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Mike Macdonald: "The Guys Executed At A High Level" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I saw Kenneth walk through the cleets.
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  Speaker 2: Is that progress for him?
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  Speaker 1: Progress? Progress? Uh?
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  Speaker 3: You know, not looking great right now for the game
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  Speaker 3: with with ken Walker, but working his tail off getting better.
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  Speaker 1: Is the world Baker? I guess what's your situation?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? Yeah, yeah, Bank's working his working his butt off,
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  Speaker 3: tried to really give it a go.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of doesn't look good right now.
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  Speaker 3: Come so everything's going well, just it's just probably not
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  Speaker 3: good enough at this point.
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  Speaker 2: So what's Tyree's showing if he is filling in? What
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  Speaker 2: what's he shown you in the time? You know, all
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  Speaker 2: the working out, the ones in camp and then.
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  Speaker 1: The work he got last week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we told him you're not allowed to be You're
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  Speaker 3: not a rookie anymore. He can't make rookie mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're so but poise.
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  Speaker 3: You know he handles that and and stride and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So he's doing a great job. You know, we'll see,
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  Speaker 3: we'll see the combinations that will play out there. If
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  Speaker 3: Bake doesn't make it, where where.
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  Speaker 1: Does he meet his biggest stripes to use you guys
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  Speaker 1: got back in this m.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think it's his constant improvement. Again, we asked,
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  Speaker 3: We ask a lot from those guys, and at some
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  Speaker 3: point he was cross training multiple positions, and the game
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  Speaker 3: moves fast, you know, and you're each each week you're
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  Speaker 3: kind of learning a new offense and how they operate,
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  Speaker 3: so you gotta stay poised, kind of apply your rules.
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  Speaker 3: But he's a cool he's a cool customer man. He's
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  Speaker 3: not then, never seems like he's rattled, like rattled or
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  Speaker 3: anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: So he's gonna be just fine. Might give him kend
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  Speaker 1: doesn't film this week. You feel optimistic that you can
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  Speaker 1: get it back next week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, yeah, very optimistic. Uh, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: extra day helps. Then we got the three to you
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  Speaker 3: know that not to play this game first, but the
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  Speaker 3: extra day next week will help, you know. To George Halah, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he got an ankle in the game.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember what play it was, but he's working
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  Speaker 1: on his ankle right now.
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  Speaker 3: Mike, what did you see competition a right guard this
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  Speaker 3: week that captains he's nice mending you. Yeah, it's just
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  Speaker 3: I think you're still we're kind of still in this
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  Speaker 3: phase of working through kind of an organized rotation and
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  Speaker 3: then you know, playing it my ears.
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  Speaker 1: As the as the game goes along. So both guys
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  Speaker 1: did a nice job.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there's again we're still we're still some players
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  Speaker 3: were chasing, you know, But overall I thought I thought offensively,
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  Speaker 3: the guys executed a high level throughout the week and
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  Speaker 3: right guard spot included for Chad.
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  Speaker 1: Does it look like he could come back for Detroit?
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to put I don't want to put
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  Speaker 3: words in his mouth on but I know he's optimistic
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  Speaker 3: and he's progressing really quickly. So it'd be great to
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  Speaker 3: have him back next week, you know, that would that
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  Speaker 3: would justify not put him on I R.
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  Speaker 2: And he's still okay or is he?
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  Speaker 1: What he's trending?
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  Speaker 3: Positively look good today, So we'll kind of monitor over
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  Speaker 3: the next couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, looks good with boy. What's the biggest impression
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  Speaker 1: on you for his first two games?
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  Speaker 2: Because he's been super effective and seeing the statistics petarnity
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  Speaker 2: of these.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's just playing really fast and playing decisive
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  Speaker 3: and doing the things he does well and then having
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  Speaker 3: his changeups off of it having to play in the
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  Speaker 3: rush on early downs.
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  Speaker 1: For the most part, doing a great job.
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  Speaker 3: There's some plays I know, you know that we're we
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  Speaker 3: kid about that, you know, he he could finish a
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  Speaker 3: little bit better, and I think the stat line might
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  Speaker 3: reflect that.
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  Speaker 1: But doing playing really good football for us.
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  Speaker 3: So again early two games in, you know, we're playing
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  Speaker 3: really good team this week with a with a quarterback
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  Speaker 3: that can move around, so we're gonna need him.
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  Speaker 2: What Kenny, back to Tosh, what have you kind of
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  Speaker 2: seen from you that I guess where he you know
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  Speaker 2: he has to play Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I expect the best version of him if he's
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  Speaker 1: out there. But you talk about process over results. I
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  Speaker 1: mean that's that's Uh, that's the message been to Kenny
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  Speaker 1: since since we got here.
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  Speaker 3: Just keep focusing on all the things you need to
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  Speaker 3: handle pre snap so you can go play as fast
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  Speaker 3: as possible and.
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  Speaker 1: In the roads. The rest will take care of himself.
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  Speaker 1: Blocking since training camp, Uh, there's.
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  Speaker 3: Not that many reps of him doing it, you know,
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  Speaker 3: so I'd say overall, like in the right spot, trust
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  Speaker 3: me to go go make the job, you know, go
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  Speaker 3: get the job done.
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  Speaker 1: When he's out there. Does George can't fall into looking good?
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  Speaker 3: No, Unfortunately, I think we're we're gonna have to downgrade
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  Speaker 3: him here because he just got just I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 3: have to downgrade him at this point, but he'll be
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  Speaker 3: out for this game.
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  Speaker 1: George Fan, how did you store for Stone? How did
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  Speaker 1: you see it?
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  Speaker 3: The hell you play the I thought Stone played well.
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  Speaker 3: I thought he played well, you know, I think after
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  Speaker 3: I think the second half on from the Denver game
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  Speaker 3: through through New England, I thought he's done doing a
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  Speaker 3: lot of nice things. And again just the only thing
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  Speaker 3: you can do is just keep going out there and
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  Speaker 3: and getting it done on the practice field, play by play,
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  Speaker 3: and then excited to see him go play on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: So he's ready to gorow, he's ready to go. If
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  Speaker 1: you're able to get Pharaoh in the whole line up
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  Speaker 1: before you take, well, it'd be great.
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  Speaker 3: Pharaoh's a great player, he's been working his butt off.
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  Speaker 3: If he gets a chance then you know, to kind
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  Speaker 3: of do the things we we got him here to do.
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  Speaker 3: So him along with a J block and the C
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  Speaker 3: gap Noah gives it would give us a good, good
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  Speaker 3: punch there at the tight end room.
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  Speaker 2: Mike, how do you guys determine the weekly captains? And
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  Speaker 2: I guess what made you want to do it as
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  Speaker 2: a weekly thing instead of seasoned bite?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no like secret formula behind it. It's it's
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  Speaker 3: a combination of guys that are doing a great job.
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  Speaker 3: Guys you're trying to you know, build up and give
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  Speaker 3: an opportunity to have a voice with the with the
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  Speaker 3: rest of the team and guys you want to recognize
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  Speaker 3: that you know, deserve an opportunity to do those things.
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  Speaker 3: So that that's really the thought behind it out going
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  Speaker 3: at me, it's it's pretty much that simple. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: the guys know who like the leaders are.
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  Speaker 1: You don't need to you don't need the title to
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  Speaker 1: be the leader of the team, but it's important to
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  Speaker 1: build everybody else up.
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  Speaker 3: I think any responsibilities aside from the hand well, we're
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  Speaker 3: working on you know, messaging the after practice. Some guys
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  Speaker 3: are better than theirs after so h. But it's cool
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  Speaker 3: you get an opportunities. There's nothing formal about it.
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  Speaker 1: It's just just it's more of a recognition type thing.
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  Speaker 3: Just Hey, a shout out to these guys that are
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  Speaker 3: that are operating the right way, playing the right way,
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  Speaker 3: preparing the right way, things like that, doing it, doing
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  Speaker 3: it the way that we need to do it to win.
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  Speaker 2: You had Geno do the the overtime last week. It
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  Speaker 2: is that kind of his role.
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  Speaker 3: You put way too much stucka. We literally got the
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  Speaker 3: overtime like saw Gino.
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  Speaker 1: He was like I got it. I was like okay,
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  Speaker 1: and then we told them what we wanted to do
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  Speaker 1: and we made it happen from there. Okay, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know that. I didn't. Okay. Yeah, so maybe Gino, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: maybe maybe that's part of his deal.
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  Speaker 3: That's goodnrelated when when players are running like position groups
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  Speaker 3: are running the corner after practice, what's that all about?
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  Speaker 1: It's totally up to them.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think I think our guys do a
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  Speaker 3: tremendous job getting in extra work after practice, working ball drills.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Man, it's totally unscripted. You know, we're trying, like
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  Speaker 1: guys have a feel for whe they're act.
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  Speaker 3: Conditioning wise and what they need. So but yeah, kudos
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  Speaker 3: to our players are assistant coaches. But yeah, the guy,
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  Speaker 3: it's all up to the It's all up to the
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  Speaker 3: individual player what they need and getting that work in
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  Speaker 3: the conditioning test that ravensers it's not hard, apparently.
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  Speaker 1: Have you guys we did? Yeah? Did you hear any
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  Speaker 1: stories about it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that's the same test. It's good if you're
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  Speaker 1: in if you're in shape and you're ready, you'll pass it.
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  Speaker 1: If you're not in shape, you won't.
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  Speaker 3: So my mess of the team was, don't you want
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  Speaker 3: ninety guys ready for camp that are in shape, ready
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  Speaker 3: to go, that have done the work. You want a
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  Speaker 3: team like that, don't you want you want those guys.
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  Speaker 3: You don't want a bunch of guys that aren't ready
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  Speaker 3: to go. It's a uh now, it's well, it's one
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  Speaker 3: hundred and fifty yards shuttle six times with like rest
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  Speaker 3: rest recovery ratios, things like that.
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  Speaker 1: Last in the past. That's a while ago, right, did
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  Speaker 1: your defensive week of preparation? Did it end up changing
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot because they don't have TUA? Or how
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  Speaker 1: you was it a lot different than it would have been?
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  Speaker 1: Or no, no, it's I mean, look, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what the right way to do it is, But to me,
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  Speaker 1: it's like you got to go off.
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  Speaker 3: Of what kind of how you felt like they prepared
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  Speaker 3: when we played then when we were in Baltimore last year?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, what was the info going in that game? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: How did how do we feel that when that game went?
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  Speaker 1: What happened then? Since then?
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  Speaker 3: How do we feel like they've evolved in the offseas.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's a bought a lot of speculation. It's
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  Speaker 3: just not that many reps. Okay, okay, by the way, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: now who's the quarterback? What do we feel like he
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  Speaker 3: does well compared to Tua? How do we feel like
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna get attacked from the last.
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  Speaker 1: Couple of games? So it's kind of this big, big
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  Speaker 1: recipe of anxiety on my end. You know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what went really well? At least if yeah, no, Tyler,
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  Speaker 1: we saw him in the preseason.
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  Speaker 3: Really good means if he's out there, you know, we
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  Speaker 3: got a lot of respect for him, really good player.
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  Speaker 1: We talk about him if you want to. But how
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  Speaker 1: was the Laviska and.
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  Speaker 3: Uh uh both look optimistic. I think you know, Cavon
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  Speaker 3: had a personal issue. It's also dealing with his shoulder,
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  Speaker 3: so there's a kind of mixture there, and then Fis
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  Speaker 3: had something with his foot today.
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  Speaker 1: But it should you should be all right.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it was Tyro who told us, like
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  Speaker 2: Heartridge is part of like the short yardage thing, that's
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  Speaker 2: like the game plan.
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  Speaker 1: And Dardy was telling us different coaches have different stuff
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  Speaker 1: they do. What did you used to have as you were.
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  Speaker 3: Like, is it to saying that you're in charge of
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  Speaker 3: Oh uh yeah, when I was an intern at a
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  Speaker 3: two minute yeah, you're kind of like moving around two minutes,
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  Speaker 3: third down, red zone, all the fun stuff. You know,
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  Speaker 3: that's the fun part A side gets what well, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's a great question. The intent is to move it
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  Speaker 3: around and kind of build guys up and give them
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  Speaker 3: experience in game planning and like researching different scenarios over time.
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  Speaker 3: And then you're kind of like the expert in that area,
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  Speaker 3: so you present it to the staff and then ultimately
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  Speaker 3: presented to the players. And then I think Ad has
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  Speaker 3: a really cool system set up where they kind of
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  Speaker 3: work through him, and then I'm kind of late coming
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  Speaker 3: in the process where I kind of circle back with
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  Speaker 3: those guys. So that's the idea is to empower the staff,
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  Speaker 3: and I think you just you're just more efficient that way.
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  Speaker 3: Can't just be one person just sitting and staring at
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  Speaker 3: tape all day, So trying to use everybody and all
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  Speaker 3: their talents. And then you know, as we move on
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  Speaker 3: in years, you know, moving forward, then kind of move
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  Speaker 3: guys around and let them grow.
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  Speaker 1: That way, I pulled back to leadership he got talked
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  Speaker 1: to us on Wednesday. The first thing he said about
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  Speaker 1: the run game is that he had to take.
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  Speaker 3: Responsibility because anythings talk about that that you shipping when
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  Speaker 3: you're building your culture. And he also said the coaches
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  Speaker 3: can do so much, we as players have to take
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  Speaker 3: that important is that.
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  Speaker 1: When you go culture. Yeah, it's it's a great point.
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  Speaker 3: You know, anytime you have adversity, the first message you
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  Speaker 3: have to in my opinion, you have to look inward
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  Speaker 3: and say, hey, where's my responsibility?
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  Speaker 1: What can I control? How can I be better? Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Now, as a team, you know, you kind of kind
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  Speaker 3: of start inward and move outward. That's kind of how
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  Speaker 3: I see it. That's how we'll operate.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm glad. I'm glad he's doing that. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I feel the same way.
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  Speaker 3: Hopefully the rest of defense feels in their area control,
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  Speaker 3: they can be better.
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  Speaker 1: I think the product will improve. You have that mentality?
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  Speaker 3: Anything else?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you? Okay? The conditioning your test for the media.
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  Speaker 1: First day of training camp,