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Press Pass | Pederson: "It’s Still Right There in Front of Us." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: The schedule sets up in the next couple of weeks
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  Speaker 1: with two division fos. You are you are you fine
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  Speaker 1: with that because in terms of helping your players regain
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  Speaker 1: focus or does it really matter who the next opponents are?
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  Speaker 2: You know, yeah, obviously you don't control the schedule, but
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  Speaker 2: I I, I it's it w you know, listen, I
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  Speaker 2: I've been in situations where I've had four division games
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  Speaker 2: to end the season before. So it it it is,
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  Speaker 2: it is what it is, you know, And and uh,
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  Speaker 2: just so happens. You got Tennessee and Houston back to back,
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  Speaker 2: So just a great opportunity for us to to get
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  Speaker 2: back on track. What was your what was your approach?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: If you have you spoken with the team already today?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Well I'm just wondered, what was your approach with
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  Speaker 1: them toward uh, the events of yesterday just kind of hey,
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  Speaker 1: let let's get it and move on.
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  Speaker 2: Or do you dwell I mean with your No, I
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  Speaker 2: mean you can't dwell too much. I mean, obviously you
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  Speaker 2: know they're they're in here. I want them to watch
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  Speaker 2: the film. I want them to make the corrections they
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  Speaker 2: need to. They need to see it, they need to
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  Speaker 2: h I challenge them to be critical of their performance,
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  Speaker 2: you know, good and bad, and then and then take
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  Speaker 2: the constructive criticism that the coach might have, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and and it's the only way we can continue to
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  Speaker 2: get better. And you know, it's it's disappointing that that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, really both sides the ball. I thought special
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  Speaker 2: teams was decent yesterday probably the one bright spot. But
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  Speaker 2: offense and defense just did not play our best. And
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  Speaker 2: it's you know, it's a head scratcher, and and things
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  Speaker 2: that when you look at it, you know, four giveaways,
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  Speaker 2: five sacks, no takeaways, two sacks, I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: start the game with a touchdown and the half of
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  Speaker 2: the field goal, start the third quarter with the touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: So all things that are you know, you kind of
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  Speaker 2: it's right there. So I want them to see it.
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  Speaker 2: I want them to make the corrections and move on.
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  Speaker 4: How do you kind of get this offense on track?
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  Speaker 2: I mean it it's it's been there, It's been on
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  Speaker 2: track at times. You know. It just it just comes
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  Speaker 2: down to, you know, the the preparation. I talk to
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  Speaker 2: the guys all the time about their preparation. When when
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  Speaker 2: they're outside of this building, you know, what are they
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  Speaker 2: what are they doing a little extra you know, are
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  Speaker 2: they are they studying you know, extra tape. Are they
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  Speaker 2: looking at every you know, cutup of a certain route
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  Speaker 2: or coverage or defensive front blitz whatever it might be,
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  Speaker 2: just to just to stay sharp and stay you know,
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  Speaker 2: stay up on what they could possibly see during a game.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, it just it comes down to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just the execution. It's it's pl it's plays that were
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  Speaker 2: now recycling because we're so far along that you just
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  Speaker 2: recycle plays. So it's not anything new that we're trying
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  Speaker 2: to invent or create, and it it it just comes
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  Speaker 2: down to each person just just owning that responsibility.
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  Speaker 5: You can't control injuries, but how far would the progress
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  Speaker 5: of the offense go if you could get five guys
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  Speaker 5: up front.
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  Speaker 2: And leave that group relatively intact for as long as
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  Speaker 2: you can. Well, I mean that's that's that's big, you know,
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  Speaker 2: having having five guys that are that have would have
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  Speaker 2: been here for say nine games, right, I mean, there
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  Speaker 2: there'd be more continuity. I think you know, uh, Walker's
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  Speaker 2: still working himself back in it would first full game
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  Speaker 2: back in there, and and really just just understanding you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of communication that has to go on
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  Speaker 2: up front and and getting all of that down and
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  Speaker 2: the timing and you know it continues to improve, but
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  Speaker 2: but we can definitely get better there. You know, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: we're missing Za obviously, that's a big piece to the
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  Speaker 2: past game. And you know, hopefully hopefully he's he's available,
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  Speaker 2: you know, either this week or next and you know
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  Speaker 2: we can get some of that some of that continuity
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  Speaker 2: back just a little bit any further injuries.
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  Speaker 5: Do you feel like you have the crews right now
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  Speaker 5: that you want and that they'll keep.
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  Speaker 2: I do, I do, Yeah, I do. I I got
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  Speaker 2: a lot of confidence in the group. I mean there's
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  Speaker 2: no no question or no hesitation. You know, they'll continue
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  Speaker 2: to improve and get better.
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  Speaker 4: Do you have injury update on Tyson Jamal? I don't
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  Speaker 4: know if.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody else is Tyson. You know, it's the same same
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  Speaker 2: injury that he had. He just felt felt a grab
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  Speaker 2: in the game. You know, he's kind of day to
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  Speaker 2: day right now. He felt felt okay today. Uh, but uh,
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  Speaker 2: he's got a couple of days here before we get
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  Speaker 2: back on the field on Wednesday. But I'm I'm assuming
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  Speaker 2: we'll probably limit him a little bit. You know, this
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  Speaker 2: week and just see where he's at at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the week. Jamal is probably gonna be he fell
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  Speaker 2: on his shoulder in the game, and so he's got
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  Speaker 2: a little little shoulder issue going on. You know, there's
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  Speaker 2: a potential that that as the week progresses, we'll we'll see,
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  Speaker 2: you know, where he's at. But but it doesn't look
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  Speaker 2: promising obviously right now, you know, on a Monday. But
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  Speaker 2: we'll see where he is during the course of the week.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody else just had a little nicks and bumps and
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  Speaker 2: bruises came out of the game.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, it seemed like that might have been a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of a long meeting with Shot after the game yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Can you kind of share how.
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  Speaker 3: That thing went?
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  Speaker 4: Was that anyway with me? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Was there anything longer than a normal postgame meeting you
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  Speaker 3: have with him?
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  Speaker 2: No? No, no, And I wouldn't share our comments.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, not to you know, offer any excuses for you.
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  Speaker 5: But there's a lot of teams that have blowouts losses,
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  Speaker 5: you know, Miami's, Miami, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh. A lot of good
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  Speaker 5: teams have had days like Guessterday. For whatever reason. Is
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  Speaker 5: it the nature of this league that sometimes get behind
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  Speaker 5: the eight ball or early things just keep snowballing, or.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think I think there's some of that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, obviously we caught a San Francisco
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  Speaker 2: team that that had lost three and and I felt
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  Speaker 2: like they they, you know, their sense of urgency was
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  Speaker 2: was greater than ours. You know, in the game yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: played a little faster than we did yesterday, you know,
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  Speaker 2: And I think after the game someone asked me if
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  Speaker 2: they were if they were desperate, and good teams are
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  Speaker 2: never desperate. They're just good, you know, and and they
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  Speaker 2: they figure it out. And that's what we're trying to
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  Speaker 2: do right now. We're I still think we're a good
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  Speaker 2: football team, and we're still trying to figure some things
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  Speaker 2: out right and some pieces. But we got behind the
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  Speaker 2: eight ball quickly yesterday and just never could recover all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden.
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  Speaker 4: Done. If the season ended right now, you'd be the.
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  Speaker 2: Third seed, I know. That's the crazy thing about it,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And and again that's that's kind of the
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  Speaker 2: positive that I left with the guys. You know, you're
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  Speaker 2: in you're in a you're in a good position. You're
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  Speaker 2: still in first place in the AFC South, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: you got two big matchups coming up, obviously, and and
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  Speaker 2: you know it's it's still it's still right there in
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  Speaker 2: front of us.
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  Speaker 4: Is there something to the home performances this year? Is
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  Speaker 4: that just kind of how things have shaken out?
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  Speaker 2: I wish I could honestly answer that question. It's the
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  Speaker 2: it's the darnedest thing. You know, you're in front of
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  Speaker 2: your crowd and fans, and you're at home, and and
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  Speaker 2: you know, we've done it three times now this year.
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  Speaker 2: We haven't played our best and all three you know,
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  Speaker 2: all three losses, and you know, there's got to be
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  Speaker 2: that sense of urgency like I was talking about with
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  Speaker 2: the guys you know too. And it wasn't that they
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  Speaker 2: they weren't prepared or ready, because there was. There was
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  Speaker 2: a lot of energy and a lot of excitement and
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  Speaker 2: pregame and and all of that. It's just I mean,
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  Speaker 2: when you look at it, you know, the offense goes
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  Speaker 2: three and out, sack on third down, okay, And this
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  Speaker 2: is what's crazy. You know, we blocked the wrong guy,
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  Speaker 2: we had a false start, we had a missed miss
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  Speaker 2: signal on the screen on the second possession, okay, and
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  Speaker 2: then we ended up had a sack we punt punt
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  Speaker 2: on the third series. Fourth series we had a delay,
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  Speaker 2: a game of fumble or a sacked fumble. Okay, fifth
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  Speaker 2: series we finally got it together and we went down
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  Speaker 2: and got a field goal. But why is it going
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  Speaker 2: to take it take us to the fifth series to
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  Speaker 2: get it going? That's offensively, you know. So it's nothing
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  Speaker 2: that really it's everything we can control. And so these
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  Speaker 2: are the things that that you know, we show our
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  Speaker 2: guys and if we can eliminate this, what puts us
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  Speaker 2: in a better position.
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  Speaker 4: You put it like that, you have you feel a
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  Speaker 4: little bit better about it because those are things that
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  Speaker 4: are one all controllable.
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  Speaker 2: It's all controllable. We're at home, Cadence should be a
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  Speaker 2: friend of ours, but yet we still jump off sides, right,
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  Speaker 2: I mean we have a delay game eventually in there,
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  Speaker 2: you know, of course late and that late in the
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  Speaker 2: you know, third fourth order, when you're fourth in desperation
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  Speaker 2: the pick I get it. Sometimes that happens, you know.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, four turnovers, they got fourteen points, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and that's those are hard to overcome.
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  Speaker 1: A little minors defenders that they were able to confuse
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  Speaker 1: Trevor and and make them hold the ball longer than
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  Speaker 1: he usually would.
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  Speaker 4: Is that how you guys thought that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they do a nice job of holding their
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  Speaker 2: safeties a little bit. But I think I think for
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  Speaker 2: the most part, you know, we had a really good
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  Speaker 2: understanding and feeling of what they were going to do
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  Speaker 2: and where they were going to be. They did a
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  Speaker 2: nice job, you know, with our with our receivers and
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  Speaker 2: and you know that's the one thing that you know,
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  Speaker 2: because they have such a great pass rush too. You know,
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  Speaker 2: if you can hold coverage and different things a little
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  Speaker 2: bit longer, buys a little extra time, extra second for
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  Speaker 2: your for your pass rush to get there, and and
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  Speaker 2: some of that, some of that happened yesterday. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: we've got to do a better job of helping our
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  Speaker 2: players too, you know, as coaches and make sure that
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  Speaker 2: that we're putting them in good situations by play call
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  Speaker 2: or design or you know, we just weren't efficient on
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  Speaker 2: first down either, you know. But but again, you know,
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  Speaker 2: credit Sam Praz they did a nice job.
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  Speaker 3: I know teams are trying to take Ridley out of
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  Speaker 3: the game there, but I know, you know, other teams
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  Speaker 3: have top receivers that other teams concentrate on as well,
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  Speaker 3: and they're still able to get the ball to him.
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  Speaker 3: So do you want to see more of an emphasis
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  Speaker 3: on him getting the ball trying to kind of break.
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  Speaker 2: That, Yeah, you know, and I don't want to. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to force the ball his way. You gotta understand, too,
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  Speaker 2: he's had he's drawn nine penalties I think this year, right,
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  Speaker 2: and and for one hundred plus yards, you know, so
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  Speaker 2: if you make those plays, maybe we're talking there has
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  Speaker 2: nine more catches or something, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 2: So maybe we're talking a little bit differently. So it's
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  Speaker 2: it's one of those things where it feels like we're
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  Speaker 2: not targeting him, but but we are. And teams, listen,
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  Speaker 2: teams are also you know, taking a safety his way.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't do it so much yesterday, but sometimes they are
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  Speaker 2: cloud in his side and doing different things and and
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  Speaker 2: the ball has to go somewhere else. But we do
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  Speaker 2: try to make a conscious effort to get to get
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  Speaker 2: him involved early in the game and and as often
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  Speaker 2: as we can, well, I mean one one you can,
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  Speaker 2: you can be a little bit more, I think balancing
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  Speaker 2: your passing games. He gives you a comfort level that
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  Speaker 2: that that Trevor has he knows exactly where he's gonna be.
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  Speaker 2: He helps you a little bit more maybe on third down,
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  Speaker 2: which he's gonna draw some coverage. His way is gonna
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  Speaker 2: open up Calvin, it's gonna open up Christian or Evan,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And and those are things that that we've
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  Speaker 2: missed a little bit, you know, with a being out.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, listen, it's it's always the next man up.
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  Speaker 2: I thought, you know, Tim had some big catches yesterday
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  Speaker 2: and and filled in, and you know, we just gotta
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  Speaker 2: just gotta continue to go, continue to work.
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  Speaker 1: You said last year that you're three and seven, you
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  Speaker 1: still had a feeling that you were gonna end up
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  Speaker 1: playing for a division title, So you didn't You obviously
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  Speaker 1: didn't panic when you're three and seven, So what what a.
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  Speaker 4: H How do you feel now?
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  Speaker 1: Obviously a different feeling, right, sure, the considered kind of
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  Speaker 1: a favorite in the division going into the year.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, it's is it?
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  Speaker 4: Is it feeling any different now?
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  Speaker 2: No? I mean there's still no panic. I mean I
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  Speaker 2: think if you panic, then you've almost you've almost sort
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  Speaker 2: of waved the white flag a little bit, you know.
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  Speaker 2: But this is what I want our team to understand
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  Speaker 2: is is you know, you're still sitting in first place.
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  Speaker 2: Everything's right here in front of you. You control it.
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  Speaker 2: You've put yourself in a good situation, obviously. And if
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  Speaker 2: we can just eliminate or or even minimize some of
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  Speaker 2: these mistakes that we're making and and shooting ourselves in
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  Speaker 2: the foot, as we say, then it puts you in
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  Speaker 2: a better position to to get into the fourth quarter
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  Speaker 2: and potentially you know, win games. But uh, it's also
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  Speaker 2: different being six and three than three and six or
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  Speaker 2: three and seven as well, you know, and and and
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  Speaker 2: sometimes too. You got to play. You don't worry about
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  Speaker 2: the record. You play as if your back's against the
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  Speaker 2: wall every day, you know, and you come out and
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  Speaker 2: and and give it your best shot.
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  Speaker 4: So that might have been the worst game of his career.
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  Speaker 4: How do you talk to him after a game like that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know the fact that he acknowledges that that's enough. Really,
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  Speaker 2: I just I just didn't keep encouraging him. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we we're gonna we have the confidence in him. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we're not doubting anything. As the staff, none of that
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  Speaker 2: kind of stuff takes place. And you know, he's the
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  Speaker 2: type of guy that that'll that'll get a lot of this,
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  Speaker 2: you know, fixed, and he'll be he'll be a part
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  Speaker 2: of the reason why, you know, we have success moving forward.
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  Speaker 3: Hasn't been a little bit better or helped Walker little
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  Speaker 3: to have gotten a you know, all camp at left
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  Speaker 3: guard instead of.
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  Speaker 4: Having to play you know, left tackle. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: is he comfortable there yet or does he? You know,
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  Speaker 4: is he not at the level you want?
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  Speaker 2: It's hard. He hasn't had a ton of reps in there,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and when he did and get hurt and
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  Speaker 2: he's missed. I mean, he's had the practice reps, but
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  Speaker 2: they're not game reps. So yeah, I think it it
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  Speaker 2: it It helped hurts him a little bit that he
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  Speaker 2: didn't get all those snaps in there. But he's he's
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  Speaker 2: he's good enough and and smart enough and all that
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  Speaker 2: athletic enough to know the role, know the job, knows assignments,
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  Speaker 2: you know. Now it's just a matter and look, he's
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: playing in more condensed spaces too, so it's different than
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  Speaker 2: being out you know, on those islands as a tackle,
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  Speaker 2: so he's getting used to that as well. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's done, he's done some good things and and he's
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  Speaker 2: still working working through the process