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Head Coach Mike Macdonald On The 18-16 Win vs. The Colts In Week 15 · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Man, it was a great football game. Now, you got
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  Speaker 1: to give the Cols a lot of credit. They had
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  Speaker 1: a great game plan, executed it well. And I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you what our guys just, you know, we just fight
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  Speaker 1: tooth and nail to the absolute end. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: like wins in this league are come in all different
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  Speaker 1: shapes and sizes, and great teams figure out a way
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  Speaker 1: to win games, and that's what we're trying to be,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So I'm proud of our effort. Man. We
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  Speaker 1: are mentally tough. We stuck together. There's plenty obviously we
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  Speaker 1: want to work on and improve, but the way we
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  Speaker 1: close that game out was just phenomenal, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: in terms of the fight Jane, my six field goals,
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  Speaker 1: having each other's backs, a great kickoff return there at
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  Speaker 1: the end, Cope with the pick. I mean, just a great,
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  Speaker 1: great effort, you know, great effort. There's things that we
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  Speaker 1: want to we're going to learn from out of this game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, red zone time and possession, field position, defensively,
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  Speaker 1: being able to adjust as the game goes on, which
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  Speaker 1: I thought we did a job of. But that's gonna happen,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So games are going to be like this
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  Speaker 1: coming down the stretch. And so it's, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta learn figure out ways to win them.
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  Speaker 1: And so I'm proud that we did. You mentioned alrighty,
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  Speaker 1: but six or six with a fifty six yards front
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  Speaker 1: and you want to ke bags game? Yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: just talking about picking each other up, just being there
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  Speaker 1: when we need them, being ready steady. I mean I
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  Speaker 1: think our operate, our field goal operation and protection was
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  Speaker 1: really good too. But yeah, it was just six field goals, man,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's not what you want, but when needed,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's great to have them when you go on
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  Speaker 1: the line and you wanted to start using your timeouts
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  Speaker 1: some deep minutes when they got when when the ball
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  Speaker 1: got weird, say, well, it's kind of a function of
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  Speaker 1: like hey, you know, as it is this kind of
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  Speaker 1: declared as the last possession even though they still let
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  Speaker 1: three timeouts. You know, you just you're trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: out a way like if you know, if it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: go your way, you got a chance to come back
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  Speaker 1: and win it. So and Brian Aires did a phenomenal
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  Speaker 1: job managing it, and he was really decisive and and
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  Speaker 1: then and really credit I gave him a lot of credit,
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  Speaker 1: got a game ball in the in the locker room
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  Speaker 1: because he really put us in position to go still
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  Speaker 1: have a chance to win the game. Assessing day, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna kick from almost any distance. When they got there,
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  Speaker 1: I was actually deeper than we anticipated. So the guy
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  Speaker 1: made a heck of a kick, you know so, I
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  Speaker 1: thought we thought he was beyond his line, but he
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  Speaker 1: made it. He made a tremendous kick. Was there something
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  Speaker 1: that did because obviously he's a guy and you're facing
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  Speaker 1: a forty four yettle quarterback hasn't played in five years,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe just sort of a human nature, perhaps a
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  Speaker 1: look ahead or seemed like the team came in a
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  Speaker 1: little letharging today, especially in the first half. Now we're
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  Speaker 1: trying to we do our process and we go attack
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  Speaker 1: it and let's go. Now, they had a really good
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  Speaker 1: game plan in terms of how they were operating and
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  Speaker 1: and I mean you got to take your hat off
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  Speaker 1: to to fill. I mean, he's just a great job
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  Speaker 1: managing the game. Didn't put the ball in jeopardy until
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  Speaker 1: he had to. We could have put probably forced some
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  Speaker 1: more of those situations, but they did a good job,
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  Speaker 1: you know so, and is what it is. They're a
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  Speaker 1: good football team, all back in the starting lineup at center.
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  Speaker 1: For you guys, say we went into that decision, wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: you kind of think on this, Yeah, we get well
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  Speaker 1: first of all, who you know did a phenomenal job
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  Speaker 1: filling in for him, and uh, we felt like, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Janeen was a starter before and he was
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  Speaker 1: healthy and ready to go and had a great week
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  Speaker 1: of practice, so we went with Jalen. What do you
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  Speaker 1: make the offense struggling in the first half like it did, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we got to improve. We gotta be better, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta start faster. You know, we'll look at our
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  Speaker 1: look at our openers here. It's a couple of games
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  Speaker 1: now where our openers weren't hitting as well as we want,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll look at it, you know, but we want
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  Speaker 1: to be on the start fast. I mean, the field
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  Speaker 1: position in the first half was was we were in
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  Speaker 1: tough situations, you know, like the field was definitely tilted
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  Speaker 1: against us. So when we're in those situations, we gotta
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  Speaker 1: we got to get out of those things. And then
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  Speaker 1: when we did that, we have a big kick return
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  Speaker 1: there at some point, and you know, so it flipped again.
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  Speaker 1: So we got to improve in that area. They're a
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  Speaker 1: pretty good run defense overall. But what'd you see from
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  Speaker 1: your inability to kind of get going there today with
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  Speaker 1: Arni La Yeah, just you know, when you don't have
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  Speaker 1: the ball, it's hard to you know, stick and get
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  Speaker 1: and find a bunch of different runs to get to.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the first thing. We have to be more
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  Speaker 1: effective early so we can you know, get down to
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  Speaker 1: our game plan and and and find some ways to
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  Speaker 1: run it. And uh, we got a star faster, we
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  Speaker 1: got to block it better. We gotta run it better,
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  Speaker 1: get a game plan it better. The whole thing could
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  Speaker 1: How good was Sam with the last drive? And then
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  Speaker 1: once you got to where you did, did you feel
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  Speaker 1: comfortable with Jason fifty six there? Well? He was inside
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  Speaker 1: of it. Well, first, Sam did a great job, you
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  Speaker 1: know they the first play was awesome and then you
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  Speaker 1: know they're they're gonna be pretty aggressive there once you're
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  Speaker 1: out the line, And it was decisive getting the ball
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  Speaker 1: on the sideline, and thought Clint did a good job
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  Speaker 1: calling it. But that's of stuff we work all the time.
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  Speaker 1: And Sam, I mean, he's been he's been tremendous for
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  Speaker 1: us and too minute this year but you know, obviously
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  Speaker 1: we want to we would like to get the first down.
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  Speaker 1: I mean every yard matters in some of those field
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  Speaker 1: goal positions, field goal things, so you know, we're trying
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  Speaker 1: to move forward. But once you're in, you know, obviously
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to go backwards. Once you're inside the
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  Speaker 1: inside range in the back like Taylor under one hundred
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  Speaker 1: yards under four years of carriage, when do you think
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  Speaker 1: to run? Yeah, I'll tell you what I mean. Our
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  Speaker 1: front I thought really battled, you know, I mean, playing
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  Speaker 1: a lot of those runs and split safety. That's really
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  Speaker 1: what we do, and and they did a great job.
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  Speaker 1: Now there's some things like it's great to have Riley
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  Speaker 1: go out there and and have his first game experience,
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  Speaker 1: and he's gonna learn from some of these things about
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  Speaker 1: you know what it's like. But I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I got a good a lot of credis out there.
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  Speaker 1: He's battling and I hadn't done it in a long time,
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  Speaker 1: So it was great to have him appreciate. He to
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  Speaker 1: be as much of a factor as who was in
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  Speaker 1: the last drive. Is how important is that? Yeah? I
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  Speaker 1: mean incredibly important. We don't move the ball, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: lose the game. You know, so someone's got a step
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  Speaker 1: and make a play, and you got to do it
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  Speaker 1: in a hurry. You know, you have no timeouts, and
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  Speaker 1: so you got to get the ball down the field.
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  Speaker 1: When you saw how Rivers was throwing it, how did
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  Speaker 1: you change either in coverage or pressure. Well, we I mean,
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  Speaker 1: i'd say, you like threw it effectively when he needed to,
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  Speaker 1: and so, but it became clear that you know, the
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  Speaker 1: offense that they had been running that was was taking
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  Speaker 1: a pretty dramatic shift. So we had to do it
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  Speaker 1: as well. But you can only run the things that
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  Speaker 1: you've been wrapping. You can't just invent defense. We had
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  Speaker 1: a couple of adjustments in terms of some covered structures
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  Speaker 1: that we haven't wrapped all week, and the guys did
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  Speaker 1: a great job with that, but it probably altered how
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  Speaker 1: we called some of the things that like some of
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  Speaker 1: the categories of how we game plan when we're going
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  Speaker 1: to call certain coverage and certain situations. But that's pretty
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  Speaker 1: much part for the court. You're kind of doing that
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  Speaker 1: every game. Make you play tighter on their receivers. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the ball wasn't going down the field. I wouldn't say,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it altered, like the matchiness of our calls.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that earlier wins come in all shades
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  Speaker 1: and sizes. You've had a lot of wins this here
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  Speaker 1: by pretty big margins. It's just good for the guys
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  Speaker 1: to have. Yeah, yeah, that's a great point, Johnny, Like
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  Speaker 1: I think it is, you know. I mean, it's great
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  Speaker 1: to win by multiple scores and put games away in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. We'll take those every time they give it,
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  Speaker 1: you know. But this is the NFL, and these teams
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  Speaker 1: are really really good, and I'm just proud that we
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  Speaker 1: we fought and found a way to win these you know,
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  Speaker 1: this tight game because this is this is what it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be like, you know, from from here on out.
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  Speaker 1: I felt like the first three quarters and change that
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  Speaker 1: they were able to consistently an extra rusher after Sam
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  Speaker 1: and get him off the get him off his spot.
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  Speaker 1: And how did you see that change in the fourth
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  Speaker 1: quarter with the win, the pass protections holding up and
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  Speaker 1: given in the time start, Well, we blew one pass
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  Speaker 1: protection that we just we repped all week and we
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  Speaker 1: just had a just an absolute metal air. But I
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  Speaker 1: thought our protection plan was good, and you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think they had another free runner on a four run
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  Speaker 1: on other than that, I mean, you know, I just
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  Speaker 1: I felt like we probably needed, you know, more more
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  Speaker 1: ways to get the ball out and those in those situations,
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  Speaker 1: but we just stuck to it and kept playing. So
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say they had an extra runner all game.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a couple of plays. Ad left and then
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  Speaker 1: came back as he Okay, I guess, yeah, it's my knowledge,
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  Speaker 1: is okay with Derek's all right, Yeah, here to go,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, Okay, all right, thank you,