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  Speaker 1: You do when you look at the Buffalo Bill's tape.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, how do you evaluate a pass rush on a
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  Speaker 2: day where you didn't get credit for any sacks? Well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we can argue the job Chalu coming to
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  Speaker 2: to Cow's come home.
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  Speaker 1: But you drew five holding calls in the game, which
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  Speaker 1: is an exorbitant amount.
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  Speaker 3: In one game four were enforced. And I'm just wondering,
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  Speaker 3: does that do you do?
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  Speaker 4: You look at that as well, I mean, it's not
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  Speaker 4: as good as a sack, but you look at it
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  Speaker 4: as a pretty big win when you can draw a
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  Speaker 4: holding call.
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  Speaker 5: Well, right now we're looking at it as we're getting pressure.
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  Speaker 5: But it's the same, Uh, the results like finishing, Like
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  Speaker 5: we drew the holding, but there were opportunities where we
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  Speaker 5: didn't get held a we had a chance to get
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  Speaker 5: 'em on the ground. But we just gotta continue to
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  Speaker 5: work on finishing and you know the guys that are
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  Speaker 5: doing it and hopefully that will turn around force.
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  Speaker 3: But let me let be more specific on this.
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  Speaker 1: Would you are you are you generally happy with the
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  Speaker 1: game where you don't get sacked but you get core
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  Speaker 1: and forced holds?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's really the sack is really the stat that
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  Speaker 5: you want to get, but at the end of the
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  Speaker 5: day of the coach, you really look at how you
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  Speaker 5: affected the quarterback. Was he comfortable back there or was
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  Speaker 5: he moving around and uncomfortable. That's one of the things.
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  Speaker 5: And you can tell by completing percentage sometimes and then
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  Speaker 5: just the field of the game. And I think we're
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  Speaker 5: making guys uncomfortable. We just got to do a little
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  Speaker 5: extra and get that sack. Talk about Devon Hamilton going
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  Speaker 5: to be back at practice today and what he would
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  Speaker 5: if you can.
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  Speaker 6: Get him back on the field, what he'd bring to
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  Speaker 6: the defense.
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  Speaker 3: It's just really good to almost be at full strength.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you got a guy that played a played
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  Speaker 5: great force last year and unfortunate that he was had
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  Speaker 5: missed some time.
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  Speaker 3: But to open up his window and get a.
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  Speaker 5: Chance to get him back and just see his face
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  Speaker 5: out there. You know he's been sitting in the meetings
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  Speaker 5: and just being able to get him out on the field,
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  Speaker 5: it'll be a I think it'll be a big boost
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  Speaker 5: for the for the team's good has it been to
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  Speaker 5: see him back at practice and maybe even on the fields,
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  Speaker 5: and really just last week just being around more, being
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  Speaker 5: engaged with the guys talking, you know, his leadership shows
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  Speaker 5: up being able to help guys out and pass for us.
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  Speaker 3: But you know he just liked VN. Just being able
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  Speaker 3: to get him back would be uh, just a boost
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  Speaker 3: to the team.
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  Speaker 1: Like you talk what the.
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  Speaker 7: Seasons about the need to improve.
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  Speaker 6: Is a tackling team.
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  Speaker 4: It seems that you have improved.
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  Speaker 3: Are you happy with that so far?
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  Speaker 5: Well, you always work on the things that were your
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  Speaker 5: weaknesses the last year, and we're gonna continue to work
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  Speaker 5: on tackling.
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  Speaker 3: We did I tackle circuit yesterday. Just you always want
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  Speaker 3: to go back.
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  Speaker 5: And reinforce the things that are important to you, and
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  Speaker 5: tackling is and we have to go back and we'll
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  Speaker 5: continue to work on it. And the guys are doing
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  Speaker 5: a good job in they're understanding that it's important.
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  Speaker 3: We just gotta continue to keep it going.
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  Speaker 7: How much can you the defenses play over the last
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  Speaker 7: few weeks with just how close the team is, how
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  Speaker 7: close the defenses, Uh, obviously in the second year with
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  Speaker 7: each other, how much of that kind of correlates to
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  Speaker 7: to how well.
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  Speaker 3: You guys can playing.
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  Speaker 5: I think it kind of goes hand in hand. You're
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  Speaker 5: around guys a bunch, we're not communicating as well as
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  Speaker 5: we should be because it explosive plays. But other areas
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  Speaker 5: of the defense and other areas of the games. We
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  Speaker 5: are doing a decent job of what we want to do.
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  Speaker 5: But the communication of this thing right now around each other,
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  Speaker 5: we talk, we joke all the time. Let's talk in
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  Speaker 5: make sure we communicating on the field the same way.
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  Speaker 3: You've been missing Smooth and Hamilton.
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  Speaker 7: But the run defense has been probably one of the
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  Speaker 7: top in the league.
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  Speaker 3: What do you make of that?
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  Speaker 7: Just you know, having guys like Ledbetter coming in and
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  Speaker 7: just different players being able to step in right away.
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  Speaker 3: I think in training camp you.
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  Speaker 5: Kind of find guys that are able to fit your mold,
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  Speaker 5: and we found a couple of guys, got a few
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  Speaker 5: guys off the street that.
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  Speaker 3: Have come in here and did a really good job.
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  Speaker 5: And then overall you have our defensive backs are tackling
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  Speaker 5: like crazy, like Jenkins Tyson.
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  Speaker 3: Tyson had a tackle for loss the corner.
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  Speaker 5: So it's it's it's interesting that guys want to contribute
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  Speaker 5: to stopping the run and you know they're doing a
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  Speaker 5: good job and they're focused on it, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: got a big task this week.
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  Speaker 6: Darius made that interception against defon just how impressive of
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  Speaker 6: a play. Is that to you just says a defensive
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  Speaker 6: back to the leverage of the throat and everything like that.
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  Speaker 3: But he was able to make that bonus.
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  Speaker 5: It's it's always good for a defensive guy because at practice,
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  Speaker 5: you sometimes when it's our perier, we get a chance
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  Speaker 5: to compete for the ball, but when it's offensive pier,
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  Speaker 5: we don't get a chance to compete for the ball.
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  Speaker 3: And he went up and he competed for the ball,
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  Speaker 3: and that's what you want.
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  Speaker 5: You want guys that are able to attack the ball
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  Speaker 5: once it's in the air. And Darius did a great
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  Speaker 5: job of going up and high pointing it.
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  Speaker 3: He showed a strong hands and was able to get
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  Speaker 3: the interception.
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  Speaker 4: Josh Allen sort of intimated after the game that he
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  Speaker 4: you know, I mean, obviously he was, you know, dancing
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  Speaker 4: around in the pocket there a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: How much do you think he was bothered enough by the.
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  Speaker 1: Pressure to not get the kind of velocity on the
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  Speaker 1: ball that he probably wanted.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know, going into the game, we understood that Josh,
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  Speaker 5: the other Josh Allen could throw it as far as
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  Speaker 5: he needed to throw it. And that's why we always
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  Speaker 5: say rush and coverage go together. Just being able to
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  Speaker 5: be around him and not let him fully step into
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  Speaker 5: it because he had the arm and strong enough to
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  Speaker 5: throw it in ninety yards, but he will. You know,
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  Speaker 5: it came up short and Darius is in good position
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  Speaker 5: he that would make a play. But it goes hand
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  Speaker 5: in hand when you have a rush is able to
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  Speaker 5: get around guys. That's where we go back to talking
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  Speaker 5: about affecting the quarterback. When he's unable to step into it,
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  Speaker 5: then that's not as good as a sack, but it
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  Speaker 5: affects a quarterback follow up.
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  Speaker 1: I know this is not your ultimate call to make,
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  Speaker 1: but the trade deadline is less and three.
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  Speaker 4: Weeks away will smooth and Devon Hamilton really have enough
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  Speaker 4: time together where you can properly evaluate whether you need
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  Speaker 4: to go get a potential help along the defensive line.
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  Speaker 3: Pass rush, or whatever.
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  Speaker 5: Again, I think you answered my answered your question. You
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  Speaker 5: know that's not my area. We'll I guess we'll talk
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  Speaker 5: about it as staff, but right now, we're comfortable with
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  Speaker 5: the guys we have, and we're getting the guys back that.
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  Speaker 3: Can play the major role in the growth of this.
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  Speaker 5: Team last year and going forward. So we're excited to
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  Speaker 5: get our guys back in. We'll see how it goes
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  Speaker 5: from there.
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  Speaker 1: You expect the pass rush to be once Hamilton and
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  Speaker 1: Smooth are not just back, but actually got a couple
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  Speaker 1: games under their belt and you can really kind of
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  Speaker 1: get back into the flow of the game.
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  Speaker 5: Well, when you look at it, those are our guys
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  Speaker 5: that last year we depended on. This year, going into
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  Speaker 5: this season we depended on. We're glad to get them
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  Speaker 5: back at whatever time. Now, Smooth's ready, the Ham's ready
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  Speaker 5: to go, and that'll be a jolt to the team.
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  Speaker 3: We say, Moxie, he's a guy that you know, he
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  Speaker 3: might not have the name, but the players in that
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  Speaker 3: locker room play for him. And that's huge.
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  Speaker 5: When you got the other fifty two guys believing in
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  Speaker 5: you and they believe in him, they'll go out there
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  Speaker 5: and they'll play for him. That says something about a quarterback,
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  Speaker 5: and that's that's a big thing. Like run game will
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  Speaker 5: pick up past game, will pick up offensive line to
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  Speaker 5: pick up because they want to play for him. And
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  Speaker 5: that's the kind of quarterback he is. You can see
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  Speaker 5: it on the film. They I think when he's been
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  Speaker 5: in the game, they're undefeated.
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  Speaker 6: Obviously are a different kind of quarterback, but this is
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  Speaker 6: their offense change much when Gardener's in there, as compared
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  Speaker 6: to w Wichard sends in the dark.
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  Speaker 5: They I think the run game changes a little bit,
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  Speaker 5: but he has enough moxie to be able to make
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  Speaker 5: the runs. He's the athletic. He's not as athletic as are,
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  Speaker 5: but he is a athletic quarterback and he can buy
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  Speaker 5: time with his feet. He can run his own read.
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  Speaker 5: He's able to make plays with his feet. But he
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  Speaker 5: also is a veteran quarterback that knows where to go
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  Speaker 5: with the ball. So I think the offense will stay
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  Speaker 5: similar and they'll lean heavy on the running backs in
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  Speaker 5: let the quarterback do what he does.
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  Speaker 7: Running game Jonathan Taylor haven't seen a lot of them
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  Speaker 7: this season, But how much do you have to prepare
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  Speaker 7: for him?
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  Speaker 3: He's a five star guy.
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  Speaker 5: He's a guy that you have to account for whenever
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  Speaker 5: he's on the field. You know that at any time
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  Speaker 5: he can take a distance and lost the same way.
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  Speaker 5: You know they have a I don't want to call
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  Speaker 5: it a two headed monster, but they have two guys
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  Speaker 5: back there that can can get it done. And you know,
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  Speaker 5: we'll have to make sure we're gap sound and being
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  Speaker 5: our gaps and try to sew it down as much
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  Speaker 5: as we can.
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  Speaker 6: Johnson in the lineup for a three Stamps this last week.
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  Speaker 7: How big of a role you envisioned him working his
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  Speaker 7: way into in the defense as a rookie.
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  Speaker 5: I think it was good to get his first dose
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  Speaker 5: of playing, and hopefully his role will continue.
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  Speaker 3: It'll be a week to week thing.
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  Speaker 5: We'll go in and we try to use our guys
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  Speaker 5: and if we need three safeties four safeties at times.
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  Speaker 5: And we got Devin coming back, so hopefully, you know,
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  Speaker 5: we'll have a full plethora of guys to be able
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  Speaker 5: to use and we'll just plug him in and try
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  Speaker 5: to get the best out of anybody that's out there.
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  Speaker 5: I thought he played well, he'd uh you know, he
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  Speaker 5: he covered well, has good play speed, and you know
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  Speaker 5: he'll continue to grow into his role.
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  Speaker 1: So trending to be suiting up for the Sunday.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if that's his window still open, So
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  Speaker 5: we'll continue to get him, get him reps and see
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  Speaker 5: where he's at.
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  Speaker 3: How do you think he looks now now?
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  Speaker 2: I mean if you had to just watch him in practice,
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  Speaker 2: what are your observations?
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  Speaker 3: Smooth smooth is good.
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  Speaker 5: He's out there, he's smiling, he's running around, and he's
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  Speaker 5: getting back accustomed to playing football. It's uh, you know,
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  Speaker 5: it's tough when you're unable to do what you'd love
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  Speaker 5: to do. And I'm just excited for him that he's
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  Speaker 5: able to be back with us. And if he's able
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  Speaker 5: to go this week, that's fine. If he's not, we'll
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  Speaker 5: wait until he's ready to go in let him go
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  Speaker 5: at it.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned Devin coming back.
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  Speaker 7: How do you think mom Will played in a replacement?
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  Speaker 3: I thought Chad did a good job.
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  Speaker 5: He played downhill, he made his plays in a run game,
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  Speaker 5: was solid in the past game.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, you can always look at Chad.
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  Speaker 5: He's you know, he's a young player.
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  Speaker 3: He's a guy that understands a game.
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  Speaker 5: He goes about understanding, prepares for it, and when he's
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  Speaker 5: out there, you know he's gonna make his plays.
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  Speaker 3: And he did a good job for us. All right,
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  Speaker 3: Thank you