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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "Our guys battled right until the end." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Well, initially we thought on our sideline that we we
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  Speaker 1: got the first down, so we were preparing for you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously getting a call in for first down. And then
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  Speaker 1: you know, through all of that, I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: trying to sort things out where the ball was, different things,
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  Speaker 1: and it came up third down and you know, so
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  Speaker 1: we had to switch gears there. It was just a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. I think we got to sort it out. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta figure it out tomorrow, but you know, go
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  Speaker 1: back watch TV, copy and all that. But um, you
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  Speaker 1: know that that right there. Um, you know, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think costs us the game, but it was definitely a
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  Speaker 1: big part of it. Well initially that's what you would see,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you'd see the official signal it. But you know, again, naked,
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  Speaker 1: I we thought he you know, I think it was
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  Speaker 1: Christian Um was well past the down marker. But look,
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  Speaker 1: that's uh, we gotta check it out tomorrow, um, trying
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  Speaker 1: to sort through all that before we you know, make
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  Speaker 1: a decision on anything. Yeah. That that and again we
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  Speaker 1: you know, we were under the again under the impression
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  Speaker 1: it was first down, but it wasn't. And you know, um,
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  Speaker 1: and again those are situations to where you know, do
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  Speaker 1: you want to risk a challenge of time out in
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  Speaker 1: those situations you know where you you know it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: at least it's gonna be at worse, it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: third and one or third and third and a couple
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  Speaker 1: of inches, and um, try to get the first down
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  Speaker 1: that way. Obviously, Yeah, I mean he played well, played tough, physical, Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, obviously can't can't do that. He knows that.
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  Speaker 1: You know. It's something we work on each week. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, practice Thursday we do a ball security drill,
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  Speaker 1: a little circuit with them, and um, you know, listen,
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  Speaker 1: it's uh, that's where we're at as a team right now,
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  Speaker 1: is we're just kind of learning things the hard way,
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  Speaker 1: you know. Um, And um, you know, I think plays
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  Speaker 1: like that change the outcome of a lot of different things.
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  Speaker 1: And and um, you know, we just gotta keep hanging
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  Speaker 1: together and keep working and and um, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: like I told you guys after the game, I mean
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  Speaker 1: we do that, stick together. You know, good things are
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  Speaker 1: gonna happen, you know, for them, and and we'll get
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  Speaker 1: it flipped around. Are you surprised the lack of pass
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  Speaker 1: rush at this point is I think it's a third
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  Speaker 1: grade game. Maybe just an egregious roughing. Ruffing the past
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  Speaker 1: are kind of late, you know. Back, Yeah, that one
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  Speaker 1: too is you know, it's unacceptable there. Um, we got
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  Speaker 1: the turnover, you know, we got the interception, and we
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  Speaker 1: had the rough in the pastor and again these are
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  Speaker 1: these are plays that are that are keeping us back
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  Speaker 1: and and uh, you know, um, but we just can't
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  Speaker 1: do that. You know, we can't do that as as players.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously as coaches, we we gotta be smart too, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, decisions we make it goes hand in hand.
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  Speaker 1: And um, those are those are those are big plays.
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  Speaker 1: I know we kept them to a field goal there,
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  Speaker 1: but but it definitely changes changes things. You talked the
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  Speaker 1: weekend and we've got about this team themselves and games.
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  Speaker 1: How do you eliminate those mistakes with a young team.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we just gotta keep working, you know. I
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  Speaker 1: mean you just you gotta keep showing them, you know. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's not for you know, um, lack of
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  Speaker 1: conversation and and talking to him about it and stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that. I still wanted to play hard and aggressive
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  Speaker 1: and and and all of that. I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: take any of that away from him at all. But
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  Speaker 1: you know you're getting the heat of the battle sometimes. Man,
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  Speaker 1: you just you just gotta be um, you know, cooler
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  Speaker 1: heads and and um, just just understand your role. Doug.
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  Speaker 1: Can you talk a little bit about the decision to
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  Speaker 1: go for it on the fourth and walking twenty? Was
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  Speaker 1: it just because of the success you guys have had
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  Speaker 1: on the ground? Yeah, I mean we were we were
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  Speaker 1: having really a lot of success on the ground and
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  Speaker 1: and it was a great situation right there to do that,
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  Speaker 1: and and um, credit the giants they stopped us, Doug
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  Speaker 1: it two and five. Are you afraid that you guys
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  Speaker 1: are falling out of the ability to stay in contention? Now? Now?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we gotta look at everything big picture right now.
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  Speaker 1: But um, you know we we we can't obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 1: lose too many more, right, I mean, that's just the
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  Speaker 1: big picture of you. But you know this, this team
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  Speaker 1: has got to we get First of all, we gotta
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  Speaker 1: learn not to not to beat ourselves, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: and just just worry about us. And you know, um,
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  Speaker 1: I think if we do that and focus internally on
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  Speaker 1: what we do, the process that we do, then I
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  Speaker 1: think everything else kind of takes care of itself. Hey, Coachum,
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  Speaker 1: SiGe Barkley enters the game, second in the league and rushing. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you guys made a concerted effort to kind of bottle
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  Speaker 1: him up. He ends up breaking some late. Daniel Jones really,
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  Speaker 1: um had a had a big game on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: What did you see in film that that, Um, that
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  Speaker 1: you were able to kind of prepare for that and
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  Speaker 1: or not prepare for that. Well, I thought our defense
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  Speaker 1: for honestly three and a half quarters just stim met
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  Speaker 1: their run game, you know, and kept him, um, kept
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  Speaker 1: him at bay and all of that. Of course, they
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  Speaker 1: get in there, you know, they getting there for a
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  Speaker 1: minute four minute offense and things change a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, for for those three and a half quarters,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I thought our defense did a nice job
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  Speaker 1: stopping the run and handling that. We know Daniel's uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, athletic guy, and some of his own read
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  Speaker 1: stuff he kept and and um, you know, obviously gotta
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  Speaker 1: look at the film and see see where we dropped
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  Speaker 1: that one. But you know, again, credit them, you know, um,
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  Speaker 1: they did what they needed to win the game at
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  Speaker 1: the end. And uh, coach one more, Um, what what
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  Speaker 1: what was it if you can say. You know, as
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned, you haven't watched the film yet, but what
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  Speaker 1: was it that you think allowed Sakwan to kind of
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  Speaker 1: get off at the end and still get over a
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  Speaker 1: hundred yards on the day. Well, I mean he's a
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  Speaker 1: great back, you know, giving him Craty's great back, and
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  Speaker 1: you know they were in they were in their big,
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  Speaker 1: big personnel and um, you know, just just did a
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  Speaker 1: nice job there, you know. I mean that's something we
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  Speaker 1: gotta take a look at and you know, try to
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  Speaker 1: be better next time out. Uh, Doug one carey for
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  Speaker 1: James Robinson, and there was a penalty on the play.
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  Speaker 1: Your feeling of him not getting the ball and is help? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: something we gotta we gotta evaluate him and see where
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  Speaker 1: he's at, you know physically, um, you know, health wise
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  Speaker 1: and and and all of that. He's been he's been
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  Speaker 1: good each week, um, you know, and and and something
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  Speaker 1: that we've got to really you know, take a look
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  Speaker 1: at and and and see, I mean we know TJ's
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  Speaker 1: you know, done a nice job, you know, kind of
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  Speaker 1: kind of taken over there. And and but we need
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  Speaker 1: we need everybody. We need James and uh, we've got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of confidence in James still and it's not
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  Speaker 1: anything about you know, lack of confidence or anything. And um,
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  Speaker 1: we just gotta make sure he's a percent before we
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  Speaker 1: you know, move forward. That final drive of the game,
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  Speaker 1: Uh came up just short on the final play. What
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  Speaker 1: do you think about the way your offense was able
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  Speaker 1: to operate and kind of the way they were able
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  Speaker 1: to move the ball down a field. Well, I thought
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  Speaker 1: they did a did a really nice job getting us
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  Speaker 1: down there with an opportunity to you know, score, tie
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  Speaker 1: the game and then potentially kicked the game winner. Um,
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  Speaker 1: things we work on a practice. Obviously it was aided
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  Speaker 1: by a couple of defensive penalties which obviously helped us.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, guys, Uh, guys did a nice job.
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  Speaker 1: Trevor did a nice job getting us down there. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it was just close at the end there with the
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  Speaker 1: catch to Christian or the you know completion to Christian
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  Speaker 1: and you know, uh, our guy's battle right to the end.
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  Speaker 1: And you talk about Trevor needing those opportunities in those
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  Speaker 1: big moments. Even though this one another one that didn't
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  Speaker 1: kind of come together all the way is it's still
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  Speaker 1: good and something that you can take from that to
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  Speaker 1: build on. I think so, you know, I think he's
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  Speaker 1: gained a more confidence and what we're doing and himself
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  Speaker 1: and and um, you know, these are obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 1: situations you'd love to pull out and win. But at
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  Speaker 1: the same time, you know, for him, um, his development,
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  Speaker 1: his growth, you know, as a leader of this team,
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  Speaker 1: the offense, I think it's uh is a step in
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  Speaker 1: the right direction. Coach, you got all of the almost
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  Speaker 1: nine yards back here the last two home games, but
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  Speaker 1: you only got twenty three points. He knows what's got
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  Speaker 1: to change to help that ratio out a little bit
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  Speaker 1: better for your offense to get more points on the board,
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  Speaker 1: score more points. Last one ban Yeah, I'm just wondering
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  Speaker 1: your aggressive nature fourth down and one of the twenty
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  Speaker 1: and the fourth quarter philosophically, is that just you said
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  Speaker 1: there's a leven and a halfness and and goill play
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  Speaker 1: defense and stop them. Was there any thought to kick
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  Speaker 1: the field goal and get up a touchdown at that point?
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  Speaker 1: That's just not the way you know, I think hide
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  Speaker 1: in sight is. And we can sit here right now
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  Speaker 1: and say, hey, kick the field goal when you're in
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  Speaker 1: game and your offensive line is handling them the way
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  Speaker 1: we did Um, I put it on them, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to to do that and and um that had nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do with an analytical decision, right, There was more
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  Speaker 1: about how we were running the football at the time,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, I felt really good about about where we were.
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  Speaker 1: The real quick back to James Romson, is this still
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  Speaker 1: a lingering thing with the foot or is this another
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  Speaker 1: injury in terms of you know, making sure help. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'll get with work here and give your heads up
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow probably, Okay, all right,