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Mike Macdonald: "I'm Really Impressed With Our Resolve" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I learned it was New Year's Eve yesterday, So.
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  Speaker 2: All right, good to see everybody. It feels good to
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  Speaker 2: be back to work on a in season wednesday. I
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  Speaker 2: know it's our last one, but uh focuses on really
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  Speaker 2: closing the year out the right way and starting this
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  Speaker 2: year the right way too. So it's not what we
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  Speaker 2: wanted to be at stake, but it is what it is,
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  Speaker 2: and we're gonna make most of it. So we just
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  Speaker 2: had a great walkthrough and we'll just go play, Go
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  Speaker 2: play the game we love today and go play, go, go,
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  Speaker 2: get ready to go play a game this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: What's the opportunity that you see available on Sunday?
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  Speaker 2: Then, yeah, well we want to You're always trying to
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  Speaker 2: win your next game, so this this is the next
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  Speaker 2: game that's number one. Uh, there's broader implications getting to
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  Speaker 2: ten wins, trying to be foreign to in our division, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: trying to play our brand of football the way we
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  Speaker 2: know how, building building upon our foundation for years to count.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot, there's a lot, a lot at stake
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  Speaker 2: for us this weekend. It's not the stakes that we want,
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  Speaker 2: but those are always those are always in play.
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  Speaker 1: What leadership challenge is this Mike this week particular? Ah,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't thought of it inter and that that lens.
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  Speaker 2: You're just trying to trying to get our guys to
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  Speaker 2: play our best football, and and like you're thinking about
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  Speaker 2: what are the stakes. You know, your goals have changed
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  Speaker 2: in the last week, So trying to make that clear,
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  Speaker 2: trying to stay positive with it and doing the best
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  Speaker 2: we can to go go become the team we want.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Not it's not an easy situation for anybody, but I
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  Speaker 2: think our guys have been awesome, just really really really
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  Speaker 2: impressed with our resolve and our attitude over the last
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  Speaker 2: few days and the communication we've had.
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  Speaker 1: Our guys are Our guys are awesome. They've been great.
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  Speaker 4: They announced Jumy Garoppolo is going to start a quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: How do you, I guess, prepare just prepare for the
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  Speaker 4: same offense or how do you kind of prepare.
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  Speaker 2: For Yeah, I know, I mean, and I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 2: Mike's gonna be calling it.
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  Speaker 1: You just I don't know the right answer.
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  Speaker 2: You just you're gonna prep off the off the tape
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  Speaker 2: that like off of our first same thing or playing
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  Speaker 2: a game second time, So you're kind of using all
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  Speaker 2: the things latest games, our game, the first time understand
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  Speaker 2: about our understanding of their system or the extent of
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  Speaker 2: what we understand about it. And then yeah, we'll watch
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  Speaker 2: Jimmy Jimmy play through their lens. And then we'll watch
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  Speaker 2: I think Mike called the San fran game last week
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  Speaker 2: or last year too, so we'll watch that one as well.
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  Speaker 4: When you've got.
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  Speaker 3: Guys that are closing in on whether it's career numbers
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  Speaker 3: or kind of milestones, what can reaching those do for
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  Speaker 3: a guy, either in the final game or as they built.
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  Speaker 4: Towards the future.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess it's one of those things where
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  Speaker 2: you're probably gonna look, I mean, there's financial things involved
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  Speaker 2: with it, which you want your guys to hit those numbers.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you're always if if it's within your power,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to try to make that come to life
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  Speaker 2: and create as many opportunities for those guys as possible,
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  Speaker 2: all within the lens, all within the lens of what's
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  Speaker 2: best for the team and trying to win. And UH
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  Speaker 2: might have a couple ongoing jokes with a couple of
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  Speaker 2: the guys on on some of those things, but but
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna be great. I mean, they've they approaching it
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  Speaker 2: the right way. But yeah, you're working together with that.
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  Speaker 2: That's definitely something that you want to help the guys with.
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  Speaker 4: Jackson's closing in on Tyler Lockett's reception record. Is it
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  Speaker 4: kind of fitting like what he's learned from Kyler and
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  Speaker 4: like the way he's helped him that they're both kind
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  Speaker 4: of in this together this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think all of our receivers just
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  Speaker 2: really cool room filled with a bunch of like complimentary
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  Speaker 2: skill set. And you know, Jackson's doing a lot of
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  Speaker 2: things that Lock's done throughout his career, and locks got
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  Speaker 2: kind of a style that he's kind of played all
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  Speaker 2: He's kind of done everything. He's attacked the deep air
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  Speaker 2: of the field, he's worked the you know, the intermediate windows,
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  Speaker 2: he's one versus man, the catch and run stuff. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's really how he's you know, got his hay and
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  Speaker 2: got his got his career started, even the return game,
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  Speaker 2: so he can really he can mentor anybody. But Tyler
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  Speaker 2: Lockett was in my room, I'd be pretty pretty psyched
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  Speaker 2: about that.
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  Speaker 4: How do you you guys put Ken Walker on I
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  Speaker 4: our last week? How do you sort of assessed his season?
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  Speaker 1: I thought Ken played really good football for us.
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  Speaker 2: It's you know he wasn't as he's battling battling some
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  Speaker 2: injury things throughout the year that are probably frustrating for him.
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  Speaker 1: And we'd love him.
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  Speaker 2: We always want him to be out there as much
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  Speaker 2: as possible. And I wish it would have ran for
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  Speaker 2: two thousand yards, but you know this doesn't happen all
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  Speaker 2: the time. So but we're excited about can we love him?
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  Speaker 2: He's a heck of a back, heck of a guy,
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  Speaker 2: and he's got a great future.
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  Speaker 4: Mike, it's way through early for reflection, But is there
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  Speaker 4: some sense I think you talked a little bit about
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  Speaker 4: this that this is the last game of the season,
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  Speaker 4: and you've talked about the opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: Is that part of the messaging.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the messages, I mean, as part of the message
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  Speaker 2: this morning was that this is the last last game
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  Speaker 2: that this unit is going to be together. That's the
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  Speaker 2: nature of the NFL, and so let's make the most
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  Speaker 2: of it. Let's go out with a bang, do our
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  Speaker 2: thing and serve the guy next to us, and and uh.
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  Speaker 1: Have fun playing good football, go win a game.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you and Ryan still call players like usual, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: We've asked about Leo a lot in recent weeks, just
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  Speaker 4: because I have a production obviously is a defensive coach.
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  Speaker 1: How value I.
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  Speaker 4: Know they're rare to find, but how valuable are those
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  Speaker 4: interior guys that can create havock he does?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, it's funny. Let uh lets me.
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  Speaker 2: I know, Jared Allen it's more of an edge guy.
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  Speaker 2: But we're we're talking about that the other day, you know,
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  Speaker 2: with the Jared's Hall of Fame candidacy.
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  Speaker 1: But those guys.
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  Speaker 2: You don't realize how good they are until you don't
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  Speaker 2: have them, you know. So it is the best way
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  Speaker 2: to put it. I mean, it's such a rare skill set.
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  Speaker 2: There's only so many of these people that are with
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  Speaker 2: that type of ability throughout the throughout the league, throughout
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  Speaker 2: the world. And like I've I've said, we've got got
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  Speaker 2: multiple happens to being in are on our football team.
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  Speaker 2: So I know Leo's having a great year. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: Jaron Murph, I mean, Hanks played a great done a
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  Speaker 2: great job for us.
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  Speaker 1: Roy's done a great job for us.
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  Speaker 2: We just we got to We've got a really really
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  Speaker 2: deep room with that can rush the passer and play
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  Speaker 2: the run. So it's not like you've got a personnel
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  Speaker 2: it all the time. And then the position flexibility of
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  Speaker 2: being able to play guys on the edge and move
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  Speaker 2: him around. So you know, teams have to find where
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  Speaker 2: our guys are and that's fun for us to do.
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  Speaker 3: We need to be a guy that's as unique as Leo.
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  Speaker 3: How does his mentorship show up because nobody can do
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  Speaker 3: exactly what.
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  Speaker 2: He does well, I think I think it it transcends
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  Speaker 2: just the defensive line room. I mean, he's he's a
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  Speaker 2: leader of he's one of the leaders on our football team,
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  Speaker 2: and he's I think he's really grown in that in
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  Speaker 2: that role throughout the year, He's really embraced it and
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  Speaker 2: has taken on that as a challenge as well as
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  Speaker 2: well as step in.
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  Speaker 1: His game to another level.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, I just think when when you get to
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  Speaker 2: know him, I mean, he's such a he's a He's
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  Speaker 2: a guy that loves his teammates and works incredibly hard
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  Speaker 2: and has a great attitude every day. And if if
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  Speaker 2: I'm you know, he's an easy guy to follow.
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  Speaker 1: Sam, how are gonna get some time more what you
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  Speaker 1: got from him? That's not the plan?
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  Speaker 4: No, And what is ol Timmy and LeMay have shown
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  Speaker 4: you in the last part.
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  Speaker 1: Of the season.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think I think we we found some some
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  Speaker 2: consistency at the offensive line spot in terms of just
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  Speaker 2: execution and our operation. And so I think I think
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  Speaker 2: Olu has done a good job in that front. And
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  Speaker 2: I think Staal has grown tremendously from when when we
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  Speaker 2: first got him to his approach. Again, these things don't
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  Speaker 2: happen overnight. It's not like we just decided he was
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  Speaker 2: good enough to step in for a b but he
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  Speaker 2: earned that opportunity. I think he's he's had he's had
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  Speaker 2: some he's had some adversity that he's gone through, but
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  Speaker 2: he's fought through it and uh he's come out the
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  Speaker 2: other side.
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  Speaker 1: So we're excited about Tao with what Ken has gone through.
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  Speaker 1: Like what we were mentioning, what have.
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  Speaker 4: You felt about I mean guys like Sharvon A Macintosh
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  Speaker 4: that have stepped up and built in for.
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  Speaker 1: Him, how would you assess their year?
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  Speaker 2: It's it's tough to like put like like, can we
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  Speaker 2: let's leave the assessments on the whole year into into
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  Speaker 2: next week when everything's kind of when everything's over with.
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  Speaker 2: But those guys have done a good job they've been ready,
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  Speaker 2: they've executed well. They run the ball hard, they protected
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  Speaker 2: the ball, They've done it. They've done a good job.
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  Speaker 4: You gave Jake pizza shout out last week when you
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  Speaker 4: were talking about some of the scheduling stuff.
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  Speaker 1: What's his role been like and what's he meant to
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  Speaker 1: your staff this year?
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  Speaker 2: Well, he had a lot of experience. I've known Jake
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  Speaker 2: for a long time and just he's he's been around
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  Speaker 2: the block. He seems like he's seen a lot of things.
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  Speaker 2: And I just people that offer their opinions and that's
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  Speaker 2: well thought out and uh detailed and built around the
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  Speaker 2: principles that we want to do. That's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: stuff that Jake does, uh, both as a program and
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  Speaker 2: and with our offense. UH definitely definitely respect his opinion
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  Speaker 2: and made the best made the best idea win. So,
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  Speaker 2: but he's been in that since since I've known him.
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  Speaker 1: So we appreciate, we appreciate Jake.
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  Speaker 4: Kobe Bryant's ability to sort of seems like he really
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  Speaker 4: gets involved in a lot of big plays and kind
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  Speaker 4: of comes through a lot and those did you kind
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  Speaker 4: of see that from the start with him when you
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  Speaker 4: kind of took over.
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  Speaker 1: The job here or how did with Kobe?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? With Kobe, well, I mean, you know, guys, is
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  Speaker 2: Jim Thorpe would winning me. He's a heck of a player,
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  Speaker 2: and I think it's just a matter of finding the
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  Speaker 2: right role for him. And uh, sometimes with those guys,
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  Speaker 2: you try to maybe ask him to do too many,
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  Speaker 2: too many things because he can do all those things
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  Speaker 2: when maybe the best best thing is to kind of
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  Speaker 2: pick one and choose is you know, it takes time
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  Speaker 2: to find the right thing. And uh, to his credit,
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  Speaker 2: he's really embraced the challenge when when ray Sean went
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  Speaker 2: down and he was ready. So when preparation meets opportunity,
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  Speaker 2: that's when great things happen. So you got to you
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  Speaker 2: got to credit him for for being ready to roll.
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  Speaker 2: And then just his natural ball skills and playmakeability.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's that's Kobe.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, we're excited about the year he's had
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  Speaker 2: and expect him to take the next level as we
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  Speaker 2: move forward.
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  Speaker 4: All Right, the Rams have won a lot of low
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  Speaker 4: scoring post games lately. What jumps out about.
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  Speaker 2: Their defense when you watch it, Well, if one, they've
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  Speaker 2: won kind of every way. I mean they've uh, and
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  Speaker 2: they won the game against US early on, they want
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  Speaker 2: the shot out against Buffalo H Lately it's been lower
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  Speaker 2: scoring games, but their defense is playing at a high level.
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  Speaker 2: They've done a great job of kind of stacking. It
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  Speaker 2: feels like just like stacking execution, stacking the way they
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  Speaker 2: want to play, finding identity, playing tough, Uh, really good
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  Speaker 2: situationally been affecting the quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: So they do a good job.
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  Speaker 4: Those benchmarks you kind of mentioned, a tenth win, a
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  Speaker 4: fourth winning the division? Why are those important?
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  Speaker 1: Team?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's the next win is number one thing. And
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  Speaker 2: how do you I mean, I don't I don't have
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  Speaker 2: a right great answer. You just you just want to
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  Speaker 2: You just want to win. You know, you want to
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  Speaker 2: have a better record than not as good as record,
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  Speaker 2: and then you want to move forward.
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  Speaker 1: So you definitely want.
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  Speaker 2: To end the year with the win. That's that's for
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  Speaker 2: dang sure. I mean that's probably the really the biggest thing.
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  Speaker 4: When's the last time you were in this situation, Mike.
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  Speaker 1: You weren't in Baltimore. I can't remember a season you.
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  Speaker 2: Were where the game didn't have playoff implications twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 4: And what lessons did you take from John Harbaugh in
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  Speaker 4: that week?
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't say anything specifically, but the mentality is the same,
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  Speaker 2: like we gotta we got a standard here of what
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  Speaker 2: we're trying to build and you can't let all the
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  Speaker 2: outside forces affect how we play and our mentality.
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  Speaker 1: And that's just it.
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  Speaker 2: That's not how we're going to operate. That's just that's soft, frankly,
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  Speaker 2: So that's not.
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  Speaker 1: What we're gonna be.
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  Speaker 3: Anything else.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, thank you,