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Mike Macdonald: "I'm Really Proud Of Our Team" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, having fast could to see everybody at mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's a great win. Started just like we wanted it
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  Speaker 1: to start. Drew it up that way, just wanted some
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  Speaker 1: adversity there. But yeah, I'm also going to clean all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff up in the first half. But tell you
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  Speaker 1: what I mean, just being on the sideline, being with
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  Speaker 1: our crew, the guys were poised. Nobody bat in an eye,
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  Speaker 1: knew what we need to do to win the game,
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  Speaker 1: stuck to the plane, made some adjustments and just kept playing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's a long game. These games go sixty
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  Speaker 2: minutes down to the wire.
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  Speaker 1: And just proud of our guys in the effort, the attitude,
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  Speaker 1: that togetherness, and I thought they played really really hard.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm proud of the guys. There's a lot of things.
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  Speaker 1: That obviously we're gonna want to attack over the next
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  Speaker 1: week getting ready for New England, and we'll do that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so well, hopefully we'll make a huge jump
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  Speaker 1: from game one to game two.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned the adjustment, So what did you think about
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  Speaker 3: what Ryan did with the run game opening up the
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  Speaker 3: second half? Sneers four of an empisids in the gap
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  Speaker 3: scheme out there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just you know, how they were playing their fronts,
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  Speaker 1: made a couple of adjustments on some of those schemes
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  Speaker 1: that were running. And you know, I thought the aline
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  Speaker 1: we line played well in the second half, and you
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  Speaker 1: know and Ken Ken in particularly mean runs so hard.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, they did a great job. Howcouraging was it
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  Speaker 2: just the way that the guys that they go for
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  Speaker 2: a runner around and.
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  Speaker 3: You don't necessarily see how in camp the practice and see.
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  Speaker 2: That him like that, Yeah, yeah, it's great.
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  Speaker 1: I mean their spirit, I mean there were really really poised,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what you asked for in game one, Like
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  Speaker 1: you know, any anytime anything happened, it's like, hey, let's
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  Speaker 1: go like we're in the dark place, that's right where
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  Speaker 1: we're meant to be. So Ad had a great message
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  Speaker 1: to the guys that I thought he hit it spot on.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he talked about just anytime, whatever the circumstance is,
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  Speaker 1: that's perfect for the Seahawks and the guys they're they're
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  Speaker 1: bought in and they did a great job.
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  Speaker 2: Like sometimes tackling could be able to live issue in
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  Speaker 2: game one, just there's so little in the preseason. Yeah, Camp,
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  Speaker 2: what do you think about the way you guys did well?
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  Speaker 1: I thought there are some really good open field tackles.
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  Speaker 1: I think we can uh, you know, adjust some things
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  Speaker 1: to to eliminate some of the was that space without
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  Speaker 1: getting into too much detail. Overall, I thought we tackled well.
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  Speaker 1: We felt like we did miss and they got some
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  Speaker 1: squirrel of yards there. But you know, when you run
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  Speaker 1: to the ball, you can take shots and if you
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  Speaker 1: take good angles and like, guys shouldn't be getting out
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  Speaker 1: on your defense. So again, the effort is that is
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  Speaker 1: the biggest thing. And then I'm sure there'd be some
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  Speaker 1: things we you know, we want to look at and
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  Speaker 1: and try to make some adjustments move forward. But the
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  Speaker 1: guy thought the guys tackled pretty well.
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  Speaker 2: Tyler Lockett he missed and yeah, out there we've won.
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  Speaker 3: We make that last catch.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been telling me about Tyler.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I you know, obviously know how greative a
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  Speaker 1: player is, but guy makes plays.
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  Speaker 2: Man's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: Gave him the closer ball and the in the locker
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  Speaker 1: room right there, So that was pretty cool. Proud of him, man,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's it hasn't been easy for him over
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  Speaker 1: all training camp. You know, I think he's been frustrated
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  Speaker 1: a little bit with where he's at health wise, but
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  Speaker 1: guy's ready.
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  Speaker 2: To play man and he made a lot of a
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  Speaker 2: lot of big plays for us today. It was a
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  Speaker 2: struggle for the on line there in the first half
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  Speaker 2: to kind of see them even things out and find
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  Speaker 2: funds and putting to open the running game up like
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  Speaker 2: it did. How good was that to kind of see them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's great. We knew that could We knew they could
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  Speaker 2: do that, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you didn't expect the game to start the
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  Speaker 1: way that it did, but it did, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: you got to keep moving forward and we got great
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  Speaker 1: guys on the old line, you know, and uh, first game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, moving around like I'm just in a different
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  Speaker 1: style of the defense. So definitely not how we want
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  Speaker 1: to start, even how I started, you know, the whole
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  Speaker 1: uh press are here, but.
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  Speaker 2: You know we'll be better moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: First game out here, yeah, I mean it's shoot, it
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  Speaker 1: was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: It was electric.
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  Speaker 1: The fans were were incredible. I mean they were a
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  Speaker 1: loud you know, they're going no huddle on third down,
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  Speaker 1: so our communication, I thought, for the most part, was great.
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  Speaker 1: But man, what an awesome atmosphere. It's uh, it was
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  Speaker 1: something special. I'll tell you that. I mean it was
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  Speaker 1: that was really really cool, and the guys were really excited.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just I mean, I just told everybody that the
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  Speaker 1: amount of work that's gone into getting us ready, I
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  Speaker 1: mean we're looking at six months now of kind of
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  Speaker 1: foot on the gas preparation, trying to get everything together.
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  Speaker 1: It takes the whole building, takes the whole organization, take
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  Speaker 1: all the fans. So I'm just really proud of our team,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for you know, getting one win sounds like a.
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  Speaker 2: Game ball afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: What.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I you know, it's it's taken, accepted on behalf of everybody.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's special. It's obviously our first win. And
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  Speaker 1: it hasn't hit me. I mean it's like hit me
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  Speaker 1: and it's cool. But I just it probably hasn't hit
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  Speaker 1: me yet. So maybe a uh you know, silent moment,
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  Speaker 1: it'll uh, it'll come.
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  Speaker 2: But that was a special.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 2: I just I love our guys.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they're they're bought in, done everything we've asked
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  Speaker 1: them to do. I thought, you know, played a heck
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  Speaker 1: of a game just sticking in it and executing the
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  Speaker 1: game plan and playing on time. So you know, one
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  Speaker 1: win awesome, you know, but we need to go do
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  Speaker 1: it again next week.
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  Speaker 3: Did you and Bryan Gruby offensive staff.
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  Speaker 1: The run game after that? Frankly, I was with the
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  Speaker 1: defense at that time. I mean, we knew we wanted
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  Speaker 1: to put it more emphasis on the run game, but
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  Speaker 1: they had, you know, some of some of the game
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  Speaker 1: plan stuff we had to make some adjustments on without
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  Speaker 1: getting into like the you know, telling everybody what we're
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  Speaker 1: what we're thinking.
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  Speaker 2: But those guys.
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  Speaker 1: Credit to those guys understood that what we had to do,
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  Speaker 1: made the adjustments emphasis more in the run game. You know,
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  Speaker 1: give it to Canine, let him do his thing, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's that's how we're gonna have to operate.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if we're gonna be successful. Teams are gonna
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  Speaker 1: take things away, and you need to be able to
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  Speaker 1: move and shake in game, you know, to uh, to
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  Speaker 1: be able to move the ball on the ground.
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  Speaker 3: To say, getting Walker outside.
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  Speaker 2: In space was the key to that, I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: I Mean they played with pretty good edges, pretty wide edges,
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  Speaker 1: so some of it was like the sliding cup type
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  Speaker 1: of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit of the gap scheme.
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  Speaker 1: They hit a little bit more like mind back sea
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  Speaker 1: gap type was some of the runs that seemed like
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  Speaker 1: we were going to.
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  Speaker 3: Next quite a bit.
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  Speaker 2: I think forty plus throws in his first NFL game.
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  Speaker 2: Did you have an idea that that's what they.
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  Speaker 1: Were going to do? You know, the game played out
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  Speaker 1: like that, so they probably ended up throwing it more
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  Speaker 1: than they wanted to, you know, the way the second
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  Speaker 1: half went.
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  Speaker 2: But he's a good players.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna be really good. He's gonna be really the
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  Speaker 1: good quarterback in this league. He's gonna have a great career.
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  Speaker 1: It's tough to get him on the ground, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So those are some things that we'll look at.
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  Speaker 3: Defensively, the defensive pressure that your front line, they kept
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  Speaker 3: constant pressure in the whole game on Portant.
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  Speaker 1: Was that, Well, it's it's tough when you're rotating guys,
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  Speaker 1: you know, throughout the game you're playing you know, eight,
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  Speaker 1: eight or nine guys up front. The chemistry that comes
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  Speaker 1: with calling the games and executing the passer's plan is
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  Speaker 1: underratedly difficult.
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  Speaker 2: So those guys deserve some credit.
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  Speaker 1: It felt like, you know, again, he was a tough
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  Speaker 1: guy to get on the ground. So but you know,
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  Speaker 1: you can't get frustrated you've got to just keep rushing.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to keep taking you know, taking the ball
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  Speaker 1: away in terms of the timing and taking the air
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  Speaker 1: out of some of the routes so those guys can
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  Speaker 1: get home. And I'm sure we'll watch the tape and say, oh, shoot,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this is an opportunity where could execute the game.
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  Speaker 1: Togetter should go to executed the coverage better and then
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  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, now here comes the sack numbers.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure what we'll ended up with, but felt
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  Speaker 1: like that we left a couple on the table. What
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  Speaker 1: happened with George, like is a little bit of a knee.
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  Speaker 2: We're not sure what's going on, but we'll figure that out.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned the adversity aspect not starting the game the
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  Speaker 3: way you wanted to, But what kind of a statement
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  Speaker 3: is it for your defense, So that two times they
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  Speaker 3: hit the ball inside the twenty yard line started possessing,
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  Speaker 3: they only.
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  Speaker 2: Got field goal. Yeah, red zone defense? Where is that?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if they get down there, it's not good
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  Speaker 1: no matter how you slice it. So it's a certain
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  Speaker 1: mentality that you have to have in the red zone execution.
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  Speaker 1: Things happen faster. But like I said, for our whole
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  Speaker 1: football team, including our defense, nobody bad in an eye,
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  Speaker 1: and we stayed poised and we did our thing down there.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, we got to keep the red zone
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  Speaker 1: defense rolling.
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  Speaker 3: You guys ended up passed up on short field's a
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  Speaker 3: few different times.
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  Speaker 2: To hold in those situations like you did. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: obviously how pivotal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, obviously those are things that we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to clean up moving forward and make some adjustments
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  Speaker 1: in that area of the field. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I've never had a four player talk to me mid game.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, we you know, we have like another
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  Speaker 1: three quarters to play, but.
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  Speaker 2: Just to see those guys around, I mean, it's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I mean he's uh, he's one of my favorite players
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  Speaker 1: of all time. I mean he's you know, he's incredible,
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  Speaker 1: but he's.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's funny. It's cool.
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  Speaker 1: Like he came out right behind me and I found
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  Speaker 1: myself talking to him as they were taking the fields.
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  Speaker 2: They go, shoot, I need to call him first down
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  Speaker 2: on a side. He's talking about our defense.
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  Speaker 3: Game?
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  Speaker 2: Is that what he did? I guess I blacked out.
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  Speaker 3: Uh can't walker sounds like he's okay.
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  Speaker 2: We think so Yeah, got a little bit of muscle thing.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see, you know, do some table figure it out,
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  Speaker 2: kind of moving forward, but optimistic this.
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  Speaker 3: Uh why you know, have a chance to see knock
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  Speaker 3: his first hand. How good are we?
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  Speaker 1: How I don't want to put like ranking on how
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  Speaker 1: good we are, you know. I mean there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of great receiving corps around the league, but I'll put
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  Speaker 1: our guys.
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  Speaker 2: Up against anybody.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta have faith in your guys, and
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  Speaker 1: these guys have been working together since day one we
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  Speaker 1: showed up.
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  Speaker 2: I mean you go all the way down to you know,
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  Speaker 2: Jake Bobo and Dreik Young, those guys going there, we got,
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  Speaker 2: we got faith in them to go handle business.
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  Speaker 3: You said, Tyler got the closer ball, did different.
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  Speaker 2: Theme game balls? Yeah, I just leave it open.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean one of the things, one of the
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  Speaker 1: you know, in order to win in the NFL, you
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  Speaker 1: got to close the games out, and you're welcome to
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  Speaker 1: do that on offense as much as you want. And
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  Speaker 1: it's definitely a point emphasis and on how we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: win football games. And uh, I mean it's just blatantly
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  Speaker 1: obvious that he deserved that ball. So happy for him.
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  Speaker 2: He earned it moment that kind of you know me,
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  Speaker 2: it's just.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie walk like just watch just looking
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  Speaker 1: around the stadium, like seeing everybody. You're like, man, this
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  Speaker 1: is it's pretty rad. It's pretty awesome. But just to
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  Speaker 1: stay focused at the moment. But it was. It was
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  Speaker 1: an incredible atmosphere. It lived up to the all the hype.
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  Speaker 1: So we got to keep it rocking and keep him
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  Speaker 1: on silent cadence.
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  Speaker 3: The two picks, they were different than they were Team
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  Speaker 3: Pigs in terms of the players concentrating on whatever scheme
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  Speaker 3: he had.
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  Speaker 2: Breaking on the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, give I mean, shout out
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  Speaker 1: to Leslie Fredder has been doing ball drills with Riek
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  Speaker 1: Wollen for shoot since April.
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  Speaker 2: But what an incredible play.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he had that guy manned man and ran
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  Speaker 1: all the way across the field on an over route
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  Speaker 1: on a movement pass. And I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: guys can find another play like that ever. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's just that's really hard to do. He's one of
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  Speaker 1: the few people on this planet that can make that play,
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  Speaker 1: So shout out to him. And then on Julian's play,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's it's I mean, it was
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  Speaker 1: incredible play by by Julian, but it's it's team defense.
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  Speaker 1: It's the Russian coverage, working together, communication, pre snap alerts,
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  Speaker 1: being in the right spot, and then attacking the ball
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  Speaker 1: when he throws it to you.
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  Speaker 2: So great play. It was a great team play as well.
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  Speaker 2: He's done a couple of similar to that in his career.
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  Speaker 2: That just his field.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he dropped the one in the first preseason game
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  Speaker 1: and was it was different coverage, but it was dang
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  Speaker 1: near the same play, and so I know he wanted
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  Speaker 1: another crack at that one.
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  Speaker 2: Sou pretty cool that he got that shot. You said
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  Speaker 2: you were with the defense for most of half time,
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  Speaker 2: but did you have kind of a general message to
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  Speaker 2: the whole team at halftime as well?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, said it on the TV thing. It was like, hey, like,
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  Speaker 1: let's come run the ball. Got a lot of football
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  Speaker 1: to play at State.
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  Speaker 2: Poised right where we want to be.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we didn't get here the way we wanted to,
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  Speaker 1: but like let's go. You know, there'd a lot of
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  Speaker 1: football to be played. I forgot what I said forbade him,
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  Speaker 1: but uh, guys are awesome, man. They were locked in,
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  Speaker 1: ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: Defense. New videos. That was a big series, that was
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  Speaker 2: a big three and out. You know they went.
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  Speaker 1: Backwards there at the first series of the third quarter,
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  Speaker 1: which is huge.
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  Speaker 2: Go our offense in good field position, handle the university
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  Speaker 2: of the tough start.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, same thing. I mean, he embodies the whole team.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna go as Gino goes. And uh
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  Speaker 1: just kept haying, telling him hanging there, and he I
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  Speaker 1: didn't need to tell him anything. He was right on it.
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  Speaker 1: Stay positive and and non we went. But uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's to lead the charge.
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  Speaker 2: The wheels there, not.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna lie and know he had it in him, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad he does.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty cool. That's a great play.
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  Speaker 3: Anything else, did you want to see him just make
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  Speaker 3: fair catches and situations like that.
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  Speaker 1: Or you know, talking to a lot of those decisions,
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  Speaker 1: we felt like we're the right decisions in those in
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  Speaker 1: those situations based on where he was on the where
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  Speaker 1: he thought he was at least well, well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to visit what the philosophy is in those
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  Speaker 1: those situations. But you know, we're happy with the decision making.
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  Speaker 1: We just you know, you got to catch the ball.
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  Speaker 1: But we got faith in Ded. He's gonna gonna do
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  Speaker 1: a great job for us, right, Okay, thanks guys,