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Speaker 1: So when we your guys out there, I mean, what
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Speaker 1: did you like, what did you need to work on
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Speaker 1: it clean up going into this league?
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Speaker 2: Uh, you know, I liked, Uh, I like the effort
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Speaker 2: we play with.
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Speaker 1: I thought the guys played really really hard, you know,
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Speaker 1: and I thought we were attacking the ball, which is
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Speaker 1: something uh we've you know, made a big major point
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Speaker 1: of emphasis.
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Speaker 2: I thought they did a good job with that. I
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Speaker 2: think from a you know, cleaning up.
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Speaker 1: Perspective, there's always there's always numerous things, but I keep
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Speaker 1: going back to, you know, communication, I thought, overall, pretty
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Speaker 1: good job, but definitely some things that clean up there too,
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Speaker 1: uh as well. So you know, like any week there
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Speaker 1: there's there's stuff left a little meat on the bone
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Speaker 1: and stuff to clean up.
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Speaker 3: Defensive Player of the Week for the AFC. Yeah, just
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Speaker 3: what does he mean to the defense?
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Speaker 1: He's a great leader, He's he's a great communicator, you know,
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Speaker 1: total pro Very happy for him because he's a guy
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Speaker 1: that does the right thing every day. Uh just works
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Speaker 1: really really hard and uh it's great to see him
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Speaker 1: uh get honored that way.
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Speaker 2: Really is he's he's a huge part of everything we
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Speaker 2: do challenge.
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Speaker 3: For in terms of balance, pressure, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean he's just pretty good against everything, so he's uh,
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Speaker 1: he's definitely a challenge.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: He hangs in there, Uh, incredibly accurate thrower and just
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Speaker 1: a tough guy.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: I see that in the way he's he's played over
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Speaker 1: the years and just watching him over the years. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he's a very very accurate thrower, hangs in the pocket,
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Speaker 1: and a really bright guy. You know, knows what to
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Speaker 1: get into from protection perspective and where the ball should go.
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Speaker 2: So it'll definitely be a challenge.
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Speaker 3: You guys get up for every game.
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Speaker 1: They get up more for games like this, top quarterback
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Speaker 1: to top receivers. I just think it's it's uh, it's
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Speaker 1: a great challenge for our guys. And you know, obviously, uh,
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Speaker 1: they got a bunch of great players, and I think
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Speaker 1: the guys are doing a great job working hard, uh,
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Speaker 1: trying to get the game plan right, you know, to
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Speaker 1: get out there and play well on Sunday. So I'm
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Speaker 1: just so focused on that right now, and I think
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Speaker 1: they are too, just getting the game plan right and
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Speaker 1: the communication there so, but they have been doing things
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Speaker 1: in the right way to this point.
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Speaker 2: This week.
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Speaker 3: If it pass rushing, people mostly look at sacks. How
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Speaker 3: important are pressures and just getting that consistent pressure, like
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Speaker 3: you guys did something.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, sacks are great, and that's that's a very
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Speaker 1: important part, right obviously because those are negative plays. But
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Speaker 1: you want to be able to affect the quarterback and
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Speaker 1: we talk about hands, hits, hurries every day and that's
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Speaker 1: super important to us. You know, even battered ball, you know,
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Speaker 1: creating middle push in the pocket, getting the quarterback off
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Speaker 1: the spot, all that stuff can play a factor in
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Speaker 1: incomplete passes right and a successful down for the defense.
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Speaker 2: So for us, it's a huge point of emphasis.
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Speaker 1: It's a really really important Like if you get ten
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Speaker 1: sacks in the season, you had a really good year
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Speaker 1: in this league. You know, you may have rushed the
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Speaker 1: passer six hundred and fifty times, so what did you
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Speaker 1: do with the other six hundred and forty snaps and
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Speaker 1: you might have affected the quarterback a whole lot, And that.
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Speaker 2: To me is how we evaluate who's really really productive
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Speaker 2: in the rush.
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Speaker 1: To consideration, I think Mason just getting healthy and getting
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Speaker 1: him the opportunity to you know, play a little bit
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Speaker 1: more obviously came in so late the tail end of camp,
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Speaker 1: but he's done a really good job, and you know,
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Speaker 1: every week is different, so he's been working really really hard.
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Speaker 1: You know, I love coaching the guy, and I think
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Speaker 1: he's getting better every day.
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Speaker 3: With one game now down, is it fair to say
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Speaker 3: that the rookies you see a being improven from week
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Speaker 3: one week here in specifically Travis Center.
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Speaker 2: It could finish the end of that, I'm sorry, repeat
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Speaker 2: the end of that week.
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Speaker 3: One to week two? Do you see a big jump
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Speaker 3: or progress for the rookis and specifically Travis? Do you
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Speaker 3: expect that?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think for everybody, just as a team, your
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Speaker 1: biggest jump in the season is from week one to
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Speaker 1: week two. I totally agree with that overall, and obviously
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Speaker 1: you're always hopeful that's the case for the rookies too.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I think he's incrementally gotten better each
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Speaker 1: day he has and the more and more he gets
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Speaker 1: the opportun to go out there and do that, you know,
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Speaker 1: I think he will progress and I think, uh, there
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Speaker 1: will be a jump for him.
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Speaker 3: But he was talking about Travis getting more snaps defense
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Speaker 3: just you know, what does he bring to the table
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Speaker 3: in terms of se put him in there and switch
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Speaker 3: on the rap.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just think you know, Travis is a great athlete,
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Speaker 1: you know, and he's aggressive player on defense, so uh,
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Speaker 1: that's what we love about him. And like I said,
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Speaker 1: he's been doing everything he can on both ends of it,
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Speaker 1: uh to be the best he can be as a
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Speaker 1: defensive player and an offensive player. But he definitely puts
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Speaker 1: another guy out there with ball skills, you know, attention
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Speaker 1: to detail and uh, a physical style of play. So
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Speaker 1: we're excited with his progress at this point on defense.
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Speaker 3: He slow down the guy like Jamar Chase.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he's uh, he's an incredible football player.
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Speaker 1: You know, you really have to. Everybody's got to do
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Speaker 1: their one eleventh every every game against this guy. And
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Speaker 1: you know, obviously he's had so many successful outings against
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Speaker 1: a lot of different teams. So definitely a hard game
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Speaker 1: to stop, you know, because he really has a great
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Speaker 1: catch radius. Uh, he's really good at the top of
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Speaker 1: the route. He's good on the line of scrimmage. So
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Speaker 1: you know, I think he has a lot of qualities
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Speaker 1: that make him an elite receiver. So you really got
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Speaker 1: to do a great job within the game plan obviously,
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Speaker 1: you know, knowing where he is and and uh, like
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Speaker 1: I said, doing your job on the back end every play.
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Speaker 2: It's you know, because one play can get you Just
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Speaker 2: how valuable.
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Speaker 3: Was Jordan Lewis and the vetter of leadership make a
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Speaker 3: place in the week one him?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's extremely valuable, not even just as a player.
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Speaker 1: I mean you watch him go out there and play.
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Speaker 1: He's got great ball skills. He attacks the ball and
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Speaker 1: he's a physical guy. You know, he's he's really a
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Speaker 1: unique person because he's got unbelievable leadership qualities, just very
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Speaker 1: honest with his teammates, you know, honest with with me
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Speaker 1: all the time. He's a guy that I rely on
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Speaker 1: uh and trust uh out there because he's a great
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Speaker 1: communicator as well, like I said about Foyer, and he's
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Speaker 1: a guy that does things right every day. So uh
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Speaker 1: it shows up on Sunday, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: And you you can't have enough of those guys. And
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Speaker 1: we value we value him a whole lot. That's for
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Speaker 1: sure played as much dive.
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Speaker 3: As you did last week. What kind of flexibilities does
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Speaker 3: that get do us with the color?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: I think every game is different, but it definitely gives
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Speaker 1: you a little bit of flexibility against one of those
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Speaker 1: you know, when they play smaller groupings more receivers on
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Speaker 1: the field, you know, and it kind of gives you,
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Speaker 1: uh an opportunity to play different guys. And like I said,
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Speaker 1: every game is different. You know, we may not do
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Speaker 1: that in every game, but it does give you some
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Speaker 1: certain flexibilities. And are the guys who were in there
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Speaker 1: at those positions have done a good job of being
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Speaker 1: involved in the pressures, you know, being able to play
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Speaker 1: the run game, and then obviously some of the stuff
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Speaker 1: we're giving them the opportunity to do in the past
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Speaker 1: game in the past coverage.
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Speaker 3: Your first regular season game was a defensive quarter of
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Speaker 3: your bill. Did you learn anything different?
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Speaker 1: No, I just think you guys asked last week, you're
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Speaker 1: always I think you're always learning your players, you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean, and uh, learning what we can get
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Speaker 1: better at, who does what well? And you know, when
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Speaker 1: the lights go on, who shows up and who performs.
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Speaker 1: And I thought, like I said, how I opened this was,
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Speaker 1: I thought, the guys played really, really physical, which we
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Speaker 1: have to keep doing that, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: I can't go away. If we're gonna be a good defense,
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Speaker 1: we have to be a physical defense. We got to
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Speaker 1: run to the ball, we got to attack the ball.
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Speaker 1: And you got to show up with the right culture
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Speaker 1: every day. That starts with how you walk in the
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Speaker 1: building every day. So I was I learned that, you know,
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Speaker 1: our guys will go out there and play as hard
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Speaker 1: as they can every snap of the game, which is
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Speaker 1: what I thought they did just help word.
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Speaker 3: Was it for for your route to see that early,
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Speaker 3: to get all those drivers early on?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's always a great thing, you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean. They've been working hard on it. It's
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Speaker 1: good to see them get rewarded on that end of it.
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Speaker 1: But again, like anything else, we got to keep doing that.
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Speaker 1: You know, we have to keep attacking the ball. We
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Speaker 1: have to continue to play with vision and if we're
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Speaker 1: in the right position, you know, and our eyes are right,
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Speaker 1: we're going to have opportunities hopefully to make plays on
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Speaker 1: the football and we have to keep doing that if
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Speaker 1: we're going to be a successful defense. But I think
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Speaker 1: that is it is a good thing for the guys
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Speaker 1: to get rewarded on that.
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Speaker 4: Says the run defense on Sunday And where do you
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Speaker 4: want to kind of see you go from here?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's there's some real good snaps in there.
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Speaker 1: But I think there's some plays where you know, I
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Speaker 1: wasn't pleased with it, to be honest with you, and
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Speaker 1: we got to be a little bit more disciplined on
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Speaker 1: a couple snaps there, and that'll be the case all
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Speaker 1: the way up through the end of the season, you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean, constantly evaluating that, getting on them
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Speaker 1: about the fundamentals of playing great run defense. But there
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Speaker 1: are some things there that the principles we talk about
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Speaker 1: in defending the run that show up, and we made
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Speaker 1: some good stops in the game because of those, but
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Speaker 1: we just have to be really, really consistent, be vigilant
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Speaker 1: on that the rest of our way.
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Speaker 3: I think, how would you says? How to offer last week? Think?
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Speaker 5: I think the offense made progress on where we've been
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Speaker 5: with certain things. But certainly the good news is there's
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Speaker 5: a lot of room for improvement the operation and some
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Speaker 5: of the penalties. Those are clear things that we need
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Speaker 5: to improve and will work on improving every day in practice, meetings,
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Speaker 5: walk through, et cetera.
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Speaker 2: But I was pleased with the effort.
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Speaker 5: From the guys, the way they attack the game and
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Speaker 5: approach the game plan their preparation.
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Speaker 3: Typically Trevor, just what did you see from him?
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Speaker 5: I know, maybe his third quarter wasn't as h was
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Speaker 5: it as good, but just overall, just what did you
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Speaker 5: see from Trevor Very similar to the other guys in
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Speaker 5: the offense as a whole, the preparation was greatly appreciated.
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Speaker 5: I think he felt that, I think we felt that
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Speaker 5: with his mastery of the game plan what we were
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Speaker 5: trying to do with each play and each concept. Now,
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Speaker 5: the final product wasn't always perfect or exactly what we
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Speaker 5: were going for, but he managed a lot of those
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Speaker 5: situations at a high level.
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Speaker 3: Going back to last year, Tampa Leave had a lot
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Speaker 3: of opening drive success and appuelabal this week during the week,
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Speaker 3: what do you like about.
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Speaker 5: His process for that opening fifteen to twenty plus. One
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Speaker 5: of the great things about the process is that the
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Speaker 5: preparation evolves throughout the week. It's not a game plan
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Speaker 5: that's put in on Monday evening, Monday morning, Tuesday morning
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Speaker 5: and that's set in stone, and that's what we're going with.
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Speaker 5: Adaptive flexible, So we are constantly trying to iterate and
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Speaker 5: find the best path to success, whether it's the first
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Speaker 5: drive of the last drive, all the way through up
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Speaker 5: the kickoff. Essentially, when you're trying to create that preparation.
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Speaker 5: So it's great to see that process and see the
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Speaker 5: fruits of it pan out.
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Speaker 3: What makes easy end so valuable to this offense.
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Speaker 5: I think one of the things that you've probably saw
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Speaker 5: this past weekend was his ability pass game, run, game,
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Speaker 5: screen game. That flexibility and versatility excuse me, shows up,
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Speaker 5: and that's like the other guy's attestament to his preparation.
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Speaker 5: Some of the situations that he might not have been
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Speaker 5: on or might not have excelled at at previous times
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Speaker 5: or earlier in training camp or in the spring, he's
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Speaker 5: worked at, improved and been able to do that at
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Speaker 5: a high level.
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Speaker 3: Specific moment other end trying to camp. We're in the
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Speaker 3: spring where he kind of flipped the switch and you
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Speaker 3: could see he was kind of picking it up a
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Speaker 3: little bit more.
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Speaker 5: I wouldn't necessarily say flip the switch. It's a process
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Speaker 5: that builds over time. So you see him stack days
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Speaker 5: on top of each other. It's never a straight line
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Speaker 5: that progress, but over time you see bits and pieces
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Speaker 5: here and there, and ultimately you get to the spot
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Speaker 5: you're at. Now.
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Speaker 3: What about Tutman now and what are the best parts
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Speaker 3: of your game?
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Speaker 5: I think for tut you see the athleticism, the explosiveness,
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Speaker 5: the ball carrier ability, vision, all of those things that
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Speaker 5: will only continue to get better as he becomes more
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Speaker 5: comfortable with our run scheme. He's also another guy that's
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Speaker 5: improved in the past game, whether it's routes or protection,
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Speaker 5: doing things that he hasn't been asked to do before.
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Speaker 5: So his progression and that mentally and physically has been
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Speaker 5: awesome to see, Laquin. You love the physicality, the protection,
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Speaker 5: the route ability out of the backfield, and then same
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Speaker 5: thing for him in the run game, getting some opportunities
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Speaker 5: to run different run concepts and schemes where maybe he
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Speaker 5: didn't get a bunch of reps that the other guy's
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Speaker 5: got during training camp, but as he's gotten those reps,
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Speaker 5: he's gotten better and better.
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Speaker 4: Loo Quick most of the conversation around that, Like you mentioned,
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Speaker 4: it's kind of as a cross protector that he can
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Speaker 4: offer some stuff in the running game, like he just said.
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Speaker 5: Right, absolutely, and I think you saw that, whether it's
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Speaker 5: run after the catcher, when he does get an opportunity
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Speaker 5: to run the ball, he's been able to make plays.
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Speaker 5: Now the opportunity is on Sunday, we're a little limited,
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Speaker 5: but in preseason and in training camp. You guys see
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Speaker 5: it out there at the practices. He's made plays when
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Speaker 5: he has the opportunity, well.
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Speaker 3: You know, seven targets saying we'll get one catch.
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Speaker 5: Is that something you guys just have to go back
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Speaker 5: to the drawing board on or is it something maybe
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Speaker 5: in one off. I don't know that it would be
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Speaker 5: necessarily go back to the drawing board or one off.
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Speaker 5: I think you always evaluate the game plan and see
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Speaker 5: did we utilize his skill sett and his talents the
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Speaker 5: best of our ability, and then how does that fit
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Speaker 5: with the offense in total or the team's approach to
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Speaker 5: winning the game. That's the way it panned out with that,
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Speaker 5: and of course a touchdown form as well, you know,
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Speaker 5: running the ball. But we're always going to try to
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Speaker 5: find the best ways to get guys the ball and
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Speaker 5: use their talents, whether it is past game, run game,
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Speaker 5: and when we don't achieve that, it might not be
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Speaker 5: because of the numbers, it might be because of just
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Speaker 5: the way the game played out. But we're always going
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Speaker 5: to evaluate and look and see what's the best way
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Speaker 5: to use those guys.
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Speaker 3: Just one, you've got one game with gris Belt. I
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Speaker 3: don't think he did.
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Speaker 5: His first Actually, it was exciting to see him out there.
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Speaker 5: Exciting to see him out there, crazy to see the
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Speaker 5: offense and then go back out there and play defense.
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Speaker 5: But I was fired up for him. He's a guy
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Speaker 5: that plays with a lot of passion, so it's cool
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Speaker 5: to see him get that opportunity to go out there
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Speaker 5: and do it for real on Sunday. I think he
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Speaker 5: attacked the game plan, the preparation, all of that with
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Speaker 5: great tenacity. It's a lot to manage, not just as
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Speaker 5: a rookie. You could be a ten year vet and
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Speaker 5: that's a lot to manage going into a season opener,
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Speaker 5: trying to learn a new system on offense, a new
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Speaker 5: system on defense, totally new operation from the way the
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Speaker 5: game goes, different TV timeouts from college compared to NFL,
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Speaker 5: different rules, all that stuff. So it was a lot
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Speaker 5: of fun to see him attack it. I think he's
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Speaker 5: another guy that did well but has room to improve.
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Speaker 2: Like the rest of us.
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Speaker 5: Do coach his players included, and he'll continue to get
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Speaker 5: better and better because of the way he works.
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Speaker 4: On fourth and one on the opening drive is attacking.
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Speaker 3: It's aggressive. It's what Liam said he was going to be.
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Speaker 4: Do you share that did you bring that same mentality
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Speaker 4: to the offensive staff that he assembled to come with
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Speaker 4: that previous position to being aggressive or are you guys
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Speaker 4: having to learn how Liam wants to attack?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a great question.
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Speaker 3: I think we're all learning.
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Speaker 5: A little bit from each other. So how much of
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Speaker 5: it is predisposition or how much of it is something
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Speaker 5: that's just innate to all of us. I don't know
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Speaker 5: exactly where we lie, but it's probably somewhere in the
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Speaker 5: middle of that. But we're certainly influenced by Liam, and
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Speaker 5: I'm sure we have our influences on him or the
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Speaker 5: unit as a whole. But it's great to see his
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Speaker 5: approach and the benefits of that payoff for sure.
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Speaker 4: That first drive wouldn't have say about the offense getting
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Speaker 4: points is fight you know that only he's getting in
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Speaker 4: some of the second and third off situations.
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Speaker 5: It kind of goes back to what I said earlier
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Speaker 5: about we have a lot of things to improve, but
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Speaker 5: the good news is we have a lot of room
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Speaker 5: for improvement. The ability for guys to handle that adversity,
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Speaker 5: even though it was self inflicted and overcome it is
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Speaker 5: encouraging because we can be in second along situations and
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Speaker 5: overcome that and still get first downs, move the chains
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Speaker 5: and get points. Of course, we would like to stay
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Speaker 5: out of those situations if possible, so it's great to
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Speaker 5: see those guys attack it move on that one play
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Speaker 5: at a time mindset, but we're going to do everything
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Speaker 5: we can to stay out of those situations moving forward.
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Speaker 3: Like the Vegals that you have to play up the slow,
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Speaker 3: we're putting extra pressure on in your offense to make
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Speaker 3: sure that you use for touchdowns.
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Speaker 5: The beautiful thing is we can only control we can control.
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Speaker 5: So we're preaching to our guys, whether it's this week,
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Speaker 5: last week, every week, to go out there and control
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Speaker 5: those things. Stick to our process. We're out there focused
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Speaker 5: on us we have trusting our defense, trusting the special teams,
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Speaker 5: trusting those guys out there on all the units, and
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Speaker 5: when we're out there on offense, we're taking it one
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Speaker 5: play at a time and just controlling what we can do.
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Speaker 3: What's the challenge with the Begals defense.
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Speaker 5: There's a lot of challenges. I think you look at
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Speaker 5: the personnel and the players, whether it's really all three
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Speaker 5: levels have guys that can challenge in different ways with matchups, rush,
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Speaker 5: run game, different pressure packages, different fronts that they can bring,
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Speaker 5: and some of the coverage scheme that they're playing presents
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Speaker 5: things that are unique and different than what we played
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Speaker 5: against last week. So we'll try to have adjustments or
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Speaker 5: change the game plans, but ultimately we'll see the best
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Speaker 5: way to attack that for each individual player and then
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Speaker 5: as an offensive unit as a whole bigger challenge just
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Speaker 5: straight Andrews certainly a big challenge, and those numbers speak
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Speaker 5: for himself. He's a phenomenal player who's that production isn't
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Speaker 5: by accident, by any stretch of the imagination. I think
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Speaker 5: it's going to take a team effort for those guys
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Speaker 5: and the offensive line to buy into the protection plan,
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Speaker 5: the run game plan to try to handle him, and
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Speaker 5: really all the guys up front, and the myriad of
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Speaker 5: issues that they kind of pose.
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Speaker 3: How goodness that first week for the offensive line.
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Speaker 5: It was great to see those guys playing together. That's
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Speaker 5: another group I talked about last week, the cohesiveness of
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Speaker 5: that unit as they start to come together. So it
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Speaker 5: was really cool to see them come together, play together
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Speaker 5: for an entire game, little different than preseason, with a
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Speaker 5: week of preparation, and then to have that result running
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Speaker 5: the ball. Now, the numbers tell a great story, but
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Speaker 5: they don't tell the whole story. So, just like everybody else,
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Speaker 5: we all have room for improvement. I hope that we'll
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Speaker 5: continue working and we'll keep getting better. But it was
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Speaker 5: great to see us be able to run the ball,
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Speaker 5: and those guys you know, come up big in protection
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Speaker 5: and the run game at certain spots of that game,