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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Recaps Week 10, Provides Injury Updates · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, Monday's Monday turnarounds were always I feel like
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  Speaker 1: it happened pretty quick. But good to see Everyboddy players
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  Speaker 1: are in right now. We're just kind of finishing up
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  Speaker 1: food trucks are out there. So positive Monday, but also
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  Speaker 1: time to move on starting two minutes ago. But yeah, great,
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  Speaker 1: guys played great. You know, we had the lull there
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  Speaker 1: in the third, third quarter, which we need to learn from.
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  Speaker 1: Ball's been in jeopardy to you know, too often offensively,
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  Speaker 1: and so that's something we need to focus on moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what. The guys responded though, in
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  Speaker 1: really tough situations. We knew this game. You know, it
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  Speaker 1: seems like based on the score, you think that's a
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  Speaker 1: you know, that was just kind of like a you
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  Speaker 1: know whatever in the second half, but it was not
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  Speaker 1: the case. Arizona did a great job coming back fighting
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  Speaker 1: and making it you know, a couple of score games.
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  Speaker 1: So we had to we had to close it out
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  Speaker 1: there in the fourth and the guys responded and they
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  Speaker 1: did a great job.
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  Speaker 2: Closing the game out running the football.
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  Speaker 3: How did you see Olu step up? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Second man really excited for Olu, you know, talking about
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  Speaker 1: standing ready and then when this opportunity presented itself, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: played some really good football for us, and uh he's
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  Speaker 1: really catalyst behind a lot of those runs.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't have it on Jal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's gonna be multiple weeks and uh, i'd
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  Speaker 1: say ir is under consideration with it, so not season
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  Speaker 1: ending as of today. But uh so I'm sorry, just
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  Speaker 1: he's tough as crap. I mean, we'll see, we'll see
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  Speaker 1: how it goes, but hopefully we'll get him back.
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  Speaker 4: You didn't have as many situations last year when you
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  Speaker 4: guys are up multiple scores anything. You kind of started
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  Speaker 4: to pick up on on what needs to change this
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  Speaker 4: year when you guys are in those situations.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's the second time against Arizona that we've you know,
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  Speaker 1: they've gone down, you know, gone down in.
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  Speaker 3: The field and scored on us.
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  Speaker 1: We've we're looking at those things, you know, what we're calling,
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  Speaker 1: how we're playing it, how we're rotating our guys.
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  Speaker 3: Offensively.
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  Speaker 1: It's really I mean, your style of play cannot change,
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  Speaker 1: and that's not happening, but we just we have to
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  Speaker 1: have that understanding and how what we call and how
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  Speaker 1: we call the game will obviously change. You know when
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  Speaker 1: you're when the game starts to wane and you're going
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  Speaker 1: more up against the clock. But yesterday, definitely in the
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  Speaker 1: third quarter, we weren't just trying to run the clock out.
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  Speaker 1: We're trying to move the ball was going to be.
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  Speaker 3: Out for a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: And what's the game plan with as far as center
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  Speaker 2: goes behind Olu with vidrikob candidate.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, will work through it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Christian still has eligibility if we
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  Speaker 1: move him up. You know, Bryce got some work yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll be getting other guys ready, but Olu will
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  Speaker 1: be our center right now.
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  Speaker 3: Surgery no good.
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  Speaker 4: It's big man on screen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's his knee.
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  Speaker 4: Like the production you're getting at drinking for a lot us.
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  Speaker 3: Past break ups, tyle Fast was like a let's allowed
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  Speaker 3: him to.
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  Speaker 1: Just plain, well, he's a I think it's elite preparation
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  Speaker 1: allows him to be decisive in those moments and when
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  Speaker 1: you see it, go go let it rip man. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's there's a lot of things that go into a
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  Speaker 1: couple of those plays that are some pre snat processing
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  Speaker 1: that he's doing at a really high level, and not
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people can do that, and it lets
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  Speaker 1: him play that fast, So it's really cool.
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  Speaker 4: What are you gonna miss with.
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 1: I thought he was playing really well for us. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of the things that he does well, Olu does too.
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  Speaker 1: But Jalen, he's a great athlete, get to the second level.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's tough, resilient, I mean all those things.
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  Speaker 1: But Olu is too. You know, Olu is also a
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  Speaker 1: really good player, and he's played great football.
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  Speaker 3: For us, and that's what we're gonna we're gonna need
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  Speaker 3: from him.
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  Speaker 4: Christian in a couple of weeks daily, Yeah, he's.
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  Speaker 1: Practicing well, he's not getting reps to the ones, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's going up against our d line and uh,
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  Speaker 1: this week we'll probably paint a better picture of of
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  Speaker 1: you know, what we what we need to do moving forward.
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  Speaker 4: There's been a lot of criticism about Anthony Bradford's play
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  Speaker 4: outside of these walls. I'm kind of curious your thoughts
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  Speaker 4: on how he played yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he played one of his better games last game.
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  Speaker 1: There's there's some plays where it's like a might be
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  Speaker 1: a quick loss that you know that.
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  Speaker 3: That but that happened.
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  Speaker 1: That happens in football, you know, But it's protecting well,
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  Speaker 1: and when he's when he gets his hands on people,
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  Speaker 1: he's moving them and he's a he's finishing blocks.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what we're asking our guys to do. There's
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  Speaker 3: always room for improvement. You know. We want our guys
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  Speaker 3: to shoot.
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  Speaker 1: We want to run for a million yards every game
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  Speaker 1: when we don't want the quarterback to get touched. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's that's what you want. It's not gonna you know,
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  Speaker 1: but that's what we're shooting for. And you know all
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  Speaker 1: of us are gonna fall short to a certain degree.
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  Speaker 1: But I think I think yesterday was one of his
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  Speaker 1: better gameses.
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  Speaker 3: Practicing probably Guarden Center, like, what.
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  Speaker 4: Are those elements for a player to play excise?
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  Speaker 2: And you're talking abou about Drake, but even nick Emmon Laurie,
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  Speaker 2: what are those things that get a play?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's it's it's what we said from the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: As a coach, you have to it has to be clearer.
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  Speaker 1: You know where you want me to stand, what do
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  Speaker 1: you want to look at? How do you want me
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  Speaker 1: to do it? It can't be a bunch of ifs
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  Speaker 1: and maybe sort of kind of coaching points. So the guy,
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  Speaker 1: the guy knows what's expected of him. On what do
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  Speaker 1: you see when he goes out there. So that's the
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  Speaker 1: first part, and the second part is you've got to prepare,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you got to you gotta understand what your
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  Speaker 1: job is and identify the kind of the inputs that
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  Speaker 1: go into making that decision.
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  Speaker 3: And then at the end of the day, it's like
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  Speaker 3: our style, you gotta go let a rip. You can't.
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  Speaker 3: There's no there's no half measures. Last year, you.
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  Speaker 4: Guys were four and five at this time coming off
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  Speaker 4: a pretty frustrating loss to the Rams and overtime, you're
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  Speaker 4: seven and two this year. What's what are some of
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  Speaker 4: the things you see? Is different between where you are
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  Speaker 4: now and where you were then.
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  Speaker 3: Man, that was like a light that was like a
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  Speaker 3: lifetime ago. Is a whole new team. You know, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Really haven't stepped taken a step back to like say
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  Speaker 1: where we are, because it really really doesn't matter where
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  Speaker 1: we're at right now. What really matters is that we
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  Speaker 1: had an awesome team meeting, and we had a great
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  Speaker 1: lift and we had a great meeting. Okay, now we
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  Speaker 1: got to go put a great game plan together, and
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  Speaker 1: then on Wednesday we got to go have a great
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  Speaker 1: first second down install and we got to execute a
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  Speaker 1: high level, then we got to fix it, and then
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  Speaker 1: you just that's what that's like. That's kind of where
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  Speaker 1: our mind is at right now.
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  Speaker 3: You know, past break up and.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, yeah, we showed the TV copy to the
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  Speaker 1: to the guys multiple times. The body control awareness is
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  Speaker 1: I've never really seen a play like that before. I know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure as that can't do that. I can barely
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  Speaker 1: run from here to that door over there. So he's
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  Speaker 1: playing with confidence and my play his best game as
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks yesterday, and we expect that.
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  Speaker 3: From him on moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: It's on tape now, but that that game, that play
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  Speaker 1: probably ultimately get you know, sealed the win for us
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  Speaker 1: because otherwise, if you know, if they make that touchdown,
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  Speaker 1: it's down to a two score game with you know,
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  Speaker 1: twenty minutes ago or something.
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  Speaker 3: So that was a big time play. Is making you
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  Speaker 3: considered dying more or other rules beside that?
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, yeah, if you know, when he's playing like that,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's easy for easy to say.
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  Speaker 3: Dime and have everybody run out there. But it's a
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  Speaker 3: good problem to have.
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  Speaker 1: We can we can go in our you know, two
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  Speaker 1: linebacker package and play good football and we can go
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  Speaker 1: to one linebacker as well and still play good football.
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  Speaker 3: How do you feel about his performance over the last
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  Speaker 3: few games.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just like we said going into the game, he's
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  Speaker 1: really he's stacked for about a month now. He's stacked
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  Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of great practices, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of all the preparation, all the steps. When you watch
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  Speaker 1: our practice, he's incredible. He's been incredibly productive in practice,
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  Speaker 1: making plays on the ball all and you're seeing that
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  Speaker 1: on tape. I thought the way he finished plays in
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  Speaker 1: the past game yesterday was was was great?
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  Speaker 4: Changed there like hot? Why is he making better plays
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  Speaker 4: on the ball than earlier than?
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  Speaker 1: It's a process, brother, it's the it's the just incremental
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  Speaker 1: gains every day.
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  Speaker 3: You know. It's not like you said, Okay, now, I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna just know.
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  Speaker 1: It's just I'm just gonna just gonna do the reps
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  Speaker 1: with the attention to detail, the preparation, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: extra balls, all ball drills, all those things that makes
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  Speaker 1: the ball come to life on Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: To know about Ernest or Josh job or Toy.
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  Speaker 3: Where uh too early to know? Too early to know?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, well, we're probably gonna stick to a
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  Speaker 1: similar schedule as we did last week, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: we got to play up day by day with those guys.
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  Speaker 1: But I'd say all three are hoping to play.
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  Speaker 2: Drake Thomas now leads all off ball linebackers and tackles
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  Speaker 2: for the loss this year and he's only starts sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: But what are you seeing from him in terms of
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  Speaker 2: the way that he's using his vision and reading what
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  Speaker 2: the blocking scheme looks like against the run compared.
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  Speaker 3: To where he was at ruly this year.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, you get you get more experience, so
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  Speaker 1: I think the game slows down for you. But uh,
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  Speaker 1: and one, it's it's great to play behind our defensive line.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they're you know, if I was a linebacker,
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  Speaker 1: I'd want to play behind our guys. But Drake deserves
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  Speaker 1: a lot of credit to and like I said, he
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  Speaker 1: prepares at an elite level.
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  Speaker 3: And then you know, go go rip it, bro Go go.
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  Speaker 1: Out there and trust what you see and then and
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  Speaker 1: and let it rip.
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  Speaker 4: Do you expect do you expect to open I Briley
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  Speaker 4: Mills practice window this week?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? Not to buy? No, it's not this week.
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  Speaker 2: Now you like to book the way Nick mulloy played.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Nick, Nick had a great game, removing him from
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  Speaker 1: two different spots right now thinking about maybe another spot.
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  Speaker 3: So I'd say his attention to detail on those things.
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  Speaker 1: It's easy to call a lot of the things that
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  Speaker 1: we're putting him into because you have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: confidence and to be able to execute those things.
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  Speaker 3: So and there's a room for improvement.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I think I haven't talked to him since we watched
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  Speaker 3: the tape.
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  Speaker 1: But to interest you to hear what he what he
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  Speaker 1: thinks about a couple of those plays where I think
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  Speaker 1: he can play a little bit better and and just
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  Speaker 1: continue to like it's to me right now, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: a marginal game thing with Nick, you know, how can
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  Speaker 1: I just keep chiseling away at my game kind of
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  Speaker 1: like with Drake, So I can just be that more decisive,
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  Speaker 1: that more anticipatory play ahead of play a little bit more, uh,
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  Speaker 1: and then the talent will will will come to life.
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  Speaker 2: Very much pressure.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even worried.
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  Speaker 2: What's what's the difference?
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  Speaker 1: It could be it, you know, it could be a
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  Speaker 1: couple other spots not center.
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  Speaker 3: I'll say that.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't pressure very much at the college level. That
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  Speaker 2: was not something he did a lot, but yesterday the
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  Speaker 2: partial sack that he had. You know, just how different
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  Speaker 2: a call is it six plaints to fans, like when
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  Speaker 2: you're running full speed and then to be able to
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  Speaker 2: work off the block when the quarterbacks stepping up like
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  Speaker 2: you see him making.
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  Speaker 1: That again, I don't really know from experience and how
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  Speaker 1: difficult that is, but uh, DeMarcus Sorens played that play
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  Speaker 1: really well too, being able to redirect on the inside move.
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  Speaker 3: That was awesome, I'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 1: Like that was a play that Drake and Boy did
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  Speaker 1: a great job communicating, making an adjustment and taking away
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  Speaker 1: that route to make the quarterback hold onto the ball,
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  Speaker 1: and so it was it was kind of a team sack.
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  Speaker 1: But that was a great job by Nick have an
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  Speaker 1: awareness of hey, I'm past the quarterback, now I need
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  Speaker 1: a counter. And he saw his athleticism too. So that
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  Speaker 1: was great play all around.
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  Speaker 4: After the game about kind of the health stuff he
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  Speaker 4: had to go through, augress and things like that, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it sounds like that was an awful lot for everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think you know, we're kind of
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  Speaker 1: we're trying to, you know, give him his privacy during
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  Speaker 1: that time because it's a you know, health matters are
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  Speaker 1: could be possibly serious. So but to his credit like
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  Speaker 1: being able to take it and stride and you know
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  Speaker 1: still come to the building with a great attitude and
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  Speaker 1: his work.
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  Speaker 3: Ethic and all those things.
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  Speaker 1: I think sets you up for you know, when you
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  Speaker 1: get your opportunity to you know, to take advantage of that.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, there was a lot going on with with
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  Speaker 1: uh with teenite this offseason.
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  Speaker 4: Thought there was a possiblity wouldn't play football again, that
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  Speaker 4: kind of thing.
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  Speaker 3: It didn't get to that point.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're in the process where like there was a
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  Speaker 1: roads there possibly could go that way to my knowledge,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't think it got that that far down
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  Speaker 1: that road.
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  Speaker 3: Jared has he already had that second circuit. He had
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  Speaker 3: it this morning.
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  Speaker 4: So when you guys are are ahead or sorry, when
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  Speaker 4: you're trailing or tied for the most division offensive football,
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  Speaker 4: but when you're ahead fallow the twenty fifth, is there
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  Speaker 4: something about being ahead and in the style of offense
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  Speaker 4: you have to play when you're ahead to excel.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if that that stat is.
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  Speaker 1: Like on the right track, because I feel like our
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  Speaker 1: first and third quarter offense has been really good and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of that goes to like how we're scripting
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  Speaker 1: and how we're taking it off.
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  Speaker 3: So it's it's probably that.
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  Speaker 1: And also there's some four minute plays that in the
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  Speaker 1: you know, in the first half of the season where
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  Speaker 1: I felt like we could have done a better job.
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  Speaker 3: The last two games, I thought we did a good job.
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  Speaker 1: So it's probably probably how we're adjusting our game plan.
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  Speaker 1: We we I thought we've nailed it a few times
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  Speaker 1: and it's been great, and I think you've seen the
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  Speaker 1: production and also sometimes where maybe we could do a
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  Speaker 1: better job, you know as a whole offense, players and
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  Speaker 1: coaches included. So now the philosophy is, we're not we
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  Speaker 1: don't want to step our foot on the off the gas.
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  Speaker 3: We want to stay aggressive.
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  Speaker 1: We saw that in the Pittsburgh game in the four
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  Speaker 1: minute I mean, we're trying to go win games and
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  Speaker 1: and do what it takes to go win games.
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  Speaker 3: That's really the mentality. It's we're not just trying to
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  Speaker 3: you know, coast to finish line.
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  Speaker 4: Since David tabit surgery, the second one lay at the timeline.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be multiple weeks.
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  Speaker 1: I think we just got to get a sense of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how strong it is and how well it heals.
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  Speaker 3: But again I don't I don't think we're in danger
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  Speaker 3: right now. The goal is to have them to get
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  Speaker 3: him back to hit the title.
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  Speaker 2: Kada had that looks like about as hard as you
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  Speaker 2: can hit a guy in today's NFL without drying a penalty.
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  Speaker 3: Was that something that you guys made like the point.
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  Speaker 1: Of well, I mean just just something that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: on the you know, front of mind on how you
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  Speaker 1: have to tackle people now. So again, I mean, these
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  Speaker 1: these things are happening at really really quick speeds in game,
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  Speaker 1: and you have to make these decisions in split seconds.
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  Speaker 1: And for him to have that awareness and to be
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  Speaker 1: able to hit the receiver in the strike zone, is
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  Speaker 1: it is a great play?
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  Speaker 3: Is a great play? Yeah? That was a big time
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  Speaker 3: playing that really that really helped us.
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  Speaker 2: The food you mentioned the food trucks. Is that something
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  Speaker 2: you guys are doing after wins?
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  Speaker 3: You guys don't know about the food trucks spilled the beans.
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  Speaker 3: It's food trucks out there.
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  Speaker 4: Did started to go up.
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  Speaker 3: It's too that's too late. Now there's no there's no
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  Speaker 3: there's no food. If they.
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  Speaker 1: Look at I I really haven't started watching them yet.
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  Speaker 1: But look that it seems you know, it seems like
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  Speaker 1: they're playing great football in all three phases. I think
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  Speaker 1: the numbers, you know, from the our advance, the numbers
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: are backing that up.
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: And uh, they're winning decisively.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: So when this is over, we'll start to dive in,
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: all right, right now, okay, thank you