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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Gives Final Updates Ahead Of Week 3 vs. Saints · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, we got everybody sure, we're ripe with injury questions,
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  Speaker 1: so I'll just get right to it.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, those four guys are listed as as doubtful.
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  Speaker 1: We're optimistic at the beginning of the week, and now
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  Speaker 1: we're doubtful.
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  Speaker 2: So that's their that's their status.
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  Speaker 3: What happened with charvettegg I guess we didn't really see
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  Speaker 3: him get injured in the game.
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  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, you got a what is its toe?
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  Speaker 2: It goes toe?
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  Speaker 4: How much is the years of the game five days
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  Speaker 4: later factoring in all.
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  Speaker 3: These decisions for it?
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  Speaker 2: It does? I mean that.
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  Speaker 1: It does, you know, if you're going to a bye week,
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  Speaker 1: and also you know those those funky timetables definitely take
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  Speaker 1: into account. But we're trying to do everything we possibly
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  Speaker 1: can to win this game.
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  Speaker 5: How much is what Darien Kendrick did last week? Kind
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  Speaker 5: of the way any fears you might have, you what
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  Speaker 5: you're gonna do?
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  Speaker 1: Discuss it's a It's a good question, but I don't
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it. If it wasn't him, it would
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  Speaker 1: be somebody else that is that played Nickel or would
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  Speaker 1: play Nickel. So but we're happy to We're happy he's here.
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  Speaker 2: He's doing a good job.
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  Speaker 6: Do you think any of the four have feel confident
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  Speaker 6: they might be available.
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  Speaker 7: For the next next game?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right now, they're doubtful for this game. So it's
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a pretty accurate description.
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  Speaker 6: And uh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I'm learning the hard way.
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  Speaker 1: I'm putting time tables for you guys, and like and
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  Speaker 1: things change or things guys progress or they don't progress,
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  Speaker 1: and then you know, then I'm come up here and
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  Speaker 1: it feels like I'm changing my story. But it's just
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  Speaker 1: like that's the way injuries go.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes guys, you know, they turn a corner and you
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  Speaker 1: got them, and sometimes they don't.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have them. So just the life we chose,
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  Speaker 2: you said, Nick, he's obviously not on i R.
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  Speaker 4: What about Zach, Julian or Spoon? Is that on the
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  Speaker 4: table for any of those three? Right?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 6: No, no, to jump into the starting lineup, it seemed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can expect to see Tye in a larger role.
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  Speaker 5: The Anthony Beville showed you as special teams of course,
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  Speaker 5: but now on defense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, uh, the Anthony would would h have a
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  Speaker 1: bigger role as well. How we do it, We'll kind
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  Speaker 1: of let that figure out. On Sunday. But yeah, those
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  Speaker 1: guys are doing a great job practicing hard, knowing what
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  Speaker 1: to do. It's rock and roll, you know what.
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  Speaker 3: It looks like.
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  Speaker 8: You always talk about guys taking a bat age opportunities
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  Speaker 8: and when they get the I mean it helps out
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  Speaker 8: or you just see what different guys.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we had several of these conversations last year and
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  Speaker 1: this is now, it's this year, and I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be every year. And that's why it's so important
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  Speaker 1: to have depth on your football team. It's why the
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  Speaker 1: seventy matter. H So why we coach everybody all the time,
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  Speaker 1: so how we operate, so why we do what we do.
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  Speaker 8: Bigger emphasis on I mean, whether it's calling it ready squad.
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  Speaker 8: I feel like you guys are mentioned the seventy lave.
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  Speaker 8: Is that kind of something you're trying to hammer home
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  Speaker 8: the players this year that.
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  Speaker 2: Hey this is yeah, well this is this is this
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  Speaker 2: was It's always.
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  Speaker 1: In my personal philosophy of depth and growth and development.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's really important.
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  Speaker 1: But it's really John's vision of how he wants it
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  Speaker 1: to operate, and it just you know, it meshes with
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  Speaker 1: our philosophies. So it's it makes a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 1: It makes a lot of sense, and I think it's
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  Speaker 1: the best way to do it.
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  Speaker 2: I love how we do it.
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  Speaker 7: One of the most famous games between these two teams
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  Speaker 7: it was the beast Quake game.
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  Speaker 6: I'm curious if you watch that game live and and.
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  Speaker 1: If not, like what I do remember watching that game
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  Speaker 1: and I do remember that run.
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  Speaker 2: It's great, great time to be alive. What was that?
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  Speaker 2: Ten ten?
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  Speaker 1: So I was uh as a student assistant at Georgia with.
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  Speaker 3: Uh George Blaney Obviously, I guess probably maybe has to
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  Speaker 3: play a little bit more too. How you kind of
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  Speaker 3: folk about it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if yeah, Zach doesn't play, George is the next back.
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  Speaker 1: Every time we've given Georgian opportunity has done a tremendous job.
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  Speaker 2: We expect the same thing is I think made it.
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  Speaker 4: A horrible point of ventis is on special push and
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  Speaker 4: how that gets.
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  Speaker 6: Officiated, especially just approachment and all sides.
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  Speaker 8: Has that changed anything about how you guys have practiced
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  Speaker 8: and help much you might practice.
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  Speaker 2: That play right now? No, No, let's just know the
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  Speaker 2: rules and play by them better than everybody else. That's
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  Speaker 2: that's our goal. But uh no, I mean, just execute
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  Speaker 2: the plays properly and we'll be all right.
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  Speaker 4: The league hasn't sent anything out changing.
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  Speaker 2: Any of that, right, not to my knowledge.
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  Speaker 5: Now, Julian Love is almost taken for granted here the
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  Speaker 5: last couple of years.
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  Speaker 4: His instincts. What is he to the back of that
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  Speaker 4: defense when.
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  Speaker 1: He's there, Well, he's a critical part of our defense.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of guys are, I mean, but we love Julian.
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  Speaker 2: I mean the guy.
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  Speaker 1: You've seen the playmaking ability, you've seen his versatility.
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  Speaker 2: All the things that he can do.
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  Speaker 1: And then he brings to the table his intelligence, his leadership.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this guy is a tremendous full player. We
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  Speaker 1: love having him here, We love having him be a
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  Speaker 1: leader on our football team.
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  Speaker 2: Him.
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  Speaker 1: He's a really important player to our program, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to our to our organization.
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  Speaker 2: So we love him and just so happened. He's a
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  Speaker 2: heckup of players.
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  Speaker 7: Just Jalen Milrose, whether he's actor or not, have to
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  Speaker 7: do with the game plan for any given a week
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  Speaker 7: versus who you guys have available.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like last week was a little bit more of
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  Speaker 1: a numbers thing with with the guys. So we'll see
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  Speaker 1: this week based off of who's available, and.
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  Speaker 2: He's ready to go if called upon he.
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  Speaker 4: Is able to do anything, run, change direction.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he's he's he's limited when it was limited
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  Speaker 1: today and doubtful for the game.
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  Speaker 4: When he was running in Pittsburgh. Did that sit him
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  Speaker 4: back at all? Or was that he fine out of that?
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  Speaker 1: No, not not to my knowledge. No, just part of
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  Speaker 1: the program, just trying to get him as much you
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  Speaker 1: haveb as possible.
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  Speaker 3: Julian was so I've always had to the area last.
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  Speaker 3: Is this one related to.
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  Speaker 1: That or is this kind of a separate Uh, Julian's
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  Speaker 1: uh in injury happened during the game.
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  Speaker 6: Jacardi A. Wright showed you at the beginning camera.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's another one of those guys that when given
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity, he knows what to do. He plays hard.
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  Speaker 1: Uh what else can you ask for? I mean, he executes,
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  Speaker 1: ready to go. He's got a great attitude.
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  Speaker 2: There's something to be said for Look, there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of stuff going out there.
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  Speaker 1: I mean there's card teams, there's look teams, there's he's
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  Speaker 1: got to know the reps he's doing the you know,
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  Speaker 1: the opposing offense.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, there's a lot of.
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  Speaker 1: Things on special teams on both sides that are really
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  Speaker 1: important and all that stuff is critical to our team success.
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  Speaker 1: And if you know so that those guys that are
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  Speaker 1: having on their ready squad, they played an integral part
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  Speaker 1: of us preparing our team to play.
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  Speaker 2: And he's he's one of those guys.
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  Speaker 1: So it's kind of you got to do that kind
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  Speaker 1: of double. You know, you're kind of playing for the
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  Speaker 1: other team and playing for us, given the best look
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  Speaker 1: you can and preparing as if you're starting the game
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  Speaker 1: because you never know what could happen.
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  Speaker 3: Did dodo Kellen Moore at all? Because he's obviously a
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  Speaker 3: local guy.
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  Speaker 2: I've met him a few times.
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  Speaker 1: The worst memory of it was he's the quarterback at
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  Speaker 1: Boise in twenty eleven, I think first GA year.
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  Speaker 2: That was not good in Atlanta. Terrible uniforms.
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  Speaker 5: You mentioned earlier this week defending running backs in the
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  Speaker 5: past game. Is it targeted, recognizing, is it tackling?
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  Speaker 4: Is all of the above appropriate? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. It's just playing better.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's it's uh call better plays, take better
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  Speaker 1: angles and get more guys of the ball.
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  Speaker 6: Let's think between behind Drake Thomas as a captain this week, I.
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  Speaker 1: Was doing a great job on special teams, so he's
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  Speaker 1: really our special teams captain, another kind of steadying force
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  Speaker 1: of our football team. And he's doing a great job
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  Speaker 1: on defense too, so playing really good football right now.
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  Speaker 2: Everything else all right, Thanks guys, Thank you,