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Speaker 1: What do you got, coach?
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Speaker 2: What's up?
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Speaker 3: Uh?
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Speaker 4: Very simply, why do you think that Sam has been
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Speaker 4: so effective limiting interceptions since Week eleven?
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Speaker 5: I think I think what you're looking at is, I
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Speaker 5: don't know if it was just like, hey, week eleven happened,
0:17
Speaker 5: you know, let's draw a line in the sand. All
0:19
Speaker 5: of a sudden, we're changing a bunch of stuff. I
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Speaker 5: think you're looking at the product of, you know, evolution
0:24
Speaker 5: over the course of this season of just kind of
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Speaker 5: sticking to our process and not panicking when things didn't
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Speaker 5: necessarily go our way, and doubling down on how we
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Speaker 5: want to play football. But Sam's been decisive the whole way,
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Speaker 5: and he's done a great job really in the last
0:37
Speaker 5: whole season, you know, but definitely this last month or so,
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Speaker 5: during this final stretch.
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Speaker 2: Drake May has been a leader in the playoffs for
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Speaker 2: both passing and rushing.
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Speaker 6: Statistically, what's the biggest element as far as making him uncomfortable.
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Speaker 1: We have to play you have to play great football.
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Speaker 5: They're a really good offense. They're really complimentary. You know,
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Speaker 5: if if you don't if you if you don't force
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Speaker 5: him too, they'll run it every snap, you know, So
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Speaker 5: you got to you gotta be able to control the
1:08
Speaker 5: game and put it on our terms.
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Speaker 1: And then.
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Speaker 5: The thing that makes Drake, you know, so dangerous in
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Speaker 5: addition to a lot of other quarterbacks in our league
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Speaker 5: is in addition to the arm talent, the processing and
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Speaker 5: the movement, you know, he's got a playmaking ability late
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Speaker 5: and light and uh Layton plays.
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Speaker 1: So we got to be relentless in how we play.
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Speaker 5: And we talk about twelve is one with our rush
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Speaker 5: but uh sorry but it threw me off. But he
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Speaker 5: likes to escape up the middle. So we've got to
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Speaker 5: build the wall. Everybody work together and play play relentlessly.
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Speaker 7: Hey, coach, in Week sixteen and that Thursday night Gigman's
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Speaker 7: the Rams one overtime, you elected to play defense first
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Speaker 7: and that worked out. In this postseason, we've seen two
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Speaker 7: ball first teams. When has that changed you and your
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Speaker 7: stats thinking at all? In the least bit.
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Speaker 5: You know, we have our philosophy on how we want
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Speaker 5: to handle over time. There's some variables that change from
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Speaker 5: game to game, and so we kind of leave that
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Speaker 5: breathing room for us on how we want to go
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Speaker 5: into game and what we're gonna like to do. And
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Speaker 5: it could could change in game on what we want
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Speaker 5: to do for overtime.
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Speaker 2: Mike, what is it about Sam's mental makeup that he's able,
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Speaker 2: whether early in his career or even in games when
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Speaker 2: he might be struggling, that he's able to withstand that
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Speaker 2: adversity and bounce back and finish strong and keep fighting.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Sam's just been so resilient.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I feel like I'm giving you guys terrible
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Speaker 5: answers because I'm giving you the same answer every time.
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Speaker 5: But that's really what it is. It's just he's so
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Speaker 5: steadfast as his approach. I think he's confident in who
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Speaker 5: he is. I think he understands that how much his
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Speaker 5: team believes in him and has his back. So just
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Speaker 5: keep keep firing away, man, you know, keep being you
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Speaker 5: or the next play. He's the same guy after he
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Speaker 5: has a perfect passer rating and he's not strutting around
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Speaker 5: like he just you know, solved all the world's problems
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Speaker 5: compared to a game where maybe you know, we did
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Speaker 5: an execute as well as we did. So that's what
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Speaker 5: you appreciate.
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Speaker 8: About him, Mike, right here in front of you.
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Speaker 1: Thanks.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 8: People talk a lot about culture and NFL teams. What
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Speaker 8: is the tone that you try to set in your building,
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Speaker 8: and how do you see players latch onto that and
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Speaker 8: reflect that.
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Speaker 5: We we use the term like, hey, this is how
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Speaker 5: we roll, and we say we want to be loose
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Speaker 5: and focused. So everything kind of falls out, you know,
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Speaker 5: from from that kind of feeling that you want to
3:38
Speaker 5: that you want to have in our in our in
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Speaker 5: our building. And a lot of that is has come
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Speaker 5: from the spirit of our, our team and our organization
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Speaker 5: from UH throughout the whole history of the Seahawks, especially
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Speaker 5: from when Pete was there, and that's something that UH,
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Speaker 5: Jody and John felt strongly about. They wanted to carry
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Speaker 5: over into UH into you know, our team, and I
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Speaker 5: think that's really cool. You know, our spirit is kind
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Speaker 5: of unique to us, and you know it's evolved and
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Speaker 5: changed since since we took over, but it's still you know,
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Speaker 5: rooted in the foundation of the Seahawks that everybody is
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Speaker 5: a lot of people are familiar with.
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Speaker 1: So it's something we're really proud of.
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Speaker 3: Mike right here, when you were at Michigan, you referenced
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Speaker 3: the Teddy Roosevelt famous line speaks softly and carry a
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Speaker 3: big stick with your players. Did you use that at
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Speaker 3: all here? In Seattle, and whether you did or not,
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Speaker 3: do you feel like this team embodies the spirit of
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Speaker 3: that quote and why or why not?
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Speaker 1: Well, I haven't.
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Speaker 5: I haven't used that with our team here, but I
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Speaker 5: mean that's that's a quote obviously that resonates with with
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Speaker 5: me and obviously not the most outspoken guy of all time.
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Speaker 5: But you know, you want your team's tape to really
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Speaker 5: do the talking, and and I think our guys have
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Speaker 5: done a great job of that. We've been really poising
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Speaker 5: these games, and our guys, like you know, they talked
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Speaker 5: some smacker once in a while, as they should and
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Speaker 5: keeps it fun.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 5: Like I think the thing that I'm like proud of
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Speaker 5: is is if you just I mean we're just I
4:55
Speaker 5: just left our defensive team meeting or even even our
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Speaker 5: team meeting. You know, it's not like where I'm just
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Speaker 5: like lecturing on a thing and you guys are just listening.
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Speaker 5: I mean, it's interactive, there's music playing, it's a lot
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Speaker 5: of great energy, a lot of positivity.
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Speaker 1: You know, guys are talking.
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Speaker 5: Crap and we're making it's just but it's loose and
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Speaker 5: focus to the question earlier. But then when it's time
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Speaker 5: to work there's a standard that we want to uphold,
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Speaker 5: and there's different ways to kind of get that done
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Speaker 5: on a daily basis. Sometimes it manifests itself a little
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Speaker 5: bit differently, But I think we watch our tape, I
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Speaker 5: think that's pretty consistent with what President Roosevelt said.
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Speaker 9: Congrats coach last time out Seahawks Patriots in the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 9: It was a heartbreaking loss for the organization. Although there's
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Speaker 9: no currently active rostered players that played in that previous
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Speaker 9: Super Bowl matchup, do you think there's still kind of
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Speaker 9: a mentality around the team, around the training facility to
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Speaker 9: kind of avenge that game for the sake of the organization.
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Speaker 1: No, we haven't talked about it once, and it's not.
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Speaker 5: With It's not due to a lack of respect for
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Speaker 5: for our teams in our history and what we've done
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Speaker 5: in the past. But we're really focused on this game.
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Speaker 5: Like you know, it's funny, it's like a me him now,
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Speaker 5: But when we when we say it's about us, it
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Speaker 5: really is.
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Speaker 1: You know, you got to back that up with.
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Speaker 5: Your actions and then that's how we live it every
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Speaker 5: day and right now we're focused on how well we
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Speaker 5: can go get ready to go play this game.
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Speaker 10: Coaching fronty to hear on your left one. More on Sam.
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Speaker 10: We've heard you and a lot of the teammates say
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Speaker 10: this season he's got some stuff about him, stuff being
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Speaker 10: the word there. Yeah, you know, how much when you
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Speaker 10: got a guy like that, especially at that position, how
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Speaker 10: much can the rest of the team really rally behind that.
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Speaker 10: And we've certainly seen that kind of manifest itself. But
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Speaker 10: how much can that really help your team rally behind
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Speaker 10: this guy?
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Speaker 1: Well, I think that just means that he's he's a
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Speaker 1: real guy.
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Speaker 5: He has got real emotions, he's got real he's got
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Speaker 5: a real competitive spirit. There's things to piss him off,
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Speaker 5: you know, especially if things don't really go his way.
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Speaker 5: You know, we've had some great competitive battles in practice.
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Speaker 5: So we're training campus as I'm listening to your question,
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Speaker 5: those are the things I'm thinking about. And and frankly,
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Speaker 5: that's probably when he plays some of his best football.
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Speaker 5: So he's just you know, it's just.
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Speaker 1: That's who he is.
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Speaker 5: If he was allowed outspoken guy, that that's who he was,
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Speaker 5: and our guys would rally about him.
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Speaker 1: I think the most important thing is he's just who
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Speaker 1: he is every day.
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Speaker 11: Hi, Mike, when you were considering signing to Marcus Lawrence
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Speaker 11: last year. What do you remember about the context that
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Speaker 11: Adam was able to provide having worked with him, and
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Speaker 11: how have you seen that bear out, particularly with the
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Speaker 11: way he's able to defend against the run.
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Speaker 1: It's a no brainer.
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Speaker 5: I mean, just from ad being with us the whole season,
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Speaker 5: I understand how we operated, what type of people we
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Speaker 5: want in our building, and the really our play style.
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Speaker 5: We really felt like that could help take our defense
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Speaker 5: to the next level. And man, it's paid incredible dividends.
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Speaker 5: And I feel like de Marcus would tell you this,
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Speaker 5: but I feel like we're getting his best version himself
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Speaker 5: and the best version of his game as well.
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Speaker 1: So it's it's been a win win.
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Speaker 12: Hello in a.
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Speaker 13: Science from TVs dec and you make the best game
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Speaker 13: plan for the playoffs?
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Speaker 8: Now, what is the biggest challenge.
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Speaker 14: To make the game plan for the.
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Speaker 6: Against the Patriot?
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Speaker 1: I think the biggest challenge we have too much time.
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Speaker 5: You know, yesterday was dark day, just kind of going
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Speaker 5: in and out of rabbit holes. And but I think
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Speaker 5: I think I think the important part is like how
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Speaker 5: well we can streamline it, streamline it for our guys,
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Speaker 5: make sure we're always in our wheelhouse about what we execute,
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Speaker 5: what we do well, and when you have extra time,
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Speaker 5: that's hard because you know, we were trying to find
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Speaker 5: solutions and trying to find answers for our guys, But
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Speaker 5: sometimes you just gotta shut up and let the guys
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Speaker 5: go play coach.
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Speaker 13: Right here, the last five games you've played, You've had
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Speaker 13: four divisional matchups, and you've played two teams twice in
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Speaker 13: the last five games. Do you think that it's a
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Speaker 13: bigger challenge for you to get back to planning for
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Speaker 13: a team that you haven't played all season after weeks
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Speaker 13: where the game plan has been so focused on teams
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Speaker 13: you know so much.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's an interesting question. Uh, you're right.
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Speaker 5: I mean, when you're playing teams multiple times, you're going
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Speaker 5: off of a lot of your decision makings off how
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Speaker 5: the last game went, and I anticipate the team reacting
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Speaker 5: and kind of what you feel like your next move
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Speaker 5: should be. Also the teams that you're familiar with, personnel, wives,
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Speaker 5: things like that. So the way we treated this game
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Speaker 5: was just say, let's just go back to square one,
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Speaker 5: treat it like we would any other week, like we
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Speaker 5: would throughout the season, and go put our best foot forward.
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Speaker 5: Now having the extra week does help, you know, not
9:19
Speaker 5: being as familiar with the Patriots as some of the
9:21
Speaker 5: other teams.
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Speaker 15: We just played, Hey, coach over here on your left.
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Speaker 15: So you talked about process all year and this has
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Speaker 15: got to be a challenge to the typical process you have.
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Speaker 15: So now that you're in it, how have you been
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Speaker 15: able to you know, stick to that process and any
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Speaker 15: notes you've already started to have for yourself for maybe
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Speaker 15: the next time you get back.
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Speaker 5: Here what I told our team And look, it's funny,
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Speaker 5: you know, you're not looking at the guy that's been
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Speaker 5: to the Super Bowl like six times. You know, it's
9:48
Speaker 5: just this is our all of our kind of first
9:50
Speaker 5: time going through this experience. And I think that's been
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Speaker 5: an edge for us throughout the whole season is every
9:54
Speaker 5: time we've gone into a new experience together, we have
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Speaker 5: principles that we want to abide by, and those are
10:01
Speaker 5: kind of like our guiding lights in terms of how
10:03
Speaker 5: we want to operate and how we want to make
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Speaker 5: our decisions. But we also know that we're kind of
10:07
Speaker 5: going through it together and we're not afraid to pivot
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Speaker 5: and use different methods and things like that. So I
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Speaker 5: think this is an example of that where you know
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Speaker 5: we are the principle of the matter is you know
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Speaker 5: we we do want to be, you know, adhere to
10:18
Speaker 5: our process the best we can, like today is kind
10:21
Speaker 5: of as much of a normal Wednesday as we possibly
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Speaker 5: can make it.
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Speaker 1: But with also the understanding of.
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Speaker 5: There are some things that are going to be different
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Speaker 5: and you've got to be able to be flexible, impliable
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Speaker 5: and be able to work.
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Speaker 1: Through those things.
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Speaker 5: And at the point you're going to get distracted and
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Speaker 5: that's okay.
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Speaker 1: And look what it's about.
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Speaker 5: How how relentless can we be coming back to back
10:37
Speaker 5: to center back and you know, be in this moment
10:39
Speaker 5: and up to this point, I've really loved how our
10:41
Speaker 5: teams operated.
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Speaker 16: Coach what is coach? What has impressed you most about
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Speaker 16: what Mike Rabel has been able to do with the
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Speaker 16: Patriots here in his first season? And do you see
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Speaker 16: any commonality between how he approaches particularly his connection with
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Speaker 16: with players, individuality of those connections to get the most
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Speaker 16: out of guys.
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Speaker 1: I'm not very familiar with his like coaching style and
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Speaker 1: in his building.
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Speaker 5: I can tell you this, I I you can't help
11:12
Speaker 5: but respect the work that they've done and the team
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Speaker 5: that they've created. I think the best company I can
11:18
Speaker 5: give is it's very clear that this is a the
11:21
Speaker 5: vision of how he wants his football team, and I
11:25
Speaker 5: think I can say that with pretty high confidence. And
11:27
Speaker 5: they're a tough team. You can tell they're connected, which
11:29
Speaker 5: probably speaks to his coaching style, so you know, they
11:33
Speaker 5: can't We have a lot of respect for how they
11:34
Speaker 5: operate for coach for Abel, he's done a tremendous job.
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Speaker 12: Hey Mike, speaking of culture and intent, how have you
11:42
Speaker 12: seen your leadership shown up in the lead up to
11:46
Speaker 12: two game week?
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Speaker 5: Well, it's you know, we've guys from different different different experiences,
11:51
Speaker 5: so you know, the Cooper Cups, the Ernest Jones and
11:53
Speaker 5: the Worlds have been here. You know, they've given their
11:55
Speaker 5: perspective on how we want to approach the week. They've
11:57
Speaker 5: been great. You got guys like Leo that you know,
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Speaker 5: nastily haven't and they'll give it their fresh perspective as well.
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Speaker 5: But I think again it's the same thing like, look,
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Speaker 5: our young guys are probably looking to us on how
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Speaker 5: we're going to handle you know, our emotions and handling
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Speaker 5: you know, media stuff, things like that, and we.
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Speaker 1: Take it in stride.
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Speaker 5: We're loose and focused and uh, you know, kind of
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Speaker 5: kind of enjoy the moment, but then you know, let's
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Speaker 5: get back to work when we need to.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, Mike, obviously I had great success with your format
12:27
Speaker 9: rush on the on the defensive line this year.
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Speaker 1: How important is what Ad does up there.
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Speaker 15: And working with that and kind of the stunts and
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Speaker 15: things like that that he helps to buyse well Aid.
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Speaker 5: You know, he definitely leads the charge with our front.
12:37
Speaker 5: Justin Hines Chris Partridge are very much a huge part
12:40
Speaker 5: of that equation as well. I think that what our
12:44
Speaker 5: coaches do a tremendous job of is getting the buy
12:47
Speaker 5: in of the guys that we want to play a
12:49
Speaker 5: certain way and then and then just injecting a massive
12:52
Speaker 5: amount of belief to make their best traits come to life.
12:55
Speaker 5: And it's a great environment that they've created.
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Speaker 1: The guys have.
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Speaker 5: You know, they're kind of an embodied the loose and
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Speaker 5: focus where they're you know, they're messing around, you know.
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Speaker 5: The defensive line rooms are our interesting place, you know
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Speaker 5: in the NFL, and we got a great room. There
13:09
Speaker 5: are a lot of fun to be around, but they
13:11
Speaker 5: definitely get after it and they and they sharpen the
13:13
Speaker 5: rest of the team as well, and I think you've
13:14
Speaker 5: seen that from our young offensive linemen as well.
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Speaker 16: Mike to your left, what's how Sam progressing with the
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Speaker 16: injury and what's your sense of how much he'll be
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Speaker 16: able to do in practice compared to recent weeks.
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Speaker 1: Well, we'll see today. We'll see today.
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Speaker 5: It's definitely gradually increasing by the day, so some days
13:32
Speaker 5: more than others. But he's in a great spot. I
13:35
Speaker 5: know he's really confident. We'll see how today plays out.
13:39
Speaker 5: Not entirely sure. How many throws or what percentage of
13:42
Speaker 5: throws I can't really give you right now.
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Speaker 14: Mike, over here on the wall far right there you go.
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Speaker 14: Now that you're finally back to the football of the Wednesday,
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Speaker 14: how much is this going to be a normal Wednesday
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Speaker 14: and normal Thursday? Or did you even adjust within that
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Speaker 14: we even have the third down is going to be
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Speaker 14: same to all that? Or is it what's different?
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's it'll be consistent. Like at this point,
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Speaker 5: we're in a normal cadence. A couple of different variables
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Speaker 5: in terms of you know, media, time, travel onto a
14:11
Speaker 5: different location.
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Speaker 1: Guys are gonna lift after practice outside of that.
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Speaker 5: It's it's it's about as same as as you as
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Speaker 5: you'd like. So I think it's a it's a pretty
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Speaker 5: cool set up at this point.
14:24
Speaker 1: We're in it right now. This is great. I'm loving this.
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Speaker 2: This is awesome.
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Speaker 1: All right. What's your coach, good morning, good morning, good morning.
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Speaker 6: After how well Matthew Stafford played in the last two
14:35
Speaker 6: games and you guys obviously ended up winning. Does that
14:37
Speaker 6: guy give you guys any more confidence or even relief
14:40
Speaker 6: going into another MVP caliber quarterback?
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Speaker 1: Well?
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Speaker 5: I think what I you know, what's one of the
14:47
Speaker 5: special parts about our our football team is and our
14:50
Speaker 5: players is that we've been able to win different ways
14:52
Speaker 5: and figure things out as games go. So that should
14:55
Speaker 5: give us a lot of confidence going into really any
14:58
Speaker 5: any type of matchup. I think it's really that simple.
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Speaker 12: Coach on You're right here. There was a moment in
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Speaker 12: them during the NFC Championship game in the wake of
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Speaker 12: the equel and taunting penalty where it seemed like NICKI
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Speaker 12: Manwarry was the voice of reason on the sideline, like
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Speaker 12: he's made an immediate impact on the field as a rookie.
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Speaker 12: How impressed have you been with his maturity off the
15:19
Speaker 12: field and how important is it for you to create
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Speaker 12: a culture where young players like that can come in
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Speaker 12: and be leaders straight away?
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Speaker 5: Well, nick' joh a tremendous job since he walked in
15:29
Speaker 5: the door, shoot, since we brought him in for a visit,
15:31
Speaker 5: you know, pre draft. I think what's great about Nick
15:35
Speaker 5: is in addition, I mean we all know is you
15:36
Speaker 5: can see the physical talent, physical ability, but his eagerness
15:40
Speaker 5: to learn and the sense of urgency you know, for
15:44
Speaker 5: detail and his hunger to like be great really stands out.
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Speaker 5: Not a lot of guys that are that talented really
15:50
Speaker 5: are interested in doing the amount of work that actually
15:52
Speaker 5: takes for those traits.
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Speaker 1: To come to life. And Nick Nick does that.
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Speaker 5: And I think it's not like some secret thing that
15:58
Speaker 5: he said to the vets, but that daily approach and
16:01
Speaker 5: mentality that he's had I think has earned the respect
16:03
Speaker 5: of his teammates. And you got to give the veterans
16:06
Speaker 5: a ton of credit too, that they've they've created an
16:08
Speaker 5: environment where he can grow and be himself and have
16:12
Speaker 5: you know, have moments like that in a game where
16:15
Speaker 5: you know, if he if he feels strongly about something,
16:16
Speaker 5: that he feels empowered, that he can say something and
16:18
Speaker 5: guys will have their back, and I just think that's
16:21
Speaker 5: been Really it's a tip of the cap to him
16:23
Speaker 5: and the rest of the DB's in the room.
16:25
Speaker 8: Hey, Mike, to your left here at this point in
16:28
Speaker 8: the season, what's the tempo or intensity you want to
16:31
Speaker 8: see in practice here the next few days.
16:34
Speaker 5: It's a Wednesday for us, so you know, we haven't
16:36
Speaker 5: been in pads in two weeks. We're gonna be in
16:37
Speaker 5: pads for the beginning of practice. It's gonna be great.
16:41
Speaker 5: We won't be in pads the whole time, and then
16:44
Speaker 5: we'll see how the tempo shakes out. But you're definitely
16:46
Speaker 5: cutting a few reps here and there. But I think
16:49
Speaker 5: it's important for today and tomorrow. I have great practices, Mike,
16:52
Speaker 5: Mike over here, How did.
16:56
Speaker 3: How did Josh Joke go from getting his foot in
16:58
Speaker 3: the door in the practice squad to being a starter
17:01
Speaker 3: on a super Bowl team?
17:02
Speaker 5: That's well, it's it's a great example of how we
17:05
Speaker 5: you know, how we the pride that we take and
17:09
Speaker 5: how we run our program where you know, when you
17:11
Speaker 5: come in, if you play great football and you're a
17:14
Speaker 5: great teammate, you're gonna get a great you're gonna get
17:16
Speaker 5: an opportunity to play. And Josh was someone that we
17:19
Speaker 5: acquired at the beginning of last year. Shout out to
17:21
Speaker 5: our personnel staff for I ding those type of traits
17:23
Speaker 5: and that type of personality. And the guy just came
17:26
Speaker 5: in and made a ton of plays on our ready squad.
17:28
Speaker 5: And I remember our veteran receivers saying, hey, like this
17:31
Speaker 5: guy's prey.
17:32
Speaker 1: Dang good.
17:32
Speaker 5: You know, he kept making plays and then when there
17:35
Speaker 5: was an opportunity for me get on the field, we
17:37
Speaker 5: felt really confident for him to go out there and
17:39
Speaker 5: do his job. And he just kept, you know, just
17:41
Speaker 5: kept hitting it.
17:42
Speaker 1: Those daily inputs. Man, it's it's powerful when you stack
17:44
Speaker 1: those things. So here he is. He should be really
17:46
Speaker 1: proud of himself.
17:48
Speaker 4: A couple more my coach in the back to you're
17:51
Speaker 4: right when you're flipping coverage is pre to post snap,
17:55
Speaker 4: which seems to be an ever revolving trend in the
17:57
Speaker 4: NFL these days. How do you do it where you
17:58
Speaker 4: confuse a quarterback, but you don't confuse your own defenders,
18:01
Speaker 4: especially against the guy like Drake May, who's been really
18:03
Speaker 4: good against disguises this season.
18:06
Speaker 5: Well, Drake, Drake has done a tremendous job. You know,
18:10
Speaker 5: I think if you're saying, if we're planning on going
18:13
Speaker 5: in there and full of the memory snap, I think
18:14
Speaker 5: you're you be kidding yourself. Our guys have a great
18:19
Speaker 5: grasp of what we're trying to achieve on every play.
18:22
Speaker 5: And the good news is we know we're doing before
18:24
Speaker 5: they snap it, so we have that advantage. But you know,
18:29
Speaker 5: there's weaknesses and strengths every coverage. There's reasons why we're
18:33
Speaker 5: calling coverages in certain situations, and I think when you understand,
18:36
Speaker 5: when you kind of marry those things together and you
18:38
Speaker 5: stack all those reps over the course of the season,
18:42
Speaker 5: the guys have a great grasp of what they're trying
18:44
Speaker 5: to do. And it's part of our philosophy is like, look,
18:46
Speaker 5: when we call certain coverage, we're going to the rules
18:48
Speaker 5: are going to be the same from you know, April
18:51
Speaker 5: fifteenth to February whatever it is, And that way you
18:55
Speaker 5: can stack all those reps over the course of time
18:57
Speaker 5: and get really good ques.
19:00
Speaker 4: Being with Michael Dixon for two years now, have you
19:03
Speaker 4: gained a greater appreciation.
19:05
Speaker 15: For how punter can you know, impact and influence the game?
19:10
Speaker 5: Well, I gotta I think I think Michael's as good
19:13
Speaker 5: as they get right now in the world. I was
19:16
Speaker 5: also very fortunate to be a round a guy named
19:18
Speaker 5: Sam Cook in Baltimore who's a tremendous putter in his
19:21
Speaker 5: own right. And Sam, Sam really opened my eyes to
19:23
Speaker 5: like what a punter could do in terms of manipulating
19:26
Speaker 5: the football and directing it and the different types of kicks.
19:29
Speaker 5: I mean, he was tremendous and and and Michael does
19:32
Speaker 5: he's just right there with Sam. And he's got a
19:35
Speaker 5: great spirit about him. Like it's just, uh, it's really
19:39
Speaker 5: he's just a really cool guy.
19:40
Speaker 7: Man.
19:40
Speaker 5: He's just like he's got a great like he's like
19:42
Speaker 5: a competitor, but the Australian you know, twist to it
19:46
Speaker 5: and great teammate guys love him. And I think you
19:49
Speaker 5: saw from this past game, you know, he's he's really
19:51
Speaker 5: passionate about helping putting his uh his teammates and positions
19:54
Speaker 5: to succeed as well.
19:56
Speaker 1: Thank you, Okay, thank you