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Press Pass | Heath Farwell on Jamal Agnew's status for Week 7 · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: We're hoping this weekend. You know, we're open, opportunistic. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: we're we're hoping that he'll be out there. We'll see, Um,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't practice yesterday. Um, he may move around a
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  Speaker 1: little bit today. Um. But the reality is he's a
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  Speaker 1: good returner, a great returner. I don't need to see anything.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's just get him ready. Um. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta protect him from himself probably, Um, but we're gonna,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna. If he's healthy, he's going to be out there.
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  Speaker 1: We're hoping to be We're hoping he'll be out there
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  Speaker 1: catching a few he has done in the past, and
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  Speaker 1: then he catches him in practice. But we have other
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  Speaker 1: guys that can do it as well. Chris Claybrooks can
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  Speaker 1: do it as well. So, um, we have guys that
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  Speaker 1: I trust that will be back there. Um, we have
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  Speaker 1: not made that decision. Uh, we're still holding out hope
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  Speaker 1: that acts is playing. Anybody knocking on your door. I
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  Speaker 1: got a bunch of guys. Oh, I got a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of guys. I gotta not even Turner type guys. I
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  Speaker 1: got d Lineman. Tell me they can do it. I
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  Speaker 1: got a million guys. I got it Josh does all
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  Speaker 1: the time. Yeah, they all do. Oh yeah, they all
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  Speaker 1: think they're returning. They had returned at some point Pop
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  Speaker 1: Warner or something, and they think they still can do
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  Speaker 1: it at this level. So I get it all the time. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: when when you guys are scouting, I guess Christian kurd
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  Speaker 1: to to bring him in here was his punker turn
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  Speaker 1: skills something you guys took a look at, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just an additional thing that you could bring. I mean
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  Speaker 1: I did. I don't know if they took my opinion
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  Speaker 1: on it. Um. Yeah, he's talented, He's he's a very
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  Speaker 1: talented player. Obviously a great receiver. U'm lucky to have him.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that any bearing on assigning him, but
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  Speaker 1: I definitely I was excited to get him here. For sure.
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  Speaker 1: You can't have enough for turners in the building. What
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  Speaker 1: have you seen from from Chris play Brooks in terms
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  Speaker 1: of how he's gotten better at a position? In part term?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he works on every day. That's the cool thing
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  Speaker 1: about it. He works on every every day. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's funny. Was two weeks ago I was showing the
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  Speaker 1: guys eclipse of him at at Memphis returning kick so
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  Speaker 1: scored a touchdown. You know, it's I enjoy showing those
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  Speaker 1: guys kind of clips of you know, their buddies, how
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  Speaker 1: they were in college and what they used to do
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  Speaker 1: and those type of things. So, uh, they love it.
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  Speaker 1: And and literally two weeks ago, I was showing some
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  Speaker 1: clips of it. So it's something we uh, we were
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  Speaker 1: encouraging and and and he works at all the time,
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  Speaker 1: so I feel very comfortable with him being back there.
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  Speaker 1: How much does the blocking of Simmons or or blocking
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  Speaker 1: responsibilities change with different returners because every returner kind of
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  Speaker 1: has a different style. Chris Clay Brooks isn't the exact
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  Speaker 1: same guy as Jamal agg Knew or Christian Kirk. How
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  Speaker 1: much does that change it. It's not necessarily blocking styles,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's scheme. Probably would change the tad. You may
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  Speaker 1: have different returns uh planned um, But overall, we gotta
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  Speaker 1: put a body on a guy and block and do
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  Speaker 1: all those techniques we work all the time. We do
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  Speaker 1: a ton of drill work, fundamental type stuff. Those are
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  Speaker 1: all still the same. If you read launch snapper not
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  Speaker 1: a guy out. There's not very many guys like Ross
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  Speaker 1: that are that that hit like he does that cover
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  Speaker 1: the field like he does, and um, and and and
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  Speaker 1: and he's a linebacker in there. And it's funny as
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  Speaker 1: some teams actually account for him and actually block him
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  Speaker 1: like he's a he's a cover guy, like he's a
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  Speaker 1: normal punt guy. So he gets treated that way at times.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a cool, um, you know thing that he
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  Speaker 1: can go down there and be a big factor in coverage. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know obviously you know, making good plays, making tackles.
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  Speaker 1: He's always a factor down there. Cut over and design ross.
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  Speaker 1: I'd ask more about that, he said, because every they
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  Speaker 1: never had a long bad snap. He said, Well, he said,
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  Speaker 1: this guy is not gonna have a bad snap and
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna cover, he's gonna get down the field because
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  Speaker 1: they had seen him in the joint practice for the
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  Speaker 1: Radames that year. So is he continued to do what
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  Speaker 1: attracted him to this team at the further place? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because he works at every day. I mean, his his
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  Speaker 1: snaps are are fantastic. I mean the laces, all the
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  Speaker 1: little details he does. Uh you know for our unit,
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  Speaker 1: is we will that we watch every day. Um, it's
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  Speaker 1: so important just getting those snaps back perfect. Uh. So
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  Speaker 1: we have great operations, not only in the punt game,
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  Speaker 1: but also the field goal stuff. So um, that's number one.
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  Speaker 1: But anything he does in coverage is a bonus. And
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  Speaker 1: so there's some guys that aren't as good down the field.
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  Speaker 1: We're fortunate that he is. He is very good in coverage,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know sometimes he's you know, has to
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  Speaker 1: kind of save the day for us. He'd love for
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  Speaker 1: the snapper or any of the specialists not to make tackles,
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  Speaker 1: but when they do, it's a it's a huge deal
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  Speaker 1: for us because it is you've got to get him
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  Speaker 1: down sometimes. One of the one of the weird plays
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  Speaker 1: from Sunday's game was the was the punt along the
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  Speaker 1: sidelines and all of a sudden, it's there is that
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  Speaker 1: was that just a case of you know, they the
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  Speaker 1: coast just kind of got a lucky bounce out of
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  Speaker 1: that and was able to retrieve it and then and
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  Speaker 1: then they made nineteen yards out of it. After that,
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  Speaker 1: I would say it was a great punt by Logan.
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  Speaker 1: I would say it was a really good play by
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  Speaker 1: Chris clay Brooks. He if you watch that play, he
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  Speaker 1: ran down the field and and and it's a technique
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  Speaker 1: we use a lot is when there's a returner standing
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  Speaker 1: there and you have a corner on you. Is that
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  Speaker 1: we call it bully, but bully him into the returner
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  Speaker 1: or get him in his face and so to to
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  Speaker 1: do exactly that, we get the opportunity to potentially make
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  Speaker 1: a big play. Um, it's one of those unfortunate plays
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  Speaker 1: where bouncing right in their hands to a really good
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  Speaker 1: returner as well. Uh so that's ball. You know, our
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  Speaker 1: guys were frustrated because we looked at the balls in
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  Speaker 1: the ground. This an opportunity for us to make a
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  Speaker 1: big time play, a game changing play, and it just
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  Speaker 1: didn't go our way. Um, you know, and you study
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  Speaker 1: that and you go, is there something we could do different?
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  Speaker 1: And there's not. I think you just get more guys
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  Speaker 1: down the field, and the very next time we do that,
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  Speaker 1: the balls ours. And I that's what I you know,
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  Speaker 1: try to encourage our guys that hey, those plays will come.
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  Speaker 1: Just keep getting guys down the field, great effort, you know,
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  Speaker 1: all those details and and and and we'll make those
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  Speaker 1: big plays. And like I said, the very next time,
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  Speaker 1: I feel very confident we'll get those those come. Sorry
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  Speaker 1: about that you've talked about Jamal ag knew having the
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  Speaker 1: green light in the past to return whenever he kind
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  Speaker 1: of gets the feel for it. If he can't go,
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  Speaker 1: do you give that same green light to whoever is
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  Speaker 1: filling in or do you kind of have to say,
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  Speaker 1: all right, you gotta yellow light and you gotta think
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  Speaker 1: about this a little bit more. Uh, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's something with with Aggs. You trust them making great decisions.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're fortunate with those other two guys they
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  Speaker 1: also make really good decisions. So, um, that's sometimes we
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  Speaker 1: get into the game, you know, further down the line
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  Speaker 1: of how we're liking our matchup, how we've practiced, all
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  Speaker 1: those things will get into more down the road, you know,
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  Speaker 1: coming Friday, will kind of make those decisions. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: I trust those guys back there to make those good decisions.
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  Speaker 1: So it could be very similar. Didn't that rule go
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  Speaker 1: up on Monday night? We're a guy will making a
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  Speaker 1: pair of cash and the gun or whoever blocked a
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  Speaker 1: guy into him at the referee in the booth said well,
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  Speaker 1: that's not fair catching your parents because if you're own guy,
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  Speaker 1: so you can block a guy into That's what we're
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  Speaker 1: That's what Chris was trying to do and that's what
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  Speaker 1: he did. Was I call it a bully technique, but
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  Speaker 1: you run their guy into the returner. Um. So, anytime
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  Speaker 1: you have a bailer back there, or even a corner
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  Speaker 1: that's on you, you kind of lock on and drive
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  Speaker 1: him into the returner and just hope that's a good opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: whether it goes off the corner or messes with the
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  Speaker 1: returner enough to to to to to cause a muff. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's a technique that across the league. Every team is
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  Speaker 1: doing it, um you know. And that's the it's the
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  Speaker 1: awareness of the returner to help his corner out who
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  Speaker 1: doesn't know where the ball is at. And then also
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  Speaker 1: the awareness of the corner slash safety or whoever's bailing
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  Speaker 1: back there, Uh, understands where the ball is and and
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  Speaker 1: as a close and that's the communication we teach all
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  Speaker 1: the time. And because it is, those are game changing plays.
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  Speaker 1: All of a sudden, we give the ball to to
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  Speaker 1: the opponent, you know, the opponent. Uh, those are those
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  Speaker 1: are big plays. You can't afford those. They're probably