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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Discusses The Trade For Rashid Shaheed and Looks Ahead To Week 10 · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Well, do you have a new receiver. What's your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: about the trade and bringing sheet in here?
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  Speaker 2: Really excited he was in got in the building this morning.
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  Speaker 2: So we're off and running their offenses walking through right now.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously as familiarity with with Clinton and in our system,
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  Speaker 2: so hopefully.
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  Speaker 4: It's expedited getting up to speed.
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  Speaker 2: But enjoyed our conversation since uh, since the trade, and
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  Speaker 2: I know the guys were excited. It's a great opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to add to our team. Didn't feel like we were
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  Speaker 2: missing you know something. It's not like we were trying
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  Speaker 2: to like plug holes or anything like that. It was
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  Speaker 2: just an opportunity to to get a great player and
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  Speaker 2: to augment what we're doing.
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  Speaker 4: So that was it.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, excited about it and excited to see him.
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  Speaker 2: See him out there.
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  Speaker 5: Let Clinton tell you about him, both as a player
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  Speaker 5: and just kind of the guy.
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  Speaker 4: That you're getting.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, well, just you know our type of guy and uh,
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  Speaker 2: he I mean there's a presence there, there's a difference
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  Speaker 2: to him out on the field that he's gonna He's
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  Speaker 2: a play maker. Obviously, the speed's real and working, you know,
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  Speaker 2: making plays down the field things like that. But obviously
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  Speaker 2: felt like he was a he's a great player too,
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  Speaker 2: So we had an alignment, you know, as Clint, it
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  Speaker 2: was our it was our personnel folks, and U John
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  Speaker 2: can worry about all the compensation and all that, but
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  Speaker 2: it was great.
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  Speaker 3: You guys worked hard to cultivate a certain culture and
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  Speaker 3: identity in the in the locker room. How much is
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  Speaker 3: it a consideration when you add someone to it who
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  Speaker 3: they are off the field as well as who they
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  Speaker 3: are on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's uh, it's it's a It's a big
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  Speaker 2: part of the conversation. It's a big part of the formula.
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  Speaker 2: I think it changes based off of the situation and
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  Speaker 2: position groups and things like that. But that's definitely part
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  Speaker 2: of our our calculus, I guess. But I feel like
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  Speaker 2: I feel like our guys are really Look, I don't
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  Speaker 2: mean talking about just in general here, just whoever we
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  Speaker 2: bring in. I feel like they our culture is strong
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  Speaker 2: where our vets will do a great job of bringing
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  Speaker 2: them in. And hopefully it's pretty obvious pretty pretty quickly
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  Speaker 2: as you walk in here and you're part of our
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  Speaker 2: team meetings and.
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  Speaker 4: How we operate, how we practice that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we have a certain style and way about
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  Speaker 2: us that they can be assimilated into.
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  Speaker 3: How much does it change kind of your typical game
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  Speaker 3: preparation week when you add a new person into the
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  Speaker 3: lineup that that you know, be.
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  Speaker 4: Incorporated Demo Rashid, Yeah, yeah, last year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I mean, it's it's you know, you can't
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  Speaker 2: do everything in one week, but you got to think
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  Speaker 2: you got to figure out, you know what the kind
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  Speaker 2: of tipping point is of uh, what he's comfortable doing,
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  Speaker 2: you know, how it fits into our broader plans. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you're you're you're trying to trying to figure it out.
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  Speaker 4: I think it. I think it varies.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Rokwan came in and played could play the
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  Speaker 2: whole game when we were in Baltimore. Ernest came in
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  Speaker 2: and played the whole game when we were here, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we really we pretty much got to
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  Speaker 2: everything we wanted to be able to get to with Ernest. Offensively,
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  Speaker 2: it's probably not the same, you know, it's probably not
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  Speaker 2: the same.
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  Speaker 1: US Mike about how Cooper doing Drek and Jake.
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  Speaker 2: Bobo, Well, we're not going to be full speed today,
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  Speaker 2: so so not the most accurate kind of report coming out,
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  Speaker 2: but uh, Cooper will be out there to some degree,
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  Speaker 2: Derek and and and Jake. We're still going to figure
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  Speaker 2: out what's going on there. And that was it right, Ernest.
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  Speaker 2: Ernest will be out there to some some degree.
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  Speaker 3: Was Cooper close to playing it all on Sunday or
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  Speaker 3: I mean.
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  Speaker 4: Where's he at on that?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say, like close or not close? But
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  Speaker 2: he wanted to play. It was the best thing for
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  Speaker 2: him not to. Yeah, I mean, the guy's a guy's
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  Speaker 2: a stunt. I mean, he's like a He's gonna do
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  Speaker 2: everything possible to play, and it's up to us to
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  Speaker 2: make the best decision, you know, for him and for
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  Speaker 2: the team.
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  Speaker 1: In one of those uh, what's what do you call
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  Speaker 1: a c T today act?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: How much do you seek to change how defenses play
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  Speaker 1: you by stretching and field and his s being able
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  Speaker 1: to be singular in that?
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  Speaker 4: I don't think.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we're trying to dictate structures or anything.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think you're It's as simple as, uh,
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  Speaker 2: this guy's this guy can really help us, and we've
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  Speaker 2: got to it's our job now to make sure it
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  Speaker 2: comes to life and working with them and get them
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  Speaker 2: caught up to speed. That we can we can get
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  Speaker 2: to the things that we want to get to and
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  Speaker 2: we stay effective. You know, all these situations and we
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  Speaker 2: can improve. You know, there's there's plenty of room for
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  Speaker 2: improvement in the run, in the past game, different situations.
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  Speaker 2: Third down, you can kind of go, you know, go
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  Speaker 2: line on them by line on them of where we
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  Speaker 2: can improve in a lot of those areas.
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  Speaker 4: He can help. So that's probably why we're the most excited,
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  Speaker 4: i'd hope. So performance on Sunday and that stood out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's stacked two really good, really good games,
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  Speaker 2: good weeks of practice. Uh you know, that wasn't really
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  Speaker 2: our original plan going in and then Josh coming out,
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  Speaker 2: so we shuffled the back end a good bit and
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  Speaker 2: uh Rike did a great job of getting of playing
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the things that we hadn't given him those.
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  Speaker 4: Looks throughout the week.
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  Speaker 2: So it tells you he's preparing and and he's confident,
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  Speaker 2: he's playing fast.
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  Speaker 4: So a lot of positive.
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  Speaker 3: Did you find a good news getting good news from
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  Speaker 3: the test from Ernest earlier this week.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna like measure how good the news is.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he's.
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  Speaker 2: He's gonna he's working he's working through it, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like he's he's gonna be part of our walkthrough.
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  Speaker 4: We'll see how much he does in the actual act.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm sure he'd be listed to limited to some
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  Speaker 2: capacity today and then we'll see it.
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  Speaker 4: We'll see tomorrow. But it's good spirits.
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  Speaker 5: You mentioned the term alignment when you talked about the
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  Speaker 5: trade at the front office. How much have you seen
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  Speaker 5: that alignment with them payoff in the drafts and what
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  Speaker 5: you've been getting out of players where they're kind of
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  Speaker 5: finding the guys that fit you right.
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  Speaker 2: And that you can develop well. I think that's I
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  Speaker 2: think that's something that we're always we're pursuing all the
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  Speaker 2: time in a good way, you know, like when you
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  Speaker 2: like last year, our my mentality was, hey, like these guys,
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  Speaker 2: they got a heck of a track record, and we like,
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  Speaker 2: we believe in what they're doing. Let me take a
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  Speaker 2: step back here and kind of let them do their
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  Speaker 2: thing if they you know, wherever, we wherever, we get
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  Speaker 2: in on opinions and things and how I can help
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  Speaker 2: or like help you know, enlighten them on you know,
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  Speaker 2: our vision so we can get get aligned. That was
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  Speaker 2: the way, and then after the season, I think we
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  Speaker 2: had some more time to really have a better understanding
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  Speaker 2: of what was important to us and realize maybe there's
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  Speaker 2: some things here or there where maybe they you know,
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  Speaker 2: I haven't thought of where the guy you know where
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  Speaker 2: a guy could it or you know, vice versa. And
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  Speaker 2: just a fun group to work with, I guess is
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  Speaker 2: probably what I'm saying. And when you are aligned that
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  Speaker 2: way and you want to play a certain way and
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  Speaker 2: you want a certain person, type of player, type of
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  Speaker 2: person on your team and in your building, then it
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  Speaker 2: definitely streamlines that whole process for sure.
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  Speaker 5: And with that, what halfway through the season, Now, what
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  Speaker 5: have you thought of this rookie class? What you've gotten
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  Speaker 5: out of the guys Gray and Nick and Tory.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a lot of guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, not quite the rookie takeover yet.
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  Speaker 4: I guess guys are doing a great job.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, like what we talked about from the off season,
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  Speaker 2: and a part of the message of our team is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think that you're looking at the results
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  Speaker 2: now and there's a catch there where really the secret
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  Speaker 2: sauce is in the process of what they've done on
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  Speaker 2: a weekly basis, what our team has done from the
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  Speaker 2: spring and throughout training camp and the attitude they have
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  Speaker 2: and the rookie class is a great example of that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we talked at length throughout the off season
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  Speaker 2: about the extra work they were putting in, you know,
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  Speaker 2: how they're picking the veterans' brains. Just how they operated
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  Speaker 2: throughout the building too, was like it was pretty cool,
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  Speaker 2: you know, how they how they assimilated themselves. So I
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  Speaker 2: think that's what you're seeing the result of as from
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  Speaker 2: all that work that they've been doing.
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  Speaker 3: You've got a new starter down there in Arizona, Jacoby
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  Speaker 3: Brisaid in Stoa, Kyler Murray and obviously played this team before,
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  Speaker 3: but it's also kind of different.
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  Speaker 4: You see the differences and well, yeah they are.
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  Speaker 2: They are until they've done you know, some moving and
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  Speaker 2: shaking over their buy, which all good teams do, you know,
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  Speaker 2: consistently evaluate and evolve, and they've done that, and I
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  Speaker 2: think you've seen the effect of that of how effective
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  Speaker 2: they've been.
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  Speaker 4: Even before the buy. I thought they were moving the ball, well, they're.
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  Speaker 2: Putting up points, they're playing efficiently, they're taking care of
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  Speaker 2: the ball, They're doing a lot of really good things.
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  Speaker 4: That's what they're doing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they were doing that before, but just how
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  Speaker 2: they got it done was a little different with Jacoby's
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more under center. You know, they've eliminated
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  Speaker 2: some of the quarterback driven run game that that Kyler brings,
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  Speaker 2: So there's some there's some differences in how they're operating,
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  Speaker 2: but I'd say, uh, but it's been effective. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I thought they really dictated terms in the game on
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  Speaker 2: Monday night.
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  Speaker 1: You expect you and Jay expect to Rat to return kicks.
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  Speaker 4: He'll be part of our return game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just punts, kicks, kickoffs.
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  Speaker 2: Both working through it. It's fair to say return game
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  Speaker 2: for right now. Yeah, like Tory is gonna still be
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  Speaker 2: our returner, but we'll train him atturner or.
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  Speaker 5: Rather defensive lineman to start lobbying for kick coverage after.
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  Speaker 2: I really have I haven't heard any whispers yet, but
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  Speaker 2: guys are I think the best part about that play
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  Speaker 2: was how excited everybody was for him to have success.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we've been hunting forced fumbles and we weren't
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  Speaker 2: really expecting to get a kickoff.
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  Speaker 4: But it counts.
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  Speaker 5: So you guys have faced one of the higher percent
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  Speaker 5: maybe the highest percentage of loaded boxes in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Can Rashid with the deep threat ability. Can he help
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  Speaker 1: change that?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, yeah, yes, I think, Uh.
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  Speaker 2: It's tough to it's tough to, like different teams operate
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  Speaker 2: under different like modes of operation and philosophies. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we're we're a shell defense with single high compliments. It's
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  Speaker 2: just kind of how we roll. A lot of teams
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  Speaker 2: are single high with split safety compliments and based off
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  Speaker 2: of how you know, by the situation and people you
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  Speaker 2: put on the field. People don't just like I don't,
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  Speaker 2: I don't see teams just you know, if you are
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  Speaker 2: just doing this every week and you're like that, you're
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  Speaker 2: probably searching for someone of an identity. And the great defenses,
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  Speaker 2: you know, have their fast balls and they throw those
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  Speaker 2: and then they have their change ups and curve balls
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  Speaker 2: off of it. So I guess what I'm saying is like,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a week to week thing, and it's
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  Speaker 2: a situation by situation thing. But and look like you're
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  Speaker 2: allowed to throw the ball against shell defense too, And
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  Speaker 2: there's there's a lot of great route concepts that work
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  Speaker 2: against shell So it's it's it's just there's a good.
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  Speaker 4: Versus all plays.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just it's hard it's hard to make
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  Speaker 2: like general statements that.
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  Speaker 4: What we're trying to do. I guess that's what I'm
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  Speaker 4: what I'm trying to say.
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  Speaker 3: Coming off a big national win and maybe getting some
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  Speaker 3: more requests for interviews for guys and you and whoever
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  Speaker 3: else nationally? Do you do you make any adjustments? Are
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  Speaker 3: you aware of You talk about that with the team
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  Speaker 3: and just to keeping the main thing the main thing
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  Speaker 3: week week.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think just the timing of where we're at
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  Speaker 2: in the season going into the like the second half
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  Speaker 2: of the year, and I want our I want our
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  Speaker 2: team to understand that we've put ourselves in a position
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  Speaker 2: here because of what we do throughout the week and
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  Speaker 2: on a day to day basis and our mentality going
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  Speaker 2: to game of focusing on how we want to play
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  Speaker 2: the best version of football that we can no matter
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  Speaker 2: the circumstance. Again, you know, there's a lot of first
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  Speaker 2: for our team that for us to go we're going
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  Speaker 2: to go where we want to go, are going to
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  Speaker 2: have to be first. So like winning on primetime is
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  Speaker 2: a first, but you can't say we have to win
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  Speaker 2: on primetime. You have to go play your best version
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  Speaker 2: of football. You know, we want to win the next
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  Speaker 2: you know, win the next game. Ultimately, we want to
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  Speaker 2: make the playoffs. You know, we have aspirations to go
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  Speaker 2: further than that, and those are all be first for
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  Speaker 2: our team. You start getting into the whole like gravitas
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  Speaker 2: of the of the of the situation, you're gonna get lost.
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  Speaker 2: So I trust our guys. We're going to be sticking
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  Speaker 2: to our process and double down on that. And to me,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's where we that's how we win games on
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  Speaker 2: a weekly basis is by nailing that and playing our
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  Speaker 2: best football.
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  Speaker 1: Josh is still joke, still just in the protocol.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, did definite Weatherspoons come out of the game? Okay,
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  Speaker 3: his first came back.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah spoons. Uh, Spoon's feeling good.
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  Speaker 3: What do you like about your team's ability to communicate
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  Speaker 3: to a newcomer the expectations and.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of how the team operates.
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  Speaker 2: I have a lot of confidence in it. I think, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: it hasn't just been in this situation with Rashid, It's
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  Speaker 2: it's been We've had a lot of guys join our
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  Speaker 2: team since the end of since the end of camp
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  Speaker 2: and throughout camp, and I think it's pretty clear, you know,
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  Speaker 2: about what we do and how we do it. So
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of like nonverbal communication it goes but
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  Speaker 2: it goes with it as well. But our guys have
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  Speaker 2: been awesome and uh, it'll be fun. Like I think,
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited to see how it comes together because I
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  Speaker 2: really believe in the guys we have and how they operate,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that they've done a great job of
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  Speaker 2: creating an environment our coaches included where people feel like
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  Speaker 2: they complete the best version of themselves and play their
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  Speaker 2: best football. And if we keep doing that, then we're
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  Speaker 2: going to keep playing good football as a team as well.
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  Speaker 1: In terms of the style you want to play on defense,
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  Speaker 1: how much you see in that come to life, and
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  Speaker 1: how you guys are playing on the perimeter, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: your edge guys.
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  Speaker 2: Or Yeah, that's That's definitely an area of improvement going
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  Speaker 2: from the beginning of the season, and I think we've
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  Speaker 2: improved there.
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  Speaker 4: You're right, if we play the way.
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  Speaker 2: We're supposed to, then those plays will come to life,
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  Speaker 2: and they have for the most part. There's some there's
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  Speaker 2: some things we want to improve, but I don't. It's
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  Speaker 2: not through a lack of effort or a lack of
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  Speaker 2: want to or intense. It's really just through you know,
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  Speaker 2: how we're training it and fundamentals. So but we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: need to keep doing that to play to play good defense.
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  Speaker 1: What about Derek which you think at him in his
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  Speaker 1: first game back?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought Derek played a really good game, physical
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  Speaker 2: on the edge, decisive in the in the in the
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  Speaker 2: past game.
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  Speaker 4: I thought the way he rushed was like as as
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  Speaker 4: one with the guy.
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  Speaker 2: He worked well with the guys around him, so didn't
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  Speaker 2: miss any chemistry.
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  Speaker 4: He played a great game.
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  Speaker 5: You called out tyres Night after the game. But what
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  Speaker 5: does it tell you about a guy when you know
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  Speaker 5: he goes through some tough times on the field whatever
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  Speaker 5: it is, loses his job and then gets put back
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  Speaker 5: in action and responds to what he did.
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  Speaker 2: That's all you can ask for him, and for being
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  Speaker 2: a second year guy, it shows I mean, this is
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  Speaker 2: he's had a lot of diversity throughout his life and
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  Speaker 2: he's he's he's here, you know, when he's playing great ball,
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  Speaker 2: and it shows you that he's he's ready to play
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  Speaker 2: and he's preparing the right way.
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  Speaker 4: It's all you can ask for. You're happy for him.
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  Speaker 2: That's the mentality we have to have as a defense
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  Speaker 2: and as a football team that you know can you
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  Speaker 2: when you go through some some dark spots, you just
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  Speaker 2: got to keep plugging away, like you got to double
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  Speaker 2: down on the process, stick to the things you believe,
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  Speaker 2: believe in, you know, trust the people around you, and
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  Speaker 2: there's gonna be opportunities where you can you can shine there.
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  Speaker 2: You can go through our roster right now and there's
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  Speaker 2: there's certain position groups or certain players that might not
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: feel like you know, they quote unuote they're contributing as
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: much as they they could be or should be. But
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: I think it's a great picture that it really does
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: take everybody all the time and even if you feel
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: like your role isn't as high as you want it
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: to be, how important is to the whole like collective
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: effort of the team and that that's what makes it go.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll talk about the offensive line, but just how
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: did you feel like they played on played on Sunday
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: and sort of where they are and what kind of
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: halfway forward the season.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're on our way. The guys are playing hard. Uh,
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: there's our our our quarterback, our protection. Right now in
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: the past game is is improving. They're doing a good
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: job that also, like we've talked about that that coincides
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: with the timing of plays and things like that. Run
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: game wise, I thought we did. I think a lot
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: of times it's you know, it's frustrating to say, but
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: I think we're like a block away, you know. So
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: how do we get those things done? How do we
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: get them dialed? How do we get them targeted?
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: Uh?
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: And it's not just the opposite line, you know, it's
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: tight ends, it's it's running backs, it's the receivers getting
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: to you know, second and third level players as well.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: Make sure we're going to the right guys. And we're
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: making strides. You know, we're improving. I feel like I
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: feel like we just again, we got to stick to
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: that process. But our offsive line is doing a great job.
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: They're working hard.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: I really liked how they practiced last week. I thought
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: that was our best week of practice with.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: UK and Jake. Is there a is ir a consideration for.
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: Either of those two right now?
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: No, is there a thing related to what you have
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: the surgery for at all?
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: Or believe it's a new thing. They are okay, thank you,