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Press Pass | Press Taylor: "It feels like we're starting to string things together." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Process. It's a process, yeah, and there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: different things that kind of come up here and there,
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  Speaker 1: whether it be situation, the game play, call, protection, route, running, catching, throwing,
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  Speaker 1: all there's a lot that comes into play with that
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  Speaker 1: and it's certainly an area we need to get better
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  Speaker 1: at and we're continuing to put in the time to
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  Speaker 1: continue and trust our process with how we game plan
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  Speaker 1: for these things, how we scheme them, how we rep them,
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  Speaker 1: teach them all that, but it's definitely something we need
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  Speaker 1: to improve on.
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  Speaker 2: You focus on doing what you do better or do
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  Speaker 2: you try to get created and then come up with
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  Speaker 2: different ways to get it.
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  Speaker 1: There's always a combination of those sort of factors of
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  Speaker 1: doing what we do doing or things we know really
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  Speaker 1: well inside and out, but also things that put our
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  Speaker 1: guys in the position to do what they do well,
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  Speaker 1: but also attack a defense and how they want to
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  Speaker 1: play the certain situation because every defense is different, so
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  Speaker 1: every game plan changes a little bit, and there's sort
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  Speaker 1: of a give and take of just do what we do,
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  Speaker 1: attack what they do. Put everybody in the best position,
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  Speaker 1: So kind of a case by case.
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  Speaker 2: Christ when you face a team like Buffalo that scores
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  Speaker 2: a ton of points and you know you'll have to
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  Speaker 2: score a ton of points to beat them.
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  Speaker 3: Does that affect how you game plan for them?
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't necessarily affect the way you game plan really
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  Speaker 1: when you play teams like that or how every single
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  Speaker 1: game the game changes as it goes. So we always
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  Speaker 1: go in with the intent we're trying to score every
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  Speaker 1: single drive, and then even like last week, all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, you're in a seventeen point lead. It changes
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  Speaker 1: the way you want to play the game. So you
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  Speaker 1: adjust the game plan within the game based on the
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  Speaker 1: situation you're in. So a team like Buffalo or these
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  Speaker 1: high scoring offenses that you play when it's high scoring,
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  Speaker 1: you know you have to match. You may have to
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  Speaker 1: be aggressive in the way you play. You may have
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  Speaker 1: to play a ball control style of game just to
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  Speaker 1: keep them at bay for a little bit, give your
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  Speaker 1: defense a little break. So again, it always kind of changes. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you know you're going into a game with the plan
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  Speaker 1: you're going to need to score, maybe more than you
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  Speaker 1: play other teams that tend to run the ball, however
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  Speaker 1: they play offense.
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  Speaker 3: You're coming against the Bill's defense as a great defensive line,
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  Speaker 3: great depth there. How do you game plan for a
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  Speaker 3: defensive line that can rotate and keep guys coming in
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  Speaker 3: and being fresh game one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they do a great job as seven. Pretty much
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  Speaker 1: kind of hockey subn there defensive line where it's the
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  Speaker 1: whole two unit comes in, the one unit gets a break.
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  Speaker 1: They're rolling guys in and out, and they've got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of really good players, be a defensive tackle or
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  Speaker 1: defensive end. It's certainly something you try to plan against.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you have times where you want to change the
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  Speaker 1: tempo just to keep a certain group on the field
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  Speaker 1: or keep a certain group off the field. So there's
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  Speaker 1: certainly different ways you want to attack them when teams
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  Speaker 1: are doing something like that.
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  Speaker 3: As you go, coach, sounds like von Miller's coming out
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  Speaker 3: to London. How do you prepare for a guy that
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  Speaker 3: we've not got any tape on for the last twelve months.
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  Speaker 2: We know how special player.
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  Speaker 1: Is well, either fortunately or unfortunately, we have about ten
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  Speaker 1: years of tape on them, so we know what type
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  Speaker 1: of player he's capable of being. So he's one of
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  Speaker 1: those guys that you have to be aware of. He's
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  Speaker 1: a game wrecker and we would imagine, you know, if
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  Speaker 1: he's using bits and pieces. It's probably gonna be on
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  Speaker 1: critical situations where he gets a chance to rest a passer.
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  Speaker 1: But if he's playing every single down, that's something and
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  Speaker 1: you've got to be aware of as well. So he's
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  Speaker 1: somebody that will pay the respect he's earned.
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  Speaker 2: Press. What's the value of Walker Little over these last
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  Speaker 2: couple of years for you guys from right tackle to
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  Speaker 2: left tackle to potentially left guard when that time comes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's kind of a security blanket for us, just
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  Speaker 1: within the staff of knowing he can align on multiple spots.
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  Speaker 1: Being able to play left tackle and right tackle is
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  Speaker 1: not as easy as people think. You know, you're now
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  Speaker 1: your right your right hand dominant on the right side,
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  Speaker 1: left hand on the left side, so that that's a
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  Speaker 1: little harder than I think people would realize. And then
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  Speaker 1: being able to move inside where there's less space, everything's constricted,
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  Speaker 1: everything's happens faster. A guy that can handle that and
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  Speaker 1: do that at a high level is really invaluable for us.
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  Speaker 2: Do you guys feel like you might be on the
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  Speaker 2: verge with some of the maybe some hidden stuff. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's three three and outs combined in the last
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  Speaker 2: three games. You get a thirteen play drive at the
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  Speaker 2: end of that one on Sunday, I think you're sixty
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  Speaker 2: percent on the other side of the field an enemy territory.
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  Speaker 2: Are those some of the things that when you're meeting
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  Speaker 2: you're like, hey, a few more plays and where where
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  Speaker 2: we want to be?
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  Speaker 1: All those numbers I had no clue about, so that
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  Speaker 1: those are great and I appreciate those when that sound good. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it feels like we're starting to string things together. We
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  Speaker 1: really just want to be efficient. We want to be
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  Speaker 1: efficient and explosive. That's kind of one of our commandments
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  Speaker 1: that we talk about a lot. As in offense. We've
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  Speaker 1: started to gain some traction of being efficient, we're still
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  Speaker 1: working to be explosive at certain times or when we
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  Speaker 1: need to be. Like I mentioned earlier, I think the
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  Speaker 1: dynamics of the game last week changed pretty quickly, where
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you're up seventeen. A team that was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in all honesty, was struggling to throw the
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  Speaker 1: ball at a certain times. So the game plan changes
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  Speaker 1: as you get into it, or the way you play
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  Speaker 1: the game changes, and I thought our guys did a
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  Speaker 1: great job of that, and ultimately it came down to
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  Speaker 1: the other day on Sunday. Our players made plays. When
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  Speaker 1: you think of the first touchdown as Calvin and Trevor
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  Speaker 1: were hot. Trevor makes a guy miss, Calvin breaks a
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  Speaker 1: route off, we score a touchdown. Christian had some big
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  Speaker 1: third down conversions, Evan made some big plays on some keepers,
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  Speaker 1: even Calvin drawing a DPI late in the game. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it won the game that we were great running the ball,
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  Speaker 1: but a lot of things came off the run in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the movement, some of the play passes we
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  Speaker 1: had earlier. You know, we kind of it's a full system.
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  Speaker 1: So you look at it and say, we didn't run
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  Speaker 1: the ball great, but a lot of the things that
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  Speaker 1: came off the run game were big for us.
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  Speaker 4: Press. My question was about the run. You got some
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  Speaker 4: traction against Houston. It felt like the last week it
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  Speaker 4: seemed like short yards. The whole thing said, do you
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  Speaker 4: feel like you're getting close there to where you want
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  Speaker 4: to be or how would you assess it?
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  Speaker 1: Overall? We think so, and again the dynamics of the
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  Speaker 1: game change where it wasn't. It didn't seem to benefit
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  Speaker 1: us to be super aggressive and trying to get to
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  Speaker 1: the perimeter and risking negative yardage plays some of it
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  Speaker 1: was let's keep going straight ahead, you know, we'll pop
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  Speaker 1: some of these eventually, which we did or we didn't.
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  Speaker 1: We probably didn't in that game, but again, some some
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  Speaker 1: movements came off. We get a thirty yard game to
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  Speaker 1: Evan rolling off there on a run sell where their
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  Speaker 1: defense is committed to it. We go into the game
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  Speaker 1: knowing that's a really good front. You have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of calls that you don't get to just because, again,
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  Speaker 1: when you're sitting on a seventeen point lead and the
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  Speaker 1: dynamics of the game change, you play the game a
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  Speaker 1: little differently than you plan to when it was zero
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  Speaker 1: zero and you had four quarters ahead of you. So
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  Speaker 1: there are things we need to continue to get better
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  Speaker 1: at those.
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  Speaker 3: Move forward, coach, We saw Blake Knts come in a
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  Speaker 3: lot of the game last last week and kind of
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  Speaker 3: these Jombo packages. Why was that important for the way
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  Speaker 3: you wanted to play? And it's almost the role he's
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  Speaker 3: carved out on this team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And Blake's similar to Walker and Guy that we
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of trust and can do a lot
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  Speaker 1: of different things. So whether it be playing guard, which
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  Speaker 1: he played through training camp, playing tackle, which's kind of
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  Speaker 1: done for us, and then even being available to play
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  Speaker 1: tight end there in certain situations, and when you play
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta and a guy Kalays Campbell sitting there on the
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  Speaker 1: edge and you kind of want to match some brute
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  Speaker 1: force with some brute force right there, maybe a little
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  Speaker 1: better than some of our tight ends give us. So
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  Speaker 1: we felt like Blake gave us an advantage in that
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  Speaker 1: particular matchup. Again, it's a case by case, game by
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  Speaker 1: game basis of when will utilize things like that, but
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  Speaker 1: we felt like that would give us an advantage or
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  Speaker 1: a better matchup than we would have had with our
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  Speaker 1: tight ends doing the same thing makes us for ship