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Aden Durde Talks Depth On Defense, Looks Ahead To Week 2 · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good, thanks.
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  Speaker 2: So, new coach over there in Arizona, but he's bringing
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of Los Angeles with him.
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  Speaker 1: They played a decent.
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  Speaker 2: Amount of 13.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see some.
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  Speaker 2: Similarities in how Los Angeles and Arizona are using that
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  Speaker 2: personnel package?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can see some of the influences, but Mike
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  Speaker 3: has his own style, and he'll have offsets to that
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  Speaker 3: and the ability to do multiple things out of those looks,
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  Speaker 3: just like they have in the Rams.
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  Speaker 2: I talked to Julian earlier.
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  Speaker 3: He said he was pleased that it looked like it
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  Speaker 3: was pretty clean on defense.
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  Speaker 2: This is week one.
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  Speaker 1: It's chaos.
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  Speaker 3: And Chetna said.
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  Speaker 2: Communication could be better late in the game. What did
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  Speaker 2: you see in terms of overall effort.
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  Speaker 3: In that communication?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw a group of guys that took one
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  Speaker 1: play at a time.
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  Speaker 3: And they didn't let any of the game and how
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  Speaker 3: the game flowed affect them. That was one of the
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  Speaker 3: ways we were proud of them the most is like,
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  Speaker 3: Every play they kind of reset and just went again
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  Speaker 3: and went again and let the game present itself. Instead
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  Speaker 3: of trying to chase players, instead of trying to go
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  Speaker 3: after to make a play to change the game and
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  Speaker 3: put it on one person, they just put it on
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  Speaker 3: the defense and said, okay, let's attack this game play
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  Speaker 3: after play.
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  Speaker 1: And you felt on the sideline, they were talking about that.
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  Speaker 1: A lot.
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  Speaker 3: No, I think when you get players that are versatile
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  Speaker 3: like Leo, It's the ability to move them around.
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  Speaker 1: You can create matchups with them.
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  Speaker 3: You can create problems because they have the ability to
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  Speaker 3: erase certain situations that schematically affect maybe fronts or maybe coverages.
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  Speaker 3: And putting him in different positions allows us to really
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  Speaker 3: kind of really say at certain times, okay, do something
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  Speaker 3: over there and we can own that matchup. And just
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  Speaker 3: allowing us to put him in those different places allows
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  Speaker 3: us to kind of at times, control the situation. But
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  Speaker 3: a lot of that comes down to Leo's work and
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  Speaker 3: his dedication to understand the game and his ability to
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  Speaker 3: process information in short amounts of time because he can
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  Speaker 3: be put in one spot, another spot. He's rushing from
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  Speaker 3: multiple different spots, so you have to really study different players.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of that is credit to him. In
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  Speaker 1: that sense, you're dictating to the offense.
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  Speaker 3: At times, you try and end the snap just before
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  Speaker 3: the ball snap. You want to end that situation with
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  Speaker 3: the chalk in your hand and and the situation in
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  Speaker 3: your favor. It doesn't always work like that, but that's
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  Speaker 3: the battle and the beauty of the game.
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  Speaker 2: Is it like the NBA where it's matchup driven and
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  Speaker 2: you say, if I put him out here, he's better off?
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  Speaker 3: I think at times, the closer you get to the football,
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  Speaker 3: it can be matchup driven. It's almost like the concept
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  Speaker 3: of defense and your defending, the closer you get to
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  Speaker 3: the ball, it becomes more attacking in pass situations and
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  Speaker 3: in run situations because it is truly matchup, one-on-one situations.
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  Speaker 3: How do they get two people on one person and
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  Speaker 3: And that, I think, at times is more matchup-based.
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  Speaker 1: What, if anything, is unique.
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  Speaker 3: About the way he and Darren rush together?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's their connection.
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  Speaker 3: As you go through it, I think they both have
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  Speaker 3: certain technical things.
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  Speaker 1: They both have great get-off.
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  Speaker 3: Leo has the ability to penetrate as he's moving forwards
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  Speaker 3: when he's rushing, and DeHall has a good feel of that.
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  Speaker 3: But really, guys that can work together, they have to
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  Speaker 3: work at it. because they have to understand, like, if
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  Speaker 3: I do this, you got to do this. If I
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  Speaker 3: get this set, I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Going to do this.
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  Speaker 3: And then a lot of it is, and this doesn't
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  Speaker 3: just go for those two, it goes for the front.
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  Speaker 3: And I think a lot of players on the defense
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  Speaker 3: is that it's unselfish too. It's the ability that I'll
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  Speaker 3: feed you, you feed me, we celebrate. You saw it on,
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  Speaker 3: I thought Byron Sack really told that story. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Leo Sack really told that story. Byron has a great rush,
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  Speaker 3: counters on the guard. He just misses the sack, and
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  Speaker 3: Leo gets it, and the first person to celebrate with
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  Speaker 3: him was Byron, like pure joy.
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  Speaker 1: Those things are really cool to see.
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  Speaker 2: Who's the first person most likely to come to you
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  Speaker 2: guys and the coaching staff from the players and have
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  Speaker 2: an idea of what to do in a given week?
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  Speaker 1: Which player?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, which player is most likely to give a suggestion?
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a lot. I think like Spoon does it,
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  Speaker 1: Julian does it.
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  Speaker 3: EJ and Drake do it all the time they have
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  Speaker 3: different conversations either to their position coach or to the
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  Speaker 3: coordinator or myself.
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  Speaker 1: Or to Mike it's.
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  Speaker 3: The beauty of what Mike's created here is that it's
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  Speaker 3: everything's a two-way conversation this isn't like oh this is
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  Speaker 3: what we're doing this is how we have to operate
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  Speaker 3: you're doing it our way it's not like that it's
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  Speaker 3: it's that we set an operating scheme and we set
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  Speaker 3: a way of doing something. And then it's that two-way
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  Speaker 3: conversation of like, how, how do we make it work together?
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  Speaker 3: How do we all understand it? What, what suits a
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  Speaker 3: person best? Where can we fit that person into like,
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  Speaker 3: it feature their superpower. So there's a lot of conversation
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  Speaker 3: both ways.
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  Speaker 1: What stood out about how right he talks?
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  Speaker 3: I love though, like when you see Rodney, when you
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  Speaker 3: see Nehemiah, I love those situations where you have these
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  Speaker 3: guys that step up and we've talked about it for
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  Speaker 3: the last couple of years when we've been here is
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  Speaker 3: that I just thought what stood out, that he took
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  Speaker 3: the opportunity. You see his ability to play in the post,
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  Speaker 3: his ability to play really from red.
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  Speaker 1: Line to red line, his speed.
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  Speaker 3: But I thought his tackling really stood out, and he
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  Speaker 3: done a really good job.
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  Speaker 2: The violence that you guys play with, Chena, D-Hall, how
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  Speaker 2: critical is that to your guys' run defense?
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  Speaker 1: It's really critical.
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  Speaker 3: I'd say I think violence is, in this game, done
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  Speaker 3: the right way is the way the game's meant to
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  Speaker 3: be played. And I think it should happen on the
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  Speaker 3: edge of the defense. It should happen on the interior
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  Speaker 3: of the defense. It should happen on the second level
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  Speaker 3: of the defense. And it should happen on the third
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  Speaker 3: level of defense. That's a standard that the guys have set.
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  Speaker 3: And I think if you're not doing it that way,
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  Speaker 3: you can see it more than if you are doing
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  Speaker 3: it that way.
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  Speaker 1: How important is the awareness? You talked about the rush.
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  Speaker 1: But let's talk about the coverage.
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  Speaker 3: How important is the awareness of the coverage to know
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  Speaker 3: about the rush, so your rushing coverage working together?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's what you're looking for.
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  Speaker 3: That's the kind of, that's that North Star and that's
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  Speaker 3: that place you're pushing for all the time is that
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  Speaker 3: rushing cover, that ability to, there's going to be times
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  Speaker 3: where someone gets a quick win and they affect the
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  Speaker 3: QB on the spot and that disrupts the play. And
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  Speaker 3: then there's other times And most of the time it
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  Speaker 3: really works like this. The coverage needs to take him
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  Speaker 3: off his first look and get him to hitch once
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  Speaker 3: or twice.
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  Speaker 1: And then the rush has to be there.
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  Speaker 3: And that's like the trust that's built between the back
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  Speaker 3: end and the front end is like when those things happen,
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  Speaker 3: the other guy is backing them up. So if I
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  Speaker 3: get a quick win, I might not be as tight
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  Speaker 3: to coverage. But if I don't get a quick win, oh,
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  Speaker 3: the back end is backing me up and I work
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  Speaker 3: him through my rush and I can finish because he's
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  Speaker 3: put him onto his second or third progression.
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  Speaker 1: Mike was open.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to just follow up. Talk with Drake
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  Speaker 1: Thomas about the importance of tackling.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Just how you are, how important is it, just the basics,
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  Speaker 2: but how does it show up in the game?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, I know it's like, it's a cliche
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  Speaker 3: thing to say, but talk about it all the time.
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  Speaker 3: CP talks about it and does a great job with
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  Speaker 3: our fundamental plan is that every yard matters. And if you,
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  Speaker 3: if the guys say it all the time, if you
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  Speaker 3: give us a blade of grass, we're going to fight
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  Speaker 3: for it. And I think That comes down to the
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  Speaker 3: way you tackle, that you're trying to limit yards all
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  Speaker 3: the time. So if you're not a great tackling team,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to have yards after contact. You're going to
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  Speaker 3: have broken tackles. And if you really look at the data,
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  Speaker 3: most of explosive plays come off broken tackles. So the
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  Speaker 3: more you can get the guy on the ground, get
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  Speaker 3: waves of guys to the football, it's the foundation of
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  Speaker 3: how Mike and all of us guys are trying to
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  Speaker 3: build the defense.
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  Speaker 2: Mike was open in a recent interview about how hard
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  Speaker 2: the first year was for him here. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if you heard any of that. He talked about how
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't until late in the season that he really
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  Speaker 2: kind of started feeling like himself. As you were someone
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  Speaker 2: that was here and close with him, did you see
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  Speaker 2: that and what was it like to see him kind
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  Speaker 2: of go through that first year and how he's changed since?
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  Speaker 3: Someone asked me a question like this about the middle
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  Speaker 3: of last year. Not really about the part of him struggling,
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  Speaker 3: but my relationship with Mike is that I've always known, like,
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  Speaker 3: I know we haven't known each other before, but he's
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  Speaker 3: kind of always been the same with me.
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  Speaker 1: And, um, I, I love my relationship.
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  Speaker 3: I think when we, we both go through tough things
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  Speaker 3: and we'll talk about it to each other and be
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  Speaker 3: there for each other. I think that's, that's what a
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  Speaker 3: great working relationship is. And as you go through this,
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  Speaker 3: I think there, there's always ups and downs.
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  Speaker 1: This is a, this is a pressure business.
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  Speaker 3: And, and the more, that's the beauty of, for myself,
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  Speaker 3: working here is that, is that you enjoy the pressure
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  Speaker 3: because you're doing it with a group of people that
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  Speaker 3: you love working with and have a blast.
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  Speaker 1: Back to Ari's question about the physicality on the edge
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  Speaker 1: against the run, how much does Arizona scheme and the
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  Speaker 1: floor and the outside zone going to test that?
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  Speaker 3: I think we get tested every week, like, the more
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  Speaker 3: they condense the formations and they're moving people left and
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  Speaker 3: right before the snap, it's, it's a real challenge on
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  Speaker 3: their eyes and, And when they're trying to focus on
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  Speaker 3: certain keys and understand there's someone here and this ball
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  Speaker 3: can go out here and I can get a down
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  Speaker 3: block whilst I also can get a run at me,
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  Speaker 3: I think games like this are a key game base
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  Speaker 3: where you have to see your key, you have to
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  Speaker 3: play your key, and your key will tell you the truth.
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  Speaker 1: And they make it hard. They do a great job
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  Speaker 1: of that. Do they look like they're doing anything different
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  Speaker 1: to get the ball to McBride? I know they've always
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  Speaker 1: got the ball to McBride. Yeah, they have multiple different
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  Speaker 1: ways to get it. He's an excellent player.
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  Speaker 3: With a ball in his hands and an excellent route runner.
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  Speaker 1: He's a problem that we have to deal with and
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  Speaker 1: we're working towards that. Pritchett, what did you think of
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  Speaker 1: the way he played? I really thought Nehemiah played confident.
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  Speaker 1: He challenged. He was against some really good players and
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  Speaker 1: he didn't just stand up. He went for it.
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  Speaker 3: He had a great third down stop and an interception.
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  Speaker 3: For the whole defense, it was a proud moment to
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  Speaker 3: see Nehemiah graduate from being the young player he was,
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  Speaker 3: go to be a gunner, and then He's excelling when
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  Speaker 3: he comes on the field.
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  Speaker 1: He's done a great job.