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Press Pass | Press Taylor on 49ers Defense, Turnovers and Continuity · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: They have great players. I mean that's the first thing
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  Speaker 1: that jumps off the tape. Great players that have been
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  Speaker 1: in the system for a while too. So you watch
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  Speaker 1: it and it's the system that was installed since basically
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  Speaker 1: the day Kyle got there, and it's kind of lived
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  Speaker 1: through different coordinators now at this point in time, but
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  Speaker 1: you see the same scheme, same structures as.
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  Speaker 2: They go combined with great players. You know, a bunch of.
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  Speaker 1: First round player, first round draft picks on the on
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  Speaker 1: the defensive line, and then the one guy that's not
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  Speaker 1: as hard, Grave who was a high price free agent
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  Speaker 1: they went and got Fred Warner is as good as
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  Speaker 1: any linebacker in the league right now. And then you
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  Speaker 1: just it's one of those things where you see a
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  Speaker 1: group that's played in a system for a long time
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  Speaker 1: and the way they communicates really good, the way they
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  Speaker 1: feed off each other, the way they know people like
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  Speaker 1: to attack them, and the way they respond to that.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's as good a unit as we've seen so far.
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  Speaker 3: You spent some time kind of self scouting. Did you
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  Speaker 3: notice anything when you kind of look back at the offense.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if there's I mean, the most glaring
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  Speaker 1: thing is the giveaways. I mean that is to have
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  Speaker 1: the record we have and to have given the football
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  Speaker 1: away like we have is not common, and that's something
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  Speaker 1: we know is not a formula for success. The one
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  Speaker 1: thing that is good about it, good or bad. We've
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  Speaker 1: turned the ball over in scoring positions, so we're not
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  Speaker 1: putting our defense in a hole with where we've given
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  Speaker 1: the ball in most situations. There are some but at
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  Speaker 1: the same time, you know, I think we have eight
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  Speaker 1: turnovers and when we're inside our field goal range, so
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  Speaker 1: if worst case scenario, the drive stalls out, we end
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  Speaker 1: up kicking field goals with a really good kicker. I
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  Speaker 1: mean that that those points are critical for us, and
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  Speaker 1: instead we've given the football a way and given away
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  Speaker 1: opportunities to score, So that that's our biggest concern. And
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  Speaker 1: then we need to be better in short yardage. We
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  Speaker 1: need to be better in four minute situations, which we've
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  Speaker 1: had a lot more of, we need to be better.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of areas we continue to need to
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  Speaker 1: improve in.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned the short yardage.
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  Speaker 4: Is that an area where walker little coming in you
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  Speaker 4: can sort of help with that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, as you look through all of it, I
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  Speaker 1: think everybody has a hand in it. You would like
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  Speaker 1: to think is as you know, you and get a
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  Speaker 1: little continuity with a group that things just you execute
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  Speaker 1: things a little bit better, and then we've we've kind
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  Speaker 1: of gone back and just make sure we're are we
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  Speaker 1: practicing the looks we're getting in games? Are we executing
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  Speaker 1: it the way we want to execute it? Are the
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  Speaker 1: plays schemed up the way we want are the right
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  Speaker 1: people affecting the play and whatever way we want it
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  Speaker 1: to be. So, you know, as you go back, you
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  Speaker 1: kind of want to just check the whole process of
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  Speaker 1: how you get to what you get to to where
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  Speaker 1: it shows up on game day and it's being called much.
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  Speaker 3: Just getting walker a little back and kind of hopefully
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  Speaker 3: stabilizing that offensive line group healthy offense moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: Like you said, I mean, you hope that that continuity
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  Speaker 1: just creates a stabilizing factor for all those guys that
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  Speaker 1: they all know this is the guy I'm playing next to,
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  Speaker 1: this is how he communicates, this is what he's capable of.
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  Speaker 1: They all trust the guy next to him, And I
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  Speaker 1: think that I think they do have trust in the
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  Speaker 1: people next to him to be able to execute their
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  Speaker 1: job the way they have. But you know, the more
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  Speaker 1: you play next to somebody and take snaps next to somebody,
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  Speaker 1: the greater that continues to grow.
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  Speaker 5: Bring there's been your impressions of him so far, and
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  Speaker 5: how big was that relationship you think with he at
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  Speaker 5: with Phil already.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's definitely a big part of it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we know what we're adding to our locker room,
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  Speaker 1: and that's very important here with the way we've built
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  Speaker 1: this team and this roster. So having somebody that can
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  Speaker 1: personally vouch for him and his character and you know
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  Speaker 1: how he is as a teammate, that was a big
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  Speaker 1: deal for us.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously.
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  Speaker 1: We like the skill set, we like what he's capable
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  Speaker 1: of doing. We like his experience in the league, his
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  Speaker 1: experience playing for one of our position coaches. Obviously, our
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  Speaker 1: language is different, so he's having to learn that. That's
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  Speaker 1: the biggest adjustment and he's been very diligent about it.
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  Speaker 1: He's in the building since the day he's got here.
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  Speaker 1: He's been here pretty much the whole time, just meeting
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  Speaker 1: with Phil, meeting with Todd Washington, spending time around Brandon
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff and all those guys, just to make sure we're
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  Speaker 1: we're on the same page and we don't miss a
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  Speaker 1: beat when he gets a chance to roll.
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  Speaker 5: How big is it to add that kind of depth
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  Speaker 5: for the second half stretch. It seems like that's not
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  Speaker 5: something that happened. It's very often.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, And you're always looking for depth across
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  Speaker 1: the board offensive line. I mean, you see it in
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  Speaker 1: our building, you see it across the league. You always
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  Speaker 1: need depth. You know, it could be this week, next week,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is, it's going to happen at some point
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  Speaker 1: in time where somebody's got a step into play and
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  Speaker 1: to be able to throw and ex sperienced, high caliber
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  Speaker 1: player in there.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's something that definitely excites.
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  Speaker 3: Us Dolphins as we get in the adop done teams
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  Speaker 3: six and two, is there's still another level that the
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  Speaker 3: offense can take things too down the stretch for these
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  Speaker 3: important games.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we come at every Monday and congratulate the
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  Speaker 1: guys on this win streak they're going. But I think
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  Speaker 1: everybody understands one of the things we've been saying is
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  Speaker 1: we're getting better, but we have to get better. And
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  Speaker 1: that's that's something that's the approach we've all had as
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  Speaker 1: a coaching staff, as players, as individual unit or as
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  Speaker 1: individual positions within our unit. That's a big thing for us.
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  Speaker 1: We got to continue to get better. But I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we make no bones about it. We want to win games.
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  Speaker 1: So if we can contribute to winning, we're proud of
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  Speaker 1: that fact. But we need to play better as this
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  Speaker 1: thing continues to grow, and you know, week ten we
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  Speaker 1: need to be better than we were in week eight.
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  Speaker 4: I know that you're not one of the fields, you're
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  Speaker 4: not the one that's playing, but when you're going up
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  Speaker 4: against another offensive mind get coach as a play caller,
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  Speaker 4: do you kind of get amped up a little bit
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  Speaker 4: more as a for that chess match, like the back
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  Speaker 4: and forth, if you can outdo what they're doing on
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  Speaker 4: the other side of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think, I person, but I think anytime you
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  Speaker 1: go into a game, you approach it with you know,
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  Speaker 1: how many points a game today score? What's the game
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  Speaker 1: going to look like? Do we need to be a
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  Speaker 1: little more aggressive in certain situations? You know, you certainly
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  Speaker 1: factor that in and we've had games like that where
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  Speaker 1: you play that way. But I mean, we'll do whatever
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  Speaker 1: it takes to win. So if that's we need to
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  Speaker 1: go score forty, we want to.
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  Speaker 2: Be able to do that. If we need to.
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  Speaker 1: Score twenty, if we need to hold onto the football,
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  Speaker 1: whatever that is, that's the way we want to play
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  Speaker 1: the game.
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  Speaker 3: Young, change what you want to do this week, because
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  Speaker 3: I mean you haven't seen him with their defense yet,
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  Speaker 3: but now you know you got Young on one side,
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  Speaker 3: right on the other.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean again, you're adding another first round pass
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  Speaker 1: rusher to this group that's already a dynamic pass rusher unit.
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  Speaker 1: And we've played against them. You know, we played against
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  Speaker 1: them last year in Week one being in Philly, saw
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  Speaker 1: him a couple of times. He's certainly a dynamic player,
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  Speaker 1: somebody you have to be aware of and opposite of
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  Speaker 1: somebody that you have to be aware of. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't think there's a there're a scheme that's gonna come
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  Speaker 1: out with something completely crazy. We've never seen, especially he's
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  Speaker 1: only been there, what a week whatever it is, trying
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  Speaker 1: to learn to play, but you know they kind of
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  Speaker 1: line up and go and now you've got edges on
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  Speaker 1: both sides.
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  Speaker 2: That adding to guys that are already great pass rushers.
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  Speaker 5: It's not just like basically every week is kind of
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  Speaker 5: baptism by far for a guy like Anton.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what it feels like it's not fun. It's
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  Speaker 1: not fun lining up and all right, who are we
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  Speaker 1: dealing with this week? And well, they got Chase, they
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  Speaker 1: have Bosa. We were praying for Bosa, and they got
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  Speaker 1: hard Graves obviously a great pass rusher inside, and then
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, or they have Armstead and all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, you add Chase Young and it's yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is this.
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  Speaker 2: Is what we deal with.
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  Speaker 1: And we got to continue to build plans to put
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  Speaker 1: everybody in the best possible position to succeed, and then
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  Speaker 1: our guys got to go out and make plays and
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  Speaker 1: execute a little bit about.
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  Speaker 4: Your usage right in the first half of the season,
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  Speaker 4: is that a rate.
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  Speaker 5: You're still comfortable with or is there more of a
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  Speaker 5: concerted effort to get tank and pianist.
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  Speaker 3: Involved in the second half year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we need to continue to involve as
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  Speaker 1: many people as we can. Now, Travis has played well
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  Speaker 1: and has produced for us in critical moments. He's brought
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  Speaker 1: it off a bunch of explosive plays. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's even times it's here, we're gonna be an, we
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  Speaker 1: could put somebody else in here, and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: Travis is a fifty six yard touchdown at Pittsburgh in
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  Speaker 1: the rain, and so you know, he's a guy that's
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  Speaker 1: capable of breaking the game open at any point in time.
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  Speaker 1: But yes, we'd love to take a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: physical wear and tear off of him and get somebody
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  Speaker 1: else going in those situations. And that's just on us
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  Speaker 1: to put him in those situations, put those guys in
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  Speaker 1: there and kind of let them get rolling a little
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  Speaker 1: bit with the speed of the game.
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  Speaker 3: You're kind of at the halfway mark of the season,
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  Speaker 3: your full time play call this year. How much more
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  Speaker 3: comfortable are you now with those duties than maybe you
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  Speaker 3: were in Week one?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think it's no different than the players.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like each week I'm getting a little more
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  Speaker 1: comfortable with I'm just trying to grow and get better everything,
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  Speaker 1: every single thing, learn from every single call we make.
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  Speaker 1: The one thing I've learned just talking with Doug is
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  Speaker 1: from talking to people the call plays around the league,
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  Speaker 1: and you really can't have any regrets. You can learn,
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  Speaker 1: you can look back and you can learn from it.
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  Speaker 1: And I kind of have been a guy I always
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  Speaker 1: want to go back to my process. How did I
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  Speaker 1: get to calling this play? In this situation of a
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  Speaker 1: game based on this. Okay, what led to that? What
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  Speaker 1: was good about it? What was bad about it? How
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  Speaker 1: do we you know? If there's something on a Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: night when I'm doing my study that I could have
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  Speaker 1: caught that or fixed it or adjusted the game plan,
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  Speaker 1: then that's what I want to do.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, I don't really.
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  Speaker 1: Have a lot of regrets and a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: calls that have come, and I just want to continue
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  Speaker 1: to learn. I want to be better for this team
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  Speaker 1: in week ten than I was week eight, just like
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  Speaker 1: our players were asking them.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Thanks guys.