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  Speaker 1: Steelers kind of weird. Not only are they having trouble
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  Speaker 1: running the ball, they're having a little bit of trouble
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  Speaker 1: stopping to run. And I know you don't necessarily want
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  Speaker 1: to reveal what you're gonna do, but is it. Is
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  Speaker 1: it just the fact that they might have been going
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  Speaker 1: against some pretty good running backs so far of the season,
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  Speaker 1: like Nick Chubb.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think I think it's like anything,
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  Speaker 2: it's a case by case basis. I do think this
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  Speaker 2: is a good run defense. Obviously, they've been giving up
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  Speaker 2: some runs here and there to certain teams, but a
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  Speaker 2: lot of times they're in tight games things like that.
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  Speaker 2: People are continuing to stick to the run. Every possession
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  Speaker 2: is so valuable right there, as opposed to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: building the lead and teams are having to throw the
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  Speaker 2: ball to get back in it. So I think that's
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of it. But we view this as
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  Speaker 2: a good really a good front seven that does a
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  Speaker 2: good job pressuring the quarterback as well as stopping the
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  Speaker 2: run at a certain times. So, however, the game tends
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  Speaker 2: to lean within the game is how we'll play it.
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  Speaker 1: Is TJ. Does TJ have a chance to be as
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  Speaker 1: good as his brother or is he Is he almost there? Now?
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  Speaker 2: I can't tell you. I've watched TJ's brother very often.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't had a chance to watch many Florida games
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  Speaker 2: or anything like that, but from what I hear, they're
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  Speaker 2: both pretty good. Wrong, TJ. Watt, That makes a lot
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  Speaker 2: more sense now, it makes a lot of sense, TJ. Watt. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think they're different though. You know, TJ's a little
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  Speaker 2: bit smaller, plays more on the edge where JJ kind
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  Speaker 2: of floated around and played there in the inside a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. He's a bigger body, so I think they
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  Speaker 2: played differently.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's got a lot of pass rush moves
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  Speaker 2: similar to his brother and things like that, but with
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  Speaker 2: a different skill set, a different body type the way
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  Speaker 2: he does it. So comparing players is always hard to do,
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  Speaker 2: just because they're technically they're different positions and they play
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  Speaker 2: the game a little differently. But they're both certainly somebody
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  Speaker 2: you have to be aware of, regardless of where they
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  Speaker 2: are autligned enough right, Yes, yes, he is certainly good enough.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, what have you seen Anton Harrison progression wise? Is
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  Speaker 3: this kind of what you expected? You know, kind of
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  Speaker 3: threw him in there and he's like Chris Jones.
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  Speaker 2: We two gotten better, I believe so. Yeah, and that's
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  Speaker 2: part of it. I mean we talked about it back then.
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  Speaker 2: Your rookie offensive lineman, you're gonna face great players every
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  Speaker 2: single week, and you know, certainly this week we have
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  Speaker 2: our hands full with TJ. Watt and also high Smith
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  Speaker 2: on the other side, and they can switch sides. They're
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  Speaker 2: certainly free to do whatever they want to do there.
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  Speaker 2: But I think you've seen him grow every single week
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  Speaker 2: with different things, different situations, whether it be a variety
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  Speaker 2: of pass rushers with different skill sets as they play,
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  Speaker 2: or just the way we want to combo block certain things,
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  Speaker 2: all the different variety of fronts you can get presented.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the growth that our offense takes. Everybody on
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  Speaker 2: our offense takes week to week as we go. But
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  Speaker 2: young players, you especially, you see a lot of growth
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  Speaker 2: with them week to week as.
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  Speaker 3: They got to the mental load that those guys rookie
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  Speaker 3: offensive tackles have to deal with in the addition to
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  Speaker 3: the physical stuff and adjusting to those.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that that's that's the fun and the
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  Speaker 2: challenge of the NFL is week to week. It's a
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  Speaker 2: new plan of attack, how we beat a team and
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  Speaker 2: a certain week is not how we're going to be
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  Speaker 2: able to play a game in the next week. And
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  Speaker 2: then within the game, your your plan of attack changes
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  Speaker 2: based on the dynamics of the game. So quarter to
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  Speaker 2: quarter it's kind of a different game within and then
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  Speaker 2: the fourth quarter it's whatever it takes to go win.
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  Speaker 2: So I think for young guys, it's just that process
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  Speaker 2: of every single week, come in, learn the plan, learn
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  Speaker 2: my opponent. It could be completely different than what you
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  Speaker 2: did a week before, So that's the challenge of it.
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  Speaker 2: And then the length of the season is obviously new
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  Speaker 2: to all these guys. You know, their their buddies are
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  Speaker 2: about to be done in four weeks and we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: be hitting the bye week trying to refresh for the
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  Speaker 2: next ten weeks or whatever it is.
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  Speaker 3: How is the attention that Calvin Ridley's been getting from
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  Speaker 3: defenses maybe helped to open up the rest of the offense.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think people pay respect to obviously great players.
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  Speaker 2: Calvin's a great player. He's gotten certain looks where teams
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  Speaker 2: are going to maybe more willing to play a shell more,
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  Speaker 2: we're more willing to cloud to his side one way
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  Speaker 2: or the other. More willing to bracket to his side.
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  Speaker 2: But again that's a case by case type deal. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, we're the type of team we feel like
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  Speaker 2: we have the ability to spread the ball around. We
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of really good players, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: really good skill players that based on whatever matchups you're
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  Speaker 2: presenting to us, we feel like we have answers within
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  Speaker 2: concepts or within just a scheme to get to somebody else. Right,
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  Speaker 2: and Trevor, I think does a great job of going
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  Speaker 2: through progressions and finding the open man based on whatever
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  Speaker 2: we're calling as it goes.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's inverting conradge or bracketing and over Calvin
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  Speaker 3: is the philosophy just take what they give us, or
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  Speaker 3: do you feel like we need to figure.
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  Speaker 2: Out a way to get him? I think we certainly
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  Speaker 2: need to figure out ways to get him the ball.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's a big part of it. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Calvin is a great player and deserves touches and changes
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  Speaker 2: the game when he gets touches. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: you're taking something away to give something up. So we
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  Speaker 2: want to do the right thing and just go where
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  Speaker 2: we're supposed to go with the football based on whatever
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  Speaker 2: they're allowing us. And maybe it's you're getting into shell looks.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lighter box. We have the ability to run
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  Speaker 2: the ball, you're getting into bracket looks, and somebody else
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  Speaker 2: has a good man matchup and we can work that way.
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  Speaker 2: But there's certain things that we want to be able
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  Speaker 2: to do to allow Calvin to have an impact with
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  Speaker 2: the ball in his hand. He impacts the game the
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  Speaker 2: second steps on the field, So whether we're getting in
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  Speaker 2: the ball or not, defenses are certainly aware. You see
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  Speaker 2: defense certain plans for him in different situations, but he's
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  Speaker 2: somebody that we failed needs the ball.
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  Speaker 3: It seems like offenses around the league or a little
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  Speaker 3: bit down this year in terms of big plays, maybe
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  Speaker 3: passing yard scoring points, just things like that. And what
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  Speaker 3: do you sort of make of that or is it
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  Speaker 3: maybe a signal of the defenses changing around the league
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  Speaker 3: the past couple of years.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, Yeah, there's probably a little bit of that. I
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  Speaker 2: think I would imagine the explosive play rate is probably
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  Speaker 2: down overall. I think part of it is the defensive
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  Speaker 2: lines are so good in this league right now. Defensive lineman,
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  Speaker 2: there's always a match up on every single game where
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  Speaker 2: you're just terrified of a certain guy and you got
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  Speaker 2: to either commit resources to that person or we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: beat the pass rush with getting the ball out of
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  Speaker 2: her hands. So the ball's coming out quick. Well, now
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  Speaker 2: the ball coming out quick, we're maybe less likely to
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  Speaker 2: create explosives because we're not throwing the ball on the field.
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  Speaker 2: So my guess would be the average THEA dot whatever,
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  Speaker 2: the average distance target's probably down. Time to throw is
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  Speaker 2: probably also lower, just because people get the ball out.
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  Speaker 2: So there's different ways you approach it based on who
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  Speaker 2: you're playing and what the matchups are. And again that's
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  Speaker 2: kind of what your plan of attack is to win
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  Speaker 2: that week. But just big picture, it's probably somewhere along
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  Speaker 2: those lines.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Trevor's timing through I think was like two point
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  Speaker 3: two seconds last week. I know part of that might
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  Speaker 3: have been to do with his knee moving forward, you know,
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  Speaker 3: do you expect it to be similar just because of
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  Speaker 3: the knee, because of how the offenses are in the league,
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  Speaker 3: are the defensive lines Steelers coming out things like that.
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  Speaker 3: Do you feel like it's going to be similar throughout
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  Speaker 3: the season.
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  Speaker 2: Again, it's a case by case, Steele. If if that's
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  Speaker 2: what we feel like gives us the best opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: win a game, we'll play that way. And I think
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  Speaker 2: that's also something Trevor's really good at. For a big,
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  Speaker 2: long guy, he gets the ball out of his hand
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  Speaker 2: very quickly, so that's something we try to take advantage of.
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  Speaker 2: We can get his hands out of his hands to playmakers,
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  Speaker 2: which again we mentioned we have a lot of skill
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  Speaker 2: players that can do a lot with the football, so
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  Speaker 2: sometimes it's to our benefit to get him the ball
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  Speaker 2: as quick as possible. Sometimes we want to hold the
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  Speaker 2: ball and push the ball down the field. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's just it's kind of there's an EBB and within
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  Speaker 2: a game, within a week or week to week, as
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  Speaker 2: it goes, what's the.
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  Speaker 3: Biggest thing you guys missed offensively when Day's not in there.
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  Speaker 2: I think Zay just has such a versatility to his
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  Speaker 2: game that we kind of mix and match it with
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  Speaker 2: multiple people so to get the speed element that they has.
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  Speaker 2: Ad plays a little role in that, or remove Christian
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  Speaker 2: and Calvin around to do that, to get the physical
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  Speaker 2: blocking aspect, uh, Tim Elijah, maybe a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: twelve personnel do some of the things that Zay can do.
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  Speaker 2: Because Zay is so versatile, for us uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he has the vertical threat with the speed, He's got
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  Speaker 2: length that we don't necessarily have in the receiver room.
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  Speaker 2: The combination of length, speed blocking ability. Without him, we
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  Speaker 2: can piece it together with a couple other people. And
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  Speaker 2: then he's got experience, which you know, some of those
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  Speaker 2: other guys in the back end don't necessarily have. So
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  Speaker 2: as the game changes, is the picture changes within a down,
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  Speaker 2: you kind of know what Zay's gonna do because they've
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  Speaker 2: seen it a million times. Zay and Trevor have that chemistry,
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  Speaker 2: that communication that they go through where you're kind of
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  Speaker 2: piecing people to do a job that one person did.
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  Speaker 2: But again, Zay today is a huge part of our offense.
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  Speaker 2: So certainly that's somebody we miss, But I think we've
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  Speaker 2: done a decent job of intermixing people into the game
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  Speaker 2: and finding different ways or different roles to use those people.
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  Speaker 3: It's probably a bigger loss than a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: realize when he wasn't there because of all the things.
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  Speaker 2: You have to do the COMPI same, yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: anytime we're losing starters, great players, then you're certainly having
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  Speaker 2: to piece things together to play a little differently. As
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  Speaker 2: you do it, but you know we're exided. Winday does
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  Speaker 2: get back of what he can bring to our offense.
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  Speaker 3: Close is this offense to being where you want it
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  Speaker 3: to be?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know that we'll ever get there,
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  Speaker 2: I mean where. That's kind of what we're chasing is perfection.
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  Speaker 2: We want every single play call to be against the
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  Speaker 2: defense we envisioned it being against. That we practice it
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  Speaker 2: against that the right guy gets his depth, wins the route,
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  Speaker 2: we throw out the perfect spot. So that's kind of
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  Speaker 2: the part of this that makes it fun is you're
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  Speaker 2: always chasing that. Ultimately, we want to be consistently efficient
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  Speaker 2: and explosive, and we haven't consistently done that. There's times
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  Speaker 2: there's spurts, there's drives, there's plays within drives that were consistent,
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  Speaker 2: there's plays where we're exploded, but we have not done
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  Speaker 2: on a consistent basis. So it's an offense. That's what
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  Speaker 2: we're we're chasing all the time.
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  Speaker 3: You ever played a game where you've been perfect at
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  Speaker 3: any level?
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  Speaker 1: Close?
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  Speaker 2: Ah, I'm trying to think. I don't know. There's probably
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  Speaker 2: there's just enough drives here and there, But that's kind
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  Speaker 2: of it's like going to play golf. And I shoot
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  Speaker 2: ninety five most times, but I part nine or Part eighteen,
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  Speaker 2: and I want to keep coming back. So it's just
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  Speaker 2: kind of that, no matter how bad you play, you
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  Speaker 2: end up finding a way to win. And I want
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  Speaker 2: to come back and do it the next week. I'm
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  Speaker 2: eager to get started again. So it's just that's kind
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  Speaker 2: of what you're always chasing.
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  Speaker 1: So yep,