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Mike Macdonald: "We Can Be So Much Better" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: It's working alrighty, everybody ready, let's do it.
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  Speaker 2: Coach, you've talked a lot about x as and o's
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  Speaker 2: and curious the team goes three and oh, you're heading
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  Speaker 2: into your first prime time game. How much you talk
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  Speaker 2: about and think about mindset and the team and getting
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  Speaker 2: them not too far out in front of themselves.
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  Speaker 3: I think the I think the tape is gonna is
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  Speaker 3: going to tell the story. I mean, we're in a
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  Speaker 3: great position where we're we've done enough to win each
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  Speaker 3: game that we've played. There's a lot of great stuff
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  Speaker 3: on tape, but we're also at the beginning stages of
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  Speaker 3: this team and who we're going to become. And the
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  Speaker 3: guys know that. It's very clear when you when you
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  Speaker 3: watch the tape where we need to improve and there's
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  Speaker 3: a great opportunity for us to improve. So I think
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  Speaker 3: this is I think the message is is let's take
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  Speaker 3: advantage of this opportunity that we have that we're able to.
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  Speaker 3: We have the opportunity to learn so much about who
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  Speaker 3: we are, how we're gonna grow our operation throughout the week,
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  Speaker 3: how do we prepare and we can be so much better.
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  Speaker 3: So again, it's it's so early in the season. We're
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  Speaker 3: in a great position. Obviously, it's way better than the opposite,
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  Speaker 3: and so we're excited about that. But there's a sense
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  Speaker 3: of urgency too on where this football team needs to go.
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  Speaker 2: The penalties today, What did you inttribute those two?
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  Speaker 1: Which ones?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's kind of both sides, all three phases. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you can't. I don't know, I don't know the actually
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  Speaker 3: the full number, but way too many. You know, we
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  Speaker 3: categorize penalties because if you're gonna if you're gonna toe
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  Speaker 3: the line and play on the line, then there's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be some penalties that you have to be willing to accept.
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  Speaker 3: To a certain extent, the ones yesterday probably don't fall
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  Speaker 3: into that category. So you know, we'll address those and
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  Speaker 3: try to learn from the best we can. Some of
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  Speaker 3: them are decisions that we're making in real time that
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  Speaker 3: we can be smarter. Some of them we're not putting
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  Speaker 3: ourselves in a position where we can either block or
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  Speaker 3: you know, do whatever our job is and and you know,
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  Speaker 3: do it legally. So we're gonna have to be better
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  Speaker 3: in those situations.
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  Speaker 4: One on Withers Spoon where he ran all the way
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  Speaker 4: across the field to make that play is it's.
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  Speaker 1: A lot about when he reversed. Yeah, I haven't.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't talked to Spoon about what we were talking
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  Speaker 3: about as a defense. I mean it's like spoons two penalties,
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  Speaker 3: three penalties from really the whole season. I think he
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  Speaker 3: said three has become has come from just incredible effort.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Those one we screwed up a cover cover one against
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  Speaker 3: New England. He covered for the other dB and probably
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  Speaker 3: could have made a better decision late in the play,
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  Speaker 3: But up till the very last tenth of a second,
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  Speaker 3: you would have said that was a phenomenal play.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Same thing goes for the Wattle screen pass, the reverse
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  Speaker 3: course and the guys just flying and you know you're
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  Speaker 3: turning the corner. It was as it's a clear penalty,
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  Speaker 3: but probably could have made a smarter decision, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: And then the DPI that one I'm taking.
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  Speaker 3: That one that's on that's on me, on and we'll
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  Speaker 3: keep that in house on Why but that one, that
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  Speaker 3: one's on me?
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  Speaker 1: And how do you feel about the state of the
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  Speaker 1: guard positions?
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  Speaker 6: It seems like the Dolphins were able to get quite
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  Speaker 6: a bit of pressure from the interior or yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's gonna be the same answer, you know,
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  Speaker 3: until we start fortifying that that spot.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a week to week thing right now.
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  Speaker 3: I think Christian deserves an opportunity to go compete a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more. How much so we'll, uh, we'll kind
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  Speaker 3: of let the practices decide at this point.
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  Speaker 5: Mike, this morning, you.
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  Speaker 4: Talked about lens of preparation with leech to players able
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  Speaker 4: to anticipate the play.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think you're team is.
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  Speaker 1: In terms of that?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Could you could you kind of elaborate on the context.
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  Speaker 2: You were talking about preparation, being able to anticipate and
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  Speaker 2: then it puts players in a position where they can
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  Speaker 2: play free. Just wondering where is your team now to
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  Speaker 2: how do you see them lens of preparation, How they're
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  Speaker 2: doing that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a there's a there's a good amount of plays,
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  Speaker 3: uh that the guys are doing that, and uh, it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't come easy. You know, it's a full week's worth
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  Speaker 3: of week's worth of work and preparation to get to
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  Speaker 3: that spot. You can't just roll the ball out there
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  Speaker 3: and say Hey, I'm just gonna go ball out.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's just not how, It's not how it works.
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  Speaker 1: These teams are.
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  Speaker 3: These offenses are too good, defensive teams are too good
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  Speaker 3: out there, So you have to put the work in.
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  Speaker 1: The guys realize.
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  Speaker 3: That or kind of like every week kind of just
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I sound like it's like you're back to
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  Speaker 3: square zero now like square one. You gotta you gotta
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  Speaker 3: go study, you gotta put the game plan in. You
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  Speaker 3: gotta know it cole when we're gonna call things and why,
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  Speaker 3: and then go execute during practice so when those situations
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  Speaker 3: come up in the game, you can you can go
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  Speaker 3: play fast.
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  Speaker 7: Dolphins got it and it's twenty two yards on their
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  Speaker 7: first play. They didn't have another yard over twenty plays
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  Speaker 7: till that final drive of the game, just with the
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  Speaker 7: weapons they have. What does that tell you about what
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  Speaker 7: your defense is doing well, that they're not getting exploded.
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  Speaker 3: Well, again, I'm proud of our effort and our i
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  Speaker 3: discipline in the second and third level. I think you know, uh,
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  Speaker 3: the perimeter screen was a was a massive emphasis going
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  Speaker 3: to the game. They made so many so much hay
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  Speaker 3: out of out of that play and they do a
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  Speaker 3: great job setting it up and blocking it. So it
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  Speaker 3: takes it takes the it takes interior pursuit from the
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  Speaker 3: D line, which there's some great plays to be said.
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  Speaker 3: I thought we set a good edge on the perimeter
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  Speaker 3: and then it's about getting guys up in the alley
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  Speaker 3: and second level support. So they did a great job
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  Speaker 3: of that. And then when they decided to take shots,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we have a roof on the defense and
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  Speaker 3: force them to check the ball down.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, you have to be able to do
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  Speaker 1: that in the league.
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  Speaker 6: Just hit.
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  Speaker 1: You have to.
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  Speaker 3: Guys understand you know the sets those plays come out of,
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  Speaker 3: and and understand the defense right now. And it's something
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  Speaker 3: there's a couple of plays on there said hey, we
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  Speaker 3: could have eliminated this space better that they hit in
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  Speaker 3: the middle of the field, and that'll be a point
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  Speaker 3: of emphasis this week.
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  Speaker 2: Is there any updated ellipment Williams.
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  Speaker 3: A uh now, I think from its still we confirmed
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  Speaker 3: that it's like the ribs with with Leo.
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  Speaker 1: Byron's you know, it's a hamstring. We'll see how long
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  Speaker 1: it goes.
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  Speaker 2: Coach looked at Tyree Knight and Drake Thomas.
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  Speaker 1: I did some good things, some good things.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: It's great to see Drake go out there.
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  Speaker 3: And and and make play on the ball. And it
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  Speaker 3: seems like he was playing fast and decisive. He's playing
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  Speaker 3: both spots in there. So I thought Terry's Knight had
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  Speaker 3: had a nice game. Take it took a step.
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  Speaker 7: Would you like to con continue like a rotation?
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  Speaker 1: They were just have one guy next to Tyroer.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, well, if if, if Bake plays, will be out
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  Speaker 3: there and then yeah, I think I think we'll kind
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  Speaker 3: of figure that out throughout the week. But I wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be against the rotation at this point. I
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  Speaker 3: think Drake's drinks earned that opportunity, Like.
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  Speaker 1: That's the what's the plan with China this week? You
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  Speaker 1: guys didn't put them on I.
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  Speaker 3: R thinking that he'd be back by Yeah, I mean again,
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  Speaker 3: I just don't have an answer for you. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna put him out there at some point this
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  Speaker 3: week and see how it goes, you know, So you
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  Speaker 3: should get some team activities here in the next couple
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  Speaker 3: of days.
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  Speaker 5: You played the.
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  Speaker 2: Lines last year with Baltimore, but the Seahawks have also
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  Speaker 2: played them the last two years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Do those tape tell you different things?
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  Speaker 5: Are they?
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  Speaker 2: Are they both useful?
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  Speaker 1: I think so? I think I think both both tapes
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  Speaker 1: are are useful.
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  Speaker 3: You know I haven't turned them on yet, been talking
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  Speaker 3: to you guys all morning, but yeah, well we'll definitely
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  Speaker 3: watch both both tapes, especially offensively. You know how Gino
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  Speaker 3: I thought he played a great game there last last year,
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  Speaker 3: which is.
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  Speaker 2: The way you've won these first three games in different ways, right,
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  Speaker 2: What does it say about this team that different situations,
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  Speaker 2: different things working for you, that somehow they found a
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  Speaker 2: way to get the job done.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we're I think we're aligned in uh
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  Speaker 1: in how we're going to play the game.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, you know, the coaches do a great job
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  Speaker 3: of messaging in the players for that matter, just keeping
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  Speaker 3: it consistent throughout the week. Let's let's not try to
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  Speaker 3: overcomplicate things, keep it simple on what we're trying to accomplish,
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  Speaker 3: how we expect the game to to unfold. Uh, it's
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  Speaker 3: not gonna have every game is not gonna happen the
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  Speaker 3: way you expect it. But sometimes, you know, when it
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  Speaker 3: does fall online, that's kind of like, okay, that's what
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  Speaker 3: we said, what's going to happen, And if it goes
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  Speaker 3: in a different direction, you know, our team's poised and
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  Speaker 3: and uh smart enough to realize that, and then we
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  Speaker 3: make adjustments when necessary. So I just again proud of
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  Speaker 3: the poise, the composure, the togetherness of our of our
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  Speaker 3: team to this point, and that we're gonna need that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, especially going into this next phase of the season.
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  Speaker 4: Building off your response yesterday on the run fits, what
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  Speaker 4: do you think are the most important things that have
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  Speaker 4: to address when you're trying to marry your run fits
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  Speaker 4: with the coverages the second and third level.
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  Speaker 1: Give me that one more time.
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  Speaker 7: What do you think are the most important things that
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  Speaker 7: you have to dress when you're when you're trying to
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  Speaker 7: marry run fits with second and third level of coverage
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  Speaker 7: with to marry.
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  Speaker 1: Those two Yeah, I know what you're saying.
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  Speaker 3: So as you're building it, your past coverage takes you
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  Speaker 3: to your run responsibility, and that's on us as coaches
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  Speaker 3: to make sure that that's congruent. So guys kind of
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  Speaker 3: line right and be in the proper position, have the
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  Speaker 3: right leverage on how you're going to leverage the ball carrier.
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  Speaker 3: So you're gonna liign differently when you're in different coverage structures,
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  Speaker 3: and then the front's kind of let you in the
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  Speaker 3: second and third level kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of played it.
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  Speaker 3: Play to your past coverage and that way makes it simpler,
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  Speaker 3: you know. So it kind of it's like one big
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  Speaker 3: puzzle that just kind of fits together based off of
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  Speaker 3: where the guys should aligned, and it just makes it
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  Speaker 3: easier for him. Now, if you told me that I
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  Speaker 3: have that guy over there, but I have to fit
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  Speaker 3: the run over there, that's jacked up, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: that's on us. So we should be lined right here
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  Speaker 3: and have that guy and have that gap, you know.
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  Speaker 7: So guessing John Hankins maybe played a little more than
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  Speaker 7: he would have expected coming into that game because of
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  Speaker 7: the injuries. Just what did you see out of him?
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  Speaker 3: Played a great game, He was active in there, played
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  Speaker 3: a great j especially no spot when we had him
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  Speaker 3: in a zero. But that's that's why we brought him
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  Speaker 3: here is to play games like that. So we're in
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  Speaker 3: another big game out of him this week.
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  Speaker 7: What would Mike.
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  Speaker 1: Morris played a little bit too?
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  Speaker 6: What do you think of him?
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  Speaker 3: The play I'm thinking about with Mike Mos screen on
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  Speaker 3: the perimeter and he's running like a bat out of
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  Speaker 3: heck chasing the guy on the screen, and I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if he made the player not, but he was
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  Speaker 3: right there, So I know that he's gonna go in
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  Speaker 3: the game. He's gonna play hard, he's gonna do what
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  Speaker 3: we asked him to do. So he's doing a great
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  Speaker 3: j uh.
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  Speaker 2: Three weeks into the regular season. Now, which of your
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  Speaker 2: new responsibility as a head coach have you enjoyed more
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  Speaker 2: than you thought and which have been a little tougher
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  Speaker 2: to get adjusted to.
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  Speaker 1: I can answer the tougher part a little easier.
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  Speaker 3: It's just managing your time is just you're I'm used
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  Speaker 3: to a certain cadence from being a defensive coordinator and
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  Speaker 3: now you know your your job description is a little
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  Speaker 3: bit different. And so as a staff, we're getting used to,
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  Speaker 3: like the cadence of the week, what the expectations are,
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  Speaker 3: what type of information we need to generate, and then
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  Speaker 3: I'm kind of playing catch up mode. So but it's
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  Speaker 3: all good everyone. We're growing every week as a staff,
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  Speaker 3: and it's a fun. We've got a fun group and
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  Speaker 3: a great group of people working with us that make
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  Speaker 3: the journey enjoyable.
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  Speaker 1: So and so I appreciate that about about our coaches.
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  Speaker 3: I just think it's answer that The better thing is
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  Speaker 3: is like we got we got great people in the building.
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  Speaker 1: It's fun to come to work every day. I love
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  Speaker 1: our players.
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  Speaker 3: They've they've responded and then some on everything we ever
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  Speaker 3: asked him to do. And I just got a lot
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  Speaker 3: of faith in him.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 3: They just they just keep answering the bell every challenge
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  Speaker 3: we give them. The mentality has been there, so you know,
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  Speaker 3: we got to work cut out for us moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: But we got the right guys for the job.
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  Speaker 2: Gino was pretty hard on himself after the game of today.
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  Speaker 2: I guess what did you see when you look at
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  Speaker 2: the film? And then I thot reception, Obviously you're.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of floki, but that's just kind of what you
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  Speaker 3: try those up to or well you never really want
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  Speaker 3: to chuck up, you know, takeaways. But I can understand
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  Speaker 3: like some of the plays that he that he wants
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  Speaker 3: to improve on, and like he wouldn't be Geno if
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  Speaker 3: if he didn't feel that way. So I understand that.
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  Speaker 3: But come out of the film, I felt like he
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  Speaker 3: had commanded the offense. I thought he was making fast decisions.
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  Speaker 3: I thought he played a game very well, very good
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  Speaker 3: enough to help us win the game. So I'm pleased
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  Speaker 3: with the way he played in general.
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  Speaker 7: How do you feel about what your defense is through
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  Speaker 7: three games?
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  Speaker 1: I like, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We've we've won the three games. We've done what we
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  Speaker 3: needed to do to win both all three. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you kind of come out of each game and saying, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: this is where we want to attack. I mean, you
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  Speaker 3: go come out of the Denver game to kind of
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  Speaker 3: forgot about it by now, but like New England game,
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  Speaker 3: not to our standard, but we bote up and we
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  Speaker 3: needed to this past game. Situational football is probably what
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: Pops is just executing in those those higher leverage situations,
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  Speaker 3: red zone, third down things like that. So we're always
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  Speaker 3: gonna have stuff that we're like that we're chasing. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's every team is gonna have a new challenge. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we're the guys are gonna come in here tomorrow reintroduce
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  Speaker 3: the Lions to them. You know, it's a whole new
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  Speaker 3: set of slew of issues every week, and it just
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  Speaker 3: it takes that type of mentality and that preparation to
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  Speaker 3: go execute every week at a high level. So so far,
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  Speaker 3: I'd say, like, so good because we've been able to
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  Speaker 3: do what it takes to win.
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  Speaker 1: But we're we're still on our way.
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  Speaker 5: You see.
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  Speaker 6: You might talk a lot about your receivers so far
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  Speaker 6: this year. But your tight ends have ten passage yesterday.
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  Speaker 6: What did you kind of see out of that group
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  Speaker 6: and knowing leaning that kind of situation.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, proud of know.
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  Speaker 3: You know he had the drop last week and I
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  Speaker 3: know he was not happy with himself and just putting
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  Speaker 3: a ton of work this past week, you could tell.
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  Speaker 3: But catching the ball getting up field, those are hidden
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  Speaker 3: yardage throughout a game that that uh that come back
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  Speaker 3: and help you out win football games. So really happy
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  Speaker 3: with the way he played the rest of the tight
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  Speaker 3: end position. I thought they did a great job. We
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  Speaker 3: had the one holding call, Pherah made a big catch
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  Speaker 3: third down fringe get us into a field goal range.
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  Speaker 3: So just expectations, just keep keep turning. If you've got
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  Speaker 3: to defend all those eligibles out there, that's a that's
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  Speaker 3: a it's a tough fask of defenses.
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  Speaker 2: Like what growth have you see from Zach Sarvina last
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  Speaker 2: two games and probably maybe from last start to this start.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think you feel Zach later in the game,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I don't think it's necessarily growth on his point.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's I think he's Zach as we know him.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's the same guy every day works, his
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  Speaker 3: works his tail off. He's got a great poise about him.
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  Speaker 3: Every walk through rep is the same. It could be
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  Speaker 3: a it could be a last walk through rep of
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  Speaker 3: the day or for the Super Bowl. The guy is
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  Speaker 3: gonna have the same approach, same mentality, same intent, and
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  Speaker 3: he's gonna bring it when he's running it. So there's
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  Speaker 3: a couple of things that, you know, we want to
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  Speaker 3: clean up in his game, but right now he's playing hard,
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  Speaker 3: he's running hard, he's taking care of the football. A
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: couple of protection things that will address as an offense.
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  Speaker 3: But just love Zach as just a as a player,
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: as a football player, as a as a as a
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: young person, and he.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: Got on the field and just that he earned that.
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  Speaker 4: You can just talk about that.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, just again, the messages is like you got
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: to be able to practice and execute, and he did
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: that throughout the week and so those opportunities will keep
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: coming if he keeps doing those things. As with the
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: rest of the you saw it with with with Kobe.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: You know, just Kobe's stacking a lot of great practices
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: and earn himself a role and in certain situations for us.
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  Speaker 1: So those guys are doing a good job.
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  Speaker 6: Had ten tackles pretty yesterday. What are you kind of
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: seen through him? Not only yesterday but for the first
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: three games.
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  Speaker 3: And well, he shows up totally when the pads came on,
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: that's when you can feel him. And he's a physical
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: presence out there. But the diverse skill set, played all
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: three levels of the field, playing man to man, blitz
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: all the things that we want to ask our safeties
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: to do. So playing three positions is not an easy
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's just not an easy ask. There's just
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: there's still details that go with each and for him
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: to attack those details and put in the extra time
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: to make himself ready to play mentally and and so
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: he can play.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: You know, the way that he.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: Expects to play is is a big ask from us
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: to him. Shows you how much trust we have in him,
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: how much confidence we have in him. And he's playing fast,
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: he's playing physical right and he's tackling really well. So
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: let's keep it, keep it, keep it moving with him.
• 17:14
  Speaker 7: Derek Hall got a game ball from you after the game.
• 17:16
  Speaker 7: What have you seen that of him since you? I
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: mean you got here obviously, and he was a second
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: year guy who didn't didn't play a ton last year.
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: So have you seen him grow just since you've been here.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think you know. I talked about it
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: this morning, but he the rookies have a tough like
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: it's just a tough ask when you look through their
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: their their calendar of the rookie season. So having it,
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: having that full off season to kind of be dedicated
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: to your craft, put in a full off season and
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: training is really really valuable. So normally see a big
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: jump going into the second season, but Derek's been here
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: every every day of the off season, put in the work,
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: got our coaches have done a tremendous job training him
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: with all the fundamentals. And I think what happens is
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: is you start to bank all the reps at this foundation.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: And I know I keep saying this, but it's just
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: like that gives you confidence. Like if you want confidence,
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: do really hard stuff all the time and start to
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: have success of it, and then you're gonna you're gonna
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: feel good about yourself. And he understands that what's expected
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: from on the edge, and his fastball is a is
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: a big, athletic, physical guy on the edge that can
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: do all the things rasks me to do. And he's
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: got a couple of change ups in his past rush
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: and he's utilizing those things.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: So I'm proud of his start. And again we're.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Three weeks in, so let's keep let's keep rolling. But
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: so far he's he's doing a great job for.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Us in general.
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: Passing yards across the league are down through the first
• 18:41
  Speaker 7: through three weeks compared to the last few seasons as
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: a as a defensive coach.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: And he loved.
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: Any any theories or thoughts as to why.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Honestly, I don't know.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: I don't really watch, I don't have it, I don't
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: really watch the rest of the league, so I don't
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: I couldn't give you I want to give you, like
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: a profound answer is.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I honestly don't.
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: Defensively, why do you think get their downe numbers of
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: look as good as they have in dream weeks?
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Uh, I don't know. I wish I again, it's like
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: the guys are executed.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's like, that's that's like the dumb answer
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: to give you. I think that's it's a reflection of
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: understanding what we're asking you to do through the call,
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: how the offense operates, it all coming together. Coaches getting
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: getting our guys ready to go, and I think there's
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: power in like running your stuff over and over again,
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: you know, and you're just gonna just get really good
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: at what you do and then have a couple of
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: change ups here and there, and then the players bring
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: it to life.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: And so I think what's.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: Really cool about our really the whole think about our
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: deals right now is just different guys stepping up and
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: making plays. It's not just we're not just relying on
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: one guy.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: It's team football out there.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: We tall we like it's eleven man team pass rush mentality,
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: and it's cool to see different guys step up in
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: different moments throughout the last three games and have success.
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: Lucas well.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: They have just one more game before the Els would
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: come back. Do you think there's a good chance that
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: he could be back after the sweet Potentially?
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: I don't.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: I don't want to put a timeline on Abe right now.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: We have kind of a in house timeline with him
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: and we're working through it, but I'm not going to
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: put a timeline on them right now.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: Double sack numbers from Patriots to the last game. I
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: know Verssett kind of got away a few times in
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: that Patriots game. But did you see anything else specific
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: out of your pass rushers that enable them to finish
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: off those sets?
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Well, I thought we did rush well in the New
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: England game. I think it's really just a function of hey,
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: keep it rolling, you know, like it's it's a sack.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Numbers are funky.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: It's just yeah, they're cool and they get you paid
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: and it's great and you get behind the sticks and
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: their drive killers and all that. But it's really about
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: effect affecting the quarterback. It's really the name of the game.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: The sacks kind of come as a population of affecting
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: the QB. And again it's all eleven guys. So in
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: New England and I thought we really took away some
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: of the patterns this game and timing of the routes,
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: which was a different name of the game against New England.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: It was a little bit more of a man game.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: So where the timing is initially hindred, it's just you
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: know whether or not the guy I can get open
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: or not.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: So if that answers your question.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: With all you're trying to improve the trust component the
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: players trusting all that's new is going to work. How
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: much is this winning aiding the trust, accelerating the trust
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: that the results.
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: Were there too.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: It definitely helps, you know, I think I think it's
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: more on like a per play basis. You know, and
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: the players know, like if if you're coaching stuff that works,
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: they're going to feel it and they're going to trust it.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: You know that that comes through all the reps. If
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: you're not coaching stuff that doesn't work, they're going to
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: feel it and they're not gonna trust it.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, they just they they know, they know when
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: it's working or not.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: And so it's on us as coaches to make sure
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: that it makes sense and it's simple and it's effective.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Trust shown up so far, you think on the play
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: to play.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: Basis, yeah, you can to see our guys like I
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: think I think we're I think we're playing fast. When
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: you know, when we're communicating and you we're playing fast
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: and making fast decisions and running to the ball, it
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: means you have to have that to have confidence what
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: you're doing. In order to have play fast, you have
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: to have confidence everything else. Thank you, Okay, thank you