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Press Pass | Coen on "Next Man Up" Mentality, Red Zone Execution & WR Marvin Harrison Jr. · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll just figure it out when we get back.
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  Speaker 1: You guys saw last night, obviously, that when we get back,
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  Speaker 1: he'll have a little procedure, see what it looks like
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: in there, don't have any new news on what it
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  Speaker 1: could really look like until we get in there. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll just take it day by day. Yeah, it's any
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  Speaker 1: time you lose a player for a game, it's always
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  Speaker 1: a challenge, but I have a lot of confidence in
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  Speaker 1: Walker and Colt. to go in there. And these guys
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  Speaker 1: have played these guys so many times and have had
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  Speaker 1: success against them and know what they're in for in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the battle and next man up mentality. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He did a good job. Did a nice job. He's long.
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  Speaker 1: He did some really good things in the run game.
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  Speaker 1: And so Anytime you're playing good rushers, you've got to
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  Speaker 1: have a plan. It takes all 11. It's not just
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  Speaker 1: those tackles, right? It's having a plan in the chip game.
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  Speaker 1: It's having decision, timing, accuracy, getting the ball out, having
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  Speaker 1: a plan. So it takes a village. It's not just
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  Speaker 1: really about one guy. So that's kind of on all
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  Speaker 1: of us. Swelling. Yeah, swelling. No, it was similar. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they kind of do what they do in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of ways. Have historically played a little bit more man
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  Speaker 1: coverage against us at times to kind of take some
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  Speaker 1: of the air out, I think, and not give as
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  Speaker 1: much free access and challenge us a little bit on
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  Speaker 1: the perimeter. So, you know, he He calls what they do.
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  Speaker 1: Their whole deal is built on the front, the rush,
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  Speaker 1: the way that they fly around and play. Their run
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  Speaker 1: defense is really good this year right now. They've got
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  Speaker 1: a group of guys that got some confidence. Records don't
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  Speaker 1: mean anything. We know that in this league. We understand
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  Speaker 1: what this team is, what they're about. how they're going
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  Speaker 1: to come in and play us. So this is going
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  Speaker 1: to be a test of physical strain, fight, and that's
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  Speaker 1: what it's going to be. Yeah, I mean, he's doing
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  Speaker 1: a really nice job in terms of getting the ball
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  Speaker 1: out on time and in rhythm. I think he's scrambling
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  Speaker 1: around a little bit more than maybe last year at times.
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  Speaker 1: using his legs, getting out, breaking contain, finding people down
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  Speaker 1: the field, you know, and then he's got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of trust in those guys on the outside. They've made
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  Speaker 1: a ton of contested catches. All their receivers and skill
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  Speaker 1: players have made a ton of contested catches. They got
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  Speaker 1: the run game going a little bit better that last week,
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  Speaker 1: and Woody Marks was running it really good, and so CJ,
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  Speaker 1: you know, anytime you have balance for a quarterback, it helps,
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  Speaker 1: and so You know, he's pushing the ball down the field.
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  Speaker 1: They scheme up their double moves really well. Like they
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  Speaker 1: always have a double move in the game plan or two.
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  Speaker 1: And they'll scheme those up pretty good and give guys
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  Speaker 1: opportunities down the field. But you look at a couple
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  Speaker 1: of the plays he made last week against Tennessee was
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  Speaker 1: touchdown on a quarterback design run. OK, and then the
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  Speaker 1: last one to Noel off scramble drill was, hey, there
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  Speaker 1: was a free rusher coming off the left side. Tackle
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  Speaker 1: ended up getting out late, but he baseball turned out,
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  Speaker 1: spun out, uh, was against his body and made a
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  Speaker 1: great throw to Noel in the back of the end zone. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: he's playing with some confidence right now. Yeah. I think
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  Speaker 1: the guys, uh, You know, when you can be honest, look,
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  Speaker 1: it's always great to learn. You learn from each op, right?
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  Speaker 1: Every single game is a learning opportunity. The result is
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  Speaker 1: the result, win or lose. It's always better to win.
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  Speaker 1: It just is. That's a great result. But I think
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  Speaker 1: our guys are mature enough to understand where we could
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  Speaker 1: have been better, specifically on offense in the red area, right,
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  Speaker 1: when you have one of your higher yardage totals and
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  Speaker 1: yards after catch and contact. I mean, there was some
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  Speaker 1: really good stuff. in terms of the way our players
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  Speaker 1: played and made plays in critical moments. We just didn't
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  Speaker 1: execute in the red area in a lot of ways
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  Speaker 1: and had some self-inflicted wounds. So our players can see that.
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  Speaker 1: They know that. We had a great offensive meeting on
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  Speaker 1: Monday afterwards where we just had a really good, open,
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  Speaker 1: honest meeting showing some of the guys where I can
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  Speaker 1: help them and where I can be better as a
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  Speaker 1: play caller and where we have to execute better as well.
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  Speaker 1: And so When you have a group of guys that
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  Speaker 1: are honest with each other, that we can all be
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  Speaker 1: honest with, typically things like that I'm not as concerned about.
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  Speaker 1: I really believe that these players know what's at stake,
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  Speaker 1: what's coming into town this week, and being able to
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  Speaker 1: learn from some of those mistakes. You mentioned what's coming
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  Speaker 1: into town this week from a coaching perspective. How do
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  Speaker 1: you prepare? Marvin Harrison, you know, could play on Sunday. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we showed some of Marvin's clips today in terms of
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  Speaker 1: what he's been able to do in Arizona, maybe what
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  Speaker 1: areas of the field they may try to use him.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's probably going to be hard to get
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  Speaker 1: him into a full game plan, but shoot, we did
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  Speaker 1: it with Jacoby last year, and I know Marvin's smart
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  Speaker 1: and he works hard, so I would imagine that he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a part of their game plan, and
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  Speaker 1: CJ and him have a lot of chemistry and history together,
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  Speaker 1: so Yeah, there's some unknown to truly how they'll use him,
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  Speaker 1: but their system, they kind of run what they do,
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  Speaker 1: and they put the guys in positions to make plays,
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  Speaker 1: and I think Marvin will probably be no different that way. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was huge. take the lead for the first time
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  Speaker 1: since the opening touchdown to go up seven, nothing was
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  Speaker 1: felt good to just kind of get a lead again.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it was obviously challenging when we then missed
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  Speaker 1: the extra point. Cause you know that those points are
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  Speaker 1: so difficult knowing what kind of game that was at
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  Speaker 1: that time. And so players making plays, you know, tried
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  Speaker 1: to call a very vanilla, like day one install play
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  Speaker 1: to just in a fourth and five, got a habit
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  Speaker 1: moment to where you're just trying to let the players
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  Speaker 1: go play and make it. And protection, they brought a
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  Speaker 1: five-man rush. Protection was really clean. Got Parker isolated in
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  Speaker 1: the slot on a slot fade. And Trevor did a
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  Speaker 1: good job holding the safety as well with his eyes
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  Speaker 1: and gave him a chance. So those are the moments
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  Speaker 1: where you look at, man, players over plays. Trevor, his
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  Speaker 1: pocket presence has really improved. Yeah, I mean, I think
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  Speaker 1: you look at last week, there's definitely improvements being made
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  Speaker 1: in terms of being able to manipulate and move in
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  Speaker 1: the pocket. Had a couple ball security things that we
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  Speaker 1: needed to clean up and stepping up in the pocket
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  Speaker 1: maybe where we don't want to sit at the top
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  Speaker 1: of the drop and hang, but I did think that
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  Speaker 1: he was manipulating and moving around well. The throw to
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  Speaker 1: Strange across his body on the critical third down was huge.
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  Speaker 1: And look, he's extremely good when throwing to his left
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  Speaker 1: on the move, and that's something that's challenging. It's not really,
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  Speaker 1: I can't take a lot of credit for it personally,
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  Speaker 1: but he's worked at it. It's something we have really
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  Speaker 1: challenged him with in terms of throwing on the run.
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  Speaker 1: all right, number one, two aren't there, let's, hey, let's
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  Speaker 1: get moving and be able to use your athleticism, so
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  Speaker 1: that's helped. Yeah, definitely, I mean, we had two really
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  Speaker 1: tight games against them, obviously have a tough feeling in
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  Speaker 1: our stomachs from the last time we played against these guys,
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  Speaker 1: and know that every time that you line up against
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  Speaker 1: this team, it's going to be a fight. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a brawl. And so that's what's great about football.
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  Speaker 1: That's what's great about rivalries is that you have a
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  Speaker 1: level of respect for each other, right? Because, you know,
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  Speaker 1: any given Sunday, anything can happen, especially in rivalry type
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  Speaker 1: games and understanding what you can learn from each of
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  Speaker 1: these opportunities that you play against one another in and
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  Speaker 1: how well you start to get to know each other
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  Speaker 1: in ways in terms of what they want to do,
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  Speaker 1: what we want to do. And that's the cat and
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  Speaker 1: mouse game. That's the game within the game that you
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  Speaker 1: have to play. Yeah, I think we'll see today and tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: be able to see him run around a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: see what that looks like. Hopeful. Right. But, Hasn't been
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  Speaker 1: able to do a ton, you know, since last week.
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  Speaker 1: And so Eric just brings a calming confidence. Obviously, the
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  Speaker 1: communication being at a premium, it helps take some stuff
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  Speaker 1: off Antonio as well, which I thought Antonio really, really
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  Speaker 1: stepped up last week and had one of his best
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  Speaker 1: games as a Jaguar player. in terms of just the playmaking,
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  Speaker 1: but also the communication and getting us right back there.
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  Speaker 1: So it's great to have Eric. He's a competitor. He's physical.
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  Speaker 1: He brings a standard to everything that we do in
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  Speaker 1: the back end. And obviously he's playing against his former team.
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  Speaker 1: How much can we continue to maximize opportunities? I'm impressed
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  Speaker 1: with you. Yeah, he's done a really nice job for us. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's wears a lot of hats. He's a
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  Speaker 1: smart football player. Um, was bummed that the opening kickoff
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  Speaker 1: ended up getting called back because he hit it, made
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  Speaker 1: a couple of people miss. I mean, that was a
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  Speaker 1: fantastic play, but then you look at on the last
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  Speaker 1: play of the game, he makes a great block that
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  Speaker 1: helps spring a mirror on the last play, uh, on
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  Speaker 1: that last kickoff there. So he's, he's able to help
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  Speaker 1: us in really every phase. Um, He's our personal protector,
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  Speaker 1: runs down on kickoff, returns kicks, makes plays when called
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  Speaker 1: upon on offense, and blocks his tail off as well.
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  Speaker 1: True team player. Similar to Vic Fangio in ways in
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  Speaker 1: terms of some of the Sims and what it can
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  Speaker 1: do to challenge your protection rules and some of your
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  Speaker 1: schemes and by also lending presence in the back end
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  Speaker 1: and so you know when you can rush bring non-known
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  Speaker 1: rushers and drop known rushers at times that can be
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  Speaker 1: challenging and so it changes the picture on the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: pre and post snap and then you can get some
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  Speaker 1: matchups in in the pass rush that maybe can help
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  Speaker 1: you and be beneficial so I just think camp continues
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  Speaker 1: to grow as a play caller, as a coordinator, as
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  Speaker 1: a leader. He, you know, he was ticked off at
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  Speaker 1: himself on a couple things on that last drive and
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  Speaker 1: is just really trying to, hey, man, like the defense
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  Speaker 1: was the reason why we were still in that game.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, seriously. So I thought they really played well,
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  Speaker 1: especially in the second half, and try not to let
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  Speaker 1: him beat himself up too much. A couple more. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to continue. yeah very um you know I
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  Speaker 1: think they've given us the ability to be multiple within
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  Speaker 1: personnel groupings um you know it's 11 personnel you feel
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  Speaker 1: good about either of those guys going in there and
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  Speaker 1: being the tight end and then in 12 it allows
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  Speaker 1: us to spread the ball around and um, still have
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  Speaker 1: matchups that we feel are favorable. Um, you know, Bork comes,
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  Speaker 1: you know, second play of the game that we ended
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  Speaker 1: up being in second and 10 critical, you know, in
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  Speaker 1: breaker and just, uh, he's reliable, tough, smart for a
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  Speaker 1: rookie and, um, been pleased with that group. Yeah. Oh, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: it was just more semantics with some of the things
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  Speaker 1: that we had to, you know, that with the, uh,
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  Speaker 1: long snapper coming in and things like that. So with
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  Speaker 1: Ross's timetable and all that, not, not being too sure on,
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  Speaker 1: we felt like bringing cave on up, gave us a
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  Speaker 1: good chance that hopefully you continue to ascend for us
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  Speaker 1: and help us on, on special teams. And when called
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  Speaker 1: upon on defense. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. I mean, we, we,
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  Speaker 1: That was probably one of the louder atmospheres I've been
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  Speaker 1: in a while, especially, you know, in those critical moments
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  Speaker 1: to where, hey, guys, like I can help you out
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  Speaker 1: with my play call, maybe in shortening it up, trim
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: the verbiage or call something a little bit more simplified
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  Speaker 1: down there where it was in that end zone specifically
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  Speaker 1: that got loud and some of those critical downs. So.
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  Speaker 1: I showed the players and coaches a ton of clips of, hey,
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  Speaker 1: the TV copy, different versions of it to show them, look,
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  Speaker 1: we broke the huddle with eight seconds. Like that's not
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  Speaker 1: giving you a chance. That's not giving you guys the
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  Speaker 1: best chance to go succeed. And that's directly on me.
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  Speaker 1: And so I think the accountability piece helps, right, when
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  Speaker 1: we can all be accountable to each other and understand
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  Speaker 1: where we can be better. but I have full confidence
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  Speaker 1: that our guys will go and execute and the delay
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  Speaker 1: of game stuff hasn't been an issue. Yeah. Yeah, I
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: don't know. You know, I mean, it's last year, right?
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  Speaker 1: We played the Rams. We were here early. They came
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  Speaker 1: in late and we got our butts whooped. So it's like,
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  Speaker 1: to me, it's just, I enjoy being here personally. Like I, I,
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  Speaker 1: The Grove does a phenomenal job. Love London. Was out
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  Speaker 1: here this summer on vacation. And so personally, I enjoy
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: being out here. It kind of feels like New England
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  Speaker 1: a little bit where I'm from in terms of the
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  Speaker 1: weather and being here. So, you know, it just helps
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  Speaker 1: being in a routine, right? Just being in your routine.
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  Speaker 1: But ultimately, I'm not sure it truly affects Sunday, like
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  Speaker 1: the game. Fully anticipate Houston being ready to play regardless
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  Speaker 1: of when they travel here. but it's just nice to be, okay,
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  Speaker 1: in a routine, in your rhythm, and be able to
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  Speaker 1: have some consistency. Coach, thank you very much. Great.