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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Previews Upcoming Matchup at Falcons · Seahawks Press Pass

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Speaker 1: All right, all right, just to she had a really
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Speaker 1: good uh walkthrough looking forward today pads for a good
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Speaker 1: amount of practice, So excited for that and uh looking
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Speaker 1: forward to getting ready each day for for Atlanta.
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Speaker 2: Getting some guys back to practice for my R.
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Speaker 3: Just how nice is it to get guys like Jared
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Speaker 3: and Julian back on the field.
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Speaker 4: Well, it's great.
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Speaker 1: I know those guys been working really hard. Uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: Jay Reed is really just more of a function of
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Speaker 1: just letting it heal. I know Julian's been working his
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Speaker 1: tail off, so I believe Greek Young's part of that
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Speaker 1: crew as well, and uh, it would be great to
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Speaker 1: have him out there.
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Speaker 4: We'll see how it goes. I know, you know, you
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Speaker 4: have a certain amount of time to to activate.
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Speaker 1: Him, and uh, we'll either do it this week or
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Speaker 1: we'll do it another week.
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Speaker 4: Same thing.
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Speaker 1: He's he's coming along strong, Like he really took a
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Speaker 1: turn for the positive last week. So that's uh, that's
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Speaker 1: a good thing, you know, so excited about him coming
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Speaker 1: along here is there?
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Speaker 2: But at this point, would you just wait till next
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Speaker 2: week to get him back to practice.
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Speaker 1: That's that's probably where we would start thinking about him practicing. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he's gotta got some got some things he needs to
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Speaker 1: hit this week rehab wise, but optimistic that'll hit those things.
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Speaker 2: Yep, you said if it had a set back a
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Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago. Is he passed that or you
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Speaker 2: in the testing stage of him right now?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we have a planform this week in terms of
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Speaker 1: how we're gonna practice him every day, and uh, but
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Speaker 1: we feel great about where he's at. I know he's
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Speaker 1: really excited and uh, then we'll we'll kind of go
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Speaker 1: from there on how we want to, you know, go
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Speaker 1: into the weekend with how he's gonna how he's gonna go.
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Speaker 1: So is even like, let's let's say everything went perfectly
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Speaker 1: to plan. Anytime you're coming off a stretch where you're not,
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Speaker 1: you know, plan, you gotta you gotta you gotta have
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Speaker 1: some sort of back in.
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Speaker 4: So that's that's how we're that's how we're operating.
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Speaker 2: Camers wasn't wasn't active, was kind of planning to get
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Speaker 2: him more.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Cam, Cam's doing a great job. Cam's doing a
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Speaker 4: great job.
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Speaker 1: We just with decided to go with Miles, and Miles
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Speaker 1: was ready to go and had a couple of good
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Speaker 1: runs there at the end and again, you know, you
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Speaker 1: guys are figuring this out. Our roster stuff that we
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Speaker 1: do on a week to week basis sometimes comes down
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Speaker 1: to Saturday. Sometimes we make Sometimes it's a little clear,
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Speaker 1: so we'll do the same thing this week on on
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Speaker 1: on how we want to manage our roster and get
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Speaker 1: get the guys out there.
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Speaker 5: It's all involved in those conversations. I mean obviously you
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Speaker 5: and John, but how many other people get involved.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I love how we do it here.
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Speaker 1: There's you know, coordinators, other people, you know, other people
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Speaker 1: that have decisions to input to be made. Sam Rams
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Speaker 1: is a big part of it. Does a great job
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Speaker 1: with that. Yeah, we kind of just sit in a
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Speaker 1: room and work it out. I mean, and no one,
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Speaker 1: no one, Teasy does a phenomen job of kind of
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Speaker 1: thinking outside the box of what's you know, things we could.
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Speaker 4: Possibly do to to give yourself the best chance. So yeah,
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Speaker 4: it's it's it's it's a really cool process. I really
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Speaker 4: like how we do it.
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Speaker 5: A lot a lot of talk about the culture and
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Speaker 5: the connection in the locker room, and and you've talked
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Speaker 5: about the work that has been done over the off season.
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Speaker 5: What role did John play in helping to shape division
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Speaker 5: of what the culture and the connection was gonna be.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think he played a tremendously large role in everything.
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Speaker 4: I mean I think.
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Speaker 1: I think when you go through last year and there's
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Speaker 1: a lot going on, I just it's like, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's my son's birthday to day this time last year.
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Speaker 4: I mean, things are moving.
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Speaker 1: Pretty a lot of crap going on, you know, and
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Speaker 1: there wasn't it wasn't the clarity we had. I think
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Speaker 1: John had the clarity from the get go of what
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Speaker 1: you know, he kind of could see through the I
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Speaker 1: could see the forest through the trees sort of speak.
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Speaker 1: And there's a lot of great conversations where he's steering us,
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Speaker 1: you know, he you know, he's a great way of
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Speaker 1: communicating about, you know, where where we want to go,
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Speaker 1: and so there's a lot of those conversations and yeah,
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Speaker 1: I just he's just been an integral part of what
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Speaker 1: we're doing. So he's awesome guy to work with. We
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Speaker 1: know that, but I really appreciate it though.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, going to Atlanta for a second straight year and.
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Speaker 3: You can get for cousins again and everything, and I
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Speaker 3: guess seems like a lot of familiarity there.
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Speaker 1: Or do they or do they imply, well, yeah, you
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Speaker 1: know they've every look, they're gonna say the same thing
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Speaker 1: about our our team.
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Speaker 4: They saw us, and we've evolved.
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Speaker 1: And changed some things and tweaked some things, and it's different,
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Speaker 1: different guys on the roster. So, uh, you know they're
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Speaker 1: they're playing a little bit differently on offense. You know,
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Speaker 1: you know we played them last year they almost exclusively eleven.
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Speaker 1: You know now that they played dang near a whole
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Speaker 1: game in thirteen, they've played a lot of twelve, So
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Speaker 1: we to be ready for all those personnel groups, which
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Speaker 1: is a little bit different, a little bit more under
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Speaker 1: center since he took over their pretty heavy pistol last year,
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Speaker 1: So some tweaks on how they're operating since, uh, since
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Speaker 1: he took over for for Penix.
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Speaker 5: You got a team last week and Minnesota the blitz
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Speaker 5: is the most of anybody, and then Atlanta is the
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Speaker 5: second highest blitz rate. But they seem different, They played
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Speaker 5: different coverage behind it. How do you contrast this to
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Speaker 5: what you saw last week?
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Speaker 1: I think I think you'd have to look it's like
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Speaker 1: a combo platter, like you got to look at each
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Speaker 1: team independently to understand how they operate. Uh, maybe some
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Speaker 1: tendencies where it's coming from and one what situations, what
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Speaker 1: personnel is that sort of thing. But you also have
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Speaker 1: to have a feel for how you've been attacked in
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Speaker 1: the past and understand the tape that they're watching as well.
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Speaker 4: So I think it's both. But they do a good job.
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Speaker 4: They do a really good job.
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Speaker 1: They're an aggressive unit, they play hard. Brick does a
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Speaker 1: really good job effecting the quarterback. So they got they
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Speaker 1: got a good staff there, and then you can tell
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Speaker 1: it really well coach get you know.
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Speaker 4: It's a good blunt.
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Speaker 1: They got some young guys that are playing at a
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Speaker 1: high level, which tells me they're coaching the crap out
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Speaker 1: of those guys.
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Speaker 2: Robinson last year and he's having a really.
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Speaker 4: Good year this year, Well what what about him as
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Speaker 4: a back.
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Speaker 2: Is so challenging to defend.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think they've actually activated him more in the
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Speaker 1: past game than we saw last year, which is an
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Speaker 1: added challenge. Sometimes it's designed for him. Sometimes it's just
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Speaker 1: in the checkdown game, screen game, so he kind of
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Speaker 1: comes alive in like every aspect of the game, which
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Speaker 1: is something we have to account for.
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Speaker 4: But he's a really talented player.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's got great hands contract the ball, he's
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Speaker 1: got great vision, it's got great acceleration. I mean, it
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Speaker 1: leads a league and you know mistackles, which that you
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Speaker 1: know probably paints a pretty good picture for you. So
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Speaker 1: he's he's a he's a really really good player.
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Speaker 6: Saying that the NFL is a copycat league, how real
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Speaker 6: is that? And do you find that it happens on
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Speaker 6: one side of the ball more than the other?
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Speaker 4: It's a good question.
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Speaker 1: Uh, there's I mean, I'd say it's more like path
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Speaker 1: dependence on the league. Like once you kind of de
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Speaker 1: cleaar who you are, you're gonna have wrinkles. It's just
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Speaker 1: so hard to reinvent everything every week. There's only some
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Speaker 1: amount amount of time you have to have, like fastballs
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Speaker 1: that you can that you can throw at any given point,
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Speaker 1: but you're always gonna want wrinkles, and it's hard to
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Speaker 1: just generate wrinkles. So sometimes those are inspired by other
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Speaker 1: plays throughout the league. And and I went off on
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Speaker 1: Brock and Salk on on this or on on Monday,
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Speaker 1: but there's a good amount of copying going on. I mean,
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Speaker 1: let's let's be honest. Yeah, on each side of the ball.
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure, I don't know. I mean defensively, I
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Speaker 1: mean we're constantly seeing plays that have you know that
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Speaker 1: we've given up plays in the past. It's just stuff
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Speaker 1: you have to practice every week and be ready for
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Speaker 1: and how teams build it, and it's just that's the way.
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Speaker 1: That's the way it goes, which is is.
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Speaker 4: Kind of nice. You kind of know what's coming.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes, Well we'll try to get you in the same
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Speaker 2: way that have passed you.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it happen. Happens every week. Yeah, it happens
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Speaker 1: every week.
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Speaker 2: In terms of like game planning stuff along those lines.
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Speaker 6: So like on Wednesday, when the guys get here, do
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Speaker 6: they have the whole game plan like early down, red zone?
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Speaker 1: They No, no, they have they have the early down.
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Speaker 1: We do early downs today. Well, we do red zone
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Speaker 1: every day, so there's some similar to that. We do
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Speaker 1: a little bit of too met today, which is a
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Speaker 1: bit more like our normal to minut operation, but it's
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Speaker 1: mostly an early down day for us, big special teams day,
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Speaker 1: like in punt, kickoff coverage, some stuff where's little more
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Speaker 1: physical unit. And then what we'll kind of go is
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Speaker 1: we'll do reds, a little bit more red zone tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: cap off red zone Friday. Tomorrow's a big like throwdown day.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how if teams do it, kick me
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Speaker 1: rats to them. I just I don't know how they
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Speaker 1: get that done in one day. General thoughts, five weeks left,
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Speaker 1: three teams in this division have nine wins already. I
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Speaker 1: think it's the earliest season and three teams in this
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Speaker 1: division have this many wins and just kind of a
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Speaker 1: fight for.
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Speaker 4: The finish going down the stretch. We're I mean, I know,
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Speaker 4: I'm not trying to.
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Speaker 1: It's just all all right, whatever, you know, let's go
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Speaker 1: beat Atlanta, he said Julian.
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Speaker 6: It makes sense to the nature of the injury, he
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Speaker 6: needs a ramp up. Does Jay Reed not need one?
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Speaker 6: I guess in the same way given the nature.
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Speaker 4: Of his injury.
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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, they're just on different like timetables, because you know,
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Speaker 1: we got to test it out and see everything feels.
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Speaker 4: And part of the reasons we're in pads today so
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Speaker 4: he can get that work.
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Speaker 3: Back to the game planning question, what's the process that
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Speaker 3: look like actually coming up with one.
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Speaker 1: When does that start and when is it a game
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Speaker 1: plan for us? You know, we have a lot of
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Speaker 1: people that start working on teams a week ahead. Everyone's
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Speaker 1: kind of starts their timeline a little bit differently throughout
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Speaker 1: the week. I love to start mine a little earlier,
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Speaker 1: but a lot of responsibilities on Monday. Uh yeah, I
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Speaker 1: mean there's a lot of info that has to be
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Speaker 1: put in. It's like my sister once told me, database good,
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Speaker 1: good data in, good data out. So we gotta we
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Speaker 1: got to make sure the data is right and so
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Speaker 1: we can create the right you know, conclusions from what's
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Speaker 1: going on, and a lot of work that goes into
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Speaker 1: it on the front end and really just for like
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Speaker 1: a little edge for a little question you can make.
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Speaker 1: And we got a lot of people that do that,
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Speaker 1: which which really appreciative for it. I think those guys do
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Speaker 1: at a high level's birthday. Has a year as a
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Speaker 1: dad changed the way that you coach at all or
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Speaker 1: or the way you approach players.
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Speaker 2: Do you think you're different after a year of just
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Speaker 2: having that experience.
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Speaker 4: It's interesting.
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Speaker 1: I think a lot of peop I mean a lot
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Speaker 1: of people are are parents before they're more like coaches.
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Speaker 4: I think I'm kind of like late to the parenting thing.
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Speaker 1: So I kind of use how I like my experience
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Speaker 1: coaching to like apply to Jack rather than vice versa,
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Speaker 1: which I don't know, probably just my experience, but it's fun.
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Speaker 1: It's just I just I just love seeing like his
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Speaker 1: just mine. Just you know, he's here on yesterday, just
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Speaker 1: walking around the weight room, just like you know, it's
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Speaker 1: like a whole new world for I'm like, Man, I
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Speaker 1: can't I wish I knew what was going on in
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Speaker 1: your mind.
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Speaker 4: Bro, it's so cool.
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Speaker 2: It might go back to the game plan. How much
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Speaker 2: does the injury play into that?
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Speaker 5: When does that become a thing?
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Speaker 4: Oh?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's it's every day, you know, build
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Speaker 1: your build, your playing off of who's gonna play.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean it's fun and I wouldn't say it like
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Speaker 1: drives every decision you make, but it definitely makes an
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Speaker 1: effect on what you're planning on doing.
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Speaker 2: So Man's game planning is that the same you had Baltimore?
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Speaker 2: Was that stuff in the place when you got No?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all all our people here, I mean, we
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Speaker 1: got our pro scouts or do a tremendous job of
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Speaker 1: being ahead of stuff and having a great understanding about
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Speaker 1: how their team operates. And then Brian Airs and his
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Speaker 1: team does a phenomenal job and all like the all
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Speaker 1: the information stuff and give us great advance.
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Speaker 4: Our advances are tremendous. And then uh, you know, our younger.
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Speaker 1: Coaches are the the ones putting in all that information
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Speaker 1: on the front end and and they're doing a ton
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Speaker 1: of work to help us out. That's some really great,
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Speaker 1: really great stuff. Well how we did it, how we
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Speaker 1: did it was kind of a collaboration and how we
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Speaker 1: wanted to operate.
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Speaker 4: But yeah, it's all our people.
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Speaker 2: Like you mentioned.
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Speaker 1: The importance of today for your special teams and practice
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Speaker 1: if you had to devote additional time this year to
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Speaker 1: get coverage, specifically with the way the rules have changed, No,
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Speaker 1: I mean it's uh, it's a significant part of what
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Speaker 1: we do.
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Speaker 4: I don't.
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Speaker 1: I don't think that you could say it's a significant
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Speaker 1: change of like investment of what we've looked into in
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Speaker 1: terms of practice time, meeting time and things like that. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's been overall positive, I think. Uh, when I told
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Speaker 1: the team today, like we got to skip back to
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Speaker 1: how we cover kicks, so you know, well guys going backwards.
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Speaker 3: He talked a lot about Nick on Monday, em and
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Speaker 3: wary and all the things you're asking him to do, right,
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Speaker 3: now to have a work he be able to absorb
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Speaker 3: all those positions and all the asks, and you know,
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Speaker 3: what is it about his makeup that kind of.
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Speaker 2: Allowed you to just keep shoveling stuff at him like.
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Speaker 3: That and to be able to keep keep doing it
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Speaker 3: and pushing forward with it.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think it's a combination of things. I mean,
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Speaker 1: one is just his overall intelligence allows him to do it.
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Speaker 1: I think he's really determined to not let his teammates down,
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Speaker 1: you know, so he can be honest stuff, and he's
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Speaker 1: really he's he's an ambitious guy. He's competitive, he wants
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Speaker 1: to he wants to make an impact while he's out there,
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Speaker 1: and he understands that, you know that we want to kind.
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Speaker 4: Of let that come to life.
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Speaker 1: So in order to do that, you know, you've got
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Speaker 1: to beyond your stuff, beyond your details. And it's a
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Speaker 1: lot of time investment too that he's willing to put
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Speaker 1: in as well.
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Speaker 4: So it's a combination of things.
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Speaker 6: What have you made of how you guys have used
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Speaker 6: Shaheed in four games with him?
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Speaker 1: I thought, I think he's done a great job. I
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Speaker 1: know we haven't gotten the ball to room as much
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Speaker 1: as we want, but it's kind of our run games,
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Speaker 1: like just keep keep doing what you're doing. There's a
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Speaker 1: lot of detail that has been getting caught up since
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Speaker 1: he's walked in the door, and so I think that'll
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Speaker 1: allow him to create some more opportunities. But really pleased
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Speaker 1: with how he's just how he's been since he gotten
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Speaker 1: the door.
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Speaker 2: Specifically him in the return game.
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Speaker 4: I thought he's been solid.
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Speaker 1: I mean, there's a couple opportunities where you know we're
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Speaker 1: against it, like a like a block away from feeling
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Speaker 1: that we can take it. So it's a team effort,
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Speaker 1: you know, to make sure we're hitting the right angles.
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Speaker 1: I think he's been decisive and catching the ball. I
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Speaker 1: know we we had the backed up catch the other day,
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Speaker 1: but but I like about that situation he made. He
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Speaker 1: made a decision, he stuck to it. We've got to
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Speaker 1: live with the consequences. But overall, he's been making some
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Speaker 1: really really good decisions.
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Speaker 2: We've been stacking several good games.
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Speaker 6: Now.
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Speaker 1: It seems like was there like a specific moment in
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Speaker 1: you or other coaches talking to him, or you think
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Speaker 1: just some click for him.
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Speaker 2: I guess what what sort of led to him get.
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Speaker 1: From where he was early in the year, where you know, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I want to make sure that we're giving him the
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Speaker 1: proper credit on how he's played this year.
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Speaker 4: I mean, he's he's he's the person.
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Speaker 1: That has done it every day and had the attitude
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Speaker 1: that he's had, And that takes for everybody, not just Reek,
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Speaker 1: but like for me, for our coaches, for the rest
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Speaker 1: of the guys in our team. You have to make
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Speaker 1: a decision that you're going to have the intent that
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Speaker 1: you have on a daily basis, whether it's how you're
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Speaker 1: gonna prepare, how you're going to practice every day. And
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Speaker 1: Reek's done that, and so I'm really proud of him.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's just he's, uh, he's doing a tremendous job.
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Speaker 1: He's had a great attitude, he's been a great teammate.
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Speaker 1: Like so, you do those things and you're practicing well
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Speaker 1: and you're productive in practice, and now it starts to
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Speaker 1: show up in games.
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Speaker 4: I mean, that's it's the name of the game right there.
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Speaker 2: You like that kind of the cornerback rotation that it
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Speaker 2: seems like it's been.
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Speaker 4: The last three cornerback I wish we could play with
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Speaker 4: twelve guys and we just play all three all the time.
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Speaker 4: But he's you know, we can't.
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Speaker 1: So the guy's been incredibly unselfish. You know, they understand
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Speaker 1: what's going on, and when they've gone in there, they've
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Speaker 1: played really hard and played at a high level. So
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Speaker 1: it's been it's been great for the team. I think
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Speaker 1: it's actually good for that. I mean, probably didn't feel
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Speaker 1: that they want to play every play, but they are
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Speaker 1: playing really good ball and they're putting good tape out there,
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Speaker 1: so that's that's ultimately good for them.
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Speaker 6: I think last year was Jove and Kobe for starting
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Speaker 6: at Atlanta.
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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so since then, just.
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Speaker 6: What have you liked about the growth from those two
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Speaker 6: and maybe what they represent in terms of your culture.
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Speaker 4: Like yeah, great in the spot. Yeah, well one Kobe,
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Speaker 4: I mean a guy that just he made made.
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Speaker 1: A ton of plays and very similar to Reek, like
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Speaker 1: just say, hey, look, I'm gonna I'm gonna take charge
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Speaker 1: back here and I don't care if I'm playing or not,
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Speaker 1: but like I'm just gonna I'm gonna be a force
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Speaker 1: and at some point I'm just going to kind of
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Speaker 1: kick the door down when I get my opportunity and
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Speaker 1: when preparation meets opportunity like it did. He played great
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Speaker 1: and h we we know his ability to attack the football,
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Speaker 1: but I'd say his way to his ability to communicate
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Speaker 1: back there. His competitiveness really resonates throughout the rest of
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Speaker 1: the team, and he's put himself in a great position
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Speaker 1: to have a heck of a career at safety, which
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Speaker 1: I'm really happy for him for that jokes the same thing.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we've talked about his his his his arc,
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Speaker 1: but what I love about his mentality is he he
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Speaker 1: literally competes every day and about Like a great example
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Speaker 1: is the play he made on EJ's pick last game.
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Speaker 1: A point of emphasis to his has been working his
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Speaker 1: off technique in man and man and he was put
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Speaker 1: in an off man and man situation against one of
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Speaker 1: the best receivers you know in the game right now,
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Speaker 1: and he made a phenomenal play breaking on the football
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Speaker 1: and set up that pick. So that's a great micro
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Speaker 1: cosmo about just how he operates.
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Speaker 2: In Ernest Jones to be fully available this week before.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of weird because Ernest back there right now.
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Speaker 1: But yes, it's a good segue, all right.
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Speaker 2: Is that predetermined you feel that during the game.
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Speaker 1: Just uh, we have a we have a plan and
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Speaker 1: then it deviates a little bit as the game goes on,
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Speaker 1: but to the point where like Carl and Jeff handle
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Speaker 1: it and they let me know who's going in and
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Speaker 1: say all right, let's rock and roll.
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Speaker 4: Okay, all right, thank you,