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Shane Waldron: "We Need To Keep Growing" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, happy Thanksgiving you guys get started. What was
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  Speaker 1: your view Shane of the final drive there and what
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  Speaker 1: happened with the final couple of plays. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the connection that that Geno and DK made was a
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  Speaker 1: great chance to put us in position, uh get down
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  Speaker 1: there to the final play there, I had a chance
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  Speaker 1: to maybe pop a run. Unfortunately they played it well,
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  Speaker 1: didn't quite work out. I would love to get a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more feel position right there for Jason, but
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  Speaker 1: they played it well and then end up clocking it
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  Speaker 1: and having an opportunity. But you know, execution, you know,
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  Speaker 1: really comes down to earlier in the game, not putting
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  Speaker 1: ourselves in that position. But we've had those opportunities at
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  Speaker 1: the end of games, and you know, several times this
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  Speaker 1: season we've come out on the right end of those,
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  Speaker 1: and then this one it just didn't work out at
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  Speaker 1: the end with you know, able to hear you, I
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  Speaker 1: mean he kind of made a sound like maybe there
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  Speaker 1: was some miscommunication there. Yeah, I think he got right
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  Speaker 1: to the right thing there in terms of getting to
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  Speaker 1: a good rpo right there. We had an option and
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  Speaker 1: right on the ball right quickly there, trying to gain five, six,
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  Speaker 1: seven more yards there trying to get into a more
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  Speaker 1: manageable situation right there and then just didn't work out.
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  Speaker 1: Do you hear your play call? What's that? I don't
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  Speaker 1: think he did, you know, with the headset going, you know,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes those chaos situations. So but he did. The great
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  Speaker 1: thing is it's, you know, situations that we practice all
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  Speaker 1: the time. Got to one of our toolbox plays in
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  Speaker 1: that exact scenario. So it is a good job of
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  Speaker 1: him and and those guys and really being able to
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  Speaker 1: execute that many plays and that quick of a tempo
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  Speaker 1: to give us an opportunity at the end. Earlier day
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  Speaker 1: about how you guys like to be a team that
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  Speaker 1: gets up on the ball and goes rather than maybe
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  Speaker 1: walkt xact. Why do you like to get up on
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  Speaker 1: the ball in those situations? I think just philosophically, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the way we looked at it. I know there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of different approaches in terms of when to kill
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  Speaker 1: the ball when not to kill the ball. For us,
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  Speaker 1: you know, getting more plays, more opportunities has provided to
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  Speaker 1: be more successful over the long run. And but each
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  Speaker 1: each one of those situations is different. I think every
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  Speaker 1: time those come into play, you got to take into
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  Speaker 1: consideration where the other players are out on the field
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  Speaker 1: in terms of when to kill the ball, when not
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  Speaker 1: to guys way down the field or guys you know,
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  Speaker 1: in a closer proximity like in dk situation, He's able
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  Speaker 1: to make that catch right around the hashes so quickly,
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  Speaker 1: get the ball spotted so quickly, the offensive lines up there,
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  Speaker 1: everyone set, you know, really a clean operation right there.
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  Speaker 1: So I think there's a you know, there's there's time
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  Speaker 1: restraints that we have around it that we've built, that
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  Speaker 1: we've we've predetermined, but all of those are going to
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  Speaker 1: have a little bit of wiggle room depending on the
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  Speaker 1: live action of the game and and and the room
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  Speaker 1: for error in those seconds. What did you think of
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  Speaker 1: Drew Locke ands just sort of when he had to
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  Speaker 1: play on onside date and how they don't end. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, Drew came in in another tough
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  Speaker 1: situation there, coming in into a road environment there, did
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  Speaker 1: the best of his ability, tried to execute some plays,
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  Speaker 1: got a couple pressures where things didn't quite work out
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  Speaker 1: in his favor, gave us an opportunity on some third
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  Speaker 1: down throws, but you know, it didn't work out obviously
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  Speaker 1: in terms of getting some point production out of those drives.
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  Speaker 1: But he's still ready to go. I've been doing a
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  Speaker 1: good job this week, like he does every week, of
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  Speaker 1: preparing like he's going to be the starter if those
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  Speaker 1: opportunities present themselves. Shane, for sure. I have fourteen plays
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  Speaker 1: eighty eight yards I'm assuming that was descriptive set, then
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  Speaker 1: four for four to start the game, a third down,
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  Speaker 1: then you go one for eleven after it. What was
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  Speaker 1: the difference? Was it the off script and then how
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  Speaker 1: the rams had jested or what were the dynamics between
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  Speaker 1: the first drive and pressing the game and the rest. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know the script thing that there's a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of gray area in there, but I'll roll
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  Speaker 1: with that part of it. The you know, once we
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  Speaker 1: get down to those next couple drives. In terms of
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  Speaker 1: some of the penalties that knocked us off course, I
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  Speaker 1: think some of the negative plays and so for us
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  Speaker 1: on offense, we know really coming down to good clean
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  Speaker 1: execution in those scenarios. For me, putting our players in
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  Speaker 1: the best position we can with the play calls along
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  Speaker 1: the course of the four quarters of the game, and
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  Speaker 1: I think just executing as we get into the second half,
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  Speaker 1: you know, starting with that first drive, you know, coming
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  Speaker 1: out of the locker room right there, trying to eliminate
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  Speaker 1: those three and outs or those quick possessions so that
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  Speaker 1: we can have a successful second half. How many players
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  Speaker 1: do you script? Typically, there's no exact number on that, right,
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  Speaker 1: I'll go ahead with foreign erst defense. It seems like
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  Speaker 1: they present challenges in all three levels. Where's the start
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  Speaker 1: when it cuts out to deal with their Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think really it starts up front. You know, they've got
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  Speaker 1: a great defensive line. They've got multiple players that can
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  Speaker 1: roll throughout their front right there, and then Fred Warner
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  Speaker 1: control and everything from that middle linebacker position. He's special.
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  Speaker 1: He can play at all three levels. He can play
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  Speaker 1: patient to the run and still make the play at
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  Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. You know, he can get in
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  Speaker 1: all the passing lanes, and you know, he's really just
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  Speaker 1: a tremendous player that we always have to have our
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  Speaker 1: eye on. With a numbers that they've had. Is that
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  Speaker 1: just a matter of their aggressiveness or is there other
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  Speaker 1: factors that are contributing to that. Yeah, I think they
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  Speaker 1: tie all three levels in really well, so they know
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  Speaker 1: their pass rush is going to get home. In a
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  Speaker 1: certain amount of time. The linebacker state, you know, nice
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  Speaker 1: and patient in those second level windows, so they're able
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  Speaker 1: to get a lot of tips and overthrows. The dbs
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  Speaker 1: are really in sync with what the timing and rhythm
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  Speaker 1: of each play is, so they're playing well as a
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  Speaker 1: unit like they have for multiple years now, where all
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  Speaker 1: three levels of their defense are really well connected. How
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  Speaker 1: much better equipp does the offense to face the forty
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  Speaker 1: nine ers in it was in January, I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: really goes back looking at that game, similar to the
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  Speaker 1: some the things we need to overcome, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: game in January where we have a solid first half
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  Speaker 1: and then falter a little bit in the second half.
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  Speaker 1: I think we need to learn from those mistakes, learn
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  Speaker 1: from this past week, and keep growing each week. So
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  Speaker 1: as we head into this game against the forty nine ers,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we have more experienced guys starting to get
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  Speaker 1: healthy getting back in the mix right now, and I
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  Speaker 1: think we can go ahead and have a successful four quarters,
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  Speaker 1: play consistent football, which is going to be our game
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  Speaker 1: playing every single week, whether it's the forty nine ers
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  Speaker 1: or the Rams last week, and we have those four
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  Speaker 1: quarter performances tend to come out on the right side
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  Speaker 1: of the scoreboard there, how to impact things when you
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  Speaker 1: didn't have Kenneth Walker anymore. I think Zach did a
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  Speaker 1: nice job of stepping in right there. Anytime you lose
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  Speaker 1: a player like Ken, you know, other guys are going
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  Speaker 1: to have to step in into that role. But with
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  Speaker 1: Zach and DJ Dallas stepping in, you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: those guys did a nice job of carrying the workload
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  Speaker 1: at running back and doing a nice job especially on
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  Speaker 1: some of the third down and in some of the
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  Speaker 1: passing game situations. Heading ends up playing this week. What
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  Speaker 1: is he bringing? Yeah, I think Ken Kenny has done
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  Speaker 1: a great job of staying into it, you know, kind
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  Speaker 1: of in that injured reserve role and then getting out
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  Speaker 1: onto the practice field when his window opened, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: brings a little electric attitude to the day, you know,
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  Speaker 1: always having fun, great energy, and then it shows up
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  Speaker 1: with his play style where he's got great quickness, great speed,
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  Speaker 1: and then you know, for him, you know, he's been
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  Speaker 1: done a great job. Chad Morton working with him throughout
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  Speaker 1: this whole course of the year, where he stayed up
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  Speaker 1: to date, you know, staying in the meeting, staying mentally prepared.
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  Speaker 1: So if this moment does present itself this weekend, he's
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  Speaker 1: ready to roll. I know the quarterback can't hear you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry you can't hear the quarterback in your headset.
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  Speaker 1: But when the connection is lost like that, do you
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  Speaker 1: know that it gets lost or do you just know
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  Speaker 1: because the quarterback is like throwing his hands over. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think in that situation right there, when you got
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  Speaker 1: crowd noise, everything else going, you know, and Geno's got
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  Speaker 1: control of it, especially in those two minute situations. Feel
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  Speaker 1: good about him getting into a play in our toolbox.
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  Speaker 1: You know, sometimes you get times where the button will
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  Speaker 1: go and it'll give you the beeping noise. Other times
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  Speaker 1: you don't necessarily know, and the quarterback might give you hey,
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  Speaker 1: I need it again right there. But like I said,
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  Speaker 1: in those situations, we've prepared to work through those so
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  Speaker 1: many times. You know, we're ready to get to the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Quarterback has, you know, all the tools at his disposal
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  Speaker 1: to execute at a high level if those things happen
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  Speaker 1: during the course of the game. You said it was
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  Speaker 1: an RPO, so he did have an option to pass
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  Speaker 1: out of that particular kind of player or whatever. After
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  Speaker 1: the catch, their ability to chase the football. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they do such a good job of really all eleven
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  Speaker 1: the first guy in on the tackle. Then you put
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  Speaker 1: on the tape and you've got the backside defensive end
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  Speaker 1: of the backside corner chasing the football every single snap.
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  Speaker 1: And so they do a good job of swarming, populating
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  Speaker 1: the football and getting the guys down. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: an effort that the chasing the football parts and effort thing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they do a great job with it. And
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  Speaker 1: I think something that just like going against our defense
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  Speaker 1: every day, presents a great challenge for us on offense.
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  Speaker 1: You see our guys flying around chasing the ball at
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  Speaker 1: practice through training camp. So I think it's a good,
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  Speaker 1: you know, style of play that shows up and you
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  Speaker 1: see it clearly with our guys out on the field,
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  Speaker 1: and you see it clearly on San Francisco and you
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  Speaker 1: put the tape on. Why you guys had better as Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's something you know, you talk about, stuff
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  Speaker 1: you emphasize in the offseason, whether it be screen game
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  Speaker 1: or yards after catch, some of those things, you know,
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  Speaker 1: burst in the block, you know, guys working for each
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  Speaker 1: other downfield. I think those are all things that Sanjay
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  Speaker 1: has done a great job of really bringing to our offense,
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  Speaker 1: you know, really preaching about day in and day out,
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  Speaker 1: and I think we're just seeing the fruits of the
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  Speaker 1: labor in terms of you know, working at it, talking
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  Speaker 1: about it, the players buying into it, and it's good.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a good part of our offense for the
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  Speaker 1: last few weeks. Shane, how's Jaxas with the chip best
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  Speaker 1: familiarity with Gino Smith help you offense as an extra option?
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  Speaker 1: How is that kind of enlarged to play with. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think he's done a nice job. He had a
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  Speaker 1: couple of those excellent third down catches this past week.
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  Speaker 1: I think the more and more that those guys get
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  Speaker 1: reps together, accumulating reps, you know, in terms of the
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  Speaker 1: style of routes or especially against different man looks or
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  Speaker 1: different zone looks, all the different things defenses present themselves,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just getting on the same page, which comes
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  Speaker 1: from accumulating as many reps as possible. So we're seeing
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  Speaker 1: two guys that are just getting more and more familiar
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  Speaker 1: with each other, getting better and better and improving throughout
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  Speaker 1: the season, which is what you'd want to see from
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  Speaker 1: a young player in Jackson like he's doing. How physical
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  Speaker 1: is he because he's like Tyler as well. You don't
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  Speaker 1: think his physical receiver, but they are very physical. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think. You know, one thing Jackson's consistently put on
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  Speaker 1: tape has been, you know, his physicality in the run game.
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  Speaker 1: His physicality's finishing on some bubble screens that he's had
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  Speaker 1: and then finishing on some shallow crosses. You know, he's
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  Speaker 1: had several chances you know where he's where, he's been
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  Speaker 1: able to finish the run with that physical mindset set.
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  Speaker 1: The tempo one down the left sideline and the Washington
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  Speaker 1: game comes to mind right now, but he brings it
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  Speaker 1: and I think he wants to have that element to
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  Speaker 1: his game. He looked good. Now he's he's working his
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  Speaker 1: way back in and you know he's limited, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: see where we're at come game time. All right, anything else,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, all right, thank you. M