field a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more and continue to try to impact the
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  Speaker 2: game the way he did the other day. But that, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that was nice to see. That's something we've seen from him, honestly,
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  Speaker 2: when he's been given opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: This was the first week you have the five that
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  Speaker 1: you you plan on role on the entire season on
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  Speaker 1: up front? How did you review the performance.
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  Speaker 3: By the five together? One? Good enough?
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  Speaker 2: You know, so that's something as as entire unit we
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  Speaker 2: could say that regardless of position. Obviously the offensive line
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  Speaker 2: is are part of that as well. I didn't think
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  Speaker 2: any any one particular unit played well, uh in the
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  Speaker 2: game the other day, so that that's something. But again,
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  Speaker 2: playing side by side, playing great defensive fronts like we
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  Speaker 2: just played and we're gonna play, that's something you just
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  Speaker 2: you continue to work through and that that's one of
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  Speaker 2: the things our group has done, from coaching staff on two.
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  Speaker 2: Players have just continue to work, trust the process, dive
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  Speaker 2: into the process, dive into your work, and make sure
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  Speaker 2: we put our players in the best possible position.
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  Speaker 5: Expecting Walker Little's play to.
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  Speaker 6: Possibly take a little jump up here, because it did
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  Speaker 6: look like Sunday like he struggled a bit, and I'm
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  Speaker 6: just wondering how much of that is, you know, just
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  Speaker 6: a layoff, you know, also going back to a different position.
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  Speaker 3: Things like that.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's obviously, like you said, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: factors involved, but you know, you could classify those as excuses,
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  Speaker 2: and we just expect all our guys to produce at
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  Speaker 2: a high level. He certainly had a tough matchup. He'd
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  Speaker 2: been you know, he's playing a relatively new position for
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  Speaker 2: him in terms of he's generally been a tackle in
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  Speaker 2: his past and had had a ton of snaps playing
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  Speaker 2: in there, and then had a really tough matchup like
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned with hard Grave and those guys inside. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, we expect all our guys to continue to
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  Speaker 2: progress and play a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: Better mentioned yesterday that he kind of hoped to get
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  Speaker 5: Ezra some snaps, and I'm just wondering, is that a
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  Speaker 5: little bit awkward for you as an offensive coordinate if
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  Speaker 5: that's what Doug wants to find a window to get snapped,
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  Speaker 5: because usually you'd like to have the offensive lineman unless
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  Speaker 5: there's an injury, they usually just stay in the game
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  Speaker 5: the whole time.
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  Speaker 3: Not necessarily.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if my boss wants me to do something,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna do that. So if we find a way
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  Speaker 2: to get him in there because Doug said so, then
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  Speaker 2: we'll find a way to do that. And again, like
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  Speaker 2: we've done from way back when we've always talked about,
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  Speaker 2: we are constantly rolling those guys. I know you guys
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  Speaker 2: don't alway see practice walk through those guys. We continue
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  Speaker 2: to try to format different combinations. But life in the NFL,
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  Speaker 2: you lose lineman all the time and you always have
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  Speaker 2: to prepare for your contingency plans.
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  Speaker 3: And so that's something we've done.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we added Ezra as was getting himself healthy,
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  Speaker 2: getting himself introduced into the offense, and then once we
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  Speaker 2: feel like we fully trust him, we'll see where that
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  Speaker 2: goes from there.
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  Speaker 4: In the past, one of the things you guys have
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  Speaker 4: liked to do is get Trevor on the move. Maybe
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  Speaker 4: haven't done that as much with the injury. Just how
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  Speaker 4: much has the knee and the knee brace impacted how
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  Speaker 4: you call the game?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's certainly been something as we build plans of
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  Speaker 2: being conscious that you know, our quarterback is probably mobile
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  Speaker 2: than he'd been in past.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, I think as he continues.
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  Speaker 2: To feel healthier and healthier, if we feel like that's
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  Speaker 2: something that gives us an advantage against the defense, then
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  Speaker 2: it's something we'll be able to mix in. And I
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  Speaker 2: feel like he'd be completely capable of doing it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I do think he's getting a little bit healthier as
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  Speaker 2: we go. Obviously, it's different than the New Orleans game was.
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  Speaker 2: You know, pretty much we felt like he was going
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  Speaker 2: to be stationary. He ended up taking off a running
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  Speaker 2: and being our leading rusher in the game. That one
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  Speaker 2: necessarily anticipated. But yeah, you're you're kind of always dealing
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  Speaker 2: with things here and there, and you protect your players
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  Speaker 2: the best way you can, but still trying to make
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  Speaker 2: sure you give your team the best chance to win.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, it's a bit tough after how you guys lost
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  Speaker 1: last Sunday to say this, but how what progress hadn't
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  Speaker 1: seen from the offense this season? Where are the positives
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  Speaker 1: at so har.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like we've grown every single week. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: it felt like last week was a step back, just
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  Speaker 2: in terms of you know, there were communication issues, there's
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  Speaker 2: execution issues. I don't feel like I put the guys
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  Speaker 2: in the best position as the game went on, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the game dynamics changed, and I don't know that I
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  Speaker 2: adjusted as well as I would have liked to looking
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  Speaker 2: back at it, trying to be critical of myself, but
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  Speaker 2: as a unit, it felt like we've been growing in
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  Speaker 2: our communication.
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  Speaker 3: We've been growing and.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of identifying who does what and how we can
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  Speaker 2: attack certain coverages and getting kind of dialed into that
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  Speaker 2: plan of how we like to play. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: last Sunday was definitely not good enough, and I don't
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  Speaker 2: know that it was necessarily a step towards progress, But
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  Speaker 2: we think this week could be.
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  Speaker 4: There have been enough explosive plays on the offense this year,
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  Speaker 4: and is there a way to create those.
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean there has not been enough efficient, consistent efficiency,
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  Speaker 2: and consistent explosive playability or can you know, putting guys
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  Speaker 2: in position to do that, being able to do that,
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  Speaker 2: getting that done. That's something certainly that's one of our
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  Speaker 2: core commandments as an offense, and we haven't done that enough.
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  Speaker 2: So it's about finding consistency. I think when you find
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  Speaker 2: consistency on first and second down, which was really our
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  Speaker 2: biggest issue the other day in the game, you're able
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  Speaker 2: to run more plays, You're able to stay in more
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  Speaker 2: normal down situations instead of all the second long we
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  Speaker 2: got ourselves in where you know it's going to lean
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  Speaker 2: itself to a pass situation. So we want to stay
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  Speaker 2: ahead of the change. We want to be efficient. I
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  Speaker 2: think being efficient leads to the ability to create more
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  Speaker 2: explosive plays because you get a little bit more into
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  Speaker 2: your game plan and the packages that you create going
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  Speaker 2: into the game.
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  Speaker 4: Is there maybe anything to like? The perception when you
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  Speaker 4: look at the numbers, is that Calvin really maybe hasn't
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  Speaker 4: been as impactful as he has because he's drawn a
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  Speaker 4: lot of penalties that have moved the chains that don't
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  Speaker 4: go into a statue.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I think so. I think there's something to that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, obviously, we've got a lot of good players,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of good skill players, so there's always gonna
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  Speaker 2: be something. If you know, Christian has a big game,
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  Speaker 2: Calvin doesn't, it's how do we get Calvin more involved.
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  Speaker 3: It's always going to be that way.
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  Speaker 2: We will continue to do everything we can to give
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  Speaker 2: all our best players opportunities to impact the game. There's
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  Speaker 2: plenty of times Calvin's the primary, a play gets called coverage,
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  Speaker 2: takes it away, you get into the third down menue.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes you got this play, kill it to that play first.
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  Speaker 2: On the look, he could go from being a primary
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  Speaker 2: to being a secondary option on certain things, So there's
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  Speaker 2: finding ways to do that. We also feel like we
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of good matchups with the players we have,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, you always kind of got to get
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  Speaker 2: something to take something away, and we're not going to
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  Speaker 2: be the type of team that we call it you
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  Speaker 2: throw it to that guy regardless, because we've got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of opportunities for other guys to win within concepts
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  Speaker 2: at times. But again, each each play is kind of
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  Speaker 2: its own thing. Sometimes it's two man are out and
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  Speaker 2: you're max protecting because you're in a shot possibility, the
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  Speaker 2: defense takes it away and you've got to move on
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  Speaker 2: to somebody else, or we are throwing that. And then
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  Speaker 2: there's sometimes where it's if it's zone, you're working this,
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  Speaker 2: if it's man, you're working that, and coverage dictate certain things.
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  Speaker 3: That get you certain spots.
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  Speaker 2: But we're very happy with the impact Calvin's made. We
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  Speaker 2: can continue to scheme call plays that give him opportunities
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  Speaker 2: to make plays down the field. But his drawing of penalties,
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  Speaker 2: it's unfortunate that doesn't go in the stat sheet for
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  Speaker 2: him because I think he'd be up around he'd be
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  Speaker 2: right there with Christian in terms of around six hundred
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  Speaker 2: yards or something like that. But those have been dynamic
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  Speaker 2: plays for our offense. I think he's drawn eight and
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  Speaker 2: they've all been first downs for us, so we certainly
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  Speaker 2: appreciate it. It's unfortunate he doesn't get the recognition for it.
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  Speaker 6: I guess, is there anything really more than you can
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  Speaker 6: do from a preparation standpoint to minimize the turnovers? I mean,
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  Speaker 6: I mean some turnovers are far different than others. Sometimes
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  Speaker 6: it's just a really bad mistake, and sometimes defensive guy
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  Speaker 6: makes it an unbelievable play. Right, because I mean that
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  Speaker 6: seems to be the number one culprit in the wider
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  Speaker 6: offense is not where you want.
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  Speaker 5: It to be.
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  Speaker 2: I would completely agree that that is the number one culprit.
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  Speaker 2: And again within that, you protect the ball, you get
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  Speaker 2: more plays, you stay efficient, you're able to create theselosits.
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  Speaker 2: It all kind of ties together, it goes. We're certainly
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  Speaker 2: trying to do everything possible. I mean, the turnovers, it's
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  Speaker 2: unacceptable and it's continued for us, so we're trying to
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  Speaker 2: find everything possible to minimize it, to bring their attention
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  Speaker 2: to it. I mean, we've probably spent more time in
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  Speaker 2: our two years here than I've ever spent as a
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  Speaker 2: staff talking about it with the players, so they understand
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  Speaker 2: that we spend We start every Thursday with talking about
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  Speaker 2: turnovers and protecting the football and the stats correlated with
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  Speaker 2: wins and losses and turnover margin and giveaways. As an offense,
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  Speaker 2: we start our day obviously with our turnover circuit. We
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  Speaker 2: continue to show clips, good examples, bad examples, how we
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  Speaker 2: can learn from things, so you know, it's something that's
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  Speaker 2: on our mind, but it's something that's got to show
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  Speaker 2: up in the game. We got to continue to protect
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  Speaker 2: the ball, and like you said, every situation is a
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  Speaker 2: little different, so