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Press Pass | Liam Coen Talks Plan of Attack Before Week 9 at Raiders · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: When you you talk on Monday about having to to
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  Speaker 1: restart the run game by calling more runs. But just
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  Speaker 1: besides calling runs, what do you guys have to do
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  Speaker 1: just sort of get that going.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think getting a little bit healthier up front helps,
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  Speaker 2: just being off a week and getting these guys feeling
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  Speaker 2: better up front to where we can get back to
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  Speaker 2: running off the football, creating a little bit more movement
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  Speaker 2: up front, and just creating a little bit more of
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  Speaker 2: an advantage through maybe different uh you know, you go
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  Speaker 2: run zone gap, different variations can help as well, but
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  Speaker 2: just getting back to running off the football a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more, a little bit more violence, and and you
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  Speaker 2: know it's it all ties in right, like the back.
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  Speaker 2: We had a good conversation this morning in a run
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  Speaker 2: game meeting understanding the intent of the runs.
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  Speaker 3: Whereas it supposed to hit.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's got a job in the run game. It does
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  Speaker 2: take all eleven. But you need watch the self scout
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  Speaker 2: throughout the games that we really.
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  Speaker 3: Ran it best. Everything was tied in right. And this
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  Speaker 3: is not going to always be perfect in the run game.
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  Speaker 2: But if you're coming off the ball, you're playing physically,
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  Speaker 2: your backs are hitting the holes the right way. And
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  Speaker 2: you're calling it more and calling it at more opportune times.
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  Speaker 3: The run game typically has more success.
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  Speaker 4: That point in terms of health of the offensive line.
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  Speaker 4: But also is that kind of what you did? They
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  Speaker 4: just needed a week to get healthier. Did you feel
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  Speaker 4: like changes potentially needs to be made to really get
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  Speaker 4: that line up? Not?
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  Speaker 2: And you know, changes were not really necessary. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think it was just getting a couple of guys feeling
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  Speaker 2: a little bit better.
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  Speaker 3: Right when you got.
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  Speaker 2: Knicks, whether it's at multiple spots on your body or
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is, you don't feel great. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of it has to do with
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  Speaker 2: just getting back to balance, right, Like I've talked about
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  Speaker 2: that a lot is anytime you're balanced, you typically have
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  Speaker 2: an advantage to the opponent where they don't know it's
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  Speaker 2: a typical rundown when you're calling it, or it's a
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  Speaker 2: known pass down you're kind of run it's a non
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  Speaker 2: rundown in kind of pass. Just mixing that up, having
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  Speaker 2: a better feel for it how we're running it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: all right, this run schemes maybe not doing what we
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  Speaker 2: thought it might. We have to adjust to maybe doing
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  Speaker 2: this or hey, it's just we didn't block that well
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  Speaker 2: on this specific play. Run it again, we got it,
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  Speaker 2: will be okay, we can fix it. So kind of
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  Speaker 2: a combination of those things. How advanced is ours for
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  Speaker 2: a second year player in terms of I had a
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  Speaker 2: lot of experience with him in the SEC at Kentucky,
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  Speaker 2: played against them multiple times. Thought he was extremely advanced
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  Speaker 2: at that time. And then yeah, for a second year
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  Speaker 2: player to have he gets in and out of break
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  Speaker 2: so well. I know he was like forty something menche
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  Speaker 2: vertical coming out of high school is a very good athlete.
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  Speaker 2: He's like what you define as a football player. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he just has a knock for getting open. It's harder
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  Speaker 2: to tackle than maybe just looking at the table like
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  Speaker 2: he'll break tackles, drag people down. He knows how to
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  Speaker 2: wiggle and separate, and also the contested catchability.
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  Speaker 3: So very good player. Have a lot of respect for him,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's you're continuing to try to any player
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  Speaker 2: that is maybe not done as much as they'd want to.
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  Speaker 2: You're all, you know, as a player and as a coach,
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  Speaker 2: is to just keep pushing through that there's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a breakthrough at some point here, to just connect
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  Speaker 2: and doing it, and you watch games from last year
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  Speaker 2: because obviously you're watching the Raiders from last year and
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  Speaker 2: you're watching big plays being made and all right, man, like,
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  Speaker 2: just it has to go happen as much as it
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  Speaker 2: can in practice, but also you know in the game
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  Speaker 2: it's got to come to life for that connection to
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  Speaker 2: truly go the way that it needs to go. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, it takes work, it takes patience, it takes time,
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  Speaker 2: and you're just hopeful that it's.
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  Speaker 3: Going to be able to come to life here or
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  Speaker 3: do you have to.
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  Speaker 1: Regard against trying to force it to all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden come again.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you definitely that's always a balance as
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  Speaker 2: a play caller where you want to get something going,
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  Speaker 2: you know, for not just the individual but for the group. Right,
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  Speaker 2: it's to be able to create explosives by throwing the football.
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  Speaker 2: That's definitely something you have to think through. But it's
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  Speaker 2: not really something that I'm you know, as a play
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  Speaker 2: caller sitting there like, man, we just can't. I mean
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  Speaker 2: I threw it forty some times in the last two games.
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  Speaker 2: If I lost confidence in the past game, I probably
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't have done that.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, we still have a lot of confidence.
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  Speaker 3: It was a lot, but yeah, I had a lot
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  Speaker 3: of conversations with Jordan over the last week.
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  Speaker 2: He just gets it, like he does, just get how
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  Speaker 2: to be a pro, how the preparation truly matters, you know,
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  Speaker 2: not trying to maybe play hero ball or do anything
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  Speaker 2: outside of the scheme necessarily, Man, just go do your job.
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  Speaker 2: He communicates at a high level. He just great dude,
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  Speaker 2: you know, great dude that has battled as well. Like
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  Speaker 2: he was talking about, Man, they've tried, they tried to
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  Speaker 2: you know, outdraft me out, bring bring people in every
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  Speaker 2: year to take your spot in this league. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: the ebbs and flows and the highs and lows within
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  Speaker 2: a career, within a season. He's got very good presence
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  Speaker 2: about him, so you know, really need his leadership as
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  Speaker 2: we continue to go, as well as the other guys.
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  Speaker 4: Is the expectations still face downs. Jordan's pretty much a
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  Speaker 4: three down guy. He's going to the outside. He can't
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  Speaker 4: play the nickel inside or do you want to see
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  Speaker 4: more from Newsome? Maybe more from Travis And.
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  Speaker 2: He said, yeah, I think we're kind of exploring that
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  Speaker 2: this week is looking at, you know, where we can
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  Speaker 2: put these guys in a position to take advantage of
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  Speaker 2: their skill sets maybe take some off some guys. So
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  Speaker 2: that's something I can't you know, I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: give away too much. So that's something we're definitely evaluating
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  Speaker 2: throughout the week.
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  Speaker 3: Crossby's game. Yeah, he's creature for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Just the strain, the relentless effort, the batted balls. I
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  Speaker 2: mean they lead the National Football League right now, and
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  Speaker 2: tip balls as a as a defense as a group,
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  Speaker 2: so long, you know, so long that initially, like if
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  Speaker 2: your eyes as a quarterback or maybe at your number
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  Speaker 2: one read right away and it's like quick game or
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is. He does a great job of getting
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  Speaker 2: his hands on balls, and then if it is a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of a longer developing pass play, well that's
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  Speaker 2: when you just kind of see him relentlessly strain and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's just so long in terms of his legs,
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  Speaker 2: the bounding, his ability to get to the quarterback. And
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  Speaker 2: then the way he's played the run. They've played the
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  Speaker 2: run well as a defense all year as well. So
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  Speaker 2: somebody we've we were definitely aware of. Do you see
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  Speaker 2: a lot of Pete's influence that you're facing in Seattle?
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  Speaker 2: Some I've got a lot of respect for for Patrick
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  Speaker 2: Graham as the defense. Win against him last year we
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  Speaker 2: jumped out early and then they got a couple of takeaways,
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  Speaker 2: created some.
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  Speaker 3: Some pressure on us.
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  Speaker 2: He does a nice job of mixing in you know,
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  Speaker 2: the zone, the zeros, the pressures.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You can definitely see a little bit more with Jamal
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  Speaker 2: Adams in there and Chin a little bit more zone
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  Speaker 2: and kind of playing Jamal a little bit more at
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  Speaker 2: that big nickel position, whether it's in twelve, eleven or thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: So they're very balanced in the way that they try
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  Speaker 2: to attack you. And I know, you know, have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of respect for coach Carroll as well in terms
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  Speaker 2: of defensively as a leader in general. But you can
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  Speaker 2: see the combination of coach Carroll and Coach Graham's influence
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  Speaker 2: on that defense.
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  Speaker 3: That's a great question. You know.
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  Speaker 2: Something I was trying to Trevor about is like, I
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  Speaker 2: think maybe the teams that maybe identify I guess you
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  Speaker 2: could say an issue right issue or somewhere where you're underperforming,
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  Speaker 2: slash where you're what you're doing well and either coming
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  Speaker 2: into this week right of their next game, addressing those tangibly,
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  Speaker 2: like all right, we want to improve in this area, Well,
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  Speaker 2: if you just say it might not get done. You
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  Speaker 2: usually from players you get what you emphasize.
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  Speaker 3: Very very often.
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  Speaker 2: And so if there's areas where you're trying to show
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  Speaker 2: and improve, not just talking about it or getting the
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  Speaker 2: stats and showing it well, going out addressing it in
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  Speaker 2: the meeting, showing the examples, but then applying it to practice,
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  Speaker 2: applying it to.
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  Speaker 3: The walkthroughs of Okay, guys, these are.
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  Speaker 2: The tangible areas where we need to improve and what
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  Speaker 2: we want to improve upon and actually go attack it.
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  Speaker 2: I think maybe those are some ways where you can
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  Speaker 2: look at people having success off of the buy is
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  Speaker 2: are you addressing those areas tangibly with the way that
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  Speaker 2: you prepare, the way that you practice, and then obviously
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  Speaker 2: trying to go execute those things in a game. How
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  Speaker 2: that had an influence on how you learn the game
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  Speaker 2: and how costruction of a lot. He was one of
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  Speaker 2: the first guys to offer me a scholarship. Chip Kelly
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  Speaker 2: was Mark Whipple was the first, then Chip was second
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  Speaker 2: at New Hampshire and those were our arrival u mess
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  Speaker 2: New Hampshire was a rivalry played against coach Kelly multiple
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  Speaker 2: times when he was the offensive coordinator at New Hampshire
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  Speaker 2: and they were doing stuff that not a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people were doing, uh in our conference and around the country.
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  Speaker 2: Fast forward a year, he goes from New Hampshire, CE
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  Speaker 2: to Oregon and the northeast is like, wait, what not
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  Speaker 2: because you didn't expect it. It was just it hadn't really
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  Speaker 2: happened that jump before and it.
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  Speaker 3: Was very well deserved.
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  Speaker 2: So so much respect for for Chip and for Man.
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  Speaker 2: We talked a ton last year. We've always stayed in
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  Speaker 2: close contact over the years, and you could just see
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  Speaker 2: the creativity, the ability to try to get the ball
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  Speaker 2: in playmaker's hands, like they're trying to find their way
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  Speaker 2: as an offense and new offense with new playmakers, just
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  Speaker 2: as we are in a lot of ways. And but
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  Speaker 2: I you know, fully expect them to have a good
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  Speaker 2: plan of attack coming off the buy. You talk about
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  Speaker 2: him as a player and what he's trying to bet
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  Speaker 2: to the team. Yeah, a little bit more on the
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  Speaker 2: quieter side early getting to know him and.
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  Speaker 3: Then you you you.
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  Speaker 2: Talk to him and you hear a very mature dude,
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  Speaker 2: and just he had specific goals that he wanted to uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, accomplish this season and I thought he attacked
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  Speaker 2: it in the exact right way. Like you look at
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  Speaker 2: the offseason program, wanting to get faster, a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more athletic, be a little bit more dynamic. I thought
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  Speaker 2: he attacked it the right way. He came in training camp.
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  Speaker 2: We had multiple conversations with him and just this is
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  Speaker 2: what I expect. These are my expectations for myself as
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  Speaker 2: a player and how I.
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  Speaker 3: Can help this defense in this team.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what it's been the entire time that I've
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  Speaker 2: gotten to know Devin. He's obviously made a ton of
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  Speaker 2: huge plays for us this season and have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of respect for the player in persons.
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  Speaker 1: Miss so much time. Is it a challenge to figure
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  Speaker 1: out how they want to utilize him because they're probably
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  Speaker 1: going to face him, but not a lot of filling
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  Speaker 1: out on this particular version of the Raiders.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you look at obviously years maybe last
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  Speaker 2: year as well, and then early in the season, I
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  Speaker 2: mean the first player of the season against the Patriots,
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  Speaker 2: they got him the ball on the first very first
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  Speaker 2: player of the entire season, so you know that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when he's healthy and available, he's somebody that they definitely
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  Speaker 2: want to get the ball in his hands, and so
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  Speaker 2: as you go throughout the work week and you see,
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  Speaker 2: all right, where's eighty nine, Like, we've got to make
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  Speaker 2: sure we understand where he is because he's in the
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  Speaker 2: hip at tight end, he's in an inline stance, he's
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  Speaker 2: in the slot, he's out at one. They definitely want
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  Speaker 2: to move him around as the weapon that he is.
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  Speaker 2: So I think we, I don't want to say over prepare,
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  Speaker 2: but definitely more on the side of they're going to
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  Speaker 2: want to get him going than not.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Friday and the NFLPA or mining everybody about
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  Speaker 1: the gamily policy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys are going to Vegas week.
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  Speaker 1: How much sy you spent this week reminding them the rules?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that was Monday, Monday, and we will readdress
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  Speaker 2: on Friday in the team meetings. That is, I know,
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  Speaker 2: something that we're all taking seriously. This is a business trip.
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  Speaker 2: We should have absolutely zero issues with that. But I
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  Speaker 2: understand and appreciate the uh, you know, seriousness of it all.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's real, it's it's happening in our world.
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  Speaker 2: The obviously, the fantasy, the betting and all that. It's
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  Speaker 2: a big deal in this in our world. And so
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  Speaker 2: we addressed it on Monday, we'll address it again before
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  Speaker 2: we leave that guys, this is we're going a little
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  Speaker 2: bit earlier in the morning, Saturday morning, obviously, with Florida
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  Speaker 2: Georgia coming up this weekend, so we're getting out there earlier.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be practicing at a local school. But when we
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  Speaker 2: do get back to that hotel, guys, this is we're
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  Speaker 2: all business here, no sports at all at all. They
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  Speaker 2: don't even don't even go have a dinner in there. Guys, like,
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  Speaker 2: let's just stay away. We've got great food in in
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  Speaker 2: in our area here. There's just let's just stay away
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  Speaker 2: from all that, okay,