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  Speaker 1: Uh, no updates yet. We're still looking into 'em. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we just gotta see what it is. I mean, so
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  Speaker 1: early when when it comes to you know, just the
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  Speaker 1: receiver guys or day, some of the alignment stuff and
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  Speaker 1: the drops are do you attribute that to just getting
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  Speaker 1: things together in your scheme? Yeah, I mean concentration details
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  Speaker 1: all that. You know, obviously there's some moving pieces when
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  Speaker 1: when Diami went down, you know, so we just gotta
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  Speaker 1: look at who's gonna end up playing some of those
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  Speaker 1: positions if he if in fact he can't go, which
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  Speaker 1: who knows, So you know, just gotta detail it detail.
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  Speaker 1: They gotta get more on the drugs and get a
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  Speaker 1: better connection. Have you used the chip blocks of les?
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  Speaker 1: If you're giving your tackles and help, what's the technique
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  Speaker 1: for those running backs to do that? Yeah? Tackles? Yeah, fine, line,
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  Speaker 1: Like we always tell him, if in fact you're in
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  Speaker 1: a chip position and the defense, the defender jumps inside
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  Speaker 1: of you, don't don't hit him, you know, just let
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  Speaker 1: him go because sometimes you'll you'll accelerate the rush if
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  Speaker 1: you do try to chip him as he's going inside.
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  Speaker 1: So we try to align in that position, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: we want him outside of us if possible to be
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  Speaker 1: able to kind of release through the defender instead of
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  Speaker 1: truly always chipping him. You know. So sometimes it's just
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  Speaker 1: the alignment. Sometimes it's obviously chipping from the backfield. It's
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  Speaker 1: a fine line and it's something that ultimately you need
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  Speaker 1: to do in some you know, instances. Excuse me, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe there's sometimes that we don't have to
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  Speaker 1: as well, because you know, I think Anton did some
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  Speaker 1: nice things as well. Getting into the met long pass
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  Speaker 1: just does that kind of show just how far in
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  Speaker 1: your system. Yeah, that was a play that he's extremely
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  Speaker 1: comfortable with and same play he got to remember when
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  Speaker 1: the mic cut out in the preseason game against the Saints,
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  Speaker 1: where he just got to a play and obviously has
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  Speaker 1: confidence with that play he did. It showed a lot
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  Speaker 1: of ownership of the system in terms of, okay, it's
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  Speaker 1: a run to pass, zero blitz, get to a protection,
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  Speaker 1: and go execute the play at a high level. So
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  Speaker 1: it definitely should serve as I think, hopefully a springboard
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  Speaker 1: for us to continue to gain confidence and execution in
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  Speaker 1: the past game. So, you know, it was a really
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  Speaker 1: well executed play and a critical moment for us playing
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  Speaker 1: better than the number might say he is right now, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think so in some ways for sure. You know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously it's hard when you know, okay, you may miss
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  Speaker 1: a few throws, and then when you do make some,
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  Speaker 1: we don't catch them. That's frustrating for sure. I don't
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  Speaker 1: you know, I don't know how many it truly was
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day. I think it was
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  Speaker 1: around four or five. So you look at it statistically,
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  Speaker 1: then yeah, it should probably be higher than a fifty
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  Speaker 1: percent completion percentage. And then there's some throws that you
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  Speaker 1: know he needs to make and he knows that, and
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  Speaker 1: it's not a negative. It's just, hey man, we got
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  Speaker 1: to make these throws, and how can we help you,
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  Speaker 1: you know, from a footwork standpoint or you know, an
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  Speaker 1: accuracy standpoint some of those things. There's some tight window
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  Speaker 1: throws too that are are difficult. But I've been very
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  Speaker 1: proud of Trevor's the preparation, the way that he's gone
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  Speaker 1: about it, and then the scramble that he made and
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  Speaker 1: a critical third down yesterday. You know that there is
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  Speaker 1: a lot of resiliency out of him in that group.
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  Speaker 1: In general, a girl afraid the drops or private drops
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  Speaker 1: are kind of popping up. It's hard for me, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard. It's one of those things that whether it's
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  Speaker 1: you know, the real thing that we're trying to communicate
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  Speaker 1: is just not letting the ball cross our eyes, regardless
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  Speaker 1: of where it is. Anytime you let the ball obviously
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  Speaker 1: into your body, there's chance that it could not get caught.
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  Speaker 1: And when we let it cross our eyes is typically
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  Speaker 1: where you see a lot of drops happen, not just
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  Speaker 1: here but around the league, you know. So it's something
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  Speaker 1: that you don't anticipate, especially like Parker's been catching the
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  Speaker 1: heck out of it right. He's going up making great plays.
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  Speaker 1: He had a phenomenal week of practice. I've lost zero
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  Speaker 1: confidence in Parker Washington. You know, it's not the way
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  Speaker 1: it is. It's just, you know, who knows the moment,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is the time, I don't know. So something
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  Speaker 1: that ultimately we have to continue to work on and
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  Speaker 1: if we don't show the effort of improving it in practice,
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  Speaker 1: then it's not going to just happen on Sundays. Would
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  Speaker 1: you have preferred to Travis Cgm take a knee on
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  Speaker 1: the one or the two on that play, given the
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  Speaker 1: fact that it's their letting them score. What's your really
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  Speaker 1: we should have you know, if we could have communicated
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  Speaker 1: to be t on the two. You know where the
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  Speaker 1: two minutes left right, they got two timeouts. We're at
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  Speaker 1: the minus forty four. We have a run to pass check.
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  Speaker 1: You're not kind of expecting it to go big, if
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  Speaker 1: you will with the play call. It does if we
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  Speaker 1: could have stayed in there, which I don't expect BT
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  Speaker 1: to know that without any form of communication prior, if
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  Speaker 1: we could have stayed in there, you make them burn
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  Speaker 1: a timeout. Now it's a minute forty two, they have
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  Speaker 1: one timeout. We are absolutely in what we call a
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  Speaker 1: Rolex situation. We get down there a minute forty two,
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  Speaker 1: two timeouts. That's not on anybody's chart, a Rolex situation,
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  Speaker 1: not anywhere around the league. So they decided, I think,
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  Speaker 1: maybe off the heels the last week playing Tampa, Tampa
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  Speaker 1: doing it and having success with it. The thing you
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  Speaker 1: look at is, let's say we hadn't been down there
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  Speaker 1: very often throughout the game. So you get down there.
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  Speaker 1: The worst thing that could occur is for us to
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  Speaker 1: not score a touchdown, not at all the way that
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  Speaker 1: they we were playing defensively, and you go and say, okay,
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  Speaker 1: if you try not to score, basically is what you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do. You're gonna say, all right, maybe we don't
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  Speaker 1: even score a touchdown. Who knows what could a penalty
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  Speaker 1: could occur, You could get off side, a negative play
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  Speaker 1: could occur, like, there's a lot of things that could happen,
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  Speaker 1: and you say, okay, they're gonna get the ball back
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  Speaker 1: with I think it was about fifty five seconds. If
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  Speaker 1: we played it all out and they take timeouts, fifty
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  Speaker 1: five seconds and let's just say you don't score and
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  Speaker 1: you got a field goal with fifty five seconds, you're
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  Speaker 1: up by three with no timeouts. I personally, with the
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  Speaker 1: way that that game was going and the way we
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  Speaker 1: were playing defensively, would much prefer to have a touchdown
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  Speaker 1: lead and say all right, hey go beat us. So
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  Speaker 1: those were the things that we talked through, and ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think it would have been different with
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  Speaker 1: one time out. Understood that the defense was doing that.
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  Speaker 1: But he said, unless you tell him not to score,
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  Speaker 1: he's going to score every time. Yeah I appreciate that. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. It was It was one of those
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  Speaker 1: that's right on the line, right and you're saying one
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  Speaker 1: minute forty two one time out very different than a
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  Speaker 1: minute forty two to two timeouts with the way our
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  Speaker 1: defense was playing and saying that, and we hadn't scored
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  Speaker 1: many points right up until that point, and so to
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  Speaker 1: get a touchdown versus three, I just think was probably
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  Speaker 1: more important for us. What you'd like about the physicality
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  Speaker 1: and the secondary, especially Travis on our six tackles were
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  Speaker 1: so all of them. I mean, you know, Tyson tackled
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  Speaker 1: his tail off Travis as you saw it, made some
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  Speaker 1: really nice tackles. Antonio Johnson had a good fill, Eric
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  Speaker 1: and Dewey both. I mean, that whole crew has definitely
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  Speaker 1: taking the mindset of Campy in the defense. The whole crew,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think Milo and Perk have done a
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  Speaker 1: great job coaching those guys in the back end in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the whole mindset and mentality of our defense
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  Speaker 1: is showing up at all three levels, which is extremely
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  Speaker 1: important for us moving forward. You know, it's a physical game,
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  Speaker 1: and yes, there's so much that happens in the in
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  Speaker 1: the secondary that is based off the pass game. Right
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  Speaker 1: it's coverage, it's zone, it's man, it's making plays on
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  Speaker 1: the ball. But when you have tackle guys that are
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  Speaker 1: in the back end that come and fill and play
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  Speaker 1: physically and violently. That's only going to help us as
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  Speaker 1: we go through this deal. As you got in the
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  Speaker 1: week three, now week four, is this when the chess
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  Speaker 1: match really kicks in the gear play play color because
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  Speaker 1: of two games fifty stas take. Yeah, well, you definitely
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  Speaker 1: have more inventory to go off of on both sides
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  Speaker 1: of the ball. In terms of the game planning. You're
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  Speaker 1: starting to see and figure your teams out a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more at these times, you know, just schematically and
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  Speaker 1: just personnel wise, who they're trying to or who we're
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  Speaker 1: trying to ultimately get touches to or get the ball
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  Speaker 1: in their hands. What's our best schemes that we can
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  Speaker 1: now start to really focus in on hone, in on
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  Speaker 1: what do we do well and how do we continue
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  Speaker 1: to put these guys in positions to succeed, and then
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  Speaker 1: combating that on the other side. Right, So, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: definitely think with the more tape that we have on
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  Speaker 1: both sides of the ball in all three phases, either
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  Speaker 1: the scheme definitely continues to become a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: important to combat what they do well and continue to
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  Speaker 1: do things that we do well out of different looks
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  Speaker 1: and formations and things like that. Yeah, the offense really
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  Speaker 1: kind of get going, like it start really clicking and
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  Speaker 1: team the last the level that you really wanted. No,
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  Speaker 1: it was after week four, really, you know, it was
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  Speaker 1: after week four. We actually I don't even know if
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  Speaker 1: we hit one hundred yards rushing prior to that game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, prior to week four in Tampa last year,
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  Speaker 1: so might have had one hundred week one maybe around there,
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  Speaker 1: but it took a little while. You know, you're ultimately
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  Speaker 1: you're just trying to see who you are. What are
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  Speaker 1: we best at? Right? Is it the zone? Is it
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  Speaker 1: the gap? Is it mid zone and tight zone, wide zone,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is? And you know, what are our backs
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  Speaker 1: best at? Right? Like, so much of it comes down
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  Speaker 1: to the personnel what we're good at doing, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: some of it this past week we did some different
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  Speaker 1: things in terms of our inside zone versus mid zone.
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  Speaker 1: We're good at midzone, so we should have just run
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  Speaker 1: it and said stop us. So that's what we leaned
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  Speaker 1: on more in the second half, which helped us. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it it like that was what ETM literally just said
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  Speaker 1: to me as we were walking in the dining hall,
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  Speaker 1: was I was just expressed and frustration in myself getting
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  Speaker 1: away from a few things that we do well, which
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  Speaker 1: they also gave us some un scouted looks and played
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  Speaker 1: more bear fronts and five down fronts. But it's like, man,
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  Speaker 1: we're we're good at this, so let's let's do what
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  Speaker 1: we're good at. Devinitely kind of came out and said
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  Speaker 1: at a couple of weeks, I'm very proud of Devan.
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  Speaker 1: He has shown a ton of resiliency and and just
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  Speaker 1: the way that he prepared all summer and trained and
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  Speaker 1: mentally got himself in a place where you know, he
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  Speaker 1: went took it. He went and earned every opportunity that
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  Speaker 1: he's had. You know, we were playing Ventral a little
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  Speaker 1: bit and some because been tried a good camp. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't like it was a negative on Devin. It
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  Speaker 1: was just, man, we got a it's good to have
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  Speaker 1: more guys that can play. But at this point, uh, Devins,
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  Speaker 1: you know, not coming off the field the way he's
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  Speaker 1: playing right now and playing really well in the rush,
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  Speaker 1: getting after the quarterback and then man, the guy earned
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  Speaker 1: got a T shirt today for attacking in special teams.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's done a great job. So very very
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  Speaker 1: happy with Devin and hopefully we can continue to go
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  Speaker 1: here special teams that we were in punt safe and
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  Speaker 1: so it was just that he was staying on the field. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: is it the start last week we're talking about are
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  Speaker 1: finished games A week later, they go out there and
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  Speaker 1: do it huge to not play your best, specifically on
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  Speaker 1: one side of the ball and still come away with
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  Speaker 1: a win. That is that is important, Like it's not
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  Speaker 1: that's not results over process. These results do matter, as
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  Speaker 1: we all know. And to see our guys stay connected
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  Speaker 1: throughout the end of that game, the defense could have
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  Speaker 1: easily been pointing fingers at the offense. There was not
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  Speaker 1: a peep. There was just let's go back to work,
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  Speaker 1: Let's get out there and go and execute, and we
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  Speaker 1: got to go make a play to go and win
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  Speaker 1: a division game like that, physical, tough finish comes down
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  Speaker 1: to the wire. That is really big for us to
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  Speaker 1: be able to move forward and have belief that we
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  Speaker 1: can go and win tight games because obviously it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: the case last week, and in a game you probably
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  Speaker 1: felt like you played better in a lot of ways,
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  Speaker 1: specifically on offense, defense had our back and really made
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  Speaker 1: plays when we needed to at the end on offense.
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  Speaker 1: So very very pleased with their ability to stay connected
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  Speaker 1: and to finish a tough game the right way. That
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  Speaker 1: the last scrimage when Trevor does change something because you're
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  Speaker 1: watching live, is he mostly making the right decisions and
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  Speaker 1: you can see in the same stum, Yeah, yeah, he's
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  Speaker 1: making a lot of the right decisions. Yeah. So I've
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  Speaker 1: been pleased with this. You know, the screen would have
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  Speaker 1: been huge you checked this out of a run we
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  Speaker 1: had a screen versus zero blitz, it would have been
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  Speaker 1: a huge one which he got us into the right
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  Speaker 1: play you know, ends up it gets tipped by Petrie
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  Speaker 1: on the blitz. We're bluffing the blitzer throwing a screen
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  Speaker 1: in the pressure, which we you know, that was nice
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  Speaker 1: and just didn't get executed. But for the I would say,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's probably five percent less than five percent
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  Speaker 1: that he is not right on currently in the in
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  Speaker 1: the cans and audibles and stuff like that. I've been
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  Speaker 1: very pleased with his preparation. He has worked extremely hard
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  Speaker 1: throughout the week at studying the plan, doing extra on
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  Speaker 1: his own, and some of that is really helping us
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  Speaker 1: Operate did his show in every statistical category on Sunday now,
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  Speaker 1: but he is getting us in and out of the
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  Speaker 1: right place. Yeah,