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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Recaps Week 9, Provides Injury Updates · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: What are we missing? Brady?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: He's stuck in traffic, if you want to know.
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  Speaker 2: It'll take a while for him to live that one down.
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  Speaker 5: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have any updates on Charles Cross or Leonard
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  Speaker 1: Williams heading into this week?
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  Speaker 3: No updates from this morning. I'd say we haven't ruled
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  Speaker 3: anybody out yet, but I think everybody needs to make progress.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody's in, nobody's out.
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  Speaker 1: When there's something like a stinger, like what Leonard has,
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  Speaker 1: and I think he's had that prior in his career,
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  Speaker 1: those seem like they can be really hard to pin down.
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  Speaker 1: Do you guys have information that rules out some of
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  Speaker 1: the more serious potentials?
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  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I think there's, I mean, have we
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  Speaker 2: ruled anything out?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 3: But they are, they vary in like severity, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and then coming from a guy in my very amateur career,
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  Speaker 3: that suffered from stingers.
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  Speaker 2: It's like.
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  Speaker 3: How fast you get. It's just a, there's not much
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  Speaker 3: you can do. It's like, what do you do?
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  Speaker 2: Just hope it gets better.
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  Speaker 3: So I know we're, we're trying all the things and, um,
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  Speaker 3: you just kind of have to go with it. You know, if,
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  Speaker 3: if Leo can play, he's not a type of guy
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  Speaker 3: that needs a ton of reps. So I think you
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  Speaker 3: can use, you kind of exhaust timelines, things like that,
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  Speaker 3: but it's definitely, uh, it's definitely not like a straightforward, uh,
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  Speaker 3: pathway on how we kind of move forward.
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  Speaker 5: What did the test show on Drew Locke exactly?
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  Speaker 3: Say that again, Greg.
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  Speaker 5: Did the test show on Drew Locke last night?
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  Speaker 3: He has some sort of oblique, but again, we're going
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  Speaker 3: to put a game plan together and we expect him
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  Speaker 3: to be able to play. It should be a similar
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  Speaker 3: approach to last week, I would imagine.
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  Speaker 6: In Sam Darnold's case, is Does it look like he
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  Speaker 6: could be back after the bye?
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  Speaker 3: I think so.
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  Speaker 2: I think so.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Making progress is just where I need some more time.
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  Speaker 5: On offense.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, sorry. Go ahead. What did you feel?
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  Speaker 7: Thanks.
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  Speaker 5: What did you feel from the film?
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  Speaker 3: What did you get out of it?
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  Speaker 5: You talk about feeling.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a, there's a, there's a, like, I was
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  Speaker 3: about to be like, there's a lot of great stuff
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  Speaker 3: and a lot, a lot of great stuff. And then
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  Speaker 3: I was like, that's not very insightful, but that's what
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  Speaker 3: it was.
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  Speaker 2: So, not a good answer.
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  Speaker 3: But, yeah, there's a lot of, there's some situational things that,
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  Speaker 3: situational things that I felt like.
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  Speaker 2: Helped us win the game.
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  Speaker 3: And there's a lot of details where I feel like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, could we be further along at this point
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  Speaker 3: in the year? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Should we be?
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: But also it's, I guess, an area of excitement to
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  Speaker 3: know that if we can improve on those things that,
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  Speaker 3: The return is pretty great. And I think it's also
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  Speaker 3: a nod to, like I told our team today, the
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  Speaker 3: margins in our world are very small. And so if
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  Speaker 3: you go back the last, call it month or so,
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  Speaker 3: really the whole season, and you can do this for
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  Speaker 3: every team, but it's a 14 to 3, or is
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  Speaker 3: it 17 to 3? Okay, so 14-point win. That's a
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  Speaker 3: play away from being a one-possession game You look at
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  Speaker 3: the Bears game last week, as much as we felt
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  Speaker 3: like it wasn't us, it's a three-point game going into
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  Speaker 3: the third. Denver game's the same way. It's all small margins.
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  Speaker 3: As a team, I think it's very important right now
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  Speaker 3: to step our foot on the gas in terms of
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  Speaker 3: chasing edges and being about that life where we can
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  Speaker 3: accumulate those advantages so when the When it does come
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  Speaker 3: down to the ball bouncing a certain way, we've maximized
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  Speaker 3: the chances for it to go our way, if that
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  Speaker 3: makes sense. And that's where I want our focus to be.
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  Speaker 7: DeMarcus Lawrence's best game maybe this year. What were you
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  Speaker 7: seeing out of him that really jumped out?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, D-Law, he played a great game.
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  Speaker 2: He really did.
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  Speaker 3: I thought he dominated his one-on-ones, played with incredible energy,
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  Speaker 3: running out of the stack, winning pass rushes. being dominant
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  Speaker 3: in the run game.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, he's, uh, he's pretty, he's pretty remarkable.
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  Speaker 7: Is he the type of, you know, Leo out and
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  Speaker 7: Chen out where he kind of takes out upon himself
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  Speaker 7: if he needs to step it up?
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  Speaker 3: Probably a question for him, but I mean, I, I
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  Speaker 3: would have a hard time saying no to that, but, uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: your mind goes to, okay, guys are down. Who's, who's
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  Speaker 3: filling in the roles for them. Sometimes you overlook that
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  Speaker 3: it's more ops for the guys.
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  Speaker 2: That have been playing. So, uh, But he had a
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  Speaker 2: really impressive performance.
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  Speaker 4: How did you feel like Drew played, given kind of
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  Speaker 4: the injuries he's going through and the constraints he had?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Drew played really well. Drew played really well. I
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  Speaker 3: know we didn't throw for a million yards, but I
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  Speaker 3: thought he was efficient. He came up with some big-time
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  Speaker 3: plays on third down when we needed him and managed
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  Speaker 3: the game well with some of the stuff we were
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  Speaker 3: asking the quarterback to do. So having done that through
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  Speaker 3: all the other stuff, I thought was pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 7: What did lead to that efficiency we saw in the
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  Speaker 7: early downs?
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  Speaker 3: From the offense? Well, if I said we were efficient,
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  Speaker 3: I'd probably want to take that back. I mean, it
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  Speaker 3: was probably too many times we were in second long.
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  Speaker 3: But we did a great, we converted on third down
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  Speaker 3: to keep those drives going. And so he did a great,
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  Speaker 3: Drew did a great job of keeping drives alive, keeping
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  Speaker 3: the ball moving forward, converting on third downs. I thought
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  Speaker 3: he managed the situations great, like at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the half in two minute and then in the four
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  Speaker 3: minute situation. So Did a lot of good stuff on
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  Speaker 3: that end, but if we can be more efficient on
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  Speaker 3: those first and second down plays, I think that'll really
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  Speaker 3: help our offense as a whole.
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  Speaker 1: When you guys decide how much to blitz in any game,
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  Speaker 1: how much of that's about what you guys are doing
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  Speaker 1: well and how much of that's about what you see
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  Speaker 1: as an opportunity against the team.
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  Speaker 3: You're going against? Yeah, both. How's it going, Brady?
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  Speaker 5: Hey, what's up?
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  Speaker 3: Good to see you. Yeah, it's both. I have a
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  Speaker 3: hard time giving you a steadfast answer on that one.
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  Speaker 3: It's just there's a lot of variables at play. We
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  Speaker 3: want to be aggressive. I think we are at our
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  Speaker 3: best when we do pressure, and there's a balance. We
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  Speaker 3: have a really good front that we feel like can
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  Speaker 3: play ball, and we can play coverage behind it, but also–
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  Speaker 3: If you just sit in four-man fronts all day, that
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  Speaker 3: lets offensive lines tee off on those guys at a
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  Speaker 3: certain amount of time, so you do need to be
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  Speaker 3: able to move. You need to be able to change counts.
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  Speaker 2: Things like that.
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  Speaker 3: You need to speed the quarterback up sometimes in some
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  Speaker 3: of the passing situations.
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  Speaker 2: We have our philosophy.
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  Speaker 3: I think the numbers kind of back that up, but
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  Speaker 3: I think it's fair to say that we're willing to
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  Speaker 3: fluctuate within a certain amount from game to game or
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  Speaker 3: even within a game, speed it up or slow it down.
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  Speaker 4: The running backs and the way they were used yesterday,
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  Speaker 4: is that kind of how you would foresee it going
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  Speaker 4: forward now that both those guys are kind of healthy?
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  Speaker 2: I saw it for how we wanted to use it yesterday.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I guess that's kind of who.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Zach kind of started, and then we worked
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  Speaker 4: Jadari in a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think Zach's getting up to being about...
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  Speaker 3: You know, his play count keeps going up and up.
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  Speaker 3: So I think it's fair to leave some flexibility based
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  Speaker 3: on game plan and how we feel each guy's playing,
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  Speaker 3: that sort of thing. And with the other backs that
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  Speaker 3: are up, I mean, they're ready to go as well.
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  Speaker 3: We've seen them play good football for us as well,
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  Speaker 3: but I was happy with how our halfbacks played yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: I thought they did a nice job, and I thought
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  Speaker 3: we felt some growth from a week ago, which is important.
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  Speaker 6: This managing of the practice reps for the quarterback, Mike,
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  Speaker 6: does he do everything but throw?
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  Speaker 5: Is he in the huddle? Is he pantomiming behind the play?
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  Speaker 5: what does he not do or do?
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  Speaker 3: Well, he's, he's not taking all the reps and he's
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  Speaker 3: not taking all the throws. Uh, how he manages kind
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  Speaker 3: of a day-to-day thing based off of how he's feeling.
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  Speaker 3: And like, maybe like the aggregate that we're going to
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  Speaker 3: shoot for, for a whole week. But, um, there's some,
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  Speaker 3: there's some such situations where we want them to be
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  Speaker 3: in there and not throwing. There's some situations where, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Jalen's in there doing everything as well. So it's just
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  Speaker 3: kind of, it's kind of a mixture from day to day.
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  Speaker 6: Did you feel as a staff almost blind how this
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  Speaker 6: might work out yesterday and now going forward this week.
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  Speaker 5: You know how he handled it and how it came
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  Speaker 5: out in the game and it's much more?
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  Speaker 3: Well we felt like we were optimistic that it wasn't
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  Speaker 3: going to be a we knew he was going to
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  Speaker 3: be sore coming after the game but we didn't we
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  Speaker 3: also felt like we were optimistic that it wasn't going
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  Speaker 3: to be a long term thing it was really like
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  Speaker 3: a week to week thing hey let's do our best
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  Speaker 3: to get him ready for this game go play the
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  Speaker 3: game and then we'll kind of reevaluate as we go
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  Speaker 3: into this week. So we'll definitely take how we handled
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  Speaker 3: it last week into consideration on how we translate that
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  Speaker 3: into this week. Um, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: How much flexibility do you build in a game plan
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  Speaker 7: when you're trying to figure out what he may or
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  Speaker 7: may not be able to do on Sunday, whether it's
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  Speaker 7: getting the ball downfield or what feels comfortable to him?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Those things are always taken into account. Uh, We felt like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's just, those are things you have to consider, right?
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  Speaker 3: It's just, do we really want to explain what we
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  Speaker 3: feel like we didn't want to be able to do?
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  Speaker 2: Probably not.
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  Speaker 3: But that's just, that's par for the course, you know?
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  Speaker 3: So I think our i think our staff did a
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  Speaker 3: great job both uh throughout the week having a plan
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  Speaker 3: for drew and jalen and then also in game being
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  Speaker 3: able to make adjustments on what we felt like we
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  Speaker 3: could we could get to and uh it's also a
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  Speaker 3: response to how we feel like we're being played and
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  Speaker 3: what the guys are executing well as well.
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  Speaker 1: What'd you think of the game uh last week that
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  Speaker 1: analytics has made it really easier for people to self-scout
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  Speaker 1: and that tendencies are kind of going away to some extent.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel that way? And has that affected the
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  Speaker 1: way you approach a game plan in terms of when
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  Speaker 1: you call certain plays?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Like analytics is such a wide variety of like what that,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's anywhere from just like, you're looking at
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  Speaker 3: run pass numbers and you're looking at like effectiveness numbers
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  Speaker 3: on one end of the spectrum and You know, you
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  Speaker 3: have all these advanced metrics nowadays, and then you have
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  Speaker 3: some kind of bucket things in terms of operational things
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  Speaker 3: that you look at. So to me, you're always looking
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  Speaker 3: at it through, like, multiple lenses, what they've done, where
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  Speaker 3: you feel like they're going, and how we've been attacked
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  Speaker 3: and how that applies to how we feel like the
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  Speaker 3: team's going to play us. And you kind of give
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  Speaker 3: you up, you know, you attribute certain percentages kind of
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  Speaker 3: each bucket. Based off the situation, is it an exact science?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 3: I think sometimes we're right, and it's great, and we're
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  Speaker 3: in a great defense or a great call, and sometimes
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  Speaker 3: we're wrong, and we've got to make adjustments or we've
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  Speaker 3: got to get through the down.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe we.
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  Speaker 3: Need to do it better.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't sound like we're doing it very well.
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  Speaker 7: I know we asked you about Nick after the game,
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  Speaker 7: but looking at the tape and just kind of overall
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  Speaker 7: the job he did, particularly on McBride, just what did
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  Speaker 7: you think of his game?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we asked him to match up a few times,
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  Speaker 3: and he did a great job.
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  Speaker 2: He did a great job.
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  Speaker 3: I think he had a great mentality throughout the week.
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  Speaker 3: He was on his details, and I think you saw
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  Speaker 3: that kind of manifest itself in the game by him
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  Speaker 3: just letting it rip and.
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  Speaker 2: Playing a great game.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we asked him to blitz.
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  Speaker 2: We asked him to cover.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, the play in the red zone was awesome, and
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  Speaker 3: then we had a plan for him to rush as well.
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  Speaker 3: We just weren't able to get to some of those
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  Speaker 3: situations that we wanted to.
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  Speaker 8: What did you think of the offensive line play overall
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  Speaker 8: with Gray and Anthony going back into their old spots there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought our guys played hard.
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  Speaker 3: I'd like to see our run game be more effective
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  Speaker 3: in some of these early down type of situations.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's going to– I would expect.
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  Speaker 3: It to vastly improve after another full week of reps
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  Speaker 3: with those guys in those spots and understanding their role
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  Speaker 3: going into the game. So I appreciate the effort, the toughness,
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  Speaker 3: but I feel like there's room for improvement.
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  Speaker 5: You too.
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  Speaker 7: You've talked a lot about the depth having to play
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  Speaker 7: in that game and just all these different guys.
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  Speaker 3: Connor Atul didn't practice at all last week.
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  Speaker 7: It's pretty rare for a guy to not practice, especially
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  Speaker 7: a young guy, and then play.
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  Speaker 3: Like, what do you show you just to make it
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  Speaker 3: to the game and, you know, contribute? Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: there's things that he had to be willing to do
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  Speaker 3: to get himself ready, and he was a... And he
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  Speaker 3: did those things, which is not an easy thing to do. So,
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  Speaker 3: tip of the cap to Connor. He's... Tough guy, great teammate.
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  Speaker 3: Thought he went in and executed well, really, in both phases.
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  Speaker 2: And he played hard. So that's all you really can
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  Speaker 2: ask of the guys.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that shows through the rest of the
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  Speaker 3: guys on the tape when they see what Connor does
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  Speaker 3: when he goes in there, just letting it rip. So
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  Speaker 3: hats off to him.
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  Speaker 4: I know you addressed this on the radio, but do
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  Speaker 4: you have any clear idea of what happened on the
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  Speaker 4: play when Sundell got the penalty and why they spotted
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  Speaker 4: the ball, how they did that?
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  Speaker 3: To my knowledge, the reason it went back is because
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  Speaker 3: of the offsetting penalty. And then the personal foul play
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  Speaker 3: trumps the five-yard play, which I think that's like the
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  Speaker 3: second or third time it's happened to us. I think
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  Speaker 3: we had a face mask maybe a year or two
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  Speaker 3: ago when they overcame another five-yarder.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that just.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't go our way.
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  Speaker 2: We had an opportunity to really go ahead in the game. But, uh,
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  Speaker 2: that was a bummer.
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  Speaker 7: Mike, you've talked about the importance several times of players
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  Speaker 7: getting ahead of the play.
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  Speaker 8: Can you expand a little bit on what that is
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  Speaker 8: and why it's important as a collective to be ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Of the play?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it lets us be connected.
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  Speaker 3: So you got one, one guy's thinking, you know, that
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  Speaker 3: we're doing this and another guy's thinking we're doing that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you're not together. So that's, that's in all phases. That's, uh,
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  Speaker 2: It happens all.
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  Speaker 3: The time on teams in terms of either how we're
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  Speaker 3: blocking something or how we're actually defending a certain type
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  Speaker 3: of return, how we're relating to people. It happens on
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  Speaker 3: offense and how we're protecting and routes we're running and
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  Speaker 3: how we're targeting in the run game and on defensively,
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  Speaker 3: the way that we operate. It's very important that we
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  Speaker 3: get our cleats in the ground and we're all looking
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  Speaker 3: at the right stuff so when the ball snaps, we
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  Speaker 3: can go play. We've done a great job of that
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  Speaker 3: in all three phases, but I think when you look
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  Speaker 3: at yesterday and some of the success that the other
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  Speaker 3: team had that we felt like we could have been
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  Speaker 3: in better positions to make it more difficult for them.
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  Speaker 8: Mike, with the injuries to Sam and Drew, this is
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  Speaker 8: the closest you've been to needing to go to Jalen
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  Speaker 8: for any stretch of play. How do you feel like
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  Speaker 8: he's progressed getting the run of practice reps last week
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  Speaker 8: and where his whole game is at at this point?
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  Speaker 3: Jalen was ready to go yesterday. I'd say probably the
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  Speaker 3: biggest difference that I've seen was him having an opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to take reps with the ones throughout the week with
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  Speaker 3: the starters.
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  Speaker 2: You felt the poise.
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  Speaker 3: You felt a confidence in how he was operating, decisiveness
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  Speaker 3: on him delivering the football, and then a lot of
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  Speaker 3: good stuff, honestly, during practice. Obviously, we were rolling with Drew.
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  Speaker 2: Drew's earned that opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: He's played great football for us when he's been out there,
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: but if he wasn't able to go, we were confident
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: in Jalen.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: How did you arrive at your philosophy about how to balance,
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: you know, confusion that maybe coverage disguise causes the offense
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: versus potentially having guys that need to get to a
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: position that's a little harder at post-snap rotation?
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: Well, not every situation is the same. We've messed around with, like,
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: a bunch of pre-snap rotations on early downs, and it–
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: it's hard to like manage all that stuff, you know,
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: like you're going to call it and this call, we
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: want to be like this. And so it gets wordy
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: and gets, gets unwieldy. So, you know, we've, we've evolved
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: to a, a, a two high defense with, with change-ups and,
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: and then by situation, we have ways that we want
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: to be able to show certain presentations.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: But I think that falls in like the, Hey, we
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: want to live.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: We want to live in our, our wheelhouse of what
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: we feel like our core competencies are and what our
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: guys are used to executing. And we can do it
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: at a high level. However, we feel like as coaches,
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: you know, the best we can tailor that to attack
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: the way we want to attack certain, you know, how
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: offenses operate in certain people, then that'll help our players
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: as well. So it's like you can do things full
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: speed that are also hopefully, you know, schematically advantageous for
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: your guys so they feel like they have the upper hand.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: So that's the lens that we look at it through.
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: Drew got the ball out really quickly yesterday didn't get
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: sacked only took a couple hits but you also didn't
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: have many explosive passing plays were you willing to sort
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: of trade make that trade off or is there a
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: way to have.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Both i think there's a way to have both yeah.
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: How did anthony bradford play his return.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: I think just like i said with the rest of
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: the line i think he played hard um had some
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: had some really good physical plays that uh that really
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: only a guy like A.B. can do, that he brings
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: what he's unique to what he brings to the table.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: And there's also plays where we need to be more
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: connected on the offensive line and making sure that we've
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: got the right people accounted for so we can go
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: run off the ball and play the way that I
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: know our guys know how to play. So this week
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: will be really helpful, knowing that he's got all the
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: reps and he's starting and we know who's going to
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: be where. And I expect everyone to take another step.
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: Is Nelson's surgery imminent?
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: It was today, actually.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: He had it?
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: Is he on sort of the Sam Darnall we hope
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: to return after the bye type of deal, or.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: Is that a longer term?
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: Well, we're not putting him on IR yet, so I
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: think that gives you the timetable of what we expect.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Consider it week-to-week, I guess, the best way to put it.
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: Anything else? Thank you.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: All right, thank you. Thank you.