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  Speaker 1: We have with the right defence overall this season.
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  Speaker 2: Is it camp has a great skimming place.
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  Speaker 1: How much is it about hey, mindset, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: be the man. Yeah, it's a good combination.
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  Speaker 3: There's definitely been that point of emphasis is one of
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  Speaker 3: the pillars of our defense.
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  Speaker 1: I think front variation helps.
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  Speaker 3: Where you can be in four down fronts and five
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  Speaker 3: down fronts and being able to create some of those
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  Speaker 3: different front structures, whether it's you know, via lining up
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  Speaker 3: there blitzing a second level defender or even a third
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  Speaker 3: level defender, to be able to create some of those
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  Speaker 3: different fronts to make it hard on the on the
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  Speaker 3: offense of being on to know where your double teams
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  Speaker 3: are and moving it. But the mindset and mentality of
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  Speaker 3: that group individually, guys having the ability to.
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  Speaker 1: Just whip blocks.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's really what it comes down to so
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  Speaker 3: often is you know, guys, there's a lot of fundamentals
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  Speaker 3: techniques that we coach and that we teach, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: be a football player and what blocks and get off
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  Speaker 3: blocks and run to the football. And that's kind of
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  Speaker 3: been the mindset of mentality of the group. Definitely a
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  Speaker 3: lot to improve upon from yesterday, but that.
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  Speaker 1: Is the mindset has.
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  Speaker 4: Been for Bryans for I guess, squeeze and surge and
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  Speaker 4: you'll be that guy down.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think cohesiveness, chemistry with the quarterback being able to
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  Speaker 3: get a lot of reps of it, probably more reps
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  Speaker 3: throughout the season of being able to push the ball
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  Speaker 3: down the field than even through training camp in a
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  Speaker 3: lot of ways, and so a little bit more time
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  Speaker 3: on task and guys having some confidence to go out
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  Speaker 3: and execute those plays. And so it's been a huge
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  Speaker 3: addition to be able to continue to push the ball
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  Speaker 3: down the field and attack every blade of grass, and
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  Speaker 3: when the defense feels that, you know, it typically will
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  Speaker 3: help a lot of other things within the offense.
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  Speaker 1: Much altered though you guys want to.
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  Speaker 3: Know, I mean not a ton, I guess it's more
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  Speaker 3: so just you get more and more used to the
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  Speaker 3: guys that you're working with, and within this, you know,
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  Speaker 3: within the fundamentals techniques of the system and the plays
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  Speaker 3: that you're look it's always you're trying to be players
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  Speaker 3: over plays, but also there are things that you want
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  Speaker 3: to attack on a specific defense, right and just finding
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  Speaker 3: out a what our quarterback does best with the other
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  Speaker 3: guys do best and how that fits in with how
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  Speaker 3: the defense is playing. You you know, I think we're
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  Speaker 3: probably seeing a little bit more single high than we
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  Speaker 3: were maybe earlier in the year in some ways, and
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  Speaker 3: so that's also helped gets in one on one opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: You guys wanted to.
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  Speaker 4: Be devolved first and were agu to score lot kind
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  Speaker 4: of what is that like knowing that, hey, we want
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  Speaker 4: our office of.
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  Speaker 1: The person set of differns.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's it's always something Sometimes that decision
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  Speaker 3: comes down to weather and and stuff like that. Right
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  Speaker 3: you're you're going through that process. But for us offensively,
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  Speaker 3: the mindset was to start fast and to continue on
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  Speaker 3: the trajectory of some of the previous weeks of good
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  Speaker 3: execution and guys, you know, bringing some juice early, getting
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  Speaker 3: us some confidence early, and that showed up again yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: That way.
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  Speaker 3: I was proud of the way that they went out
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  Speaker 3: and executed on that first drive, mixed in a little
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  Speaker 3: tempo as well, which I thought they handled well.
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  Speaker 1: And something we wanted to do a little.
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  Speaker 3: Bit against those guys yesterday, and so Trevor at great
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  Speaker 3: command of what we were trying to get accomplished on
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  Speaker 3: that first drive and starting fast is definitely something that
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  Speaker 3: you know, we we want to be able to do obviously,
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  Speaker 3: get momentum and get your rhythm on the field.
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  Speaker 2: Do you feel like as a play coloring as well,
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  Speaker 2: and you feel like more or less what you always
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  Speaker 2: gonna work.
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  Speaker 3: Just because as a role Excuse me, absolutely, yeah, I've
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  Speaker 3: always fed off of personally off of players and just.
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  Speaker 1: There momentum.
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  Speaker 3: We talk about momentum a lot, actually, and just in
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  Speaker 3: terms of handling, riding and trying not to get too high,
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  Speaker 3: too low.
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  Speaker 1: And but you can can't help.
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  Speaker 3: But feel when guys have confidence and when.
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  Speaker 1: You feel like what you're gonna call is gonna go right.
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  Speaker 1: It's definitely a feeling.
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  Speaker 3: You get and you feed off each other. And so
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  Speaker 3: there was a lot of times yesterday that you were
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  Speaker 3: calling a play and very very much so expected it
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  Speaker 3: to work. And that's a good feeling for all of
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  Speaker 3: us to have, right And so you know, that's a
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  Speaker 3: cool part is when you're feeding off each other. And
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  Speaker 3: those guys did execute some stuff and we protected very
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  Speaker 3: well in the past game, and so that in itself
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  Speaker 3: is a nice feeling for all of us that you
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  Speaker 3: know you can keep calling it because they're not getting
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  Speaker 3: home as much and we're doing a great job. So
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  Speaker 3: that allows those routes to continue to develop and get
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more open, and the quarterback to continue
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  Speaker 3: to have the trust to let it rip.
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  Speaker 5: You guys have made it a focal point of it's
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  Speaker 5: about us, not about it was on the other side
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  Speaker 5: of the ball, no matter where it's all of us
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  Speaker 5: rolled out the concept of hunter or hunted and where
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  Speaker 5: this team and a lot of these same players have
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  Speaker 5: found themselves over the last few years.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's been a.
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  Speaker 5: Topic that's been debated at different points in time if
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  Speaker 5: they play better as the hunter or the hunted And
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  Speaker 5: obviously kind of polar opposite of perhaps what occurred here yesterday,
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  Speaker 5: coming up this week, how would you assess this idea
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  Speaker 5: of trying to focus on it's about us, but also
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  Speaker 5: generating the chip off the shoulder of we're hunting them down.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is.
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  Speaker 3: Look, you've got to respect and you know, respect each
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  Speaker 3: opponent because this league is just so competitive. The coaching,
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  Speaker 3: like I mentioned, is so high level. And but you
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  Speaker 3: watch our tape yesterday and there's so many good things,
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  Speaker 3: but there's a lot to clean up and there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot to coach off of and I think our guys
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  Speaker 3: will watch that and and know that, and so like
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  Speaker 3: when you're so inner focused on getting better, improving the details,
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  Speaker 3: fundamentals and techniques, discipline, like there's too much to continue
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  Speaker 3: to focus on internally then to let yourself you're going
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  Speaker 3: to study your opponent though you know you're going to respect. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: I got this one on one matchup, and this is
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  Speaker 3: a big matchup because that is ultimately what this league
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  Speaker 3: is about, is winning one on ones, whooping blocks playing football,
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  Speaker 3: And so it's hard to get to carry it away
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  Speaker 3: with who's in ahead, who's behind, where are we It's just, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you really don't have time for it.
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  Speaker 1: And if you do, if your.
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  Speaker 3: Mind's going there, then we're not really internally focused, and
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  Speaker 3: that takes away from what we're trying to do. So
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  Speaker 3: hard question to fully answer, but it's mostly trying to
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  Speaker 3: be internal as.
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  Speaker 1: Much as possible because you don't have the time.
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  Speaker 5: The discipline part of it. I know there were a
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  Speaker 5: couple of penalties that not only do they want back,
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  Speaker 5: but you probably as a coach, I know had conversations
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  Speaker 5: study follow up conversation with you know, Greg was.
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  Speaker 1: At I talked to you know, Greg hit me up.
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  Speaker 1: We talked, and it's just a rule I have that
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  Speaker 1: if you get one, you're just.
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  Speaker 3: Coming off for a play. It's not a big deal,
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  Speaker 3: you know. He Just take a deep breath and let's
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  Speaker 3: move on and compose ourselves regardless of what happened. If
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  Speaker 3: you were first, if you were second, like, it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 3: We got a penalty and let's move on. So, uh,
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  Speaker 3: those guys all understand that. You know, there's emotion, there's
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  Speaker 3: part of the game. There's I want them playing on
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  Speaker 3: an edge. But also we can't, you know, just hurt
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  Speaker 3: the team when it comes to some of that. One
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  Speaker 3: of our two team rules to protect the team.
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  Speaker 2: So you guys at Denver a little bit similar with
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  Speaker 2: respected preseason, nobody had either team in the playoff fix.
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  Speaker 2: Now you got a two teams at events of success,
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  Speaker 2: pretty pretty hungry.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: So you know you're kind of facing a mirror image
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  Speaker 2: in the attitude.
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  Speaker 3: Let's say, Okay, in a lot of ways, there's some uh,
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  Speaker 3: there's that's a good football team. I've been following them
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  Speaker 3: and had a lot of crossover tape with those guys,
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  Speaker 3: have watched them execute at a high level. From Afar
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  Speaker 3: and defensively, you know, do a really nice job. So
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  Speaker 3: we know this this is darn good opponent going on
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  Speaker 3: the roads. I think Miles High is a really cool
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  Speaker 3: place to play and compete at.
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  Speaker 1: You think about football, you think about going uh and.
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  Speaker 3: Playing a game like this, so you know this is
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  Speaker 3: gonna be a really good challenge for us. As you mentioned,
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of similarities right now in some ways,
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  Speaker 3: and and you know, being explosive like that quarterback and
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  Speaker 3: run he can throw it down the field. And their
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  Speaker 3: defense has played at a really high level, and it's
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  Speaker 3: a good, solid special teams unit as well. So I've
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  Speaker 3: always had a lot of respect for Sean Payton. I
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  Speaker 3: pointed to how to close the team that's off the field,
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  Speaker 3: that you fostered.
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  Speaker 2: That environment for them to kind of build those relationships.
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  Speaker 1: Why is the off the field part so important?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I read one of Cooper Cups quotes
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  Speaker 3: recently and it was talking about just how much more
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  Speaker 3: you want to be in the building and how much
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  Speaker 3: more you wanted to do your job at a high
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  Speaker 3: detailed level when you care about the guys next to you, right,
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  Speaker 3: And I was watching a video the other day of
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know. It was some division. It was
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  Speaker 3: a D three college, I can't remember the name. And
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  Speaker 3: they were doing a video take of all their players
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  Speaker 3: going out to practice and they were answering a question
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  Speaker 3: to the camera and it was like, what's your favorite
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  Speaker 3: part about football? And you watch all these guys come
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  Speaker 3: out from all different walks of life, all different human beings,
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  Speaker 3: come out and answer the question, and like ninety percent
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  Speaker 3: of the answer was.
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  Speaker 1: My boys, my teammates, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And so that's pop winner, high school, college, pro, It
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  Speaker 3: doesn't change. And so yeah, this is our jobs, but
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  Speaker 3: brotherhood is actually really what it's about.
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  Speaker 5: When you did get on the Broncos with their fifty
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  Speaker 5: eight sacks, would you start watching it when you watch
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  Speaker 5: all fifty eight or divided by four rush five rush
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  Speaker 5: down distance, yes.
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  Speaker 3: You know you break them all down by sacks, hurries
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  Speaker 3: affecting the quarterback and try to look at breaking them
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  Speaker 3: down by blitz, stunt game, straight rush, four man, five man,
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  Speaker 3: three man, six man, if they're bringing more, and you
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  Speaker 3: try to just evaluate where and where the volume may
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  Speaker 3: be coming from. From that standpoint, I know they've got
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  Speaker 3: uh personnel that can go. I've you know, used some
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  Speaker 3: of their clips in some of my team meetings this
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  Speaker 3: year of showing some darn good rushes and against some
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  Speaker 3: of the teams that we've played. So, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: think it's probably a combination of those things without getting
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  Speaker 3: too much into the weeds and knowing what they're you know,
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  Speaker 3: what they're up to, but I do know that they've
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  Speaker 3: got good scheme and good players.
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  Speaker 1: On the last touchdowns, was.
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  Speaker 2: It important to you to get Tremor across three hundred?
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  Speaker 1: Had a zero idea what he was at.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not being a I promise I had none, And
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  Speaker 3: so it was the screen etn you're saying, the long screen. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so that's that.
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  Speaker 1: The play before was run.
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  Speaker 3: It was a single high deal where we had to
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  Speaker 3: run on potential and they happened to place in high again,
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  Speaker 3: so we just that was part of the can and
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  Speaker 3: then we you know, through the screen. We had had
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  Speaker 3: that screen up for a couple of weeks and just
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  Speaker 3: kind of right time got a verse.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 3: The guy's anton was pretty cool on that play. If
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  Speaker 3: you watch that, his athletic ability showed up and I said,
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  Speaker 3: now I see that.
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  Speaker 1: Bud.
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  Speaker 3: Letter Be, I've always need to see you running like that.
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  Speaker 3: Now it's good mentioned your respector.
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  Speaker 5: Sean Peye and what relationship, if any.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have with them. I actually went down to
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  Speaker 3: New Orleans when I was at Maine. I was at
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  Speaker 3: the University of Maine in twenty sixteen. We went down
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: myself and Brian Pacucci was out in Tampa. Went down
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  Speaker 3: Pea coach Pete Carmichael obviously was with the Saints for
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  Speaker 3: forever and with Sean and we had a connection to
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  Speaker 3: him being Massachusetts guy, and so he allowed us to
• 13:02
  Speaker 3: go down and watch practice for a few days. Dan
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  Speaker 3: Campbell was the tight ends coach setting on that meeting
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  Speaker 3: and learned so much football in four days of being there,
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  Speaker 3: And a lot of what I ended up taking to
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  Speaker 3: Maine that year was a combination of Mark Whipple at UMass,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Spence's dad, and New Orleans Saints and so
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  Speaker 3: a lot of it was trying to watch their film,
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  Speaker 3: get all their tape and try to watch as much
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  Speaker 3: so I could show the guys that Maine what we're
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  Speaker 3: trying to do, and so I he I had a
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  Speaker 3: lot of respect for him then allowing me to come
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  Speaker 3: do that, and just over the years seeing him a
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  Speaker 3: few times, He's always been somebody that I've respected watching
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  Speaker 3: from Afar so much Breeze tape over the years, the
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  Speaker 3: mixing of personnels and the way that he tax people,
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  Speaker 3: I've always respected.
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  Speaker 1: Trevor.
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  Speaker 4: At this point, how much more do you give him
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  Speaker 4: or have you given him over the last maybe month
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  Speaker 4: as opposed to early in the season when everybody's still
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  Speaker 4: trying to figure it out.
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to think, like, how much different it is
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  Speaker 3: from I mean, not too much from that from an
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  Speaker 3: overall operation. I think just since maybe the buye of
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  Speaker 3: having a little bit more of an evaluation of who
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  Speaker 3: we are has helped us continue to foster improvement and
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  Speaker 3: and improve. And he's handling I mean, he handles all
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  Speaker 3: the runcans, the protections. You know, obviously in the past
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  Speaker 3: game there's a lot that goes into it on a
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  Speaker 3: given play, and I think that he's done a nice
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  Speaker 3: job of controlling that and keeping that stuff pretty clean
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  Speaker 3: from you know, man's own cans and protections and fixing
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  Speaker 3: them and doing.
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  Speaker 1: Some of those things.
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  Speaker 3: So I just think it's more comfortable doing it, and
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  Speaker 3: we're able to attack people a little bit differently than
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  Speaker 3: maybe we were early on with some of the depth
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  Speaker 3: of targets and stuff.
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  Speaker 4: That comfort level show up a lot when that play
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  Speaker 4: clock is running out. I mean with the last three,
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  Speaker 4: four or five seconds, is he operating significantly better at
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  Speaker 4: that point than he was maybe earlier?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you look at I think I saw
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  Speaker 3: a stat of it's like the balls getting snapped in
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  Speaker 3: the National Football League under five seconds, the most since
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  Speaker 3: twenty and like sixteen or something.
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  Speaker 1: And that's just like it's football.
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  Speaker 3: Man, you know what I mean, Like, I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: y'all love this one, man, I mean, but it's, uh,
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  Speaker 3: it's football, Like play calls are longer and there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot that goes into it, and I'm never concerned, like
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  Speaker 3: about us not operating there.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the clock. Black