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Geno Smith: We Did What We Were Supposed To Do On The Bye Week · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Did you know it was big for me in terms
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  Speaker 1: of recovery, you know, just getting my body right. Uh
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  Speaker 1: obviously you know, take a little bit of a hit
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  Speaker 1: and uh had to leave the game. So just to
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  Speaker 1: be able to have a a week off to allow
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  Speaker 1: my uh you know, my knee to rest and my
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  Speaker 1: ankle to rest. So just recovery and uh also a
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  Speaker 1: uh you know extra week you know to prepare, get stronger, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: study your opponent, you know, put some things in you know,
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  Speaker 1: figure out some some things that some ways to get better,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know, doing a lot of self scouting
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 2: So overall it was, uh, it was really really important
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  Speaker 2: for us to get that.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I think we uh you know, we
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  Speaker 1: did did what we were supposed to do on the
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  Speaker 1: bie week.
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  Speaker 2: When he first came down on your leg. Could you
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  Speaker 2: fear that was a big deal injury? I did. I did.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, like I said after the game, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just you know thankful that I was able to you know,
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  Speaker 1: come out of come out of that without any major injury.
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  Speaker 2: That was it a couple of days of practice.
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  Speaker 1: Progressively gotten better every day, and I assume that'll continue.
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  Speaker 2: The NFL apparently looked at that and decided nothing was
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  Speaker 2: wrong with that kid. Do you do you have a
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  Speaker 2: thought on it? I mean, do you think that kind
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  Speaker 2: of play in general said not exists?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, you know, I know it's a tough game, man,
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  Speaker 1: I know it's uh, it's a lot going on out there.
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  Speaker 1: What I will say is, I know that style of
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  Speaker 1: tackle was banned by Rugby, and uh, you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: been a lot of cases where that's caused injuries, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I just think it was, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: was unnecessary on the sideline out of bounds, but obviously
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  Speaker 1: they didn't think so.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, who, kids, what I gotta say.
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  Speaker 3: When it comes to your offensive line, You've seen a
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  Speaker 3: lot of injuries. Everybody says next land up, but not
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  Speaker 3: everybody can deliver and play at a high level. Why
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  Speaker 3: is your offensive line able to do that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I think, well you gotta start with their coach with Andy,
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  Speaker 1: just the way that he coaches those guys, the unity
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  Speaker 1: inside that room. He coaches every single guy as if
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  Speaker 1: they're the starter, and uh you know he p he
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  Speaker 1: forces them to prepare that way. And so obviously we
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  Speaker 1: know we love to have our our starting guys out there,
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  Speaker 1: But we've had situations where a bunch of different guys
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  Speaker 1: will have to step up and h in our recent
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  Speaker 1: you know, most recent game, you see, I mean Evan
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  Speaker 1: you know, go to Garden, Olu step in and play
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  Speaker 1: center and uh, you know, a b getting in there,
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  Speaker 1: and you know Ben Brown getting in there, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: just a ton of guys stepping up and so uh,
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  Speaker 1: I think it just starts with with Andy in the
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  Speaker 1: way that he coaches.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a lot a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Has to do with our system, the way that we practice,
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  Speaker 1: and then overall just those individual guys, you know, knowing
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  Speaker 1: their assignment, being professionals and then stepping in and doing
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  Speaker 1: a great job.
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  Speaker 4: When you self scouted offense over the bibe, what stood
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  Speaker 4: I take?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know a lot of positives.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, you know, we we've been really good at sustaining drives. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I feel like we've started fast for the
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  Speaker 1: most part. Uh, first and second down, it's been phenomenal.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when we've had to pass a bunch, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we've beneficient and.
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  Speaker 2: Overall we scored a lot of points.
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  Speaker 1: But I say that knowing that we can be a
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  Speaker 1: lot better, knowing that I can be a lot better,
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  Speaker 1: specifically on third down, you know, specifically in the red zone,
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  Speaker 1: and so, uh, you know, I always look at things
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  Speaker 1: with a glass halt for you know, mindset, and so
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  Speaker 1: I look at it as a way for us to
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  Speaker 1: improve and maybe be the number one offense in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think we're a top five, top ten offense,
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  Speaker 1: but if we can clean up some of the little things,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think, you know, that's what we're striving
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  Speaker 1: to be, is to be the best offense in football.
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  Speaker 2: And so we've got to clean those things up.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I think we'll have opportunities to do that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in the future.
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  Speaker 3: When you look at a guy like Trey Hendrickson, what
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  Speaker 3: part of his skill set is the toughness to counter?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think he's, uh, he's a technician. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he understands leverage, he understands uh, he's got a ton
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  Speaker 1: of different moves and counter moves. You know, right now,
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  Speaker 1: he's got six sacts. You know, so he's very productive,
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  Speaker 1: a guy who's gonna give it everything he's got to
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  Speaker 1: the final whistle. And uh, you know, another another great
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  Speaker 1: you know challenge for us upfront, and uh, you know.
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  Speaker 2: That's gonna be every single week.
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  Speaker 1: It's the way the NFL is built, and so we
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  Speaker 1: we've got to be ready for him and and all
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  Speaker 1: their guys. They got a bunch of really good guys
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  Speaker 1: across that front four and really in their front seven,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, they bring a lot of different looks
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  Speaker 1: and uh, they challenge you in multiple ways, and so
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  Speaker 1: we just got to be prepared for it and uh
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  Speaker 1: and then finally just go out there and execute.
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  Speaker 3: You've had a lot of good games on the road
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  Speaker 3: these last years, big numbers, actually better numbers field splits
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  Speaker 3: than home.
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  Speaker 2: Is there something that like of being on the road
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  Speaker 2: and sort of everybody against you.
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  Speaker 1: I do enjoy being on the road, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: crowd really gives me a lot of energy. And I
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  Speaker 1: love being home as well. You know, our crowd gives
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  Speaker 1: me energy here too. I just think it's just kind
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  Speaker 1: of how it's been, you know, just how it's been.
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  Speaker 1: And we've had a lot of leads at home, and
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  Speaker 1: so we've been running the ball in the fourth quarters
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  Speaker 1: in the second half, and so when we're on the road,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we played up a bunch of close games
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  Speaker 1: where we've had to pass late in those games, and
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  Speaker 1: so I think that's just probably what it is more
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  Speaker 1: than anything.
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  Speaker 4: Do you know, in facing the pass rush with the
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  Speaker 4: good defense, like you said, almost every week, what is
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  Speaker 4: the key in executing How do you do that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it starts, uh, you know, obviously, it
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  Speaker 1: starts with the little things like calling the plays in
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  Speaker 1: the huddle and getting to the line of scrimmage, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in the proper fashion, you know, really having that tempo.
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  Speaker 2: We want to be an up temple offense. So it
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  Speaker 2: starts with.
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  Speaker 1: That, you know, getting in and out of the huddle,
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  Speaker 1: getting our substitutions right, calling the plays right, and getting
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  Speaker 1: to the line of scrimmage, and then just doing our
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  Speaker 1: process right, making the mic points, whether that's the pass
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  Speaker 1: or the run game, and then once the ball snapped,
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  Speaker 1: every single guy doing his job to the.
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  Speaker 2: Best of visibility.
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  Speaker 1: It really comes down to all eleven man playing together
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  Speaker 1: and playing connected. There's really no secret recipe to it,
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  Speaker 1: and so we just got to go out there and
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  Speaker 1: do our jobs. And you know, I can only speak
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  Speaker 1: for myself when I say, you know, I got to
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  Speaker 1: be the one that makes everyone else around me better.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's really where I can I can you know,
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  Speaker 1: help everyone out. It's continuing to elevate guys and make
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  Speaker 1: them better.
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  Speaker 3: Self scouted a little bit over by how big a
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  Speaker 3: focus was a third down for you?
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  Speaker 2: Huge focus, huge focus.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's the area like I said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it seems like since week won we need to improve
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  Speaker 1: on and we've been scoring a bunch of points regardless.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's why I say, if we get.
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  Speaker 1: Another if we can clean that up, get better at that,
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  Speaker 1: who knows where our offense can be, you know. So
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  Speaker 1: we want to continue to focus on our strengths, which
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  Speaker 1: is being grade on first and second down, being efficient.
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  Speaker 1: But then if we can you know, fix our weakness,
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  Speaker 1: you know, who knows where we can go. So just
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  Speaker 1: working on the little things and trying to you know,
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  Speaker 1: correct the simple things. It's not huge, glaring mistakes that
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  Speaker 1: are happening. It's just one one thing here there, and
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  Speaker 1: it's it's affecting us on third down smatically.
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  Speaker 2: What are some homemarks. So since these defense uh you know,
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  Speaker 2: they they are multiple multiple.
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  Speaker 1: You know they'll rush for they got four you know,
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  Speaker 1: great guys, great pass rushers, and then uh you know
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  Speaker 1: they'll send five, six or seven, you know, and and
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  Speaker 1: they got some zero. So, uh, they have a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of different looks and they like to be multiple their
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  Speaker 1: game plan defense. So uh, you'll you know, you'll know
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  Speaker 1: what you'll get on game day. It'll be something different
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  Speaker 1: than we've seen on tape. And that's pretty much how
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  Speaker 1: it is all the time for so they present a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of challenges. You know, they have a really good decordinator,
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  Speaker 1: really smart head coach, and so U I assume it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be that ultimate chess match like.
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  Speaker 3: Always nowadays do that where they sort of everything is
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  Speaker 3: game plan specific versus sort of sticking to what you
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  Speaker 3: do best we get.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's just comes down to philosophy and
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  Speaker 1: the coordinator and the coach. Some defenses say we'll line
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  Speaker 1: up and play what we play and you have to
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  Speaker 1: beat us. Some guys will say, hey, we're gonna give
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  Speaker 1: you a bunch of different looks and we're gonna switch
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  Speaker 1: it up and and see if you can make the
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  Speaker 1: right calls, the right checks, and see if we can
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  Speaker 1: call some confusion. And so it just comes down to
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  Speaker 1: which coordinator, how they feel about their philosophy and their players.
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  Speaker 2: Do you do you think anything?
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  Speaker 3: You guys need to do anything to get Jackson get
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  Speaker 3: involved a little bit more.
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  Speaker 2: You think that'll just.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of happen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's obviously a lot of emphasis on it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we gotta continue to you know, give him
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  Speaker 1: the ball, you know, on the right times, in the
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  Speaker 1: right moments.
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  Speaker 2: But those things will happen over the course of the season. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think he's been doing a great job.
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  Speaker 2: As I've always said.
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  Speaker 1: He's a great player, and he's gonna make so many plays,
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  Speaker 1: and I know, you know, he you know, it hasn't
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  Speaker 1: gone exactly the way that he's probably wanted it, but
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  Speaker 1: that's the league, man, every every it's only one football
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  Speaker 1: and we gotta we gotta go out there and play
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  Speaker 1: to win. And Jackson's gonna make a ton of big
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  Speaker 1: plays for us. He's gonna be, you know, the star
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  Speaker 1: player that he's always been. And so you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: just letting him, you know, be himself and you know,
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  Speaker 1: let the ball come to him when it comes.
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  Speaker 2: If anything, have you.
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  Speaker 1: Said to him, uh, just spend you know, just uplifting him,
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  Speaker 1: encouraging him as always. Uh, you know, spend an extra
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  Speaker 1: time watching film and uh, you know, really just showing
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  Speaker 1: him and teaching him the things that we're seeing as quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 1: and then overall, man just you know, working with him.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's really just a process.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's a step by step process, and he's
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  Speaker 1: very young in that process, and so we just got
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  Speaker 1: to continue to work with him.
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  Speaker 2: And he's continuing to work hard.
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  Speaker 1: So as long as the spirits are high, which they are, uh,
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  Speaker 1: we're in a good place and so we just got
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  Speaker 1: to keep working on it.
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  Speaker 3: Right, do you feel as a leader, why do you
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  Speaker 3: feel that you need to speak to him on that
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  Speaker 3: he's a first round pick, He's probably got all these expectations.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly what you said.
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  Speaker 1: You know, expectations can be a mug you know for
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of people. And I think the thing that
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  Speaker 1: you have to remain confident is in is your uh,
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  Speaker 1: your process, right, the process.
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  Speaker 2: Over the results. Right.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone's looking at the results and seeing numbers and stats
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  Speaker 1: and it's you know, everyone's big on fantasy. But the
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  Speaker 1: things that he's on within the game to help us win,
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  Speaker 1: the blocking on in the run game, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: ways that he's you know, running routes that allow other
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  Speaker 1: guys to get open. That's that's helping our offense, and
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  Speaker 1: so the process that he's in right now is just
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  Speaker 1: continuing to grow as a young player and the results
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  Speaker 1: will come, you know, over time.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know when you think of how much shufflingers
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  Speaker 2: had to be on the offensive line and the way
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  Speaker 2: you guys have been about walking through four games, just
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  Speaker 2: what do your kind of take on how good that
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  Speaker 2: group manage to handle all the stuff that's in front
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  Speaker 2: of them.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, just you know, very very happy for those guys,
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  Speaker 1: Very appreciative obviously they're protecting me uh back there, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just appreciative of the way that Andy's coached them,
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  Speaker 1: the way that Shane's helped him out with the play
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  Speaker 1: calling and different ski things schematically we've done, and overall
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  Speaker 1: just the way that they played. You know, each one
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  Speaker 1: of those guys, I know has high expectations for each other,
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  Speaker 1: for themselves as as as they should and when they
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  Speaker 1: step in the game, you know, they're part of this offense.
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  Speaker 1: We're uh an eleven man unit playing is one and
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  Speaker 1: so it doesn't matter who's out there. Uh, we've all
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  Speaker 1: got to go out there and get the job done,
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  Speaker 1: all
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  Speaker 2: Right, anything else explain things