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  Speaker 1: Uh, don't any what's your level concern with the passworth
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  Speaker 1: right now? And is there a whole heck of a
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  Speaker 1: lot you can do at this point in the season
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  Speaker 1: to fix it change things? Yeah, Um, you know this
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  Speaker 1: week is uh probably hitting us at the right time,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to to have a buy and and really
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  Speaker 1: to kind of get guys fresh and and really for
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  Speaker 1: the coaches to go back and and I think evaluate
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  Speaker 1: you know, these first uh ten games and and and
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  Speaker 1: come up with some you know, come up with some
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  Speaker 1: good answers, you know, for our players, you know, as
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  Speaker 1: to why you know, some of the things are are happening.
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  Speaker 1: And that's kind of what the buy is designed to do.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, obviously it's it's you know, the coach
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  Speaker 1: is putting together a good a good pass rush plan
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  Speaker 1: and then the players obviously have to go execute that. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And then again too, I mean you're you're going up
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  Speaker 1: against good offensive lineman that uh you know, they do
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  Speaker 1: a nice job and fifteen scrambles around a little bit
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  Speaker 1: and it makes it makes a little bit harder as well.
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  Speaker 1: And as Josh is does a fire need to get
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  Speaker 1: a lit under Josh Allen at all or is he
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  Speaker 1: are the scheming to take him out of the game, which, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's uh, it's it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: a week to week a little bit, you know, And
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  Speaker 1: he understands that he's got to get going. He he
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  Speaker 1: knows that. You know, we've had, you know, just conversations
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  Speaker 1: that he's had with the with the staff and on
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  Speaker 1: defense and knowing that he you know, he's a big
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  Speaker 1: part of that rush. You know, he's he's talented and
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  Speaker 1: too talented not to not to get there. And and um,
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  Speaker 1: I just got to make sure that he stays focused
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  Speaker 1: in and locked in on the on the rush plan
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  Speaker 1: and and uh, you know, sticking to sticking to the
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  Speaker 1: technique that is you know, made him a good pass
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  Speaker 1: rusher in this league. Last year, after the bye week,
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  Speaker 1: the coaching staff said they thought the team didn't handle
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  Speaker 1: the week off. Well, do you talk to a young
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  Speaker 1: team about how to conduct themselves during a bye week?
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  Speaker 1: While I'm not giving him the whole week, Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring the guys in tomorrow and Wednesday and
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  Speaker 1: and and get some work in, especially with our younger players.
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  Speaker 1: I think it'd be good and beneficial to work with
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  Speaker 1: them and I kind of keep their development and growth coming.
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  Speaker 1: And but at the same time, our our older players,
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  Speaker 1: the starters, Um, you know, it's a time to you
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  Speaker 1: know sort of sort of rest and heal and and
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  Speaker 1: get ready for this and this back half push. But
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  Speaker 1: you know I will talk to him, you know obviously
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  Speaker 1: about how to handle you know, their business, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for the with the four days off that I have
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  Speaker 1: to give them, and and it's all about you know,
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  Speaker 1: being a professional, right and and you know we do
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  Speaker 1: get time off during the buy and coaches are the
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  Speaker 1: same way. And um, how we handle it really can
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  Speaker 1: can affect uh, you know, uh next week for sure,
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  Speaker 1: but it can also set you know a standard for um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the rest of the year. I haven't a
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  Speaker 1: pass yet. Yeah, yeah, kind of where you are and everything,
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  Speaker 1: and and we're relatively healthy too, and and um, you
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  Speaker 1: know there's not not any significant injuries right now where
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  Speaker 1: you feel like you can you know, give the guys
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  Speaker 1: the whole week and where football team too. We're still
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  Speaker 1: learning and it's a great opportunity for us as a
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  Speaker 1: staff to really continue to teach and coach and get
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  Speaker 1: through you know, get through the tape with you know,
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  Speaker 1: with our players. The next couple of days, the Cisco
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  Speaker 1: hit that drew the flag, it wasn't a flag. Was
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  Speaker 1: there a fumble there too, that you guys might have
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  Speaker 1: been able to challenge on that. I don't believe there was.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he necessarily had the full you know,
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  Speaker 1: one to make a football move, control the ball when
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  Speaker 1: the when the contact was made. So, um, that part
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  Speaker 1: I think was Okay. Is movement giving you just a
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  Speaker 1: more consistency over Devon Lloyd at this point, you know
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  Speaker 1: he consistency, But I think to it it helps you
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  Speaker 1: know sometimes, you know, in Devon's case, to just coming
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  Speaker 1: out of the game and seeing it from the sidelines,
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  Speaker 1: seeing a little different perspective, uh, and allowing you know,
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  Speaker 1: Chad to get valuable reps and slot like Buster playing
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  Speaker 1: and getting valuable reps at corner, um, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: and seeing seeing where Chad is, you know, with everything
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  Speaker 1: because right now, as you guys know, he's been sort
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  Speaker 1: of limited to the special teams. He is a good
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  Speaker 1: linebacker and and uh, you know, we want to get
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  Speaker 1: him on the field. But it helps Devon, you know, um,
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  Speaker 1: from the standpoint of I think just seeing things a
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  Speaker 1: little bit differently, maybe with calm or eyes you know,
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  Speaker 1: from the sideline going forward. We'll see yeah, I mean yeah,
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  Speaker 1: maybe not to that degree, but what we'll see, you know, see,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see how it goes here. Um, you know as
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  Speaker 1: we get ready for our next game. Yea out come
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  Speaker 1: you wanted. But that was that one of Trevor Lawrence's
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  Speaker 1: better performances that you've seen so far. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's just two weeks in a row now, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's really put put some good performances out there. You know, Um,
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  Speaker 1: there were some there were some we had some protection
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  Speaker 1: issues kind of in that second quarter that kind of
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  Speaker 1: you know, made him get rid of the ball a
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  Speaker 1: bit sooner than than need be. But I thought, I
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  Speaker 1: thought after that or really just taking that out, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he settled in and did some great things that drive
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  Speaker 1: before half and again getting us down there after the
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  Speaker 1: turnover and you know, having an opportunity there to get
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  Speaker 1: us another you know a few yards closer you know
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  Speaker 1: on the turnover. And I mean he's just he's just
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  Speaker 1: kind of understanding now kind of what we're asking him
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  Speaker 1: to do. And and um, he's he's put to two
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  Speaker 1: good performances here back to back, have you seen a
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  Speaker 1: shifting him over the past couple of weeks, maybe in
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  Speaker 1: his mentality, his preparation anything like that. Not really Trevor's Trevor. Um.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he just kind of handles his business the
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  Speaker 1: way he does and prepares the same, studies the same
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  Speaker 1: you know, And I think he's I think what you're
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  Speaker 1: seeing is just him learning from you know, mistakes that
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  Speaker 1: were made and previously in the season, opportunities that we've missed,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and he's just he's just capitalizing that
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  Speaker 1: and just that's uh, you know, it's it's it's a
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  Speaker 1: good player that's just taking correction and coaching and and
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  Speaker 1: understanding what we're asking him to do, and um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just being better as a player. I'm not trying to
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  Speaker 1: get it for lack of better. Free He's starting to
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  Speaker 1: get it at this point. Get you know what you want?
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  Speaker 1: How you much? Yeah, I think I think there's I
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  Speaker 1: think you get it. Um, it's part of it. I
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  Speaker 1: think I think he's understanding, you know, our system better. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're we're recycling plays a little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: So there's there's the verbage and everything is sort of
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  Speaker 1: you know, easier to just to spit out in the
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  Speaker 1: huddle than say week one or even in training camp. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and all of that really helps him, you know, in
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  Speaker 1: his in his growth and really his development. And it's
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  Speaker 1: all starting to sort of come together for not many
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  Speaker 1: excuses for Devon or I'm not trying to, but as
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  Speaker 1: much training camp as he missed, is that factor all
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  Speaker 1: into maybe some of the struggles. I think it? Um, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think it can. Know it's a young player, um, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: All of training camp, he missed all the live all
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  Speaker 1: the live reps and training camp. And and that's that's
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  Speaker 1: hard because those are all valuable reps, you know, reps
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  Speaker 1: that Chad got, Shack Quarterman got and those guys you know,
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  Speaker 1: and um, but but we've played a lot of football
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  Speaker 1: now too, and and he should be you know, um,
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  Speaker 1: I think understanding what what the what the scheme is,
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  Speaker 1: understanding you know, his technique and and how to play
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  Speaker 1: within the defense a little bit. And again, this is
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  Speaker 1: that time of year with young players. You know, we're
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  Speaker 1: coming out a week ten into you know, into a
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  Speaker 1: bye week eleven. This is this is that sort of
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  Speaker 1: that rookie wall you talk about a little bit. You know,
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  Speaker 1: some of these guys and and um, you know again
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's a good time for a break, opening
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  Speaker 1: up the kicking situation to where James can compete a
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  Speaker 1: little bit with Riley or you know, not yet, not yet.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we you know, during the week of pray
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  Speaker 1: just um on Wednesdays and Thursdays, we let both guys kick,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so there's a little bit of competition there. Um,
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  Speaker 1: it's unfortunate. Again, as I talked after the game, those
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  Speaker 1: were missed opportunities, you know that that we we just
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  Speaker 1: gotta have, you know, especially against good teams, you gotta
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  Speaker 1: you gotta hit those balls, you know, through the uprights.
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  Speaker 1: And he knows that, he understands that. But but no
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  Speaker 1: competition right now. But in the in the practices during
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  Speaker 1: the regular season since he started, as James continued to
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  Speaker 1: kick as well as he did in practice, in that
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  Speaker 1: joint practice with Atlanta in the preseason game, as he
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  Speaker 1: continued to do pretty good. Um, he's uh, he's another
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  Speaker 1: one that's kind of feeling where we are with the season,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And and I'll say that it's uh, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's not a d percent let me put it that way.
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  Speaker 1: It's for some of these young defensive guys who maybe
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  Speaker 1: have their heads swimming with assignments and things like that,
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  Speaker 1: and you see them making those, like I guess, rookie
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  Speaker 1: mistakes or young player mistakes out on the field. Can
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  Speaker 1: a bye week be a good time to kind of
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  Speaker 1: help them clear their heads so that way they can
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  Speaker 1: kind of maybe even refocus and clear things up on
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  Speaker 1: on their thought process for their home stretch. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think it can. Um And again it goes back to
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  Speaker 1: how how they utilize this this break. And again it's
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  Speaker 1: the reason why I want to bring the guys in
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  Speaker 1: the next couple of days to kind of we're not
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  Speaker 1: game planning anything, but go back and really go through,
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  Speaker 1: you know, sort of this first part of the season
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  Speaker 1: and just kind of reteach and relearn and show them
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  Speaker 1: and and uh, again, you're a little bit calmer this time,
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  Speaker 1: you know, during the by than you would be during
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  Speaker 1: a game plan week. And that's a great opportunity for
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  Speaker 1: these guys who continue to learn. What is the coaching
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  Speaker 1: point for offensive linemen on some of these players where
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  Speaker 1: they get called for being downfields they're hard because some
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  Speaker 1: of their maps. It's hard because you know, sometimes too
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  Speaker 1: we argue the fact that they were engaged, you know,
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  Speaker 1: on a block, and which is okay as there as
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  Speaker 1: long as they know stay engaged. Um, you know the
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  Speaker 1: couple of y to day, the one on Juwan and
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  Speaker 1: the one on uh Cam. I think we're the right decision.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that to me doesn't necessarily fall on them
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  Speaker 1: because they're doing what they've been asked to do, right.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a that's a coaching thing that we can fix,
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  Speaker 1: and we talked about as a staff today and and
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  Speaker 1: we have ways of correcting that and making sure that
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  Speaker 1: they're not downfield next time. When you kind of talk
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  Speaker 1: about getting some of these younger guys on defense reps
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  Speaker 1: so they can have you know, live game reps under
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  Speaker 1: the belt, it kind of seems like you have an
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  Speaker 1: eye towards the future. Is it just that you've seen
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  Speaker 1: enough in practice from them that you want to see
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  Speaker 1: them on the field, or is it, Hey, we know
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  Speaker 1: these guys are a part of the future. We got
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  Speaker 1: to see what they got. Ah, if we were seven
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  Speaker 1: and three, maybe it's a different story. We're three and
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  Speaker 1: seven and we're still trying to figure out some pieces
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  Speaker 1: and and who can play and all of that. And
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  Speaker 1: this is a great opportunity for those guys to to
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  Speaker 1: get to get time, right, Um, and we want them
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  Speaker 1: to play, you know, and we want them to get
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  Speaker 1: to get reps out there and and every time and
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  Speaker 1: any time they can, you know. Um yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: what you're seeing with Buster, now that he's out there more,
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  Speaker 1: he's beginning to get a little more comfortable in that environment.
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  Speaker 1: And and that's all you want. You just want them
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  Speaker 1: to be you know, the eyes aren't big now. They're
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  Speaker 1: a little more focused, focused on their job, focused on
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  Speaker 1: their you know, the task that they're asked to do
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  Speaker 1: on a particular play. And and that's all you want
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  Speaker 1: from these guys, especially the young players. You know, Um,
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  Speaker 1: when they get opportunities to play. What are the young
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  Speaker 1: players on offense? Like Snoop some of the receivers have
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  Speaker 1: to do to get some of those game reps. I
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  Speaker 1: just gotta put them in as a play as a
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  Speaker 1: play caller, I just gotta put them in. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I mean really on offense because I I control the
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  Speaker 1: you know, the calls and everything. It's just a matter
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  Speaker 1: of getting them in the game. What happened, Town, It's
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  Speaker 1: not Um we got caught, actually, Um, we got caught
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  Speaker 1: with about two plays in a row there, our headset
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  Speaker 1: defensive headset went down and so we um, we had
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  Speaker 1: to make a call on the fly, and the communication
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  Speaker 1: was two different calls you know, on the field, and
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  Speaker 1: so there was just a misassignment that from the side
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  Speaker 1: you try to hand signal it, you know, which we
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  Speaker 1: try to do. But with the time running breaking the huddle, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Foyer does a nice job. We're getting the
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  Speaker 1: guys lined up anyway, and and uh, you know, being
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  Speaker 1: in that environment, it was just a little bit loud
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  Speaker 1: and couldn't hear and couldn't hear all the calls and
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  Speaker 1: just you know, it's again it's a it's unfortunate, um,
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  Speaker 1: but it's something that definitely, uh, you know, the same
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  Speaker 1: way on offense, right if the headset goes down, Trevor
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  Speaker 1: has a handful of plays he can get to right away,
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  Speaker 1: and so we've got to make sure that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when that happens, that the guys are guys are prepared
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  Speaker 1: a lot yesterday or just now. It's just just like
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  Speaker 1: two plays in a row. On defense. The offense was fine,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it just happened in the red zone. I
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  Speaker 1: guess wouldn't be nobody would be stunned or would you
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  Speaker 1: be sunned if we looked up here like on February
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  Speaker 1: one and he played the two teams in the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: Eagles and the Chiefs. I mean, they're both good, They're
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  Speaker 1: both really good. Um, I mean it probably wouldn't surprise me.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think there's some good teams in the
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL right now that are playing. But I
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  Speaker 1: think both those teams are are playing really really good football.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they're playing consistent, They're making the most of
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  Speaker 1: the opportunities, and that's what it takes, especially now down
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  Speaker 1: the stretch. We'll see you know, at this last month
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  Speaker 1: and a half, you know of this season, just um,
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  Speaker 1: just where teams start to go. And just be clear,
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  Speaker 1: nobody got banked up. No, Jamal came out of the game.
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  Speaker 1: Um was fine, re entered, Evan took a shot in
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  Speaker 1: the game, also re entered and both were fine. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: If going into that game, I told you had three
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  Speaker 1: turnovers and got an onside kick to start the game,
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  Speaker 1: I think you like your chances. How tough is it
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  Speaker 1: to to walk out of there with a loss after them?
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  Speaker 1: I think we only got seven points off of all
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  Speaker 1: that and those are the opportunities that that you know,
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  Speaker 1: I talked about that that defense did a great job,
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  Speaker 1: but and special teams to create create turnovers, you know,
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  Speaker 1: create the takeaways. Offense, you know, for the most part,
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  Speaker 1: did a nice job of you know, protecting the football.
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  Speaker 1: Um and you only use seven points, I mean that
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  Speaker 1: we've we've got to do better as an offense. We've
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  Speaker 1: got to do better when when when given the opportunity um,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's three or seven. One thing I will say is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, even you know, with what forty or fifty
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  Speaker 1: seconds at the end of the half, to go down
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  Speaker 1: and get the touchdown was big. And then to get
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  Speaker 1: right away get the turnover again, you know, with seven seconds,
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  Speaker 1: it was unfortunate. But those are again, those are opportunities
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  Speaker 1: that that we missed. And when you're playing teams like
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  Speaker 1: like the Chiefs, you can't you can't miss those opportunities.