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Klint Kubiak On The Upcoming Week 13 Matchup vs. Minnesota · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Right, how's it going, guys?
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  Speaker 2: Smiles?
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  Speaker 1: All right, Ven you are.
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  Speaker 2: Look at the ground game last week. It wasn't like
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  Speaker 2: an exceptional number of yards, but the yards for curates
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  Speaker 2: for kids and just the yards for as play is checked.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's some You know, we stress with our
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  Speaker 3: guys just production and yards for play is really important,
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  Speaker 3: and it's it's not one thing.
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  Speaker 1: But I guys, had they executed?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know that's uh, it's when you have your
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to go out and the execute. I thought our
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  Speaker 3: guys did a good job. They prepared the right way.
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  Speaker 3: There's plenty of things that we would like back to
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  Speaker 3: do better in that game. However, I just see our
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  Speaker 3: run game in general just getting better.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have a target for either one of those
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  Speaker 2: either yards or rush or yards will play that you
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  Speaker 2: were trying to get to every game?
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  Speaker 1: Uh no, we don't. You know, obviously there's.
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  Speaker 3: There's there's markers you're trying to hit around the league,
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  Speaker 3: you know, but you're just trying to get the most
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  Speaker 3: most for play.
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  Speaker 1: How can how can cam Akers help you? Guys? Uh? Well,
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  Speaker 1: we're happy to have him. He just met him.
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  Speaker 3: I just saw him on the practice field. Uh so,
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  Speaker 3: but have a lot of respect for what he's done
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  Speaker 3: throughout his career. I think, you know, with us having
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  Speaker 3: an injury, I think it's a great pickup and excited
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  Speaker 3: to see what he can do for us to be determined.
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  Speaker 3: Episode of the way they different things, they need pressures,
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  Speaker 3: what kind of challenges doctor, Yeah, I think it's a
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  Speaker 3: it's an aggressive scheme, an aggressive group of players, have
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  Speaker 3: a lot of respect for the way that you know
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  Speaker 3: they go about their business.
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  Speaker 1: There they attacked the ball, uh, cause a.
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  Speaker 3: Lot of negative plays, so it'll be a challenge for us.
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  Speaker 1: Started to look with this last off season there the
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  Speaker 1: things that you saw that were markedly based on the
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  Speaker 1: year that he had with this. So it just did
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  Speaker 1: his offering to start that maybe he hadn't seen when
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  Speaker 1: he was.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think what sticks out is his approach was
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  Speaker 3: just advanced, you know, obviously really well coached.
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  Speaker 1: There.
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  Speaker 3: You could just tell he was he was very on
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  Speaker 3: the details, extremely mature. He knew that he was taking
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  Speaker 3: you know, he's taken over a franchise, and he acted accordingly.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: The last time I was with Sam, obviously he was
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  Speaker 3: in a different situation, but uh, he just knew that
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  Speaker 3: he was ready to take the opportunity and uh do
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  Speaker 3: everything he could to be successful.
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  Speaker 1: What did you think of the game? They had sent it?
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  Speaker 3: That was a good game with the team one offense
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  Speaker 3: did a good job. I think Sam made good decisions,
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  Speaker 3: moved the ball up and down the field with the offense.
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  Speaker 3: Every game there's decisions that you want to get back. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: he had a couple of those, so did I.
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  Speaker 1: But I thought he had a good game.
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  Speaker 3: Is not running a whole lot of season. I think
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  Speaker 3: he's on pace for his fewest rushes since San Francisco
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  Speaker 3: year where he was the backup.
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  Speaker 1: Do you what do you make of that? Is that?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you're obviously getting a lot of big plays
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  Speaker 3: through on the ball downfield.
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  Speaker 1: Is that something you want to see.
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  Speaker 2: Him run anymore?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think Sam is Sam is as good
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  Speaker 3: an athlete as rising NFL. Obviously throws on the move as
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  Speaker 3: good as anybody. In my opinion. I think that just
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  Speaker 3: a testament to the ball coming out on time and
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  Speaker 3: him making really good decisions in the pocket. And I
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  Speaker 3: was having that protection for him to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Would you rather him?
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  Speaker 4: There was a play in Tennessee he got outside left.
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  Speaker 3: He ran it in there, yes, sir, Yeah, yes, And
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  Speaker 3: those are things we talked about.
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  Speaker 1: He's he's an aggressive player looking to make the throw
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  Speaker 1: on the run.
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  Speaker 3: But there's there's plenty of times where I would like
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  Speaker 3: him to keep keep running. You might might have ran
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  Speaker 3: that one in easy for me to say with a
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  Speaker 3: clicker in my hand on on Monday morning. He's the one,
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  Speaker 3: you know, with the hopes and the hopes of the
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  Speaker 3: organization in his hand, making split decisions, and he's making
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  Speaker 3: really good decisions. And I'm you know, I'm proud of
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  Speaker 3: the year that he's had. And now it's the time
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  Speaker 3: of year that we have to be at our best
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  Speaker 3: and he has to be his best. He knows that
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  Speaker 3: and and that's what we're up against.
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  Speaker 1: Excited to play this game this week. Yes, what about the.
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  Speaker 4: Fact that he's only been sacked eleven.
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  Speaker 1: Times this season? What are you thinking of?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's what Jack said about.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: It's a team thing. It's an offensive thing, number one.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's protection. It is halfbacks doing their job in protection.
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  Speaker 3: It's receivers getting open on time. It's Sam getting the
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  Speaker 3: ball out on time. It's our you know, coaching staff
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  Speaker 3: getting guys ready.
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  Speaker 1: To go.
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  Speaker 3: It's our it's our defense, uh, and special teams playing
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  Speaker 3: really well and giving us favorable field position. It's never
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  Speaker 3: one thing, but uh, you know, offensive line's done a
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  Speaker 3: really good job. Proud of Proud of coach Betton and
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  Speaker 3: coach Dennison and and Q and coach Jail those guys.
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  Speaker 3: Those guys got them doing a good job. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: that's just what we've done thus far. We have a
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  Speaker 3: whole whole another part of the season, which is the
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  Speaker 3: most important part of the season, and we have to
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  Speaker 3: be at our best every week.
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  Speaker 1: What did you thought of just what you've been able
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  Speaker 1: to do with the so far kind of working there?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think he's he's come in done
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  Speaker 3: a really good job. I think there's plenty more we
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  Speaker 3: can get out of sheet and out of the whole group,
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  Speaker 3: so we're always trying to get better. I think, Uh,
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  Speaker 3: he had a few ops in the last game they
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  Speaker 3: that they covered up so we had to move on
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  Speaker 3: and a read. But he's gonna be a big value
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  Speaker 3: to us.
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  Speaker 4: How do you balance Smith and Jake but having one
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  Speaker 4: of the best receiving seasons ever with getting more chances
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  Speaker 4: or Cup or the imbalance of targets. And I mean,
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  Speaker 4: of course you're gonna call eleventh number.
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  Speaker 1: As good as the season. He's han't, are you?
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  Speaker 4: I know you must be aware of the imbalance and
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  Speaker 4: are you striving to balance?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? Yeah, yeah, very aware.
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  Speaker 3: And you know it's just uh, the way the games
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  Speaker 3: have played out, they've played out the way they've played out.
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  Speaker 3: But we got to keep you know, keep evolving and
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  Speaker 3: keep spreading the ball around. That's that's big part of
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  Speaker 3: my job that I can do a better job of.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, message you're saying to Sam to or you just
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  Speaker 1: know he's a matching quarterback and he's not gonna worry
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  Speaker 1: about it. He goes through his progression.
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  Speaker 2: What's that message you like?
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  Speaker 3: No, it's it's we're going through his progression. We're we're
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  Speaker 3: seeing seeing the seeing the defense, and going through his read.
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  Speaker 1: That's not his job, that's mine. What do you think
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  Speaker 1: Barner is hard? Is what? Oh? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, No, that was that was excellent, you know is uh?
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  Speaker 3: It was good to good to get someone to jump
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  Speaker 3: off side. That's something we can do. We can do
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  Speaker 3: better as an offense. You know, we we haven't done
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  Speaker 3: that enough. So we got to mix our cadence up again.
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  Speaker 1: Sam had mentioned some procedural stuff. They didn't go your
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  Speaker 1: late delay games and fall starts. What did you see you.
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  Speaker 3: When you're talking to your guy, Yeah, I think we
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  Speaker 3: had three false starts. You know, we had me getting
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  Speaker 3: to play in late. You know, we took a delayed game, uh,
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  Speaker 3: that I could have prevented. So you know, I put
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  Speaker 3: a couple of those on myself. So as you know,
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  Speaker 3: as a group has to be better because getting close games,
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  Speaker 3: you start losing timeouts.
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  Speaker 1: And moving back.
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  Speaker 3: That makes it makes it hard to be successful. So
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  Speaker 3: it starts with me.
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  Speaker 1: Be on the procedural stuff. What did you see from.
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  Speaker 3: Your red Joe Offen, Uh, I saw an aggressive unit
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  Speaker 3: in the second half. In the first half, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we got we put ourselves in bad positions with penalties,
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  Speaker 3: didn't run the ball as well down there as we
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  Speaker 3: would have liked to. So I think we go two
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  Speaker 3: for four in the red zone, and we're not satisfied
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  Speaker 3: with that. We want to be four for four.
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  Speaker 2: Were talking about your personality and kind of describing what
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  Speaker 2: you were like on the sidelines, and he was talking
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  Speaker 2: about the energy that you were and how you don't
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  Speaker 2: have to navigate that does not have to navigate any
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  Speaker 2: extra omotion helping you. You were all the sideline being
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  Speaker 2: those comments.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just view it as my job is to
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  Speaker 3: get us organized and get get guys, you know, preview
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  Speaker 3: the next plays, tell them what's coming so we can
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  Speaker 3: we can organize the drive as a coaching staff, just
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  Speaker 3: us all organized. And however however that comes out personality wise,
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  Speaker 3: you know, that's that's how the man upstairs made me.
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  Speaker 2: So if he needs somebody to kind of get in
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  Speaker 2: there and just you know, bring energy or like fire
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  Speaker 2: any of them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, No, we we have every every position coach we
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  Speaker 3: have is capable of doing that, you know, and there's
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  Speaker 3: times that I gotta step up and do it as well.
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  Speaker 4: You talk to your quarterback right up to the fifteen
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  Speaker 4: second cutoff.
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  Speaker 1: Or do you want him to budges? I try.
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  Speaker 3: I probably as little as possible, you know. I talked
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  Speaker 3: to him. I talked to him Monday to Saturday a lot,
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  Speaker 3: and then and then on Sunday we go turn him loose.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's plenty of things that we can discuss. However,
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  Speaker 3: I think that's what this week, the week is for.
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  Speaker 3: Do you want to be a head coach that I
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  Speaker 3: want to win with the Seahawks, want to win a
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  Speaker 3: lot of games here, and all that stuff takes care
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  Speaker 3: of itself when you win.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the best way to say that. Everything else,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, Thanks, guys, appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Uh