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Press Pass | Coen on Performance Against Eagles, Rush Defense & Focus on Intentionality in Week 6 · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Is it easy or tough to decompress after winning a
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  Speaker 1: game like that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's challenging to decompress for sure.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I slept all that well last night
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  Speaker 3: and specifically on the bus. It was a long bus
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  Speaker 3: ride back, so we were able to watch some of
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  Speaker 3: the tape, which was good to be able to knock
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  Speaker 3: some of that out so that when you do get
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  Speaker 3: back to the hotel and you have a little bit
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  Speaker 3: more clarity as to what occurred and a lot of it–
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  Speaker 3: on some of those opportunities down there, we're probably not
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  Speaker 3: in the game that we were in at the end.
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  Speaker 3: So a lot, like you said, happened. A ton of
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  Speaker 3: things occurred throughout. But when you just boil it down
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  Speaker 3: to where we could have maybe made that game not
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  Speaker 3: what it ended up being, I think was offensively in
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  Speaker 3: the red zone was definitely where we had been good,
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  Speaker 3: was an area in which we were not.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, Liam.
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  Speaker 5: What are the challenges if you need a long snapper
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  Speaker 5: this week, or is that an easy pick up the
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  Speaker 5: phone and dial, dial somebody and get them on a plane?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we got, yeah, that's happening. So got somebody arriving here.
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  Speaker 2: Sure. I think right now.
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  Speaker 3: So, you know, it's, it was challenging in the moment
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  Speaker 3: for sure. And, affected some of the calls, right? Like
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  Speaker 3: going forward on four downs versus kicking field goals, we
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  Speaker 3: missed the extra point.
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  Speaker 2: And so you're like, it does affect a lot of things.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, op times, especially like how, really how
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  Speaker 3: cool the end of the game really was in that
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  Speaker 3: last play was that's an elite field goal block unit, right?
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  Speaker 3: Jalen Carter himself has blocked so many on his own.
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  Speaker 3: especially you look back to the Rams games over the
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  Speaker 3: last few years with them. And for us to, with
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  Speaker 3: the op time, not being ideal to, to make the kick,
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  Speaker 3: to have the protection.
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  Speaker 2: That we had.
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  Speaker 3: That was the, the really the two plays I showed
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  Speaker 3: the team today in the meeting where the return in the,
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  Speaker 3: in the kick, obviously the kick was amazing and the hold,
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  Speaker 3: but the protection on that play was fantastic from those guys. And,
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  Speaker 3: So we'll get somebody in here to be able to
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  Speaker 3: come in and immediately get those times better and get
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  Speaker 3: the operation cleaner.
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  Speaker 5: What is just curious, what's the difference in the op time?
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  Speaker 5: Is it half a second or a second?
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  Speaker 2: I got to get the exact time. But anything.
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  Speaker 5: Like.
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  Speaker 3: Over one five, you're like in danger of getting it blocked. And, uh,
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  Speaker 3: I got to get the exact times from Heath, but they,
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  Speaker 3: they definitely weren't, uh, what you're hunting up to get
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  Speaker 3: it done. I mean, Logan was fantastic. I mean, how
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  Speaker 3: can you say more about the hand-eye coordination, the athlete,
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  Speaker 3: there was one that he, he got it down and
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  Speaker 3: he was a little bit in.
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  Speaker 2: The way his foot was a.
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  Speaker 3: The spot and at the last possible second he just
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  Speaker 3: like slightly moved his foot to get out of cam's
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  Speaker 3: way and it was i mean just chaos for sure
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  Speaker 3: um and hopefully this week by by getting somebody in
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  Speaker 3: here we'll be able to alleviate some of that.
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  Speaker 6: We'll go d rock followed by brent.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, Liam, the fourth down throw and catch from Trevor, obviously,
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  Speaker 7: to Parker. Are you guys at this point just not
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  Speaker 7: amazed when he comes up with catches like that because
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  Speaker 7: he seems to do it on such a regular basis?
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  Speaker 7: Or do you still get amazed when he pulls something
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  Speaker 7: like that off?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it was a extremely well-executed play from
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  Speaker 3: the top down. Felt like it was, you know, we
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  Speaker 3: had kind of, in the fourth down moments, you, you,
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  Speaker 3: like it was fourth and five, I believe.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And so you're always in that in between of, do
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  Speaker 3: you try to give them a ball out where we can,
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  Speaker 3: you know, catch and run more intermediate, or do you
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  Speaker 3: try to take a shot? And we felt like we
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  Speaker 3: had a good play to get Parker matched up in
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  Speaker 3: the slot to give them some more room on the,
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  Speaker 3: on the route. He won right off the line. They
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  Speaker 3: bring a five man pressure. We picked it up.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: Trevor was awesome with his feet and the ball location.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I don't think he could quite get both
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  Speaker 3: hands on it, but like the ball placement, I think too,
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  Speaker 3: was phenomenal in terms of where he put it.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, you're right. You're right. You're right. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you're amazed.
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  Speaker 3: Because of the moment and because of how big of
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  Speaker 3: a time it was, but to look back and to
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  Speaker 3: continue to see this guy make plays for our team,
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  Speaker 3: especially in some of these critical moments, to bounce back
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  Speaker 3: from right last week in four minutes where we have
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  Speaker 3: the first down, but he stepped out of bounds on
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  Speaker 3: the sideline to come back from that.
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  Speaker 2: It just speaks to the dude.
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  Speaker 3: And to make critical plays in critical moments, he's showing
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  Speaker 3: that he can step up and do that stuff.
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  Speaker 8: Thanks. Thanks, D-Rock.
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  Speaker 9: Hey there, Liam. Trevor Lawrence, people have been asking for
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  Speaker 9: him to be more fiery ever since he got into
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  Speaker 9: the league. I know it didn't come in a good
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  Speaker 9: moment with the penalties, but do you like to see
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  Speaker 9: that out of him sometimes? And I guess the other
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  Speaker 9: part of that is how concerning are the penalties right now?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, yeah, I do like seeing him have
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  Speaker 3: that fire and that competitive edge. You know, he he
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  Speaker 3: wants it to be good. He wants the operation to
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  Speaker 3: be clean. I think there was a lot of frustrations, uh,
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  Speaker 3: throughout that game that probably built up to be, um,
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  Speaker 3: more emotional.
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  Speaker 2: In that moment.
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  Speaker 3: Um, and yeah, the penalties are concerning when you start
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  Speaker 3: the season off in the first three weeks as the
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  Speaker 3: second least penalized team in the NFL. Um, and now
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  Speaker 3: over the last two weeks, we're arguably one of the
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  Speaker 3: most penalized teams.
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  Speaker 2: In the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: So, um, you know, what we can control is coaching up, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, hand placement, especially on the perimeter, um, the
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  Speaker 3: fundamentals and techniques inside with some of our, you know,
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  Speaker 3: our hands and where can we get.
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  Speaker 2: Better at that?
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  Speaker 3: Um, you know, alarming that it goes from like few
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  Speaker 3: to so many in a short period of time. So, um,
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  Speaker 3: still trying to work through that, but yeah, what we
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  Speaker 3: can control is, is like what I told the team
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  Speaker 3: in the meeting just now was we have to go
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  Speaker 3: into this week with extreme, like the most intentional intentionality
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  Speaker 3: as we've had with every single time that we get
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  Speaker 3: fit on a block, we have got.
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  Speaker 2: To have our hands inside. Like we cannot even allow
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  Speaker 2: ourselves to get out there. Now it's football.
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  Speaker 3: They literally call hold on every single football play. And
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  Speaker 3: so we, there's some of that that you have to
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  Speaker 3: like give your players grace as well, because it's not,
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  Speaker 3: it's an imperfect game. It's what makes football, football. And
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  Speaker 3: so some of those things are going to happen, but yeah, it's,
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  Speaker 3: it's concerning when you've you know, I think we had
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  Speaker 3: like something like 15 negative plays. When you look at
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  Speaker 3: minus yard runs, with the strips, you know, strip fumbles
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  Speaker 3: that are turnover worthy plays.
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  Speaker 2: And then obviously the accepted penalties.
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  Speaker 3: That, you know, every time we went positive, we kind
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  Speaker 3: of went negative afterwards. So made it really hard on
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  Speaker 3: ourselves and makes it very challenging to get into a rhythm.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks.
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  Speaker 6: We will go Gary followed by Shipley. Gary might be
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  Speaker 6: having some technical difficulties. We'll move to Shipley.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Liam. You mentioned the red zone earlier. What was
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  Speaker 2: it really you think that it came down to this
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  Speaker 2: week that it just was a struggle? Was it penalties?
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  Speaker 2: Was it execution? Yeah, it was a combination.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we got Before the half, right, we get
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  Speaker 3: down there. We miss Josh Cameron on the fade in
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  Speaker 3: the back of the end zone there. They had some room.
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  Speaker 3: Strange on the catch and run. You know, we just
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  Speaker 3: got to continue to, you know, lean and ricochet and
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  Speaker 3: run through people down, especially at that area of the
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  Speaker 3: field instead of, you know, leaving earth and going up.
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  Speaker 3: we got to continue to, to lean and ricochet and
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  Speaker 3: stay grounded. And then Jalen Carter, you know, the highest
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  Speaker 3: paid inside D tackle in the NFL made a play
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  Speaker 3: on the C rod one down.
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  Speaker 2: There before the half. It was, it, It was a
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  Speaker 2: yard and a half.
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  Speaker 3: And so we didn't feel like we could sneak it,
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  Speaker 3: which was obviously what we would have liked to do there.
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  Speaker 3: And so we tried to hit the perimeter, didn't block
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  Speaker 3: it well on the outside. I got to be better
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  Speaker 3: in the later sequence to where we had the delay
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  Speaker 3: that was on me, not on them. And so we
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  Speaker 3: just weren't, you know, when you're in, you're not in
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  Speaker 3: rhythm throughout the whole game and then you're getting down there.
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  Speaker 3: and things are a little chaotic, right? You're, you've been
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  Speaker 3: back and forth. We had an 18 play drive and
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  Speaker 3: then not come away with points twice on the one
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  Speaker 3: yard line.
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  Speaker 2: That's never really a recipe for success. Right.
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  Speaker 3: And so, um, an area in which we had been
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  Speaker 3: really good, we, we just, we were not. So it
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  Speaker 3: was a combination, John, of, um, a couple of play
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  Speaker 3: calls and situations that I can help them out with some, um,
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  Speaker 3: finishing of execution and also some good defense too. Like
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  Speaker 3: they made a couple of plays and a couple of
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  Speaker 3: stops and they got good players too.
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  Speaker 2: So it was definitely a combination of.
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  Speaker 5: All of us.
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  Speaker 6: I think we'll finish up here with Mia and Ryan.
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  Speaker 4: Hey Liam, hope all is well over there. Hope you've
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  Speaker 4: caught your breath in terms of the... In terms of
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  Speaker 4: the offensive line, if you could evaluate the second half adjustments,
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  Speaker 4: especially A, once Anton went out, B, the double team
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  Speaker 4: rate I think went up 47%.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I thought those guys responded well in the second half.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I thought Jalen Carter was kind of wrecking
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  Speaker 3: shop a little bit in the first half. He made
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  Speaker 3: some really– Fantastic individual efforts that we knew. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, some of his swims and stuff were pretty challenging.
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  Speaker 2: And so he made some plays.
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  Speaker 3: I thought we handled him and the front better in
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  Speaker 3: the second half. You know, Walker stepping in, obviously. Those
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  Speaker 3: guys fighting through some injuries. You know, not injuries, just
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  Speaker 3: like playing hard. It's hard in there, and they're playing
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  Speaker 3: a good group. And I just felt like they just.
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  Speaker 2: Stuck with it.
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  Speaker 3: I thought they, you know, protection wise for the most
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  Speaker 3: part of the day. I mean, I didn't think it
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  Speaker 3: was too bad. Like we held down on the ball
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  Speaker 3: a little bit long on a few when we did
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  Speaker 3: get the strip sacks. And I thought we just settled
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  Speaker 3: down a little bit more in the second half as
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  Speaker 3: a group. And they played hard. I mean, they played
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  Speaker 3: their tails off. That's a damn good front. It's one
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  Speaker 3: of the bigger fronts that we'll see. Obviously have a
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  Speaker 3: huge challenge again this week with another good front. But
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  Speaker 3: I was proud of the way that they played some
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  Speaker 3: of the runs that, that we did have in the
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  Speaker 3: second half. We got some big chunks, but also then,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we had two 12 or more yard plays
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  Speaker 3: run specifically that then got called back. And so it
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  Speaker 3: was like, you, you want to get those guys going.
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  Speaker 3: You want to get more runs off because I felt
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  Speaker 3: like we were leaning on them a But then we'd
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  Speaker 3: go backwards an hour and get back on. We had
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  Speaker 3: 18 get back on track calls yesterday, which is like absurd.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And so I just I think they're continuing to grow.
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  Speaker 2: Is it perfect? No. But I do think.
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  Speaker 3: For guys to step up and come in and play
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  Speaker 3: and give us a chance to win the game. I
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  Speaker 3: was I was happy with that group.
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  Speaker 4: Just a quick note, like the Ross or the long
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  Speaker 4: snapper situation, if Anton can't go, would you fly offensive
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  Speaker 4: lineman over or just elevate from the practice squad?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll probably just elevate internally.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like we have pretty good depth
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  Speaker 2: right now, so I think we'll be all right.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Liam, just a quick follow-up on Harrison. What is
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  Speaker 1: the level of concern for him this week?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, we'll have to see.
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  Speaker 3: He just got an MRI just, you know, this this now.
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  Speaker 3: So we don't have the results back yet. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we'll we'll have to kind of at the mercy of
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  Speaker 3: that and to see what that looks like and how
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  Speaker 3: he feels. He's a little stiff, but, you know, he's
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  Speaker 3: I have a lot of belief in, you know, Ferg
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  Speaker 3: and our group downstairs to be able to if they can,
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  Speaker 3: if anybody can get him ready to play, it'll be them.
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  Speaker 3: And we'll have to be patient with, obviously, if he's
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  Speaker 3: not able to practice what that looks like and go
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  Speaker 3: from there. But, you know, it was a weird play.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't really, you know, he was kind of trying to
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  Speaker 3: block on the turn back and it just tweaked on
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  Speaker 3: him a little bit. So we'll have to see what
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  Speaker 3: the MRI looks like. We're at the mercy of it
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  Speaker 3: right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And then last thing for me, you guys are
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  Speaker 1: back number one in rush defense. Yeah. What what kind
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  Speaker 1: of what kind of excitement is it for you when
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  Speaker 1: you watch the tape and see guys just selling out
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  Speaker 1: and stopping the run?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's it's such a cool deal to
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  Speaker 3: to see the guys like get off blocks and fight
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  Speaker 3: blocks and strain and buzz around to the football. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: like regardless of who's playing running back for them, I mean.
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  Speaker 3: And I know they had some alignment. They've traditionally really,
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  Speaker 3: you know, run the ball well. It's still a big line.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, my lot is huge. The right tackle that
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  Speaker 3: played for them is massive.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they could lean on you a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: And so for us.
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  Speaker 3: To be able to do that again was huge. We
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  Speaker 3: went into the game saying if we could run it
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  Speaker 3: for 100 plus and hold them, you know, under that,
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  Speaker 3: that we would have a good chance at winning the
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  Speaker 3: football game.
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  Speaker 2: So I really believe this.
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  Speaker 3: I thought our defense kept us in the game without
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  Speaker 3: a question, especially in the second half. And it really
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  Speaker 3: all starts with the guys up front and the way
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  Speaker 3: they play the run and how dialed in they are
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  Speaker 3: against the run. So it was definitely from a culture
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  Speaker 3: standpoint and from what we're trying to build, it really
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  Speaker 3: speaks volumes of, The buy-in and the way that those
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  Speaker 3: guys play, snap in and snap out, makes you proud
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  Speaker 3: as a head coach.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: All right, one last question for you, Coach. Travis, go ahead.
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  Speaker 8: Thanks for doing this, Coach. With your evaluation of the tape,
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  Speaker 8: how did you see your play of the safety room
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  Speaker 8: with Eric Murray missing, Ray Lane getting extensive snaps, same
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  Speaker 8: thing with Merriweather?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we're all right back there.
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  Speaker 3: Um, I, you know, there was some communication stuff that
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  Speaker 3: we can be better at. Um, I thought Philly did
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  Speaker 3: a nice job of, uh, like spitting the ball out
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  Speaker 3: a little bit and making those guys kind of run
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  Speaker 3: and tackle and play in space a little bit. Um,
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  Speaker 3: tough position for those guys to be in, obviously going
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  Speaker 3: into that moment and, um, you know, with the communication
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  Speaker 3: and all that in the back end, there's so much
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  Speaker 3: that goes into it, but, um, you know, not, I
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  Speaker 3: don't think they heard us, but like, I don't think
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  Speaker 3: there was like, oh my gosh, they stood out in
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  Speaker 3: such a way in a negative way by any means.
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  Speaker 2: Um, but you know, it'd be great to get Eric
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  Speaker 2: back hopefully.
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  Speaker 3: And, um, but if not have a lot of confidence,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I thought Kayvon had a great week of practice, um,
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  Speaker 3: and did some nice things in the game. I thought
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  Speaker 3: Ray actually did, he did some nice things in the game.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's just there's communication that's always going to
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  Speaker 3: exist when you have to play, you know, with some
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  Speaker 3: other guys. So they stepped up, helped us win the game.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, coach.