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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Recaps The Win vs. The Panthers, Looks Ahead To Week 18 · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: For I know, all right, everybody, welcome Corbyn, get us going.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, coach Byron Murphy. It seems like every week he's
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  Speaker 2: blowing up multiple double teams with the drop knee move.
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  Speaker 2: How rare is it to see a guy at this
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  Speaker 2: age to have that kind of proficiency with that type
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  Speaker 2: of a technique and how critical is that to playing
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  Speaker 2: run defense in today's NFL with offenses able to create
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  Speaker 2: gaps with their motion and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: Nature.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think based on your question, I feel like
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  Speaker 3: you have an idea what the answer is. He He's
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  Speaker 3: got great technique like normally, and look and Justin Hines
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  Speaker 3: has done a great job with him training training technique,
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  Speaker 3: but mur Murphy's also was really really skilled coming into
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  Speaker 3: the league as well. So but yeah, you're right, I
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  Speaker 3: mean it normally it takes years to kind of develop
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  Speaker 3: this type of proficiency. And I wouldn't say it's because
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  Speaker 3: of the motions. I just you know, nowadays you're playing
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  Speaker 3: different front structure sometimes, you know, we like.
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  Speaker 1: To play with light boxes.
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  Speaker 3: Light boxes probably mean more and double teams, and if
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  Speaker 3: you don't have guys to be able to do that, then.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to make your life a little bit more difficult.
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  Speaker 2: And how have you felt about the way that Josh
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  Speaker 2: Jones has played these past two games, stepping in for
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  Speaker 2: Charles Cross pigging the run game. It's looked like he
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  Speaker 2: had a really nice block on Sharp's twenty five yard
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  Speaker 2: run of that third and fifteen play.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Josh has done a great job.
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  Speaker 3: Really excited to see how he's played, stepped in and
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  Speaker 3: been ready to play and played hard, played a simon
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  Speaker 3: sound playing our style ball.
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  Speaker 1: So really happy for him. Done a great job.
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  Speaker 4: Jen.
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  Speaker 5: It certainly is a benefit to have back to back
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  Speaker 5: one hundred yard rushers, but it does it give you
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  Speaker 5: the greater advantage because you could ride the hot hand,
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  Speaker 5: or because it allows you to work from so many
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  Speaker 5: different plays?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think.
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  Speaker 3: I think the way the season is gone is we
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  Speaker 3: have some flexibility as games start to declare, and that
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  Speaker 3: that includes, uh, you know, runner is kind of good,
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  Speaker 3: good good at what that day or you know, how
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  Speaker 3: it's going. We haven't really had the discussions on you know,
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  Speaker 3: quote unquote like feeding the hot guy and all that
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  Speaker 3: type of stuff. It's really just, hey, you know, how's
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  Speaker 3: the game unfolding? What do we need to do is
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  Speaker 3: to kind of find a lot of times you're trying
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  Speaker 3: to find solutions in the run game, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: know what schemes we want to double down on or
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  Speaker 3: formations we want to build out of, and a lot
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  Speaker 3: of times those guys are tied to those type of plays.
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  Speaker 5: And we got to look at Cam Akers granted in
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  Speaker 5: the return game, but what does it mean to get
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  Speaker 5: him in the mix and the work that he's had
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  Speaker 5: to put in to get ready.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well those with you know, with those two guys
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  Speaker 3: going down, Cam being able to play without with the
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  Speaker 3: very minimal reps, you know, missing two of your kick returners,
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  Speaker 3: him going in and just being a pro, you know,
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  Speaker 3: understanding the understanding what to do and making making fast
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  Speaker 3: decisions and really helping us in our field position battle
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  Speaker 3: was critically He's done a great job, John, Yeah, Mike,
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  Speaker 3: to hold.
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  Speaker 6: An opponent without a past play longer than eight yards
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  Speaker 6: for an entire game, Like, what does that tell you
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  Speaker 6: about what you guys are doing well on past defense?
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  Speaker 3: It's funny, you didn't really, I didn't. You didn't know
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  Speaker 3: that until they they told us after the game. I'll
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  Speaker 3: just I'll say this, our guys, our guys played a
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  Speaker 3: great game, you know, they played really hard, Our communication
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  Speaker 3: was on point. I felt like we were ahead of
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  Speaker 3: plays just in terms of being ready to go, like
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  Speaker 3: cleats in the ground, making our calls, looking at the
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  Speaker 3: right stuff, and then just playing really hard to the
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  Speaker 3: echo of the whistle. And and that's that's DB's and front
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  Speaker 3: guys included.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's a couple of rushes that.
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  Speaker 3: You know that Bryce was able to extend plays and
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  Speaker 3: he's a really good player and he's gonna that's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 3: But there's some rushland things can clean up. But for
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  Speaker 3: the for the most part, our guys rushed really well.
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  Speaker 3: And then and they rushed and they played off one another,
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  Speaker 3: and I think that that really helped U you know,
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  Speaker 3: the secondary also you know, come to life as well.
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  Speaker 6: And then on the back end, obviously we've seen a
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  Speaker 6: lot of Julie Love and a lot of Tayo Kotta,
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  Speaker 6: but that'vert really played together the much. How do you
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  Speaker 6: think it just went with the two of them playing
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  Speaker 6: together back?
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I thought I thought both guys were on point.
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  Speaker 3: You know, uh, you know, Julian really kind of is
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  Speaker 3: the one that was moving spots and and playing different positions,
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  Speaker 3: so uh, he did a great job in his prep
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  Speaker 3: and he's ready to go. And you know, Tye, I
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  Speaker 3: mean he's gonna he's gonna be We call him the
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  Speaker 3: AI bought for a reason. I mean, he's he's gonna
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  Speaker 3: have all the answers. He's gonna be ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: And he had Also he also had a great game,
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  Speaker 1: mas Veta.
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  Speaker 4: Mike, what can we say about your team's ability to finish?
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  Speaker 4: You go on that tannel run to finish the game
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  Speaker 4: and uh, you take up nine minutes of the remaining
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  Speaker 4: thirteen minutes of a game. Clop, Just what can you
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  Speaker 4: say about your team's ability to finish well?
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  Speaker 3: First shout out from yesterday's press conference, Bro, It's good
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  Speaker 3: to see you.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks coach.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, we talked about I mean, I'm a
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  Speaker 3: I'm a broken record here, but complimentary football. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you know, our offense didn't have their best output yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: but in those critical moments in the second half, being
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  Speaker 3: able to play off the defense and really put the
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  Speaker 3: game aways is things that we have to be able
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  Speaker 3: to do in order to win these games coming down
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  Speaker 3: the stretch.
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  Speaker 1: So that was great. Now we had it.
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  Speaker 3: We had a break with the face mask penalty, But
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  Speaker 3: we also had some some some plays in that game
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  Speaker 3: that didn't go our way as well, so it kind
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  Speaker 3: of bounces out in the end.
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  Speaker 1: But our guys did a great job.
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  Speaker 3: Charmon and Zach had you know, had some strung together
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  Speaker 3: some phenomenal runs.
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  Speaker 1: Our guys blocked their tails off, and yeah, it was
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  Speaker 1: good football there in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 4: This morning, about how your team has improved in this
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  Speaker 4: is around the twelve as one, how your team has
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  Speaker 4: improved in reloading and going to the next play. What
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  Speaker 4: shifted in your player's ability to do that? Was a confidence? Trust?
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  Speaker 4: What shifted in that?
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  Speaker 3: I think I think it's just awareness and and just
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  Speaker 3: and sticking to it.
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  Speaker 1: This is how we want to play.
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  Speaker 3: This is important to us on on how we want
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  Speaker 3: to approach playing games, and this is and this is
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  Speaker 3: what we feel. We feel strongly that we have to
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  Speaker 3: be able to do that in order to win games
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  Speaker 3: and do it as a team, and our guys realize that,
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  Speaker 3: and as coaches it's our job to bring awareness to
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  Speaker 3: it and double down on it. And the guys who's
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  Speaker 3: done a great job with that, Thanks.
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  Speaker 6: Bob, Yeah, Mike, obviously, both teams Saturday, it's Saturday night
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  Speaker 6: for both teams. But how does it impact your schedule
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  Speaker 6: this week with the Saturday night game and all that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's kind of to me, it's like it's a
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  Speaker 3: West coast trip, so it's a one day trip for us,
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  Speaker 3: and you start there and work backwards. There's a balance
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  Speaker 3: of of you know, how do you get your guys
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  Speaker 3: recovered and body ready to go? And I'm also you know,
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  Speaker 3: how many reps do you get? How many know what speed?
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  Speaker 3: Things like that. Right now, we have a plan. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: the guys are gonna come in tomorrow afternoon, and uh,
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  Speaker 3: it's kind of like a it's like kind of like
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  Speaker 3: a Thursday Sunday combo, if that makes sense. So but
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  Speaker 3: then once once we hit the ground on Wednesday, like
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  Speaker 3: the scheduling is this Wednesday football Thursday, we'll we'll take
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  Speaker 3: it from there. But tomorrow will be a little bit
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  Speaker 3: different for the guys.
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  Speaker 6: And any better sense of rasits to heat and what
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  Speaker 6: his situation might be.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm gonna be I'm gonna be very disappointing in
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  Speaker 3: this one. But I really don't have any updates. It
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  Speaker 3: seems it seems like it's going well with with the
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  Speaker 3: with Rashid with those other guys right now. Honestly, we
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  Speaker 3: just we just don't We don't have any like update
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  Speaker 3: on like time frames or anything like that, So.
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  Speaker 1: Really going to be playing that throughout the week. Curtis.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, another bit of a sluggish start for offensively yesterday.
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  Speaker 7: There's been in a few of those here in the
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  Speaker 7: second half of the season. Is there anything you kind
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  Speaker 7: of see as a thread kind of through these games?
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  Speaker 7: Obviously each one's a little bit different, but what collectively
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  Speaker 7: as a as an offense Earllion games, what are you
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  Speaker 7: seeing as to being a little bit slow out of
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  Speaker 7: the games.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like it's kind of like our run game,
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  Speaker 3: you know. It's we've had We've had some games where
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  Speaker 3: we've started really great. We've had some games that we
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  Speaker 3: haven't and we've been able to rebound. I think it's
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  Speaker 3: hard to attribute it to like just one thing. If not,
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  Speaker 3: I think we would have probably found a solution by now.
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  Speaker 3: But I'll tell you what I mean. Our guys were
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  Speaker 3: into it. I mean, you know, it's not easy getting
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  Speaker 3: up and having your energy ready. I mean, I mean
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  Speaker 3: you have to do it, you know, going east and
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  Speaker 3: things like that. But it's you know, you have to
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  Speaker 3: be very intentional about it. And I thought our guys
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  Speaker 3: were ready to go. You know, I thought our thought
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  Speaker 3: our guys prepped really well. I thought they had great
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  Speaker 3: energy before the game. That's easier said than done, you know,
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  Speaker 3: And uh so I think I think we just got
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  Speaker 3: to keep keep attacking it, you know, keep looking at
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  Speaker 3: the openers, keep seeing the X who's executing what how
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  Speaker 3: we want to attack their structures, making sure our operations right.
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  Speaker 1: That's gonna go a long way.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know, I wish I had a single
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  Speaker 3: answer for you, but I know our I know our
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  Speaker 3: guys are are doing the inputs that we want.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're just not getting the results we want
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 7: Have you seen teams make an adjustment as the season
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  Speaker 7: has gone along about how they're trying to play you
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  Speaker 7: defensively with with your offense. Now that you what you
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  Speaker 7: guys are doing is out there a little bit more,
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  Speaker 7: have they fundamentally kind of changed the way they're attacking you.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think it's kind of individual observations. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, like I can speak for this coming from
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  Speaker 3: a defensive perspective, Like a lot of times you're going
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  Speaker 3: to a game saying hey, I think we're gonna I
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  Speaker 3: think we're gonna end that these are gonna be our
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  Speaker 3: major calls. These are going to be kind of our
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  Speaker 3: secondary calls based on situation, and the game unfolds in
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  Speaker 3: a way that you don't expect. So it's hard to
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  Speaker 3: a trip ute what a team is initially planning.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to beat.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you're not and you can only go by
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  Speaker 3: what they ended up calling and what situations. There's sometimes
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  Speaker 3: where teams are calling different front structures that maybe we
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  Speaker 3: anticipated as like lead structures and coverages, and sometimes you
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  Speaker 3: know they're doing the things that we assumed that they
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  Speaker 3: were going to do too.
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  Speaker 1: So but that's the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they're allowed to game plan, they're allowed to
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  Speaker 3: you know, they're allowed to run whatever they want on defense,
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  Speaker 3: and it's our job to kind of diagnose it and
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  Speaker 3: apply our rules and go play high level football.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Sean.
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  Speaker 8: And just how do you feel about the way Sam's planning?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think the numbers yesterday show that wasn't his
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  Speaker 3: best game, And like I said after the game, I
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  Speaker 3: Sam did what we needed to do to win the game.
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  Speaker 3: Now you're you're a you're a hairline fracture wave or
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  Speaker 3: a hair like an angst them away from that being
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  Speaker 3: an incomplete pass, and you know, we'll see where the
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  Speaker 3: toe was on the inc on the on the uh interception,
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  Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, now we have a no
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  Speaker 3: turnover game and no one's talking about it. So can
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  Speaker 3: we make some better decisions? Can we clean up some fundamentals?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, that goes for everybody. That's that's the same
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  Speaker 3: story every game. But talk to Sam this morning's in
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  Speaker 3: great spirits, same guy every day.
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  Speaker 1: You know, did the things we needed to win.
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  Speaker 8: When you were talking about the run game earlier, you said,
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  Speaker 8: you guys haven't talked about necessarily writing the hot hand,
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  Speaker 8: but the numbers kind of bear it out. Like when
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  Speaker 8: one guy goes crazy and it has one hundred yards, the
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  Speaker 8: other guy's numbers have been fairly inefficient. Is that something
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  Speaker 8: you put on the table as like maybe just rolling
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  Speaker 8: with whoever is hot?
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  Speaker 3: And then in any game, all I'm saying is if
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  Speaker 3: we don't use that like language, it's it's not like
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  Speaker 3: it's not like hey, so and so's cold today, or
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  Speaker 3: this guy's a better player. It's just hey, this you know,
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  Speaker 3: this is the way our game plan is going, and
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  Speaker 3: and maybe we feel like Zach seeing it well and
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  Speaker 3: really running decisively, and I want to keep giving them
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  Speaker 3: those opportunities. I think that I think it's like it's
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  Speaker 3: along that line of thinking rather than be like, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: you know who's rushing, who's got the highest average, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like we're not looking at it through that lens.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Mike, Greg.
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  Speaker 3: Mike.
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  Speaker 9: To that end, is is Sharponnet's downhill, plant to foot
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  Speaker 9: and go more conducive to the wide zone and how
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  Speaker 9: much you were playing yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: I just I want to be really careful on like
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  Speaker 3: it's a one game sample. Zach had a great game,
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't as much for Ken in the run game.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's really just I think it's really just
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  Speaker 3: that Ken's Ken's been playing.
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  Speaker 1: Great football for us. A lot of his explosives.
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  Speaker 3: Runs is in is in our you know, eighteen nineteen
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  Speaker 3: wide zone stuff, and it just didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Hit for us yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: So I really think it's that said, when there are
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  Speaker 3: some runs that we can block and run better when
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  Speaker 3: when Ken's in the game.
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  Speaker 1: Same thing goes for Zach.
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  Speaker 3: But I think it's kind of the same process you
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  Speaker 3: have after any game is okay. You know, where are
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  Speaker 3: we making progress? Where do we need to improve in
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  Speaker 3: all three levels of the run game? You know up front,
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  Speaker 3: you know, on the perimeter and the guy toting it
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  Speaker 3: as well. So I think I don't really think it's
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  Speaker 3: that it's just one game.
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  Speaker 9: I'm not trying to get you in trouble. But what'd
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  Speaker 9: you think of the play that she got hurt on?
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  Speaker 3: I'll just say that there's some there's some plays throughout
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  Speaker 3: the game that that we're gonna follow up with and
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  Speaker 3: we just but that that's that's par for the course.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's just just trying to understand what's getting called,
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  Speaker 3: what's not and why, And obviously we want to defend
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  Speaker 3: our guys and make sure that that they're not putting
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  Speaker 3: in harm's way.
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  Speaker 9: It's been so long since you played the forty nine Ers.
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  Speaker 9: It feels like years ago you mentioned how you changed
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  Speaker 9: how you played defensively. Maybe then you thought you were
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  Speaker 9: going to entering the season even worry barely played in
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  Speaker 9: that game with four plays oct it was just thrown
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  Speaker 9: in there and nothing is now. How would you say
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  Speaker 9: the biggest difference is for you guys defensively since the
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  Speaker 9: first time you played that.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny.
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  Speaker 3: I just think we've grown as a defense and as coaches,
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  Speaker 3: included of how how we prepare our guys, of I
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  Speaker 3: think of a better feeling for what our guys are
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  Speaker 3: good at, what they can handle on a game plan basis.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we had to pivot pretty pretty drastically in
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  Speaker 3: that game, and that happens. It happens all the time,
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  Speaker 3: and you got to be able to do that to win.
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  Speaker 3: And so you know, we're gonna have We're gonna have
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  Speaker 3: a plan this game that we feel great about hopefully,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, you got to kind of have a
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  Speaker 3: backup plan too if things don't really go your way.
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  Speaker 1: You never know what's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 3: But I would just say we have a We just
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  Speaker 3: have a better understanding of who we are, who can
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  Speaker 3: do what, how you know, how much we can carry
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  Speaker 3: all those things. I feel like we have more clarity
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  Speaker 3: at this point, which I'm actually I'm actually glad that's
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  Speaker 3: the case, Otherwise that wouldn't be a very good job
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  Speaker 3: on our part.
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  Speaker 1: Brady.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, Mike, what do you think Cooper Cup has meant
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  Speaker 7: JSN this season?
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  Speaker 1: Man? Uh?
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  Speaker 3: I think I think Jax can give you the best
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  Speaker 3: answer on that. You know, I'd love to hear what
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  Speaker 3: he says. But from from my perspective, I think with
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  Speaker 3: the whole receiver room, Coop's made a just been a
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  Speaker 3: like I use the term force multiplier, but like that's
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  Speaker 3: what it is. You know, He's really made an impact
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  Speaker 3: on all those guys. I think just seeing the habits
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  Speaker 3: and what it takes to be great in our league
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  Speaker 3: and seeing it up close and in personal and on
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: a daily basis. That's not like it's not like it's
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: not like Coop is just inventing new ways of doing.
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: It's just he's just so elite at the process of
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: what he does and his approach and like this, you know,
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: it's actually it is like a chasing edge of mentality,
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: like how can we what's what's a how can we
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: kind of evolve and stay ahead of you know, how
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: we stem routes and how we handled top routes, and
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: how we identify coverages and you know, how do we
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: get on the same page with the quarterback all the
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: all those things. At least from my perspective, it's like, shoot,
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: I mean I'm learning from them on on what it
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: takes to you know to play an elite level in
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: our league too, So I'm sure Jacks will tell you
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: the same thing.
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: And then a different question from what I understand, like
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: the eat effort, angles, tackling.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: That started as a defensive thing, but now you guys
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: apply that to offense. Is that how does that work offensively?
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: Well, it's really it's really just evolved into like how
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: we want to finish plays, you know, so how we
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: handle plays on a sideline, how we go moving forward?
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: You know, what do you do when you catch the
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: ball in the open field, How do we block down
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: the field, how do we how do we eliminate angles?
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: Things like that, So it's kind of like the reverse.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: You know, we're trying to we're trying to eliminate space
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: and extra yardage on defense and we're trying to create
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: that on offense.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Last question, Curtis.
• 16:58
  Speaker 7: Like Aj got a seven touchdown of the AAR for
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: you yesterday. Just collectively the first year kind of in
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: that lead role, what has he meant for you guys
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: to season overall with both the barnyard style of plays
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: and kind of leading that tight end group overall.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll tell you what I'm really I'm really proud
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: of aj. He's uh.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: I feel like every player we asked about this had
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: a great year. It's like this guy had a great
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: off season. It's just but it's it's the truth. It's
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: just like that's how it works. It doesn't just you know,
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: just pop up out of nowhere and all of a sudden,
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: the guy's making plays. I mean, his approach from when
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: the season ended, the places where he trained, the effort
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: that the attitude that he's had in the building. He's
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: a spark plug. You know, he's a catalyst for our offense.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: And uh, you know, we got I'd like to get him.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: I know Clint wants to get him the ball more,
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: you know, and he deserves it, and he when he does,
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: he makes things happen. And I know he's blocking his
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: tail off as well, you know, on the on the
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: in the sea, gaping out and it's like, just really
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: proud of him.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: You know, he's done. He's done a heck of a job.
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: What do you do realize he could be the factor
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: in the passing game that he's kind of seemed to
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: develop into here for you, Well, I thought.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: This was part of our vision when we when we
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: started to learn more about him when he's here. You know,
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: we felt like he could be a wide tight end.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: We drafted him and contributed the pass game, probably not
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: sure about you know, route tree, like how far, how
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: far it could go. But once we realized the type
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: of guy he was, I mean to me, it was like,
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: this guy's a limit with this guy.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Okay, thank you everyone. We'll see you wednesday, all right,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: thank you.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Thanks