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Press Pass | Liam Coen on Prep for Divisional Matchup vs. Colts, Getting Back on Track · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah obviously really good players that have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: respect for um you know quinn nelson was playing arguably
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  Speaker 1: some of the best football of his career uh as
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  Speaker 1: was buckner in a lot of ways extremely disruptive um
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  Speaker 1: in both the run in the past batting a lot
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  Speaker 1: of tips you know tip balls and you know, created
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  Speaker 1: some issues inside with, you know, he had 95 in there,
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  Speaker 1: rushing inside, who do you slide to, stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: So it was, you know, obviously it doesn't affect in
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  Speaker 1: terms of it's two good players.
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  Speaker 2: We can't deny that, right?
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  Speaker 1: But knowing, you know, what this team is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: knowing what that team is going to want to do, right?
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  Speaker 1: This has to all be about our improvements, us getting
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  Speaker 1: back on track, got a good division opponent that we're
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  Speaker 1: playing at home. And, you know, the focus level getting
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  Speaker 1: in pads today has to be about our execution, our
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  Speaker 1: fundamentals and technique, you know, because you just can't control
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. And if you think about it too much,
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  Speaker 1: it typically doesn't help. Yeah, he's been around pretty good
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  Speaker 1: on the run. I mean, he's made some throws both
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  Speaker 1: from the pocket. And on the move, they're booting him
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  Speaker 1: around a little bit, sprint outs and stuff, so they're
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  Speaker 1: moving the launch point enough. But, you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: Downs is playing at a high level. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: expect to get Warren back this week and know that
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the offense runs through Taylor in a
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  Speaker 1: lot of ways. But, you know, just like any other quarterback, right,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to have some throws you want back. You're
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  Speaker 1: going to have some throws that you really like. But
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  Speaker 1: he's still pushing the ball down the field like he
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  Speaker 1: was before he got hurt last year in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of ways. So he can make every throw on the field.
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  Speaker 2: We know that.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have been outstanding on third down on both
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  Speaker 1: sides of the ball so far. What do you attribute
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  Speaker 1: that to offensively and defensively? I think core concepts being
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  Speaker 1: run over and over again in a lot of ways.
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  Speaker 1: I think when you try to create too much on
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  Speaker 1: third down, whether it's on either side of the ball
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  Speaker 1: and you find something or see something on tape that
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  Speaker 1: you're like, OK, we could exploit that versus, OK, why
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  Speaker 1: don't we just dress up stuff that we do well
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  Speaker 1: that we can continue to build on? I think it's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of banked reps as well. I think from
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  Speaker 1: the offseason program to training camp, a heavy emphasis on
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  Speaker 1: improving in those areas that hasn't shown I guess in
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  Speaker 1: an entirety in a lot in every way but in
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  Speaker 1: those ways on third down specifically some of that stuff
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  Speaker 1: has shown up Thomas struggles a little bit more surprising
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  Speaker 1: to you considering how good of an offseason yeah I
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  Speaker 1: mean look every player has ups and downs and um
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  Speaker 1: surprising like it's just week to week in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: like I fully anticipate he's going to make plays for
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  Speaker 1: us this Sunday it's just every week Different guys step up,
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  Speaker 1: different guys make plays, and you've got to be able
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  Speaker 1: to be consistent with their approach as a coach to say, okay,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to keep giving people opportunities, but also when
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  Speaker 1: there's a hot hand going, you've got to go with
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  Speaker 1: the hot hand a little bit here and there, and
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  Speaker 1: that's just the way the game flows.
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  Speaker 3: The challenge of defending Jonathan Taylor did you yesterday were
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  Speaker 3: you thinking did you ever let yourself think hey if
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna dump some guys okay they want.
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  Speaker 1: To dump oh they they ain't trading in they yeah
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  Speaker 1: I mean of course right I mean you uh you
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  Speaker 1: try not to get into that world right because it's
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  Speaker 1: just rat poison either way you know it just is
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  Speaker 1: and so um it's like you, and you also, a
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  Speaker 1: part of you wants to, you know, you want to
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  Speaker 1: beat good teams too, right? You want to beat opponents that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, provide really strong competition as this team does,
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  Speaker 1: especially at this point in the season. Now, if we
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  Speaker 1: were in like week 17, you know, whatever, and you're like,
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  Speaker 1: oh yeah, that would be nice to have a break,
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  Speaker 1: but it's like that, that wouldn't probably help us in
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  Speaker 1: the long run.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And so, in the short term, in the interim, we
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  Speaker 1: know what kind of player he is. He's playing at
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  Speaker 1: a high level. They're doing so many different things to
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  Speaker 1: get the ball in his hands.
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  Speaker 2: I have a lot of.
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  Speaker 1: Respect for their run schemes and how they change the surfaces.
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  Speaker 1: Their tight ends all block at a high level. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that probably would have been nice later in the season.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned the Rat Boys, and is that your message
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  Speaker 3: to them, is they don't believe that this team is
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  Speaker 3: tanking or fire sale?
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  Speaker 2: They know, right?
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  Speaker 1: Philly, two, whatever, a couple weeks ago had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of guys out and played us to the last second, right?
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  Speaker 1: And so no different in this league any given Sunday, right?
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  Speaker 1: We all know anything can happen, and so oftentimes teams
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  Speaker 1: will come off of some of these moves and things
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  Speaker 1: like that with more of a, you know, hey, screw it,
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  Speaker 1: let's go play, you know, let's go cut it loose
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  Speaker 1: and let it rip, and so um you know you
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  Speaker 1: have to almost put you quickly put yourself in those
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  Speaker 1: shoes of what would you think and what would you
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  Speaker 1: operate and so knowing that this is going to be
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  Speaker 1: a damn competitive football game on Sunday here in Jacksonville back.
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  Speaker 4: To Brian for a second do you address any of
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  Speaker 4: that directly with him whether it's the playing time or
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  Speaker 4: his play or the outside noise.
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  Speaker 1: At all do you talk to him I haven't talked
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  Speaker 1: to him a ton about the outside noise and stuff
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  Speaker 1: you know this week and had the bye and you
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  Speaker 1: know we'll talk about it continue to talk through the
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  Speaker 1: roles throughout the week and what that looks like but
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  Speaker 1: each guy knows you know hey we got to continue
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  Speaker 1: to perform at a high level to continue to get
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  Speaker 1: reps and continue to get more targets and fully expect
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  Speaker 1: them to do that this week. Last week you found.
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  Speaker 4: Success or last year you found success after the bye
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  Speaker 4: week when do you know if you had I guess
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  Speaker 4: that successful bye week people say.
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  Speaker 2: Won the bye week kind of?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah I mean it's so early it was like you
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  Speaker 1: know a little bit earlier this year right and so it's.
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  Speaker 2: Like You're still figuring out your team, right? You're still
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  Speaker 2: figuring out a lot of things about each other.
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  Speaker 1: And you're four and two, and that's just where you're at, right?
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  Speaker 1: And so you kind of try to look at it
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  Speaker 1: at face value of where you are.
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  Speaker 2: Do you deserve to be where you're at?
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  Speaker 1: Like, is this who we are right now? And so
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  Speaker 1: the answer to that is yes, in a lot of ways, right? Like,
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  Speaker 1: there's so many things that can happen to change the
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  Speaker 1: outcome of games. Very rarely is it one or two plays,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a totality of a game. And so, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm anticipating this group. And we have 56 guys left
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  Speaker 1: here on Tuesday, I think it was. That's most we've
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  Speaker 1: ever had on an off day. You know, guys in
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  Speaker 1: here working out on their own. Not any of us.
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  Speaker 2: We can't ask them to be here. And so, to me,
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  Speaker 2: that tells me a little bit of something.
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  Speaker 3: Rush forward it's been sort of almost exclusively what is
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  Speaker 3: what do they do on the coverage.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah they play i mean obviously got good corners right
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  Speaker 1: um you know sauce and water good corners that play
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  Speaker 1: man in a lot of ways where they'll come up
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  Speaker 1: and challenge you uh they got enough long speed to
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  Speaker 1: run with and an athletic ability at the point of
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  Speaker 1: attack to make some plays um lou has traditionally been
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  Speaker 1: a pressure type of defense in a lot of ways
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  Speaker 1: and You know, both Minnesota and Indy were, you know,
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  Speaker 1: trading some blitzes at times, right? Minnesota blitzes a ton
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  Speaker 1: to Indy, and then vice versa. Lou had some pressures
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  Speaker 1: that ended up getting a run away from, and then
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  Speaker 1: some of the four-man rushes, they were able to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: get after Kyler a little bit at times and cause
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  Speaker 1: some of that, so... Lou does a good job mixing
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  Speaker 1: up three, you know, his single high match coverages with
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  Speaker 1: some of his two high push coverages where he's going
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  Speaker 1: to leave, you know, some of those corners on the
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  Speaker 1: backside one-on-one because he feels very confident.
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  Speaker 2: And so you push the coverage over your three receivers.
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  Speaker 1: And now you're outmanned, you're outnumbered, you know, and you
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  Speaker 1: have to win one-on-one matchups in.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of ways.
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  Speaker 1: So, It's definitely going to be one of those kind
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  Speaker 1: of tough, contested catches, expecting obviously some weather to affect
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  Speaker 1: some of that stuff, and we've got to be good
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  Speaker 1: in that area. I think it's a combination between Hands, usage,
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  Speaker 1: continuing to put guys in the spots with the right
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  Speaker 1: combinations of guys to help create some of those matchups
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  Speaker 1: and get the favorable matchup that we really want to
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  Speaker 1: hunt up out of the group.
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  Speaker 2: It starts with get-off. It starts with hand usage. It
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  Speaker 2: starts with.
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  Speaker 1: Mixing in pressure looks to help get the back eaten up.
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  Speaker 1: Now we've got one-on-one matchups, different spots. It has to
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  Speaker 1: get better. We need it to get it better, but
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  Speaker 1: it also has to help. The back end's got to help.
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  Speaker 1: The second level of the defense has to help with
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  Speaker 1: some of those things. When you get the ball thrown overhead,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't help the rush.
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  Speaker 2: That's been a combination of things.
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  Speaker 4: Do you expect them to be a little bit better
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  Speaker 4: at this point in the season at getting after the quarterback?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, expectations to me are, you know, to me
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  Speaker 1: we are who we are.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Like that's where we're at.
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  Speaker 1: So it needs to get better. It has to improve
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  Speaker 1: for our team to continue to ascend and go where
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  Speaker 1: we want to go. But I do have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of confidence and faith in that group.
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  Speaker 4: A little bit on Monday about the communication and the
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  Speaker 4: need to improve, especially passing off with the secondary. Is
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  Speaker 4: that similar or different to some of the communication conversations
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  Speaker 4: this time? I feel like last year, I feel like
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  Speaker 4: after the Texans lost last year, that was a big
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  Speaker 4: talking point for the secondary. So is it some of
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  Speaker 4: the same question.
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  Speaker 2: Marks popping up? No, no, different.
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  Speaker 1: More so when you're in a game plan and Things
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  Speaker 1: aren't really working and you start chasing stuff a little
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  Speaker 1: bit as either the play caller, the design or what's
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  Speaker 1: in and the plan or players as well. You lose
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  Speaker 1: the being outside of yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Like, you know, I mean, everybody gets so locked in
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  Speaker 1: that you're not speaking anymore.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And then.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, if they're not able to communicate it, maybe, um,
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  Speaker 1: we just got to settle them down with some calls
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  Speaker 1: and let them kind of settle in with some things.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's a combination to me against Houston of, um,
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  Speaker 1: You know, early on we get down early and now
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  Speaker 1: you're kind of chasing a little bit. You're chasing a
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  Speaker 1: call here and there. You're chasing to make a play
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  Speaker 1: here and there, whether it's the coach or the player.
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  Speaker 1: And then just never truly getting settled as a group,
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  Speaker 1: whether it was in man or zone coverage. The Colts
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  Speaker 1: haven't won here in 11 years, and it's the importance
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  Speaker 1: of kind of continuing that this week.
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  Speaker 4: Was that just kind of one of the lead stats?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's one of those ones in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, right, it's always nice to have a home
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  Speaker 1: field advantage.
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  Speaker 2: I believe we have that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's not an easy place to come in
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  Speaker 1: and play, I don't think. And so we play well
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  Speaker 1: at home.
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  Speaker 2: You know, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's something that you can lean into. But
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  Speaker 1: we haven't necessarily talked about any streak or anything like that,
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  Speaker 1: knowing that it's the NFL any given Sunday and it
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  Speaker 1: can happen anywhere.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, communication, right? Like, you can talk to somebody
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  Speaker 4: like this and be able to, hey, hey, watch it here, there,
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  Speaker 4: check this, do that.
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  Speaker 2: A lot easier than on the road when.
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  Speaker 1: Like you're doing this and the guy can't even hear you,
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  Speaker 1: can't see you, whatever it is. It's just that you
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  Speaker 1: can break it down to that simple fact of communication.
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  Speaker 1: And look, anytime you're in your environment throughout a course
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  Speaker 1: of a week, it's always nice to be at home
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  Speaker 1: from that standpoint. And I think our players get up
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  Speaker 1: and enjoy playing for this crowd and know that some
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  Speaker 1: of the limited opportunities that we have to do it here,
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  Speaker 1: we want to try to make the most of them.
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  Speaker 4: How much of an impact does a healthier.
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  Speaker 2: Version of him have on this team?
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  Speaker 3: Huge.
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  Speaker 2: Busters.
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  Speaker 1: Not only a pro's pro, consistent communication, and can make
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  Speaker 1: plays on the football, he stabilizes things and also is
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  Speaker 1: a really good tackler in space. And so anytime we
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  Speaker 1: can be at full strength, right, it's a benefit to
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  Speaker 1: our defense. It allows those four specific DBs to be
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  Speaker 1: able to stay fresh, stay healthy, rotate in its spots.
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  Speaker 1: and play in different areas of the field in which
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  Speaker 1: we feel as though they're a.
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  Speaker 2: Strength for us and situationally as well.
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  Speaker 1: And so, you know, anytime you go down that corner,
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  Speaker 1: which a lot of teams do, right, it just gets
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  Speaker 1: thin quick.
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  Speaker 4: Did you ever, you told us on Monday, you were
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  Speaker 4: hoping to get Antonio on the grass on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Were you able to do that?
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  Speaker 2: I know I've seen it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Buster Antonio did just a little bit, buzzed around
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  Speaker 1: with the training staff, and, you know, we'll be able
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  Speaker 1: to see it today.
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  Speaker 3: When it comes to the pass.
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  Speaker 2: Rush and coverage, with quarterbacks being able to get the
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  Speaker 2: ball out quickly, why does that happen or how does.
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  Speaker 1: That impact the pass rush? A lot of things last
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  Speaker 1: year were balls coming out too fast, there's too much
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  Speaker 1: air in the coverage. So, hey, we play a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more match, a little bit more man to try
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  Speaker 1: to help the pass rush get home and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: And then you're giving up. ball's over your head right.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's always in every single defensive system around
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  Speaker 1: the NFL is that's the balance right it's like hey
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  Speaker 1: we want to try to get stickier and matchier so
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  Speaker 1: that the ball can't come out as quick so that
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  Speaker 1: the rush can get home well when then the ball
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  Speaker 1: does get thrown over your head or you get DPIs
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  Speaker 1: on one-on-ones back shoulder fades things like that and the
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  Speaker 1: ball is still getting completed or going over your head
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  Speaker 1: and the rush isn't getting affected well then what do
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  Speaker 1: you say as a coordinator well now I got to
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  Speaker 1: go settle in. I got to go play zone. I
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  Speaker 1: got to go help these guys out and play it
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  Speaker 1: more top down. And now you're giving up some of
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  Speaker 1: the underneath. I mean, that's the game, right? Like that
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  Speaker 1: is truly the game of football. And that's always the
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  Speaker 1: game within the game that happens within the pass. And
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  Speaker 1: so it's like, you just hope that you're executing at
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  Speaker 1: a high level, that your pass coverage and zone is
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  Speaker 1: top down, but also You're being able to get reroutes.
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  Speaker 1: You're able to get hands-on balls, tips and overthrows. You
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  Speaker 1: make the quarterback have to play quarterback and have to
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  Speaker 1: dissect and be able to get the ball out to
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  Speaker 1: the right spots at the right time. Whereas sometimes in man,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, oh, I can just throw it to that guy. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's man coverage. And now it's either completion, incompletion, or
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  Speaker 1: a DPI. And so that's always the balance. And so, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's why Campy gets paid the big bucks.
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  Speaker 3: Sitting at uh currently sitting at four and two next
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  Speaker 3: two closest teams in the division being in two.
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  Speaker 1: And five do you pay any mind to that discrepancy
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  Speaker 1: or does it allow a sense of comfort in any
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  Speaker 1: way no no comfort here man um you know couldn't
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  Speaker 1: even have told you that the other teams in the
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  Speaker 1: division were two and five like i have no idea
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  Speaker 1: about that um personally and so it's really And look,
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  Speaker 1: when you go on a bye, it's the hardest thing
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  Speaker 1: to be on a bye, especially coming off of a loss.
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  Speaker 1: And you just want to get back out there and compete,
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  Speaker 1: get back out there and practice. As I said, didn't
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  Speaker 1: sleep a ton Sunday night because you're just wanting to
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  Speaker 1: get back at it and you want to get back
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  Speaker 1: in the building with the players. And so that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of been my sense of enjoyment or any sort of
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  Speaker 1: sense of, I guess, confidence comes from being able to
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  Speaker 1: get back to work with these guys.