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Head Coach Mike Macdonald On Super Bowl Preparations & The Importance Of The Team's Culture · Seahawks Press Pass

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Speaker 1: All right, some new faces, exciting times. What are we
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Speaker 1: calling this week twenty one, twenty two? Not really that's
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Speaker 1: the team, they'd.
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Speaker 2: Say, it doesn't matter. Yeah, great to see everybody we got.
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Speaker 3: Last year at this time, you were in Mobile, Alabama
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Speaker 3: with John Schneider and you talked to the So it's
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Speaker 3: the front office about what your view of the roster was.
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Speaker 3: What do you remember about that week and how it
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Speaker 3: contributed to this year.
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Speaker 1: It's funny how it aligns to you know, where we
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Speaker 1: are now. I just I just remember he we you know,
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Speaker 1: we were determined to take our team to the level.
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Speaker 1: And it's not just you know, me and John sitting
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Speaker 1: in a room punching buttons.
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Speaker 2: It takes a lot of people.
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Speaker 1: Being aligned and a lot of conversations, and we got
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Speaker 1: we had the right people for the job.
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Speaker 2: So you know, it's fun to be down there. You
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Speaker 2: don't want to be on there too long.
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Speaker 1: But it's just I just remember having great conversation with guys,
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Speaker 1: seeing a lot of great players. Senior Bowl is an
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Speaker 1: awesome event.
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Speaker 2: So it's about it.
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Speaker 4: When you look at having kind of this extra week
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Speaker 4: with much more time to have game installed next week,
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Speaker 4: how do you how do you evaluate what the team
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Speaker 4: was able to accomplish in the last few days.
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Speaker 1: What I think I think you're looking at it a
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Speaker 1: big picture of what we're trying to achieve over the
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Speaker 1: last over the next two weeks, and then let's drill
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Speaker 1: down day by day of what we're trying to accomplish
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Speaker 1: on a kind of now by now type of basis.
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Speaker 1: So you know, today's a Thursday for us, and so
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Speaker 1: we're gonna go have a heck of a Thursday practice.
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Speaker 2: That was a we just had a great walkthrough. That's
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Speaker 2: what our focus is.
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Speaker 1: And then you know, when that's done, we'll kind of
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Speaker 1: shift our focus to the next thing. But it's all
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Speaker 1: within the spirit of how we want to handle the
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Speaker 1: two weeks. Are you doing third down, red zone this
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Speaker 1: week and then it'll repeat it again next week. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know, I think it is tough to like, hey,
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Speaker 1: cut stamp up game plan by the end of the week,
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Speaker 1: say this is what we're doing, Like we're not budgeting,
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Speaker 1: so I think we're taking it's a little more fluid
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Speaker 1: on how we're gonna how we're gonna game plan, but
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Speaker 1: all all of the areas will be addressed this week
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Speaker 1: and then we'll go back through it again next week.
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Speaker 3: Well, next week be kind of a normal week as well,
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Speaker 3: or will or will they a best space so it's
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Speaker 3: not just Monday like your regular Monday Tuesday was.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, well next week will be like once Wednesday
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Speaker 1: hits will be this of the same cadence. Just you know,
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Speaker 1: there's some extra stuff too. I think there's some extra
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Speaker 1: media obligations and that sort of thing, travel time. I mean,
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Speaker 1: there's some there's some some variables that we're not that
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Speaker 1: we normally don't deal with here, but we'll take those
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Speaker 1: astride and keep rocking and roll.
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Speaker 3: You guys have Milton Williams and barrymore Over on New England.
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Speaker 3: You guys have Leo and Jaron and Byron here, but
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Speaker 3: no top fifteen edge rushers in terms of sacks on
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Speaker 3: either team.
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Speaker 2: What's the benefit of the.
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Speaker 3: Interior strength and rushed versus ed rush.
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Speaker 2: I' and there's talk about it at length if you
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Speaker 2: wanted to it.
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Speaker 1: Just you know, I think the common thread between are
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Speaker 1: both our teams is there's a kind of a okay,
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Speaker 1: synergistic effect to how they how we rush the passer
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Speaker 1: and they do the same thing. So, uh, that's something
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Speaker 1: that I know that our guys take a lot of
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Speaker 1: pride in on on how we play, and it takes
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Speaker 1: the whole front. You know, it takes it takes really
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Speaker 1: all eleven guys to playing in concert to uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: create pressure on quarterback and get sacks. But I don't know,
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Speaker 1: I think it might just the whole like who has sacks,
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Speaker 1: who doesn't. I'm not sure what that really is a
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Speaker 1: function of.
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Speaker 2: You've talked all year along those lives. You've talked all
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Speaker 2: year about the unselfish pass rush on you guys play.
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Speaker 5: Is that kind of.
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Speaker 1: Fitting for your defense that you don't have the you know,
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Speaker 1: fifteen sack one guy really standing out there? Well, I
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Speaker 1: think I think their attitude and their approach every day
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Speaker 1: is uh a little bit of a microcosm of how
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Speaker 1: our whole team operates. You know, And we've talked about
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Speaker 1: this before, but that is a group that one has
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Speaker 1: a lot of great players and a lot of leaders
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Speaker 1: on our team. So they are going to you know,
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Speaker 1: they are going to be you know, voices throughout the
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Speaker 1: rest of the team, and they are going to be
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Speaker 1: setting the example through a lot of the rest of
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Speaker 1: the guys in the team. And if they operate like that,
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Speaker 1: you know, and they put the actions behind how we
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Speaker 1: say we wanted to operate.
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Speaker 2: That's powerful for the rest of the team.
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Speaker 1: So I think that's been a you know, a critical
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Speaker 1: part of our team's success this year has been, you know,
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Speaker 1: how our d line operates.
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Speaker 2: He named Brady Russell special Teams captain. I assume for
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Speaker 2: this game he.
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Speaker 6: At first I guess how's he doing, and then be
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Speaker 6: what is what has he been to the special teams
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Speaker 6: this year?
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Speaker 1: He's doing well, you know, just going through the process
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Speaker 1: right now. But uh, all of really all of our
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Speaker 1: guys that have played on special teams have been have
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Speaker 1: been great, you know. But to Brady, I think from
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Speaker 1: the date, from day one, how much pride he took
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Speaker 1: in his role again set an example for how we
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Speaker 1: want to operate here with our special teams units, and
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Speaker 1: so guys, you know, guys follow his lead. I mean,
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Speaker 1: his energy every day is contagious, love for his teammates,
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Speaker 1: love for the game, unselfish.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's tough as nails.
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Speaker 1: You know, you could argue he's probably he's one of
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Speaker 1: the best core for you know, combo guys in the league,
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Speaker 1: and he's been doing it for a couple of years
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Speaker 1: with the other two captains.
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Speaker 4: Fairly obvious for you.
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Speaker 2: Too, they are.
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Speaker 1: We might actually add one or two over the next
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Speaker 1: week or so. But yeah, but those guys have been great.
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Speaker 1: I think no explanation needed.
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Speaker 5: What do you appreciate about the way that those guys
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Speaker 5: kind of guys who gravitate to who Jackson's going on
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Speaker 5: because of just they themselves the louder guy.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just you know, I don't know if I'm a
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Speaker 1: player in the locker room. I just want guys to
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Speaker 1: be I just want guys to be themselves, you know.
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Speaker 1: And that's set that sets the environment for the rest
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Speaker 1: of our team. Really our coaches too, where you don't
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Speaker 1: you don't have to walk around.
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Speaker 2: Act Okay, well, how am I supposed to act? Am
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Speaker 2: I supposed to be like this? Or am I supposed
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Speaker 2: to be like that?
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Speaker 5: Like?
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Speaker 1: No, the the principle of the matter, the thing that
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Speaker 1: we really care about is, you know, the decisions that
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Speaker 1: we're making, and you know, are we putting the team
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Speaker 1: first and we're abiding by our team principles and all
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Speaker 1: the other stuff really tends to come more to life
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Speaker 1: because you know, they take the pressure off guys so
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Speaker 1: but again, those are you know, those are two leaders
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Speaker 1: on our team, more of a high high profile players,
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Speaker 1: and they act that way.
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Speaker 2: It's it's easy to fall in line.
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Speaker 5: Mike.
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Speaker 7: Earlier in the week, you mentioned the possibility of connecting
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Speaker 7: with John Harbaugh just about Super Bowl all the things involved.
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Speaker 7: Able to connect and or any takeaways.
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Speaker 1: I've talked to some other coach at this point, but
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Speaker 1: Harb's pretty busy right now, So this weekend we might
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Speaker 1: be able to connect.
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Speaker 7: And then with Sam Darnold, have you been able to
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Speaker 7: kind of drill down on what his practice plans are
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Speaker 7: or is that a still kind of fluid situation.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's it's just day by day, you know, and
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Speaker 1: how how we're going to operate. And that's what we've
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Speaker 1: done the last two weeks, and so that's that's what
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Speaker 1: we'll keep on doing. But you put timetables on things,
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's gonna he's gonna play in the game.
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Speaker 1: It's just how to handle you know, what's what's the
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Speaker 1: best thing to do every day With that in mind,
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Speaker 1: that's that's how we're going to treat it.
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Speaker 6: Like you mentioned after the game, how stand maybe shut
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Speaker 6: a lot of people up.
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Speaker 3: He seems like probably the last person who really cared
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Speaker 3: about those outside perceptions.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you think about his.
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Speaker 5: Approach his personality that that Steff doesn't really get to him?
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Speaker 1: Well, you know, I think it's it's one of those
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Speaker 1: things where it's like, hey, you know, when we're you know,
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Speaker 1: in the good and the bad, whatever the bad is,
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Speaker 1: but in you know, when the opinions are changing back
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Speaker 1: and forth, he's he's been the steadfast, you know, forced
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Speaker 1: throughout the whole thing.
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Speaker 2: And that's who he is, you know, that's who he is.
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Speaker 1: So and one of the reasons why I think he
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Speaker 1: you know, he carries so much respect, you know, within
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Speaker 1: our building and with our team. So you know, let
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Speaker 1: us go defend him, you know, but he'll he'll keep
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Speaker 1: being himself.
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Speaker 5: In the news lately.
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Speaker 8: What is it about his approach to the offense design
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Speaker 8: like calling that you can separate posts?
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Speaker 1: Well, I think the thing that I appreciate the most
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Speaker 1: about Clint is his team player. You know, it's it's all,
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Speaker 1: it's all what's best for the team, all all the time.
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Speaker 1: And and he you know, and he takes a lot
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Speaker 1: of pride in that, you know that it's as a
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Speaker 1: team effort, and so he'd be the first to, you know,
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Speaker 1: say that the rest of his staff does a great
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Speaker 1: job and the players are the ones that make it
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Speaker 1: come to life.
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Speaker 2: So I think there's the.
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Speaker 1: Humility behind how he operates creates an environment where you're
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Speaker 1: getting all those positive aspects for everybody involved.
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Speaker 3: Mike, you've got one of the youngest rosters in the NFL.
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Speaker 6: You would expect the second half the season you're going
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Speaker 6: to see a lot of those young players really elevate
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Speaker 6: their game. But how much has Jalen Sundell been a
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Speaker 6: catalyst for the run game getting rolling here the last
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Speaker 6: month or so since he came back from his injury,
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Speaker 6: seems like the like switch has really come on for him.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think Jalen was playing good football before he
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Speaker 1: went out, and he's playing good football. Last year, he
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Speaker 1: had a heck of a training camp and he won
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Speaker 1: our Top Hawk Award in the offseason.
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Speaker 2: Look, you want to give him all the credit in
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Speaker 2: the world for how he's playing.
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Speaker 1: He's playing great football, But to say he's a catalyst
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Speaker 1: for what we're doing, I think that might discount the
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Speaker 1: effort involved with everybody else. And so as a center,
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Speaker 1: you know, you're got to make the right calls, and
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Speaker 1: you've got to be decisive, and you've got to take
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Speaker 1: the line, and you got to be on on their
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Speaker 1: stuff because that's where it starts. But just really please
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Speaker 1: where he is right now as a player, and he's
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Speaker 1: got a great future.
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Speaker 5: You scored five touchdowns on special teams this year and
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Speaker 5: had the mump turn into points immediately last week too.
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Speaker 5: What have you thought about your unit as a whole
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Speaker 5: that Jay's run this year and how critical that that
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Speaker 5: unit has been to helping you get to this point.
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Speaker 1: We love our you know, I mean, we love our
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Speaker 1: Special Teams unit. Jay deserves a ton of credit. He's
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Speaker 1: a phenomenal coach. I think fits also deserves a ton
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Speaker 1: of credit, and he kind of flies under the radar
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Speaker 1: and a lot of things that he's bringing to the table.
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Speaker 1: And I think again, it's it's how you want our
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Speaker 1: team to operate. It's it's this daily chasing edge's mentality
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Speaker 1: of how do we how do we how do we.
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Speaker 2: Kind of make it? It's one more thing.
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Speaker 1: We can you know, can we capture that today to
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Speaker 1: take us you know, what's those things? Those markers every
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Speaker 1: day that we can hit and they do that, They
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Speaker 1: practice their tails off every day. They got great energy.
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Speaker 1: You know, we practice special teams first, and one of
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Speaker 1: the things we talk about all the time is if
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Speaker 1: they really set you know, the tempo and the standard
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Speaker 1: of how well that practice is going to go and
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Speaker 1: how on how they play and how they practice and
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Speaker 1: they continue to hold the standard up every every time
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Speaker 1: they take the field, which has been great.
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Speaker 3: Week eleven, you guys had the four turnover game against
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Speaker 3: the Rams and at that point you were negative seven
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Speaker 3: and turnover margin. Since then you're plus eight and haven't
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Speaker 3: turned it all over three games.
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Speaker 2: What do you think really changed to key that.
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Speaker 1: I think you're just saying, like, look, when anytime there's growth,
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Speaker 1: it's not like you just sometimes it's hey, there's something,
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Speaker 1: we got to fix it. And now we kind of
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Speaker 1: take a you kind of take a different like course
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Speaker 1: of action, and things change me a little more drastically.
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Speaker 1: But I'm more of the believer of like, hey, I
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Speaker 1: think we were about the right stuff the beginning. I
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Speaker 1: think I think we talked about I think we drilled it.
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Speaker 1: I think we were training it all the time. But
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Speaker 1: I think the difference was we stuck with it. You know,
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Speaker 1: and that's when you start to see returns. So not
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Speaker 1: to panic and say, okay, well now we gotta you know,
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Speaker 1: got to play differently, or we gotta change our language
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Speaker 1: abou how we're going to play the game or our style.
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Speaker 2: None of that, None of that really happened.
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Speaker 1: It was more just doubling down on on the things
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Speaker 1: we really believed in and do that every.
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Speaker 2: Day with Sandel.
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Speaker 9: What was the award you mentioned that he won.
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Speaker 1: Called Top Hawk Award, Well, Danny Van Dyke Special, it's awesome.
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Speaker 2: Basically we made everything in the.
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Speaker 1: Off season like a competition and uh, I can't tell
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Speaker 1: you exactly how he did it, but it was really
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Speaker 1: well thought out.
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Speaker 2: The guys loved it.
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Speaker 1: You get coaches competing and Jalen has brought it every day.
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Speaker 1: It was about his combination of like hitting your personal milestones,
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Speaker 1: you know, you get your picture on the wall, you know.
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Speaker 1: But but the guys loved it and actually, well it's
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Speaker 1: actually that's actually the group that there's It was an
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Speaker 1: individual award and a group award. If your group one,
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Speaker 1: you're out of the conditioning test all. I remember his
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Speaker 1: Spoons team won because he was like super excited. They
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Speaker 1: want so but if you win the award means you're
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Speaker 1: there and you're getting after it and you're doing everything
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Speaker 1: we asked, so you're gonna be in shape.
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Speaker 2: So it's kind of a no brainer.
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Speaker 9: So how many people got to not do the conditioning
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Speaker 9: test because of that?
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Speaker 2: Seven or eight?
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Speaker 9: With with Clint, like when we talked to him, it
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Speaker 9: seems very low key, kind of soft spoken. Are there
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Speaker 9: things about his personality that like behind the scenes that
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Speaker 9: we don't see or is that who he is?
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Speaker 2: Who he is man? So it makes him? Does it
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Speaker 2: makes some Clint?
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Speaker 1: There's no like I'm gonna act this way to somebody
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Speaker 1: and act another way to somebody Else's who he is.
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Speaker 9: But imagine there's there's plenty of fire there that we
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Speaker 9: don't see like that comes out.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's not coaching you guys. So question.
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Speaker 4: When was the most fiery that you have ever seen?
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Speaker 2: When we score a touchdown?
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Speaker 1: If he's covering his mouth after a touchdown, he's probably
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Speaker 1: saying some things he doesn't want you to.
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Speaker 3: Know has been put in your program early on?
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Speaker 2: Did you see it?
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Speaker 7: When?
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Speaker 8: Did you begin to see that early on back in April?
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Speaker 2: Was I just think.
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Speaker 1: Early on that's how we decide we wanted to operate.
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Speaker 1: And to me, if you want to getything done, you
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Speaker 1: got to know where you're going and what you want
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Speaker 1: to get that done. You know, so you can't just
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Speaker 1: walk out there and just still the footba out there
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Speaker 1: and say let's go practice.
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Speaker 2: It's like, what what.
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Speaker 1: What is our intention today? You know, Let's keep it simple,
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Speaker 1: do it together, and we hit it. We hit a
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Speaker 1: lot of marks, you know, throughout this whole process. Not
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Speaker 1: gonna lie, we didn't hit as consistently as I wanted,
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Speaker 1: you know, as you as you'd hope we would. Probably
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Speaker 1: in told this offseason, I just felt like the guys
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Speaker 1: were locked in every day and that.
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Speaker 3: Was Awesomezes and Carlton Davis provide at the corners for.
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Speaker 1: For New Yeah, they're really good players, really good players.
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Speaker 1: Both have size, speed, can play man to man, play zone,
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Speaker 1: track the ball and deep air of the field.
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Speaker 2: Good players.
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Speaker 7: Mike, with as much film as available of the Patriots
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Speaker 7: Week twenty one and whatever we're at, how far back
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Speaker 7: do you guys go?
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Speaker 1: I think it just depends on the situation. So you know,
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Speaker 1: for some some situations that don't have as many observations,
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Speaker 1: you might.
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Speaker 2: Want to need to dig a little deeper.
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Speaker 1: But that's how we always operate, you know, like because
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Speaker 1: you can you can go back years if you want,
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Speaker 1: coordinator history. I mean, all those things are in play.
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Speaker 1: So you're really making that decision every week on how
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Speaker 1: far back.
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Speaker 2: You want to go.
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Speaker 1: So it's not it's not as it's not as different
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Speaker 1: as you might imagine.
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Speaker 7: Honestly, with the two weeks of time to prepare, is
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Speaker 7: there any like caution against diving into too much stuff? Uh?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Again, that's the same kind of like
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Speaker 1: after a bye week, you know, like what do you
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Speaker 1: how are you going to allocate your time? Is it hey,
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Speaker 1: we're trying to get better or fundamentals it takes a
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Speaker 1: certain amount of investment. Hey we're trying to work some
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Speaker 1: situation stuff. There's all sorts of different ways you can
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Speaker 1: kind of allocate your time and invest to try to
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Speaker 1: get your team ready. And so those types of decisions
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Speaker 1: are pretty consistent to work.
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Speaker 6: With joe Yallen day to day And how does she leave?
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Speaker 1: Oh I think I forgot the last time I talked
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Speaker 1: about it, but it was recently. It was like it
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Speaker 1: was in the last week. But the thing that sticks
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Speaker 1: out of me. To me about Jodie was her enthusiasm
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Speaker 1: about where where she wanted our team to be, in
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Speaker 1: our franchise, to be as a vision you know, of
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Speaker 1: of the Seattle Seahawks, you know, And that was during
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Speaker 1: our interview process, and honestly that that's really where it
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Speaker 1: was like, Okay, this is this is something I feel
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Speaker 1: really strongly about that I think that I could help,
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Speaker 1: you know, help create that. And so everything I think
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Speaker 1: has been through that lens, and it's very clear of
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Speaker 1: what type of team she wants. And uh, and she's
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Speaker 1: been incredibly supportive. You know, we haven't hit the mark
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Speaker 1: all the time, and so when she gives feedback, it's
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Speaker 1: it's very simple, it's and it's through like a great
15:53
Speaker 1: lens that normally that like maybe if I'm in the
15:55
Speaker 1: kind of the fog, you don't see it. And uh,
15:59
Speaker 1: and she's and awesome, she's been awesome.
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Speaker 2: You know, we meet weekly and ah, she's been great people.
16:06
Speaker 2: She asked great questions. Yeah, that's kind of That's kind
16:10
Speaker 2: of what I'm getting at.
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Speaker 1: Is like i'd say, like a piercing question, you know,
16:13
Speaker 1: it gets it gets right to the point and and
16:17
Speaker 1: and it's helpful you know when you look at it
16:19
Speaker 1: through that lens of hey, you know that we're kind
16:22
Speaker 1: of we're going in the same direction here.
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Speaker 2: It really it's been really great. You meet here every week.
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Speaker 2: It's on zoom and is it midweek right after game,
16:31
Speaker 2: it's a day after the game.
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Speaker 8: One of the things that John said yesterday is that
16:35
Speaker 8: he noticed back in the summer some of that, like
16:38
Speaker 8: especially with the newcomers, like guy like Sam coming in.
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Speaker 2: That immediately was close and connected.
16:43
Speaker 8: And certainly that's something you be from the outside we've
16:44
Speaker 8: noticed with that team when you first saw that too,
16:47
Speaker 8: did that kind of gets you thinking, Okay, like these
16:49
Speaker 8: new guys are here and it's already like they've been
16:51
Speaker 8: here in a while.
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Speaker 3: That kind of give you an indication.
16:53
Speaker 2: Of what might be coming.
16:56
Speaker 1: You know, It's tricky because it's it's it's our second year,
16:58
Speaker 1: so it's not like, hey, we've been doing this for
17:01
Speaker 1: a ton of time. Okay, Hey, newcomer comes in, what
17:05
Speaker 1: do we do. It's like the way I saw it was, Hey,
17:08
Speaker 1: we showed up. We had to talk about an intention,
17:10
Speaker 1: like we had the intention we had and I felt
17:12
Speaker 1: alignment through our team throughout the off season program. And
17:16
Speaker 1: so because you're on a new team every year, and
17:19
Speaker 1: so you're trying to feel out, hey, you know, kind
17:21
Speaker 1: of where are we going, what's the direction here? How
17:23
Speaker 1: we what are the daily inputs that we're doing, and
17:26
Speaker 1: it just you go back and look at it now.
17:28
Speaker 1: It was just we just kept hitting the mark and
17:31
Speaker 1: the guys there's a lot of credit. It's not easy
17:33
Speaker 1: to do that every day, and Sam led the charge.
17:34
Speaker 1: I mean we talked about this last week, but our
17:36
Speaker 1: our off season offensive.
17:40
Speaker 2: Attendance was was tremendous. Felt like we had the whole
17:42
Speaker 2: team here every day.
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Speaker 6: Right, dangerous.
17:46
Speaker 2: What's the balance between staying disciplined and come out, Drake
17:51
Speaker 2: yea with.
17:52
Speaker 6: Staying discipline, your rushing the lanes, but also being aggresive
17:55
Speaker 6: trying to.
17:55
Speaker 7: Get them on the ground.
17:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great point. I think there's times for both.
17:59
Speaker 1: So we're going through that process right now of how
18:02
Speaker 1: we want to play. I think the key is trying
18:04
Speaker 1: to create as many of those situations as possible.
18:07
Speaker 2: But he is a tremendous player, he really is.
18:12
Speaker 1: He's strong, he's fast, I mean, you know all the things,
18:14
Speaker 1: great on talent, great decision making, a Yeah, we got
18:19
Speaker 1: to be we gotta be on our stuff up front.
18:22
Speaker 7: In off of the injury report for the Patriots, how
18:25
Speaker 7: much do you take that into account at this point?
18:27
Speaker 3: No, is it helpful to have a guy like Jalen
18:30
Speaker 3: Milroe on scout team replicating kind of that mobility?
18:36
Speaker 1: Uh, I'd say yeah. I mean it's great to have
18:38
Speaker 1: Jalen repping for us. He does a great job. Drew
18:41
Speaker 1: does a phenomenal job. I think you know when you
18:44
Speaker 1: nailed it with the rush or when you didn't. You know,
18:47
Speaker 1: if there's either through execution or how it feels throughout
18:50
Speaker 1: the play, you know, maybe you do want them to
18:53
Speaker 1: throw it on time because you're trying to get and
18:55
Speaker 1: there's kind of reasons for how you're going to play
18:56
Speaker 1: each play, so.
18:58
Speaker 2: You don't want to slow him down either.
19:00
Speaker 1: You want them to go play quarterbacks so you can
19:01
Speaker 1: get a great look Joshua Thong. For so long there
19:06
Speaker 1: in New England, how is it still setting the same
19:08
Speaker 1: fundamental offense or does it really evolved with what Drake
19:11
Speaker 1: can do with his legs. Well, it's rooted and I'm
19:16
Speaker 1: it's rooted in their system without having been there the
19:19
Speaker 1: whole time. But have gone against the Patriots for a
19:22
Speaker 1: number of years, there's like the core principles seem like
19:26
Speaker 1: they're there. And then look, you gotta give him a
19:28
Speaker 1: lot of credit. I mean, there's an incredibly efficient offense.
19:30
Speaker 1: It's been explosive. There's definitely some things that they're probably
19:34
Speaker 1: doing that's exclusive to Drake.
19:35
Speaker 2: And as they should.
19:37
Speaker 1: But that's what you'd expect from a great offense is
19:40
Speaker 1: just have a great foundation and be able to build
19:42
Speaker 1: around your players.
19:46
Speaker 2: Okay, or he showed up with Yeah, he's a little.
19:49
Speaker 1: Sore, so we'll kind of we'll manage him over the
19:52
Speaker 1: course of this week. Rest of the week ahead, go ahead, right,
19:58
Speaker 1: I'll get we can do And.
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Speaker 3: Mike, oh yeah, partner, what are you looking forward to
20:03
Speaker 3: most personally beside the game?
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Speaker 2: I honestly, I haven't even thought about it.
20:10
Speaker 1: Within your team, what you do with the team.
20:17
Speaker 2: I can't give you anything.
20:20
Speaker 1: I just I do love being with our team, like
20:22
Speaker 1: it is just take you know, just but I think again,
20:25
Speaker 1: like why go in with expectations, Just kind of go
20:28
Speaker 1: go experience it, you know, Mike.
20:30
Speaker 5: A last quarter?
20:31
Speaker 6: Uh?
20:32
Speaker 8: You always as soon as you're always self assessing, like
20:34
Speaker 8: your play calls, you're.
20:35
Speaker 3: Like a maybe I didn get us in a good
20:36
Speaker 3: play call there.
20:37
Speaker 8: And you also say like you ever think like you
20:39
Speaker 8: might try to throw something in Sunday at warm ups,
20:41
Speaker 8: Like when you look at how you guys got here,
20:42
Speaker 8: what do you think of how you call.
20:44
Speaker 2: The defenses good enough to get us here? It's we're
20:50
Speaker 2: gonna do something tomorrow.
20:51
Speaker 1: It's gonna be funny in the defensive room that uh
20:53
Speaker 1: will highlight some of our poor decisions. But I do think,
21:00
Speaker 1: I do think the players feel when you're in it
21:04
Speaker 1: with them. And so when when you can when you
21:08
Speaker 1: can identify that, hey, I fell short here, that helps
21:13
Speaker 1: them own their mistakes as well. And and again if
21:17
Speaker 1: they if if you're full of crap and you're not,
21:19
Speaker 1: you're blaming the players on every play, like they're going
21:21
Speaker 1: to know, you know, we don't want to live like that.
21:23
Speaker 2: So oh we're here, you know. So that's that's a positive.
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Speaker 2: All right, thank you, all right, thank you. M