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Mike Macdonald: "I Believe In The Foundation We're Building" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, don't have any updates medically because of the
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  Speaker 1: time yet. So Uh, I haven't heard I just haven't
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  Speaker 1: heard anything all week, but or since since yesterday, but
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  Speaker 1: just finished grade and the tape on my own. I
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  Speaker 1: haven't met with the staff yet.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: But from what we said last night, it's just uh again,
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  Speaker 1: it's like you're you're disappointed. Uh, you're frustrated in a
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  Speaker 1: game that we felt like we we should have won
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  Speaker 1: to a certain extent. You got to give the Rams
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  Speaker 1: credit for taking advantage of uh, the opportunities that were
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  Speaker 1: given to them. We did not, and we have to
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  Speaker 1: clean those things up. So but we have an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: here this week to attack the heck out of this
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  Speaker 1: bye week. It's gonna you know, our players get some
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  Speaker 1: some chance to really recover and take care of their
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  Speaker 1: bodies and coaches wise, you know, we have, we got
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  Speaker 1: some work on our hands to go attack this thing
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  Speaker 1: and really continue to streamline what we're doing, how we're
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  Speaker 1: coaching it. We're trying to get done and have a
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  Speaker 1: great plan for next week so we can really hit
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  Speaker 1: the ground running on Monday and ramp into the second
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  Speaker 1: half of the season, which is critical for us because
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  Speaker 1: we have.
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  Speaker 2: We got we got to start producing better results.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody knows that and on where we go, but we
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  Speaker 1: gotta we got a big, big week ahead of.
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  Speaker 3: Us, Like big picture wise, you're nine games and by
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  Speaker 3: coming up kind of midway point.
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  Speaker 2: Just where do you feel like this team is? Halfway through?
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  Speaker 1: We're on our way, We're on our way. We're it's
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  Speaker 1: not where we want to be. It's not where we
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  Speaker 1: expected to be. Uh, but I feel like we are
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  Speaker 1: being where. I think we're resilient as heck. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: our guys we face. I mean, you can just go
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  Speaker 1: week by week on.
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  Speaker 2: The adversity that we faced.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of it is self inflicted diversity. And great
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  Speaker 1: football teams don't do that. They eliminate drag. They go fast,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they go forward fast together. We're going together.
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  Speaker 1: We're just not going fast, you know right now. So
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  Speaker 1: it's our job as coaches to really eliminate that drag
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  Speaker 1: and make a clear of the guys and we might
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  Speaker 1: you know, like I said last night, you gotta have
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  Speaker 1: you got to go into these things with mentality that
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  Speaker 1: everything's kind of on the table, you know. So that's
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  Speaker 1: that's you gotta open go with an open open mind, open,
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  Speaker 1: open your lens up a little bit, and uh, and
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  Speaker 1: go and go back to work.
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  Speaker 2: So but our.
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  Speaker 1: Guys will we'll talk to them here in a minute, Leve,
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  Speaker 1: we'll meet today and then uh, we'll move forward.
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  Speaker 4: Would you say following the most below your expectation?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think it's the operation and the self inflicted
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  Speaker 1: penalties is the most frustrating. That we should have that
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  Speaker 1: cleaned up by now. So you know, we got to
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  Speaker 1: get that fixed. And uh, the guys know that we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna look into it and see if what
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  Speaker 1: we can do operation wise, practice wise things we're coaching,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just kind of look at the whole thing and.
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  Speaker 2: Go attack it.
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  Speaker 1: But I felt like we should be we should be
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  Speaker 1: further along in that in that regard, coach, you guys.
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  Speaker 5: Score seven three and outs yesterday. That was only happened
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  Speaker 5: once in the previous one hundred and fifteen games for
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  Speaker 5: Sean McVay and the Rams. How did the defense go
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  Speaker 5: from such an extreme against the Bills to what you
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  Speaker 5: saw this week against the Rams?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I, you know, it's a great opportunity to explain
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  Speaker 1: kind of where I feel like our football team is.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we've been taking, I was explaining to Brock
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  Speaker 1: and Salt and rightfully, so we deserved a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the criticism that we've been getting. Defensively, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: we're kind of but you kind of bang your head
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  Speaker 1: against the wall and some of these things that you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to get done schematically, and you know, playing together
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  Speaker 1: communication wipe me all the things. The tackling, uh, But
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  Speaker 1: you keep, you keep stringing good weeks and good practices together,
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  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, you know, the confidence builds
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  Speaker 1: and you start to see some results on on Sundays,
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  Speaker 1: and that's where we're going as a football team. So offensively, uh,
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  Speaker 1: or it might be you know, I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: the curve is slanted the same way, but I feel
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  Speaker 1: like the approach and the mentality is the same way.
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  Speaker 1: So I hope, you know, hopefully we you know, kind
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  Speaker 1: of break through all together here, all three phases. And
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  Speaker 1: it speaks to the guys resiliency and kind of their
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  Speaker 1: their their mental kind of standing the course and believing
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  Speaker 1: in what we're doing. And it was good to see
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  Speaker 1: us take us take a step in the right direction
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  Speaker 1: last night, because the guys deserved it.
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  Speaker 6: From a defensive coaches standpoint, what are you seeing the
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  Speaker 6: offensive line struggle with in the run game, particularly in
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  Speaker 6: their short yarded situations. I believe seven runs and the
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  Speaker 6: reds on the last two weeks that have mated zero
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  Speaker 6: or negative yards.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough, I mean, and as coaches we need
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  Speaker 1: to help them out as well. You know, it's not
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  Speaker 1: just the players, it's it's everybody. It's everybody upstairs, it's
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  Speaker 1: everybody on the first floor, players and coaches included. We
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  Speaker 1: need to get more movement at the point of attack. Man,
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  Speaker 1: it's just you know, got to find got to find
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  Speaker 1: a dent in it and rock and roll. There's not
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  Speaker 1: a lot of space when you've got eleven guys in
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  Speaker 1: the box. But the good teams figure out a way
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  Speaker 1: to get it done. So that'll be that'll be a
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  Speaker 1: big priority for us this week.
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  Speaker 4: Are the snap bears communication stuff or fundamental stuff or
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  Speaker 4: what's kind of the fix for.
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  Speaker 2: Both right now? So again, that's something that we're going
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  Speaker 2: to be looking at.
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  Speaker 4: Understanding that all penalties are obviously not created equal take
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  Speaker 4: either way the league.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you think that is that you guys are
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  Speaker 2: so kindaized.
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  Speaker 6: To do nine games?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I mean, I don't do I
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  Speaker 1: have a specific reason. Uh No, But we need to
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  Speaker 1: play cleaner football. I mean that's just that's obvious. Uh
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  Speaker 1: And it's our responsibility as coaches to make sure our
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  Speaker 1: guys are playing clean football. So we're gonna continue to
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  Speaker 1: emphasize it. And again, I mean, you guys are hitting
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  Speaker 1: the things that these are big, big topics of conversation
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  Speaker 1: that will be had over the next few days where
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  Speaker 1: we can attack this thing and feel like we have
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  Speaker 1: a great plan.
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  Speaker 7: When you say everything's on the table, Mike, is that personnel,
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  Speaker 7: is that scheme, is that scheduled training?
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  Speaker 1: With all the above, I mean, I think we're doing
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  Speaker 1: a lot of good things. But if you if you
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  Speaker 1: go in kind of just with a myopic view of
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  Speaker 1: it's only over here, then you might miss something.
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  Speaker 2: I don't I don't want to miss something.
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  Speaker 1: So let's go through it with a fine tooth comb
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  Speaker 1: and let's be honest and and let's go.
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  Speaker 7: I know, the player's gone gone, and you guys are.
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  Speaker 1: Still here working or they're here they're here today and
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  Speaker 1: then they'll be out the rest of the week.
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  Speaker 5: What a schnyder Ton Schneider's talked about his philosophy on
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  Speaker 5: inter your offensive line that might differ from others in
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  Speaker 5: the league, and curious if you had a difference in
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  Speaker 5: perspective on what you think the value of interior offensive
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  Speaker 5: line play, if that's something you and John have spent
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  Speaker 5: some time talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, Yeah, we're talking about how we're going to
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  Speaker 1: build our football team. Every position is important. It's just
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  Speaker 1: that's the way it is. I mean, people have been
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  Speaker 1: giving linebackers a hard time. I feel like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're starting to show their worth again of how important
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  Speaker 1: those guys are. Already football team in tier lines the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. So our guys are fighting their their tails off.
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  Speaker 1: So we got to help them out and we got
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  Speaker 1: to execute better and we got work together on it.
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  Speaker 2: So it's pretty cut and dry speaking of linebackers.
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  Speaker 3: What an extra week for Ernest Jones to do just
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  Speaker 3: to get another weekend system and playing with tee dot
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  Speaker 3: and everything.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great point.
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  Speaker 1: I do feel like having some some consistency and who's
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  Speaker 1: aligning next to who on our defense helped, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to to the you know the former point of like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: how do you guys take a step. Well, it's good
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  Speaker 1: when you got the same crew out there and you're
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  Speaker 1: able to stack a lot of reps next to each other.
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  Speaker 1: So by a linebacker, spot felt like felt like they
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  Speaker 1: took a step last night, especially Ernest.
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  Speaker 4: What what led to Cody White kind of suddenly I
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  Speaker 4: guess playing as much as he did.
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  Speaker 1: So, uh, well, you know, dk situation was still up
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  Speaker 1: in the air throughout the week. And Cody's a guy
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  Speaker 1: similar to like what Kobe's been doing and like what
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  Speaker 1: Josh Joe's been doing on practice squad having a hard
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  Speaker 1: time covering this dude and just does everything right all
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  Speaker 1: the time, plays extremely hard. Knows all the spots had
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  Speaker 1: a lot of confidence in him going out there. I
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  Speaker 1: know the guys rejuiced to go give him an opportunity. So, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know it is he probably if we we probably
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  Speaker 1: should have won the game because of because of what
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  Speaker 1: Cody was able to do. And that's that's frustrating, because
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  Speaker 1: he earned some recognition last night.
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  Speaker 3: As a coach, is a pretty rewarding part of the
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  Speaker 3: job when.
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  Speaker 1: You see guys, Yeah, yeah, it's it's probably the best
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  Speaker 1: part of the job when you see guys grow, and
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  Speaker 1: like what gets you hooked is when guys do stuff
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  Speaker 1: one day that they haven't done the day before. To
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  Speaker 1: see hard workerly payoff and to see uh, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: these guys, they work extremely hard and a lot of them,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of them are working in the shadows, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to helped the regular the rest of the team. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, we had a we had a crew come
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  Speaker 1: visit us last week and one of the one of
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  Speaker 1: the people said that they wanted to be a force
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  Speaker 1: multiplier for their football team or for their for their squad,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, I felt like, you know, some of these
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  Speaker 1: guys that are really working for our teams are forced
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  Speaker 1: multipliers for us.
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  Speaker 2: I think Cody is one of those people.
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  Speaker 6: You mentioned yesterday that Trey's still working back from h
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  Speaker 6: from his injury. But now that Josh job is exhausted
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  Speaker 6: his practice squad elevations, do you feel like he has
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  Speaker 6: earned an opportunity now to be on the roster.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna have to make a couple of personnel decisions,
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  Speaker 1: uh this week, So that'll be that'll be on the
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  Speaker 1: docket for sure.
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  Speaker 5: There's some examples of decisions or changes you consider making
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  Speaker 5: during a bye week that you wouldn't normally consider making
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  Speaker 5: in any.
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  Speaker 2: Other week decisions that let's say that again, make.
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  Speaker 5: Changes you make that you'd entertain during a bye week
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  Speaker 5: with a little more time.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think, yeah, you have a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: time to take a breath and some things you're not
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  Speaker 1: like path dependent on either it's schematically personnel wise, you
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  Speaker 1: feel like you can maybe take a more of a
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  Speaker 1: detour than you would on a normal week schedule, Like.
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  Speaker 5: In that new evaluation, how do you balance trust, urgency, accountability,
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  Speaker 5: and patience like without I know you've got time, but
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  Speaker 5: how much do.
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  Speaker 6: You state who you are in this.
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  Speaker 2: In this process?
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  Speaker 1: Because we have the buy I think it's the same.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's the same. I think, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: really believe in our process and what we're what we're
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  Speaker 1: trying to achieve as a team, and the foundation that
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  Speaker 1: we're building, and we're chasing it now.
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  Speaker 2: We're chasing to make that kind of vision come to life.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about it last night, like or after the game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, creating this environments and nightmare for teams that
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  Speaker 1: come in and play us and you see it in
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  Speaker 1: like like spots and that should be optimistic moving forward,
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  Speaker 1: but it's also a reminder that we're not there yet
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  Speaker 1: and uh, and we need to get there when need
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  Speaker 1: to get there in a hurry this morning, I.
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  Speaker 6: Believe if I heard it right, you mentioned you were
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  Speaker 6: able to constrict space on defense.
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  Speaker 4: I'm wondering if you talk a little bit about that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, I mean, you know, the Rams do a
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  Speaker 1: great job of getting hats on hats in the run game,
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  Speaker 1: so they're never gonna you're never going to be like
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  Speaker 1: plus one the way they have it. They have it
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  Speaker 1: built so people have to beat blocks and you're move
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  Speaker 1: blockers into gaps and move bodies and the run game
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  Speaker 1: it's about moving people and so whoever moves more people
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  Speaker 1: is going to be more successful. So I thought our
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  Speaker 1: guys did a great job of that. And that's not
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  Speaker 1: that's that's the interior guys. We're playing a lot of
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  Speaker 1: four down. Last night, I thought the edge guys did
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  Speaker 1: a great job playing the sea gap, I won't say
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  Speaker 1: se area, and then and then like the Nickels and
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  Speaker 1: like like caveon Spoon, the backers did a good job
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  Speaker 1: well as well.
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  Speaker 2: So we didn't really need the safety to show up
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  Speaker 2: as much.
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  Speaker 5: Lucas might play against San Francisco.
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  Speaker 2: There is a chance, Yeah, what have you.
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  Speaker 4: Thought of Iron Murky last club games, since this guy
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  Speaker 4: that can align.
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  Speaker 1: Up for you, well, I thought, I thought he took
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  Speaker 1: a step from last week to this week, and I
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  Speaker 1: think the whole defense did that. But want to keep
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  Speaker 1: him coming, you know, keep putting positions to affect the
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  Speaker 1: game that the way he does. Sometimes it doesn't feel
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  Speaker 1: like he does, you know, because of the position he plays.
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  Speaker 1: But this guy plays really hard, he plays tough, and
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  Speaker 1: we got to keep finding ways for him to affect
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  Speaker 1: the game.
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  Speaker 7: About weighing the decision on field goal versus going forward
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  Speaker 7: and overtime, you talk about given Stafford four downs versus three.
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  Speaker 7: Can you explain your weighing there and how that changes
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  Speaker 7: your thinking when an offense has four downs?
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, sure, so, I mean they would if you
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  Speaker 1: if you kicked, if you played it out and let's
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  Speaker 1: say we kicked the field goal, and they would be
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  Speaker 1: down three, so they'd have, you know, they'd have four
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  Speaker 1: downs all the.
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  Speaker 2: Way into field goal range.
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  Speaker 1: Then they'd be back to you know, on fourth down,
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  Speaker 1: they'd probably be kicking the field goal in that situation.
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  Speaker 1: So I think it's a lot of respect for you know,
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  Speaker 1: their operation. What happened at the end of the half
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  Speaker 1: for them, you know, almost getting into field. If you know,
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  Speaker 1: if they would have had four downs at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the half or at the end of the game,
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  Speaker 1: excuse me, they would have had a fourth and two
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  Speaker 1: they or another down you know, to try to get
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  Speaker 1: into field range. So that would have been a similar
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  Speaker 1: situation that you could that you could play out.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And then I just felt like we were running the ball. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know that, I just I just finished watching the
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  Speaker 1: tape that drive, you know, the run game finally started
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  Speaker 1: to come alive in that and that uh, in that
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  Speaker 1: series of downs, I really felt like we were a
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  Speaker 1: block away from getting Canine. I thought I just had
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  Speaker 1: a vision of him scoring at some point. And I
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  Speaker 1: felt like we had two good plays. And again, like
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  Speaker 1: the results don't mirror those things. It's frustrating to watch it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna have to have a better plan
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  Speaker 1: moving forward. But uh so I felt like I was
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  Speaker 1: I guess I was optimistic and confident in our offensive operation.
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  Speaker 1: And and then you know, keeping them out of a
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  Speaker 1: four down situation as well.
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  Speaker 7: How much of a factor was overtime was almost half
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  Speaker 7: over already, and that you did, did you assume you wouldn't.
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  Speaker 2: Get the ball back again.
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  Speaker 1: No, I felt like there's still enough time, and that's
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  Speaker 1: also a factor. So let's say they go down and
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  Speaker 1: kick the field goal. Now now you're back in sudden death.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the argument too for always taking the ball first,
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  Speaker 1: thinking that you'd have the third possession. It does, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's just without getting it all like the how we think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to help other teams.
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  Speaker 2: But that's definitely a factor.
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  Speaker 4: How did you assess Rikill?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think on the whole, he made some plays
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  Speaker 1: that help us win the game. You know, Rik will
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  Speaker 1: probably tell you, hey, it's had some great opportunities to
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  Speaker 1: close it out for us.
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  Speaker 2: I would love him to go attack the ball. He
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  Speaker 2: knows that. And the one and the pick that he
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  Speaker 2: had at the end of the half.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, think about that, that series of events. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we go down, get the score before the end of
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  Speaker 1: the half, then we get the interception and go down,
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  Speaker 1: and our offense does a great job situational football of
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  Speaker 1: getting the score because it we knew they're getting the
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  Speaker 1: ball in the second half, staying aggressive, all those things
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  Speaker 1: and kind of make it made all it come to life.
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  Speaker 1: So but there are also a couple of plays like
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  Speaker 1: penalty wise, we'll look at that, see how we can
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  Speaker 1: play those things better, make smarter decisions, and then let's go.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go get the football.
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  Speaker 5: Gina Smith was under pressure almost sixty percent of his
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  Speaker 5: dropbacks yesterday, talking about just how it challenging it is
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  Speaker 5: to get a clean evaluation of your quarterback when he's
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  Speaker 5: under that much pressure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh, it's really chick.
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: We got to do a better job of taking care
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: of Gino, you know, throughout the course of the game.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's we have to be more efficient on
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: those early downs so teams aren't teeing off on us
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: on second long and.
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: It's hard. It's hard now in those.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: Situations, you know, we do have at the end of
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: the day, we gotta be ball dominant, So we got
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: to we can't put the ball in harm's away.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: Gino knows that. I know.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: That's why he's really hard on himself right now. Uh,
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: but it is more of a reflection of us as
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: as a football.
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: Team than just Gino.
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: When you know, when when the quarterbacks getting hit, So
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: we got we got to do a better job.
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: Kristen Haynes was inactive yesterday, where does he stand I
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: guess and things right now.
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: He's right there. You just keep competing, you know.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: We felt like we felt like the reason he was
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: inactive is the numbers thing. It's not Jalen needed to
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: be up in Olu because some positional flexibility.
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: So but keep.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: Competing, you know, just like you see with all these guys,
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: there's going to be another opportunity.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: You got to go earn it every day in practice.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: That's the message.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: Guys that bring it every day and show up in
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: practice and show up in games and help us win,
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: they're going to play.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: If you take a step back, you know, then you know,
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: you got to be accountable.
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: I think was mentioned and like critical third down, fourth down,
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: So guys like a package of place he goes into
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: each game with. You look at those who have the
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: nine weeks.
• 15:49
  Speaker 6: Are you happy with the package of those plays, regardless.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: Of the results of them.
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: Just what he's going into the game with.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it's not.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: It's not like he just sits in his office and
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: just dreams the stuff up. This is a this is
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: a team effort. These are things that we probably this
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: throughout the week review as a staff. It's not good
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: enough right now, It's just like, again, these are things
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: that we're not converting in these short yard situations. It's
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: makes it difficult to make those decision decisions in real time.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: And uh, you want to be confident and excited about
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: those plays. So right now we're not converting at the
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: at the percentage that we need to be converting at,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: you know, to be a championship caliber team.
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: Would you make at Jackson Day yesterday?
• 16:29
  Speaker 7: Watching it back, he would have had two d and
• 16:31
  Speaker 7: fifty some yards receiving.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's too bad that he got those called back
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: because he really deserved to have a great game.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: We challenged him in the run game too, and this
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: guy did a dynamite job digging out receivers, blocking force,
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: playing really hard every snap. So we really answered the
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: bell on that front. I mean, like, I know Jacks
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: can get open, he can catch it with the best
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: of them, but to see him play a complete game
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: and really really block his tail off as well and
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: and be there for his teammates I thought was pretty awesome.
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: One about how Genos through the nine games.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: We got all confidence in world with Gino.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: And just everything still points out to DK being able
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: to be back against the fortierias.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: You know, I don't want to. I don't.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: I gotta be careful, I phrased this one, Bob. It's like, yeah,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: we're confident.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: It's it's a little bit more. It's frust It's gonna
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: be frustrating for DK and this guy. This guy's been
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: healthy his whole career and then he has something that
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: is taking It just requires more time than you know,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: even for a like an elite human that he is.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: It's just just is what it is.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: So right now, we're working through it and he's doing
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: everything he can to get back as soon as possible.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: But having the extra week will definitely help.
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: How you notice defenses planning without.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Him, Well, I mean, you know that we saw a
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: lot of single high last night, but I don't think
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: that I don't think that's any different than uh, what
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: we've been seeing throughout the year. So I think each
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: team is kind of looking at us differentely through the
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: lens of what they do well. But two games sample size,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: two different types of stylists styles on defense, probably tough
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: to answer that one accurately. There goes Okay, all right,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: thank you