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Press Pass | Caldwell: "At the End of the Day, We’re Going to Be Who We Are." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I'm just curious when you decided to sort of give
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  Speaker 1: them a little bit more freedom, and specific specifically with Josh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how does that sort of work.
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  Speaker 2: It's really.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad he looks at it that way because it's
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  Speaker 3: it's it's been the same, but there's more input from
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  Speaker 3: the players.
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  Speaker 2: They're able to walk by and they.
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  Speaker 3: Get with me before I get my final game plan
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  Speaker 3: thoughts together and like what do you see? And I
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  Speaker 3: tell them what I see and they're like okay, And
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  Speaker 3: then at times they'll see something different then I might
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  Speaker 3: make an adjustment.
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  Speaker 2: I might not, but they'll.
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  Speaker 3: There's more input from them because I think they're understanding
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  Speaker 3: how we do things around here and they're kind of
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  Speaker 3: getting used to it.
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  Speaker 2: So it's evolving that way.
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  Speaker 1: How much for you too, just by knowing all the
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  Speaker 1: players a lot more. You've been through the goal last
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  Speaker 1: season and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's me just knowing the guys and understanding
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  Speaker 3: what they do well and what they like to do
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  Speaker 3: and just trying to, I guess, coordinate it all together
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  Speaker 3: so that everybody is trying to be used at their
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  Speaker 3: strength and putting them in position to make plays, which
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  Speaker 3: that's the ultimate goal. You know, whatever we do around here,
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  Speaker 3: we want to make sure the guys have an opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to go out there and make a play coming off.
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  Speaker 4: They spend a little bit of time self scouting. Would
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  Speaker 4: you see when you look back at the defense.
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  Speaker 2: We did, We went back and looked at it.
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  Speaker 3: There's some tendencies that you know, we understand we have
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  Speaker 3: and we try to correct them or you know, try
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  Speaker 3: to do something a little different in a certain situation.
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  Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: be who we are.
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  Speaker 3: And we're a team that goes out there and stops
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  Speaker 3: a run, gets after the quarterback, and that won't change.
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  Speaker 2: The system that really seem to stress defenses the players.
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  Speaker 3: They have a talented players, and then at the same time,
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  Speaker 3: you can line guys up at multiple different spots and
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  Speaker 3: it looks different. You might have to prepare for it different.
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  Speaker 3: They're doing the same thing, but to a defense, it
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  Speaker 3: looks like it's completely different. You might have a running
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  Speaker 3: lined up at a receiver and a receiver lined up
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  Speaker 3: at running back. In you know, that should freak you out,
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  Speaker 3: but at the end of the day, you know, just
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  Speaker 3: one guy's one guy, and you just go out there
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  Speaker 3: and play the Look.
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  Speaker 5: What did you see in the last maybe about last
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  Speaker 5: year from from Darius. I mean, obviously he went to
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  Speaker 5: the outside, you know, four or five or six games
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  Speaker 5: with five.
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  Speaker 2: Or six games left last year.
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  Speaker 6: But what has times him to elevate his game to
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  Speaker 6: the point where he's leading the NFL prospect.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's always had a talent.
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  Speaker 3: The thing that he doesn't get credit for is he's
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  Speaker 3: a really, really smart player. He's a guy that understands
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  Speaker 3: receiver splits, he understands what offenses like to do, and
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  Speaker 3: I think the Shay does a good job of breaking
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  Speaker 3: it down for the dbs every week so they can.
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  Speaker 2: Go out there and play their best.
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  Speaker 3: Like, if I'm a dB, I don't need to worry
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  Speaker 3: about a million routes. I just need to worry about
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  Speaker 3: the routes he's running this.
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  Speaker 2: Week and where he's running them from.
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  Speaker 3: And I think the coaching staff does a good job
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  Speaker 3: of getting him that information.
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  Speaker 2: You're somewhat of a hoop's officionado, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So if you have to put together a basketball team
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  Speaker 5: out of that locker room and you had a three
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  Speaker 5: guard offense, is Darius one of your three guards.
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  Speaker 3: I've never played with him. But I have an ear
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  Speaker 3: and I hear down in the locker room that he
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  Speaker 3: can go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he can go. So I trust that.
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  Speaker 3: And when you get another professional athlete saying, another professional
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  Speaker 3: athlete can really do something another sport really well, they
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  Speaker 3: can do it really well.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, he'd he'd be on my team.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, So I'm gonna I'm gonna point out two plays
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  Speaker 6: in your season so far. Okay, interception he had on
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  Speaker 6: on digs in London and in New Orleans. Kind of
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  Speaker 6: got beat a little bit on a play by Michael
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  Speaker 6: Thomas down on the left sideline, I believe, but he
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  Speaker 6: was able to recover, leap up and then with his
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  Speaker 6: left hand and just get enough of a deflection on
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  Speaker 6: it or goes off his helmet. How athletic are plays
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  Speaker 6: like that?
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  Speaker 2: For me?
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  Speaker 3: I was a three sport athlete, and I really think
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  Speaker 3: it's important for dbs, especially to play baseball because you
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  Speaker 3: can track the ball. But Darius has a basketball background,
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  Speaker 3: and the plays you talked about, you can see the
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  Speaker 3: coordination of jumping up, catching the ball, another one timing
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  Speaker 3: the jump, jumping up and deflecting the ball.
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  Speaker 2: So the jumping.
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  Speaker 3: Ability he has hops so he used them as a
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  Speaker 3: football player.
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  Speaker 4: The defense has gotten off to a really good start
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  Speaker 4: to the year. Team six and two. Is there another
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  Speaker 4: level of defense can take things too?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Always, there's a bunch of players we leave out there,
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  Speaker 3: and there's a lot of things that we would like
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  Speaker 3: to do better, and we just you know, we come
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  Speaker 3: in here every week. I told the guys, like, all right, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
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  Speaker 3: let's go have fun on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: That's the mindset you have to have.
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  Speaker 3: And you got to get better every day like what
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  Speaker 3: we've done in the past that don't matter. Like what
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  Speaker 3: happens today matters, what happens Friday matters, Saturday matters, and
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  Speaker 3: Sunday really matters.
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  Speaker 2: And then you do it again. That's how you look
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  Speaker 2: at it.
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  Speaker 1: Forgot, I've got.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of pressures, you know, every season, but this
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  Speaker 5: year the sacks are finally coming.
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  Speaker 2: Is he doing something different?
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  Speaker 3: He finishing And that was one of the goals coming
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  Speaker 3: in this year that we needed to finish more when
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  Speaker 3: we rush. And Josh has done a great job of
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  Speaker 3: getting away, going home and working on his skill and
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  Speaker 3: coming back in.
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  Speaker 2: He's studying. He understand what he wants to do.
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  Speaker 3: And again I just sat down in the defensive line
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  Speaker 3: meeting coach Buckner, Coach Sigris, and Koch Shuey. They do
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  Speaker 3: a good job of presenting the rush plan and Josh
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  Speaker 3: is buying into the rush playing and is paying off
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  Speaker 3: for him.
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  Speaker 4: You got them back right before the bye week, first
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  Speaker 4: game at and is the plan to start using him
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  Speaker 4: more kind of week by week him a little bit
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  Speaker 4: more action.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, definitely that that rotation. He's one of our guys.
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  Speaker 3: He's a guy that really plays well for so will
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  Speaker 3: continue to get him up this his game speed and
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  Speaker 3: he'll continue to go out there and play more in
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  Speaker 3: his repsole continue to increase, and he'll continue to make
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  Speaker 3: plays for us.
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  Speaker 1: McCaffrey before, I mean, just what makes him such a
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  Speaker 1: such a special player.
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  Speaker 3: He's a guy that he's versatile. He can do whatever
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  Speaker 3: you need him to do. If it's thirty one, you
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  Speaker 3: need to get one yard, he can lower his shoulder
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  Speaker 3: and get the one yard. If he needs to bounce
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  Speaker 3: the ball outside, he can do that. If you need
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  Speaker 3: to catch it, he can do that. I just got
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  Speaker 3: finished looking. If he needs to throw it, he can
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  Speaker 3: do that. So at the same end of the day,
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  Speaker 3: that's what he does. He's a guy that they use
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  Speaker 3: in a variety of ways, and he can really do
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  Speaker 3: all of them really well