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Press Pass | Mike Caldwell: "Prepare for the unknown" · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: He coach. First of all, just hope you're doing well
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  Speaker 1: with the hurricane and everything. Um, but you know everyone
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  Speaker 1: has talked about the different parts of your defense. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you about Davon Hamilton's however you
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  Speaker 1: felt he's played. It seems like he's sort of one
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  Speaker 1: of those unherolded players who gets in and does his job. Well.
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  Speaker 1: Oh thanks, thanks for asking about our our health. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this uh hurricane, it was something, but you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think everybody made it through. Had a little power go out,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of homes, but everybody is good and ready
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  Speaker 1: to go. But big ham Um, Yeah, he's one of
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  Speaker 1: the one of the pieces that doesn't get a lot
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  Speaker 1: of mention that is just so important to us. He
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  Speaker 1: pushes and controls the middle, and his value inside is
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  Speaker 1: just really unique. He's able to disrupt a lot of
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  Speaker 1: things and keep players free. Actually, and how important is
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  Speaker 1: he and obviously all the rest of the defense just
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  Speaker 1: gonna be this week and it's a guy like Miles
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  Speaker 1: Sanders who can so much inside. Well, facing this running attack,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they have running backs that really are slashers
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  Speaker 1: that can hit creases and we just have to make
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  Speaker 1: sure we do our best at squeezing those creases off
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  Speaker 1: because there are guys that you give them a six
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  Speaker 1: inch of the daylight, they're able to get through. All right,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, and we'll go to John and we'll go
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  Speaker 1: to Brent Martineau. Hey, coach, Hope, hope everybody's doing good.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks taking the time. I mean yea overall, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I know you faced Eagles and Jalen Verts last year
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. How much do you go back to
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  Speaker 1: that game when you're looking kind of ways to maybe
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  Speaker 1: a limited Well, you go back and you just you know,
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  Speaker 1: as coaches, you go back and you want as much
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  Speaker 1: information as you can. You go back, you watch games
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  Speaker 1: from last year team to have similar defenses, are similar
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  Speaker 1: structure that we have, and just go back and try
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  Speaker 1: to see any similarities to what they're doing this year
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  Speaker 1: and just have the guys aware that they could do this,
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  Speaker 1: could do that. So it's really just being able to
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  Speaker 1: prepare for the unknown because so much is unknown. You know,
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  Speaker 1: weekly they change plays and they change different ways they
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  Speaker 1: attack defenses. So we just have to make sure we
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  Speaker 1: have our guys prepared the best we can. Thanks coach,
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  Speaker 1: And then just last one from me, You've talked about
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  Speaker 1: a little bit before, but you know, Trayvon and kind
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  Speaker 1: of is impact. Is this something that kind of goes
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  Speaker 1: beyond the stat sheets, Maybe hard to quantify just how
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  Speaker 1: much you can kind of help create for others. It
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  Speaker 1: really is. He's uh, just like big Ham in the middle,
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  Speaker 1: what they do in the run game, being able to
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  Speaker 1: squeeze blocks and being able to affect the run game
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  Speaker 1: by just their physicalness. It really helps the whole defense.
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  Speaker 1: Whether it's uh cornerbacks having a gap where the running
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  Speaker 1: back has to bubble before they have to make the tackle.
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  Speaker 1: It's just different things like that that you really can't
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  Speaker 1: put on a stat sheet, but it shows up for
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  Speaker 1: us in a big way. Was that third down stop
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  Speaker 1: and the last week on the top, that's a good example. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: That's one of the players where he's getting cracked and
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  Speaker 1: he has the physicalness to be able to recreate the
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  Speaker 1: line of scrimmage and on the third and one, that's
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  Speaker 1: what you have to do, and he did it, and
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  Speaker 1: he was able to have the reinforcements come back and
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  Speaker 1: help us out. Thanks coach, thank you. All Right, we'll
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  Speaker 1: go to Brent Martineau, then Mark Long coach. I know,
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  Speaker 1: we're three weeks into this thing, and you put a
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  Speaker 1: lot of work into it in the offseason, but some
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  Speaker 1: of the early success at all surprising to get everybody
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  Speaker 1: on the same page. I mean, there's a lot going
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  Speaker 1: on on your defense, a lot of moving parts, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of new players, young players. Um have you just
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  Speaker 1: been at all surprised at how quickly it's come together
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  Speaker 1: in live game action? Uh? Not really, We kind of
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  Speaker 1: expected it. The coaching staff they've done a great job
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  Speaker 1: of teaching and letting the players understand what we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be about. And the players they've done a great job
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  Speaker 1: of just accepting it and being eager to learn it.
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  Speaker 1: And once you get that, you get the players on
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  Speaker 1: the same page, coaches on the same page. You go
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  Speaker 1: out there and let their talent take over. And we
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  Speaker 1: have some players here that are playing at a good level,
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  Speaker 1: and we've got to keep keep you going. Not to
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  Speaker 1: steal your secrets because I know you won't share them,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean you have players like Tray Vaughan and
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  Speaker 1: Devon who have skill sets that can allow them to
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  Speaker 1: do a lot of different I mean, is there another
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  Speaker 1: evolution still to this defense that could potentially come throughout
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  Speaker 1: the year. It's just, uh, we go back we game playing.
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  Speaker 1: We see what we have and we see what we
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  Speaker 1: need to take away, and we put our guys in
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  Speaker 1: a in position to be able to go out there
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  Speaker 1: and performing the best they can. And that's a recipe
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  Speaker 1: for us. You know, it could change week the week.
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  Speaker 1: We could do it with other people, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're just out there. Whatever we need to do to
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  Speaker 1: get our guys in the best position to make a play,
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  Speaker 1: we'll try to do that. And one more quick one
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  Speaker 1: for you. You guys had stopped the run. Stop the run.
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  Speaker 1: Stop the run from a coaching standpoint when you preach that,
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  Speaker 1: because we've had people preached that before and it hasn't
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  Speaker 1: always showed up in the statuet. Now you guys, right
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  Speaker 1: now one of the best in the league at it.
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  Speaker 1: What does that mean you? I think it's just all
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  Speaker 1: on the players. The players understand our philosophy here about
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  Speaker 1: stopping the run, trying to make teams one dimensional, and
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  Speaker 1: they bought into it and they take pride in it.
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  Speaker 1: So they go out there week to week and find
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  Speaker 1: out what they need to do, what we need to
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  Speaker 1: do to get the victory. And stopping and run is
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  Speaker 1: up there and they focus in on it and they
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  Speaker 1: try to go out there and accomplish it. Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. I haven't gonna mark long. Yeah. Hey, coach Curious,
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  Speaker 1: you said we kind of expected, we kind of expected
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  Speaker 1: this kind of early success. At what point did you
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  Speaker 1: this year, after taking this job, realize that this thing
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  Speaker 1: had the pieces to really be maybe be special. Well
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  Speaker 1: throughout the whole offseason and then through the draft finding
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  Speaker 1: out what we got. I think the scouting department did
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  Speaker 1: a great job getting some of the pieces that we
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  Speaker 1: thought we needed, and we put the team together and
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  Speaker 1: it's really just a way Coach Peterson has kinda led
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  Speaker 1: the way as far as changing the culture and people believing.
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  Speaker 1: We go out there and we put the work in
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  Speaker 1: and guys are confident in what they're doing and they
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  Speaker 1: go out there and they perform. So it's really not
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  Speaker 1: a surprise. It's just that you go out there, you
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  Speaker 1: build confidence on a practice field, and then you go
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  Speaker 1: out there and and then you just let it take
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  Speaker 1: away on on game day. Thank you. All right, We'll
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  Speaker 1: finish up with Ashton Salon. Hey, Coach Devon Lloyd Defensive
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  Speaker 1: Rookie of the Month. And I know coach Peterson was
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  Speaker 1: always saying, you know, first round draft pick, he's gonna play,
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna make an impact. But did you think he
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  Speaker 1: would make as much of an immediate impact as he
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  Speaker 1: has had. Uh. Devin so far is doing a great
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  Speaker 1: job for us. You know, he's out there. He had
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a slow start with the injury
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  Speaker 1: and training camp, but after that he's been real attentive.
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  Speaker 1: He's going out there and he's working at his craft.
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  Speaker 1: That's the thing about it him, Tray Vaughn and everyone
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  Speaker 1: that's really getting us off to this success early. It's
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  Speaker 1: the hard work they've put in through training camp and
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  Speaker 1: offseason being able to just continue to build. And it's
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  Speaker 1: unique because he is a rookie, but he goes about
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  Speaker 1: the game and there's a bunch of leadership in his room,
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  Speaker 1: so he goes about the game as a veteran and
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  Speaker 1: he's just going to continue to get better for us.