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Press Pass | Liam Coen on Team Performance in Week 1 · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Right out of time.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go nice do it.
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  Speaker 1: Did you chances out with some of the roses, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, I think, you know, I mean, being
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  Speaker 1: able to be with my family after.
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  Speaker 2: The game was pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: You know, rewatched it with the family a little bit
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  Speaker 1: and got to hang out with my kids.
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  Speaker 2: And my wife, which was nice to take some moments there.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm really happy for the for the team,
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  Speaker 1: for us, for all, you know, for all the guys involved.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, now you're on at the next one.
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  Speaker 2: How much was your heart beating on the fourth and
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  Speaker 2: one early in.
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  Speaker 1: The game with that call and and didn't beat any
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  Speaker 1: faster when you watch it back.
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  Speaker 2: Uh No, I mean I think it was.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny because it was very eerily similar to Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: preseason one, right where you're kind of in this similar situation,
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  Speaker 1: similar place on the field. We I kind of asked
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  Speaker 1: the guys real quick, like what do we think, and
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  Speaker 1: it was very clear from everybody on the headsets like
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  Speaker 1: once it go zone. But yeah, I guess on your
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  Speaker 1: first drive Colin plays as a head coach, it's probably
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  Speaker 1: it makes it a little bit more. But I think
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  Speaker 1: data and analytics would say to go I would say
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  Speaker 1: very high percentage, but had confidence in the call that
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  Speaker 1: we that we had prepared for that moment.
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  Speaker 2: Uh and the guys executed. Shoot.
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  Speaker 1: It could have been a bigger play if we didn't trip,
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  Speaker 1: but it's pleased with the execution of that moment. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: it didn't pay off with a touchdown on that drive,
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  Speaker 1: but it was still a scoring drive. There was a
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  Speaker 1: message that was playing in your head like yeah, no,
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  Speaker 1: we we wanted to go into the game though, being
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  Speaker 1: slightly aggressive with the fourth down mentality, and it's more like,
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  Speaker 1: as we get to know each other, as we get
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  Speaker 1: to know this team, that's kind of that that made
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  Speaker 1: the ebbs and.
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  Speaker 2: Flows of it.
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  Speaker 1: But to start there is where we wanted to start
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  Speaker 1: with a fourth down that we had been successful converting
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  Speaker 1: in the preseason in those moments, So it was really
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  Speaker 1: just carryover. Wasn't necessarily a message. It was more so like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: this has kind of been our mentality throughout the preseason
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  Speaker 1: and through training camp, was to try to be aggressive
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  Speaker 1: in some of those moments.
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  Speaker 3: Was an issue of toughness, and I know there was
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  Speaker 3: some big hits, not necessarily that, but the toughness in
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  Speaker 3: that situation. He just talks about the toughness and force
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  Speaker 3: and turnovers them.
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  Speaker 2: The two fourth down situations in the third quarter.
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  Speaker 3: But a defense at a period where the offense kind
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  Speaker 3: of went a little bit second and in all fays
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  Speaker 3: besides of the ball. Did you see the kind of
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  Speaker 3: toughness that you've been preaching that you wanted for these guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it definitely showed up.
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  Speaker 1: It's nice to know a lot of the things that
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  Speaker 1: we've been preaching since we arrived.
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  Speaker 2: Did show up yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: And was it perfect by any means, No, But to
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  Speaker 1: start week one off physically the way we did, you
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  Speaker 1: can always know. Now it gives us a great opportunity
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  Speaker 1: with showing that, displaying that, getting the win now it
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  Speaker 1: allows us to continue to coach hard and to fix
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  Speaker 1: some of the issues that we had, clean.
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  Speaker 2: Up the details.
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  Speaker 1: But when you can start there and say, guys, look,
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  Speaker 1: if this is going to be part of our DNA, for.
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  Speaker 2: It to show up in week one matters.
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  Speaker 1: It does matter because a lot of the things that
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  Speaker 1: you're preaching did show up. Whereas if it wouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: or didn't, it just becomes a little bit harder. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the players are kind of like, well, really, you know,
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  Speaker 1: are we really.
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  Speaker 2: Going to listen to all this?
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  Speaker 1: And so it just helps with the team with our
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  Speaker 1: whole buy in of everything that we're trying to do,
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  Speaker 1: and we know to go win games in this league
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  Speaker 1: where we would like to, you know, be able to
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  Speaker 1: continue to go, We're going to have to be able
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  Speaker 1: to do that on both sides of the ball.
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  Speaker 2: Really and all three phases really good. No nobody that
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  Speaker 2: should be yeah fine, just backspasm.
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  Speaker 1: So really no, nothing that should hold us this week
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  Speaker 1: came out pretty clean.
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  Speaker 2: Decision on Mason. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think it came down to, you know, lack of
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  Speaker 1: reps and opportunities throughout the training camp. Had did feel
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  Speaker 1: like we had some guys that have been able to
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  Speaker 1: reduce down a little bit with with Smoot and Ogba
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  Speaker 1: and Austin Johnson that have played a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just gonna take. You know, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: gonna say how long. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: We want to get him out there and want to
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  Speaker 1: get him going. It's it's a guy that we have
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  Speaker 1: confidence moving forward with that we want to get into
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  Speaker 1: the fold. It was just a matter of I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to say numbers, but with the lack of sample
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  Speaker 1: size that we had going into week one with having
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  Speaker 1: to try to create numbers.
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  Speaker 2: For the active roster is kind of just how it
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  Speaker 2: played out.
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  Speaker 1: We fully expect him to continue to grow, continue to
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  Speaker 1: go in the right direction and help us contribute.
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  Speaker 3: It seems like Britain's made a lot of.
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  Speaker 2: You guys doing home.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's He played his tail off, I mean he did.
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  Speaker 1: He was physical on the run, game was explosive when
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  Speaker 1: he had the ball in his hands, made a couple.
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  Speaker 2: Of good catches.
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  Speaker 1: But his ability to be able to either whether it's
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  Speaker 1: at the point of attack or slicing across the formation.
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  Speaker 2: He plays violently and he.
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  Speaker 1: Helps set the tone for our offense to be able
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  Speaker 1: to go and run the football, whether you're gonna run
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  Speaker 1: at the tight end or run away from the tight end.
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  Speaker 1: He's physical and he finishes, he strains. You know, everybody
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  Speaker 1: sees it, and they all have kind of seen it
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  Speaker 1: all throughout. You know, this whole training camp is his
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  Speaker 1: physicality and playing the game the right way.
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  Speaker 2: So was really pleased with the way that he.
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  Speaker 1: Performed on Sunday and looked to continue to build off that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's great to be able to come in and you know,
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  Speaker 1: he gave us really quality snaps throughout the game, but
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  Speaker 1: also to you know, be at the right spot at
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  Speaker 1: the right time and catch a touchdown pass for him
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  Speaker 1: in his career is pretty cool. An operational glitches on
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  Speaker 1: the sideline, not not like when you're talking about getting
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  Speaker 1: plays and stuff like that, but just the way things
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  Speaker 1: were gonna work on the sideline from the headsets or anything.
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  Speaker 2: And it's pretty clean.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, uh, you know from the I think my
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  Speaker 1: mic cut out one time, grant you know, a couple
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  Speaker 1: of mic cutouts, But it wasn't anything where we were
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  Speaker 1: stuck in the wrong personnel groupings or substitution errors and miscommunications.
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  Speaker 2: Like yeah, was it perfect?
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  Speaker 1: No, But I nothing that truly comes to mind that
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  Speaker 1: was like, man, we gotta fix this. This needs to
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  Speaker 1: get fixed or else it's gonna cost us. Nothing like
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  Speaker 1: that occurred. I thought it was pretty clean from an
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  Speaker 1: operation standpoint. Thomas Junior's day. How do you kind of
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  Speaker 1: get him.
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  Speaker 2: Going to the massing game? What should happen?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think we try to get him a
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  Speaker 1: touch on the first or second drive of the game,
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  Speaker 1: first play of the game, right, we don't convert it,
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  Speaker 1: throw him a screen low doesn't come down with it,
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  Speaker 1: and then the flow of the game, we missed him
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  Speaker 1: on an in breaker which he had a lot of
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  Speaker 1: room to run, missed him on a corner route where
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  Speaker 1: he was fairly open, and then missed you know, had
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  Speaker 1: the one on the out of bounds. So you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about that's five catches right there. That gets him into
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  Speaker 1: the flow of it. It's just the way the game went.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, we got to details of route running, timing, depth,
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback protection, everything goes into it. So I fully
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  Speaker 1: anticipated him being able to get going.
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  Speaker 2: How did you do.
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  Speaker 1: Against your fast standard right that you offered here in
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  Speaker 1: your first news conference, first game, How did it turn out?
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  Speaker 2: Were they what you wanted them to be? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: would I would say so in a lot of ways.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we just gave out a bunch of t
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  Speaker 1: shirts that you know, had players of the game that
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  Speaker 1: you know represented those things. You know, so fundamentally sound
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  Speaker 1: attacking situational master is tough. We you know, after each
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  Speaker 1: game we have the game balls, but then we also
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  Speaker 1: give out some of those shirts of guys that represented
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  Speaker 1: our style of play the right way.
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  Speaker 2: So we are continuing to.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of magnify that and make sure that that gets emphasized.
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  Speaker 2: Week to week.
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  Speaker 1: I think if you look at being fundamentally sound, I
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  Speaker 1: mean there was definitely things fundamentally that we can fix.
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  Speaker 1: But I did think overall with sharp attacking, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you look at doing it the right way, attacking in
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  Speaker 1: both the run in the past, and then defensively getting
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  Speaker 1: their hands on the ball situationally before the half, being
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  Speaker 1: able to handle that get points.
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  Speaker 2: That was a big time.
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  Speaker 1: And then obviously in the you know two minute at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the game, you get the interception and
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  Speaker 1: kneel on it. So and I don't think there was
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  Speaker 1: any question that we were tough. So yeah, absolutely think
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  Speaker 1: it showed up.
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  Speaker 2: What did anthd he tell you about or after the
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  Speaker 2: first game.
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  Speaker 1: First time call plays and the coordinator was relieved, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what was he like?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I actually reached out to him after the game and
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  Speaker 1: just kind of let him.
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  Speaker 2: Know I was.
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  Speaker 1: I was pleased with the way that he called it.
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  Speaker 1: I was pleased with the way that they were prepared.
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  Speaker 1: I think they were prepared. They played hard, and he
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  Speaker 1: had some timely you know, pressure calls, especially against the
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  Speaker 1: run that gave us some opportunities to knock them back,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, there's calls you want back. There's multiple calls
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  Speaker 1: we always want back. Those are the ones that kind
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  Speaker 1: of haunt you even after wins. But I think he
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  Speaker 1: he called it well, you know, for his first time
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  Speaker 1: doing it in a live game. I thought he was calm,
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  Speaker 1: The calls were coming in, guys were under control, communicated.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't perfect, but I was pleased with him him,
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  Speaker 1: and I think he can take some confidence from this
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  Speaker 1: and continue to go forward.
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  Speaker 2: That's hard Trevor stuff. Does it go back to something?
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  Speaker 2: Was it footwork? Yeah, there was some footwork things.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there was a couple on the mistargeted throws
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  Speaker 1: that you know, if you look at he's nineteen at
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  Speaker 1: thirty one. We missed four screens, no, three screens on
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  Speaker 1: Omaha to Diami on the right sideline, and then you
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  Speaker 1: talk about the one to BT. It's like a few
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  Speaker 1: of those and he's twenty five at thirty one for
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  Speaker 1: two hundred plus. And now you're talking it's not about
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  Speaker 1: the stats. It's about the balance, you know, It's about
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  Speaker 1: the balance. And so if you're sitting there saying he
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  Speaker 1: could have been twenty five or thirty one for two
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  Speaker 1: hundred plus and you try to eliminate the turnover.
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  Speaker 2: You're sitting there saying he had a damn good game.
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  Speaker 1: So what's nice is that I thought he operated the
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  Speaker 1: offense really well. I thought he had a great command
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  Speaker 1: and to use his cadence. We got the free play response.
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  Speaker 1: There were some really good things that did show up.
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  Speaker 1: I thought in the middle. I thought he was very
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  Speaker 1: accurate on some of the curls and stop routes, and
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  Speaker 1: he ran twice for two big first downs, which was
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  Speaker 1: critical for us. So, you know, some things to build
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  Speaker 1: off of, but we're still you know, continuing to coach
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  Speaker 1: and work on the footwork and mechanics and those could
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  Speaker 1: definitely they're definitely fixable.
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  Speaker 2: Was your assessment of the pass protection yesterday for your team?
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was very good, you know, to go
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  Speaker 1: in the game as the ol and Backs and say
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  Speaker 1: we ran for two hundred and did not allow a sack.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's positive to be able to build off of.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely were trying to in the mindset of get the
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  Speaker 1: ball moving, get it spitting, kind of keep things going,
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  Speaker 1: not really hold on to it in week one early
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  Speaker 1: in the game, so we probably didn't push the ball
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  Speaker 1: down the field as much as maybe we would like.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I was pleased with those guys up front,
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  Speaker 1: the communication, guys being on the right, people running. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Quinn Allen's pick up, uh, you know before the half
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  Speaker 1: on the on the dagger that we caught to Diami
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  Speaker 1: was a great pickup on a corner blitz. I thought
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  Speaker 1: they did a nice job in protection. They were trying
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  Speaker 1: to get you know, Hainesy, those guys trying to get
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  Speaker 1: extra hits in there and cleaning up the pocket. I
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  Speaker 1: thought they did a nice job. So the penalties on
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  Speaker 1: the offensive line was that stuff that's fixable.
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  Speaker 2: You feel like, yeah, I do.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you look at you had one pre snap.
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  Speaker 1: You have one delay game and a pre snap. So
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't as if it was a ton of sloppy,
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  Speaker 1: undisciplined stuff. It was second and third level reactions that
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  Speaker 1: were either you know, not moving our feet, not in
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  Speaker 1: the proper body position, our hands are outside, you know,
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  Speaker 1: some of those things that when you get the bullets
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  Speaker 1: flying and a live game rep you start reaching for
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  Speaker 1: straws a little bit instead of moving your feet and
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  Speaker 1: playing underneath yourself.
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  Speaker 2: And that's definitely what occurred.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we all know holding can be called on
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  Speaker 1: any play, you know, for us to have eleven and
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  Speaker 1: then four is you know, obviously a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a difference there. So you know, hopefully we can clean
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  Speaker 1: up some of those things and be able to eliminate
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  Speaker 1: those second and twenties that we have to kind of overcome,
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  Speaker 1: because those are going to become really difficult to overcome
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  Speaker 1: as you continue to move forward.
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  Speaker 3: I got a little.
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  Speaker 2: With the kickoffs, yeah, you know, a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: It was definitely, you know, a little frustrating for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I think for himself, you know, like he was frustrated
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  Speaker 1: with himself. Don't want to really necessarily say anything to
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  Speaker 1: him about it. It was more, you know, we addressed it.
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  Speaker 1: He was up here early with Heath just expressing that
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  Speaker 1: frustration that he wants to really work a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more tirelessly on that throughout the week and figure out
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  Speaker 1: exactly what was going on with some of those things.
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  Speaker 1: I fully anticipate him being able to get that thing
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  Speaker 1: squared away. I was proud of the way he kicked
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  Speaker 1: the ball through the uprights, obviously, even though I hate
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  Speaker 1: kicking field goals. But uh yeah, we'll get that cleaned up.
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  Speaker 1: I was, you know, he was up here early this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Is one of the first guys in the building. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: thank you guys,