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Pete Carroll: "This Is A Huge Matchup For Us" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I know you guys will have questions about injuries and
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that. We don't have to report today and
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  Speaker 1: so we're not There's stuff I've already told you. I'll
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  Speaker 1: help you when I can, but basically we don't have
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  Speaker 1: to say nothing about what's going on yet. Well, let's
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  Speaker 1: wait till we get more information.
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  Speaker 2: We know more.
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  Speaker 1: Please, It's a very unusual situation where we are right now.
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  Speaker 1: The league's playing and we're not, and we're sitting here
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  Speaker 1: trying to picture that this is a Wednesday preparation and
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  Speaker 1: it's the middle of the weekend here, but we're you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's same for both sides, and we'll figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of football this weekend, got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of a lot of players to watch, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff we got to see from college football,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a lot of situations I can learn a
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  Speaker 1: little bit this week.
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  Speaker 2: But it's a huge matchup for us.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up on Thursday, and it's a big opportunity again
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  Speaker 1: against the team.
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  Speaker 2: It's just high flying and rolling there.
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  Speaker 1: They've been as hot as you can get, having a
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  Speaker 1: great year and with some really highlighted, spotlight players on
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  Speaker 1: both sides of the football and in the kicking game.
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  Speaker 1: So it's as tough a matchup as we can get
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  Speaker 1: and we have to step to it and take it
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  Speaker 1: on and make sure that we do everything we can
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  Speaker 1: to get it right.
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  Speaker 2: Can't miss this opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: Just how have you seen I mean, I know it's
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  Speaker 3: only walked through so Farbers have you seen your team
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  Speaker 3: kind of come back from the time.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're we're talking about everything.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about getting getting right and getting back on
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  Speaker 1: course and making sure that, uh, we're we're tuned in
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  Speaker 1: in the right ways. Uh, we're we get to have
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  Speaker 1: a normal routine this week, and so we're gonna make
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  Speaker 1: it as uh as typical as we can so they
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  Speaker 1: feel comfortable about the rhythm of it and all that
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  Speaker 1: and and uh, it wasn't like.
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  Speaker 2: That last week.
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  Speaker 1: And so I think are these guys in particularly the
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  Speaker 1: young guys, it'll really help them be on track.
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  Speaker 3: Gall It seems like they've really taken a turn the
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  Speaker 3: last month or so. Have you seen anything in particularly
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  Speaker 3: they seem.
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  Speaker 1: To really be doing well or Yeah, they're they're doing
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  Speaker 1: They're doing a lot of really good things. Very consistent
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  Speaker 1: on offense, Dak has been really on fire the the
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  Speaker 1: they just have been really clicking. They played, they've been
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  Speaker 1: playing good defense all year long. But they they they're
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  Speaker 1: feeding off of that offense. And and it's a really
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  Speaker 1: good complimentary game that they present you. And uh, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, special teams as well. So they have a
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  Speaker 1: really well rounded uh team that you're dealing with. And
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  Speaker 1: and they know it right now. They know and they
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  Speaker 1: can feel it. They got a lot of confidence.
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  Speaker 4: You're familiar with dan Quinn in his style of defense.
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  Speaker 4: What do you know to be true about any dan
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  Speaker 4: Quinn defense.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they're always gonna play really hard up front. They're
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  Speaker 1: gonna really rush, you know. That's that's all He's always
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  Speaker 1: been his emphasis, uh, being a a D line guy
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  Speaker 1: from the past. And they they're really good at it.
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  Speaker 1: They uh, they they'll compensate their looks and stuff to
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  Speaker 1: put guys in position to rush the passer and in
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  Speaker 1: a really effective ways and creative ways. And Danny's doing
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  Speaker 1: a great job in them.
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  Speaker 4: When it comes to drag the land.
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  Speaker 3: It's unusual to have that meany not just interceptions, but
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  Speaker 3: picks six.
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  Speaker 4: What what is it about?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's more unusual. It's they've never been done before,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, He's a really natural looking football player.
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  Speaker 2: He's got really good feeling.
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  Speaker 1: Reminds me of what Surem looked like in his early years.
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  Speaker 2: Just so such a ball hawk.
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  Speaker 1: And when the you know, the guys that get a
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  Speaker 1: lot of interceptions, they have to have great hands and
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  Speaker 1: they have to have great timing and sense because they
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  Speaker 1: got to take advantage of those unusual, awkward situations that
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  Speaker 1: they they find themselves in.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, and they make it look easy.
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  Speaker 1: He's doing that and I'm very very impressive. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the amazing start in his season is just just you know,
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  Speaker 1: a little past half over.
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  Speaker 3: So you had said that Abe Lucas was gonna practice week.
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  Speaker 2: Is that still the plan that, Yeah, Abe's practicing this week.
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  Speaker 1: That I mean, that's one of the guys that uh,
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  Speaker 1: because I've told you already. Uh, he's practicing this week
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  Speaker 1: and we're gonna see if he can play. We'll find out.
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  Speaker 1: He's got to withstand the you know, the rigors of
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  Speaker 1: the week and and as always, and we'll determine that
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  Speaker 1: later on.
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  Speaker 4: Is there a challenge to getting the guys in a
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  Speaker 4: Sunday rhythm? Even though it was you get I don't
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  Speaker 4: think anybody's played Thursday to Thursday before. Is there any
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  Speaker 4: kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Ye, yeah, we're right in the midst of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just turning your brain around because you know,
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  Speaker 1: you feel like you're you know, on a different planet here, but.
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  Speaker 2: There, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, there's there's a challenge to that and and uh,
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  Speaker 1: but that's why we try to get right back into
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  Speaker 1: the routine. So it feels the same regardless, and it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like a little bit of a time warp
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  Speaker 1: and we just go at it, you know. So we're
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  Speaker 1: off to a good start today and and uh, this
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  Speaker 1: practice will be really important to see where we are.
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  Speaker 1: And like Johnny's asking, I don't know yet, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I need more, I need more input.
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  Speaker 4: Did did they seem out of sorts or is it
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  Speaker 4: weird to.
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  Speaker 1: Know they're but they're they're they're listening, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: and they're they want to do right and uh, and
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  Speaker 1: the leadership wants to lead right. They want to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that they have the proper impact on the young
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  Speaker 1: guys and make sure that we bring him along.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's that's really important to us.
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  Speaker 4: What kind of challenges Parsons and the.
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  Speaker 1: Way that they use him, Well, they do move him
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  Speaker 1: around quite a bit, and uh, you know, he you
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  Speaker 1: find him. He can be behind the line of scrimmage's
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  Speaker 1: always on the edge. Sometimes he's inside. So they they
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  Speaker 1: know to to they have something special, and so they
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  Speaker 1: they continue to try to keep finding spots where he
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  Speaker 1: can be effective and find himself in almost unusual situation.
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  Speaker 1: So the system that you know, in the calls system
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  Speaker 1: doesn't always include him as a linebacker when he's.
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  Speaker 2: A down guy.
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  Speaker 1: And so there's they're just trying to mix him and
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  Speaker 1: match him, and and they're doing a nice job with him.
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  Speaker 1: He's such an athletic guy, says, He's so slippery and
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  Speaker 1: s and quick, and he gets skinny so well that
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  Speaker 1: he can it doesn't kind of matter where he is.
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  Speaker 1: He can kind of use his talents and and uh
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  Speaker 1: on the guards or even in the centers, in the
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  Speaker 1: a gap and outside for sure. You know, so we
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  Speaker 1: have to we have to really be tuned into him. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you said you want everyone to play better around your quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: but specifically where would you like to see Geno maybe.
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  Speaker 2: Be better here?
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  Speaker 4: Down that stretch?
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  Speaker 1: Just continue, Well, first off, let's get him well, okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's get him really healthy a whole week of practice,
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  Speaker 1: that'll be good. And then you know, it was only
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  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago we had one of the
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  Speaker 1: better games he's ever had, so he's so we just
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  Speaker 1: need to be in sync, we need to be connected,
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  Speaker 1: and we need to be making the right choice. Is
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  Speaker 1: gino can you know there's a couple in every game,
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  Speaker 1: there's always choices for the quarterback. Does he go here,
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  Speaker 1: does he go there? Just try to maximize him, not
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  Speaker 1: misopportunities that might show up. You know, his his accuracy
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  Speaker 1: is pretty much on. You know, he's he throws the
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  Speaker 1: ball where he wants the ball to go. For the
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  Speaker 1: most part, we got to get open. We got to
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  Speaker 1: use the concepts right. But he can there's always things
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  Speaker 1: he can do better. It's just reading more quickly and
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  Speaker 1: get the ball out more, you know, more readily, so
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  Speaker 1: we can avoid the rush of all of the things
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  Speaker 1: in particular like this week and again, you know the
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  Speaker 1: weeks will continue to come at us. We need to
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  Speaker 1: get the ball out. The ball's got to get out
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  Speaker 1: of his hands, so we don't give the rush a chance.
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  Speaker 1: And so if there's anything in particular, that's what I'm
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  Speaker 1: hoping you can find his uh, his keys his reads
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  Speaker 1: and get the.
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  Speaker 2: Ball out, you know, ahead of the rush. And that's
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  Speaker 2: that's easier said than done.
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  Speaker 4: On Thursday, how do you feel the act that stepping into.
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  Speaker 2: A little I thought he looked good.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he looked he looked normal out there. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he was a normal contributor to the team. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: like he was some young guy trying to find find
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  Speaker 1: his way. He he such a good competitor and he
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  Speaker 1: knows his stuff so well that he's really accountable then
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  Speaker 1: in that regard for a young kid, and uh so
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  Speaker 1: I thought he fit in well. He we had no
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  Speaker 1: reason to take him out. He did, he did everything
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  Speaker 1: we're asking.
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  Speaker 4: Him so far. How did the two days off seem
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  Speaker 4: to help?
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  Speaker 2: Do you know?
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  Speaker 4: Smith? Just not having to do anything help Gino Smith?
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  Speaker 2: So we're talking about injuries again.
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  Speaker 1: He's he he looks, he looks like he's he looks
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  Speaker 1: like he's gonna be normal. I mean, he made it
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  Speaker 1: through the game, did not get banged at all, so
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  Speaker 1: he he's likely to have a really normal week of prep.
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  Speaker 3: Affected him on Thursday, I mean not having a practice
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  Speaker 3: or whatever, and.
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  Speaker 1: The way that he went well Otherwise, practice wouldn't mean
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  Speaker 1: anything right, And yeah, of course, of course it did.
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  Speaker 1: He he he threw the ball like, you know, a
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  Speaker 1: handful of times before the you know, he gets the
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  Speaker 1: game day. So that's gonna affect you. You know, you're
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  Speaker 1: a shooter or you're a pitcher or your you know whatever.
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  Speaker 1: You got to keep in the groove, Sorr.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry. How weird was it to limit him pregame
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  Speaker 4: and tell him he couldn't go out.
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  Speaker 2: Until an hour or how weird was it? Yeah? It
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  Speaker 2: was it. Yeah, it was unusual.
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  Speaker 1: It was just another one of the things that were
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  Speaker 1: unusual about the prop the process getting there, and and
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  Speaker 1: but you know, it worked out.
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  Speaker 2: He got to play, and he.
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  Speaker 1: Did a he did a really admirable job playing under
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  Speaker 1: those circumstances.
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  Speaker 2: Just kind of competitor and in him.
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  Speaker 3: You got danged up in the Giants game, came back
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  Speaker 3: from that and now this one coming back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, he he leaves no room for doubt
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  Speaker 1: in in how he's the competitor, how much resolve he
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  Speaker 1: has for doing his part and and and being you know,
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  Speaker 1: available for his teammates and the whole program and all that.
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  Speaker 1: He has not wavered at all in that reg in
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  Speaker 1: that regard. He he's not like, oh, guys, just you know,
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  Speaker 1: like it's a tough day. He's not talking like that,
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  Speaker 1: he's not acting like that. He conveys nothing. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna be there. Count on me and you know, get me,
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  Speaker 1: put me in the game, let me play. And it's
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  Speaker 1: so much about what Gino has done in the couple
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  Speaker 1: of years since he's had his emergency play and all.
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  Speaker 2: He has just been remarkable. And he continues to add
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  Speaker 2: to that.
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  Speaker 3: You look the whole year for the offensive line, obviously
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  Speaker 3: you've had a million kind of different changes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's been a really resourceful group that
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  Speaker 1: they you know, they've it's been admirable that they jumped
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  Speaker 1: up and played up to the caliber that they have.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I we've had a ton of variations in that and
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  Speaker 1: and uh, we have felt like that we have quality
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  Speaker 1: depth because that we can we can rely on these
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  Speaker 1: guys to jump in and do their job and and
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  Speaker 1: give us a chance, you know. And and so I
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  Speaker 1: think it's been really good in that regard. We have
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  Speaker 1: not been overly you know, successful with running the football
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  Speaker 1: or protecting as well as we like yet and uh,
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  Speaker 1: but uh, there's a continuity that may still come to
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  Speaker 1: us here as we as we go down Stretcher, and
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  Speaker 1: that's I'm looking forward to that happening. Abe has been
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  Speaker 1: one part of that. But you know, we'll see what
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  Speaker 1: happens now, you know. So we're it's been a good
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  Speaker 1: year for those guys in particularly those backups for as
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  Speaker 1: much play time as they've gotten.
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  Speaker 2: They they've done all right.
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  Speaker 3: You look at what Dallas has done at home over
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  Speaker 3: the last two seasons.
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  Speaker 2: Do I have to Yeah, I'm hoping.
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  Speaker 1: What's remarkable about anytime you you can demonstrate that kind
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  Speaker 1: of consistency on our level of you know, the game,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a real tribute to the coaches and the
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  Speaker 1: players and the whole format and uh, you know it's
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  Speaker 1: you know how much uh, you know, I admire the
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  Speaker 1: consistency of performance and uh, the ability to do that,
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  Speaker 1: that's a that's a real illustration of that. So it's
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  Speaker 1: a great challenge for us. It is what it presents.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier in your instrument on Geno, you saying that you
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  Speaker 1: guys gotta be in sync U uh help a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Do you feel like the passing game is out of sync?
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  Speaker 4: Has that been one of the issues.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse you would you could look at it that way,
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  Speaker 1: couldn't you? Cause that's what I said. Now, I just
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  Speaker 1: think we just gotta be better, We gotta be cleaner,
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  Speaker 1: We just gotta be you know, just hitting on all
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  Speaker 1: cylinders more so it's w W cause we just have
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  Speaker 1: to do better than what we've done.
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  Speaker 2: So that's really what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned tight and you sis the other day, is
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  Speaker 3: there is it just kind of been a challenge to
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  Speaker 3: do that as much when you're integrating you know, Jackson
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  Speaker 3: into things as well.
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  Speaker 1: Or how do you kind of make Yeah, there's there's
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a distraction in that regard.
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  Speaker 2: You know that we've got guys we like.
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  Speaker 1: To we're developing, you know, we're developing Jackson, trying to
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  Speaker 1: get him, you know, to a full time player, and
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  Speaker 1: it's it's happened. And we've worked at that. And I
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  Speaker 1: said mentioned about Jake, I think back then too, same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Jake's done enough good things that we can count on him.
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  Speaker 1: But there's only so many passes that you can throw,
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  Speaker 1: you know, And and Noah's done really well with the
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  Speaker 1: chances he's gotten the last couple weeks and making plays
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's enough guys in there that there's a
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  Speaker 1: we we have the opportunity to spread the thing around.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's we're not featuring guys, you know, they're
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  Speaker 1: solely getting the ball and at their position because we
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  Speaker 1: have enough guys to do that with.
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  Speaker 2: So that's just where we are right now.
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  Speaker 4: So's Thanksgiving has kind of become like an unofficial bench
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  Speaker 4: park of.
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  Speaker 3: This season as far as who's inn and who's out.
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  Speaker 3: So how much do you talk about how big this
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  Speaker 3: game is to your team or do you just treat
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  Speaker 3: who's just another.
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  Speaker 1: One you're telling me this week right here? Yeah, this
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  Speaker 1: one coming up. This is an enormous opportunity for us.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look they're all huge, you know, I mean
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  Speaker 1: the next week and then the next week. I mean
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  Speaker 1: I look at the schedule.
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  Speaker 2: I know it's come.
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  Speaker 1: Every one of those games were enormous opportunities for us
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  Speaker 1: to figure in in our own division and still you know,
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  Speaker 1: battle for for all of that, that's that's there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And so the NFC games, you know huge, and so
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  Speaker 1: this was this one's uh, you know, because it's a
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  Speaker 1: Thursday to Thursday, and what happened last Thursday?
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  Speaker 2: And he was a big opportunity right here. And uh,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to miss this.
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  Speaker 3: A lot a lot of few.
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  Speaker 4: Times you facedalls, it's mostly do you see carrying the
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  Speaker 4: ball for them?
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  Speaker 2: What is how is.
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  Speaker 3: Tony Ballard a little bit different about right back than
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  Speaker 3: what you.
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  Speaker 2: Saw for you. Yeah, Tony's a really good player, man.
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  Speaker 1: I really liked his uh, his acceleration at the line
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  Speaker 1: of scrimmage and his burst, his toughness. He's really brings
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  Speaker 1: the game to you. You know, he's he's not ducking
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  Speaker 1: in dodge and looking. He is going and I really
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  Speaker 1: like that about him. Shows up in the passing game too.
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  Speaker 1: So you know they were kind of contested, well obviously
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  Speaker 1: they you know, they went with Tony you know, a
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  Speaker 1: while back here, and you can see why he's a really,
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  Speaker 1: really good ball player.
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  Speaker 3: Can you see Schottenheimer's in almost when you watch Jack
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  Speaker 3: in that offense?
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  Speaker 1: But I see more m Mike, you know. But there's
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  Speaker 1: some there are some things, Yeah, there's some there's some
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  Speaker 1: stuff in there. But y, it looks like it's a
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  Speaker 1: combination for sure. But I see a lot of Mike.
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  Speaker 1: Mike's passing history and stuff, and what.
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  Speaker 4: Did Joan loved good life for you just since he's
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  Speaker 4: been here.
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  Speaker 3: And then that enable you to play three safeties at
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  Speaker 3: times when it's deficient for you to do.
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  Speaker 2: Yah h. He's been a marvelous edition.
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  Speaker 1: What a great kid he is in in our program,
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: and he's playing special teams, he's you know, he's doing
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: so many things, and and uh he has such flexibility.
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: He plays at such a high level and and uh
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: you count on him so much. He's such a responsible, resourceful,
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: uh active football player. You know, he's been a great
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: addition and and he has given us flexibility and so
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: I continue to utilize
• 13:49
  Speaker 3: It the house like it's okay.