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Ryan Grubb: "We Did A Good Job In The Second Half" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How are you doing great? Great?
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  Speaker 2: So, as Mike said today, just how you drew it
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  Speaker 2: up to start right.
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  Speaker 3: Perfect, perfect, exactly what we wanted, Sack pick, start out
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  Speaker 3: behind and change.
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  Speaker 1: Couldn't went much worse.
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  Speaker 3: But tons of credit to the guys did a great
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  Speaker 3: job digging themselves out of the little and staying calm
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  Speaker 3: and collected.
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  Speaker 2: The Obviously you want to start that way, but what
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  Speaker 2: does that show you about a team when it does
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  Speaker 2: respond the way they did in.
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  Speaker 1: The second half.
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  Speaker 3: And make sure, you know, got some good veterans that
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  Speaker 3: have been through some, you know, pretty heavy battles and
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  Speaker 3: they know how to respond to those situations. They know that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, anxiety and emotion and panic is going to
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  Speaker 3: get us nowhere. So we just got to boil it
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  Speaker 3: down and you know, stop beating ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: That was it.
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  Speaker 3: No, No, I have not not not quite that bad.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 4: Was the decision at half time to kind of run
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  Speaker 4: the ball a lot more coming out in the second
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  Speaker 4: second half.
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  Speaker 1: As clear as it kind of looks on paper, I.
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  Speaker 3: Think that there was parts of the second quarter that
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  Speaker 3: presented that that we're showing up, and we attacked it
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  Speaker 3: a little bit. We just got behind the sticks to
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  Speaker 3: and couldn't stay with the run as early as we.
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  Speaker 1: Would have liked to.
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  Speaker 3: So I just thought we did a good job in
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  Speaker 3: the second half of being able to put ourselves in
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  Speaker 3: a position to stay ahead of the chains, stay on
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  Speaker 3: the field, and just be efficient. And once once we
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  Speaker 3: started doing that call, she came alive and the guys
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  Speaker 3: did an unbelievable job.
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  Speaker 4: Surprised, go ahead, Did you go into a drive thinking, hey,
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  Speaker 4: this would be a good opportunity to hurry up the temple?
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  Speaker 1: Or is that sort of playing play out?
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  Speaker 3: Proper play and play out and just a feel what
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  Speaker 3: I'm seeing from the defense and what I think we
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  Speaker 3: can take advantage of.
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  Speaker 4: Real Surprised by some of the pass protection challenges to start.
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  Speaker 3: Coming, No, Nope, not at all. Watch NFL film at all.
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  Speaker 3: You know, those guys up front on every team, every
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  Speaker 3: ball club has some guys up there that can rush
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  Speaker 3: the passer. And we knew ninety nine was a good
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  Speaker 3: football player for Denver. So you got to survive some
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  Speaker 3: of that stuff and take into consideration how well you're
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  Speaker 3: playing up front when you start throwing the ball.
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  Speaker 1: What did you like about the way in the units
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  Speaker 1: fought through that and can progress the game.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I think they fell back on some technique, h
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  Speaker 3: some things that worked on for a long time, and
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  Speaker 3: knew that if they solidified some of those technique issues,
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  Speaker 3: that it wasn't necessarily going to be a problem if
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  Speaker 3: they could just get back to what they knew they
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  Speaker 3: had to do.
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  Speaker 1: And then thinking about some of the things that they
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  Speaker 1: drew back.
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  Speaker 3: On film study on some of the opponents, and I
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  Speaker 3: thought they did a great job of understanding the counter moves,
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  Speaker 3: and I think that's always you know, any fight, you're
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna get hit, and they understood that they were
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  Speaker 3: getting hit and had to make their own CounterPunch, and
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  Speaker 3: they did an awesome job of that.
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  Speaker 4: And that how much I'm sorry just to add, just
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  Speaker 4: to stink here, how much of that was individual?
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  Speaker 3: And then as a team in terms of what you.
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  Speaker 1: With the guys on technique and things like that. How
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  Speaker 1: much is that individual and then team? I think it
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  Speaker 1: was both.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think that each guy, they all faced
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  Speaker 3: their individual battles on any collective play, and I think
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  Speaker 3: that the guys understood what was being attacked, and going
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  Speaker 3: back and thinking about what they had put on film
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  Speaker 3: previously and some of the things that they knew they
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  Speaker 3: were gonna have to address because their opponent was.
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  Speaker 1: Going to be attack acting some of the things that
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  Speaker 1: they had seen.
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  Speaker 3: So uh, they did a good job addressing it quickly
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  Speaker 3: and trying to make, you know, the best difference they could.
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  Speaker 4: How did you the last third down call on the
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  Speaker 4: past that Tyler's sort of how did you arrive at that?
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  Speaker 1: And making them?
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  Speaker 3: I mean it was our break glass play, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and we're looking for those plays where when it when
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  Speaker 3: you had to have it, that was gonna be the
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  Speaker 3: call we made, and that's what we prepared all week.
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  Speaker 3: That was our break glass play, and we were ready
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  Speaker 3: for it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Tyler, he didn't do a lot in practice
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  Speaker 2: for a lot of camp or him to come out
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  Speaker 2: and have that game, and just.
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  Speaker 3: As I tell you about it, I just I mean,
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  Speaker 3: first of all, I'm excited because he's just I think
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  Speaker 3: everybody thinks about people they work with that are high
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  Speaker 3: class people, and you just kind of like you.
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  Speaker 1: Root for those guys a little bit more.
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  Speaker 3: And you just see a guy like Tyler, you know
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  Speaker 3: he is going to go out there and ball out
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  Speaker 3: and uh, just play a game like that, and in
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  Speaker 3: the most critical situation, you know, make the most critical play,
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  Speaker 3: but no surprise. I mean, he's the guy that's he's
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  Speaker 3: so dialed into in the game plan. Even if he
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  Speaker 3: wasn't taking a practice rep, he knew everything that happen
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  Speaker 3: out there, and so I just think there are no
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  Speaker 3: surprise as far as him being ready to be in
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  Speaker 3: that position to make that play.
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  Speaker 1: Throw the catch, Oh man, that's hard. I think the catch.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think Geno expects to make that throw
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  Speaker 3: every single time, So I think, you know, him being
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  Speaker 3: highly accurate is the is the standard? Just that type
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  Speaker 3: of play with the defender draped over the top of
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  Speaker 3: you and the concentration to be full speed and hang
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  Speaker 3: on as was pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 4: Patriots have given up the fewest explosive plays through Week one.
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  Speaker 4: Where's some unique challenges that pickers had.
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  Speaker 3: For you guys, Well, I mean I think that they're
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  Speaker 3: they're multiple and what they do with their fronts, and
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  Speaker 3: I think they they challenge you with understanding different defensive
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  Speaker 3: personnel groups and so identifying guys and making sure that
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  Speaker 3: you can track things is pretty important.
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  Speaker 1: And so for us, I think that'll be.
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  Speaker 3: The challenges making sure that we can just id fronts
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  Speaker 3: and and take care of business up there downplay the teller.
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  Speaker 1: What was the conversation like with you and Mike in
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  Speaker 1: terms of hell aggressive you wanted to be like a
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  Speaker 1: third Yame situation.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we we communicate obviously prior to the drive
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  Speaker 3: what we would be doing, but then we knew at
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  Speaker 3: that point, you know, Mike was going to give clearance
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  Speaker 3: to you know, go try to win the game.
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  Speaker 1: Can Walker can't play? How's that change? Well?
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  Speaker 3: I think I think Sharp has you know, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of a lot of the same skill sets. He's he's
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  Speaker 3: an excellent receiver out of the backfield, He's a very
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  Speaker 3: very capable pass protector and obviously a very powerful runner.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't think there's anything in the game plan
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  Speaker 3: that would change if Ken was unavailable.
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  Speaker 1: So for us, it's business as usual. How's Macintosh's past improved?
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  Speaker 1: Has it? Yeah? Yeah, came back has gotten a lot better.
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  Speaker 3: It's been one of the emphasis all the way back
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  Speaker 3: to OTAs even not even camp, and uh, I.
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  Speaker 1: Know he's he's worked really really hard at it. It
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  Speaker 1: seemed like he had some tough runs in the preseason
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  Speaker 1: back in touch. Yeah, but what's that about the point
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  Speaker 1: he played in something? Yeah, it was really encouraging.
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  Speaker 3: I think that you know, k Back was a guy
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  Speaker 3: that we were looking to to see, you know, how
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  Speaker 3: we would respond to camp and some of the workload
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  Speaker 3: that he was going to get, and we thought he
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  Speaker 3: responded great. And I thought, obviously, you know, he had
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  Speaker 3: some really good plays and production during preseason, so you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're blessed to have four guys in that room that
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  Speaker 3: are really talented.
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  Speaker 4: What are some of the pros and cons of the
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  Speaker 4: idea of rotating in linement for a series, giving some
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  Speaker 4: people getting their feet wet.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the pros would be keeping guys fresh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: if there was guys that wore out a little bit,
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  Speaker 3: you could keep them going a little And the cons
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  Speaker 3: would just be communication and you know, familiarity with what's
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  Speaker 3: going on. So when guys are out there, you get
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  Speaker 3: a feel for defenders and twists and fronts and just
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  Speaker 3: little ideas and tells that you can get from defensive linemen.
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  Speaker 3: So if they're not seeing that and they come in
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  Speaker 3: off the sideline, sometimes the other guy's been there can
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  Speaker 3: get a little frustrated. But there's certainly, you know, possibilities
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  Speaker 3: like that. For us, you tend to do that as
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  Speaker 3: a plan we I.
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  Speaker 1: Have, yes many times before. You try not to.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, you'd love to stay solid with the guys you
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  Speaker 3: have in there, but out of necessity, if there's somewey
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  Speaker 3: that you need to rotate, or you're just trying to
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  Speaker 3: find who's got the best feel for the football game,
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  Speaker 3: you certainly can do that.
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  Speaker 1: And we're in that position.
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  Speaker 4: What is the offensive line different that way than the
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  Speaker 4: defensive line or other groups that do rotate players throughout
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  Speaker 4: the game?
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  Speaker 1: Fair question.
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  Speaker 3: I think the biggest part is that the familiar like
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  Speaker 3: those are the five people that are completely They cannot
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  Speaker 3: be independent contractors and succeed.
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  Speaker 1: So if you have any.
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  Speaker 3: Of those guys that aren't on the same page, it'll
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  Speaker 3: get exposed on any play you're not running a guy
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  Speaker 3: off on the backside of a route, or if you're
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  Speaker 3: a D lineman you're on an outside twist. You don't
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  Speaker 3: like every one of those guys. If they're not on
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  Speaker 3: on a play, they can get exposed. So I think
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  Speaker 3: those things present themselves pretty quick.
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  Speaker 4: It's the first down obviously in this game, on any game,
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  Speaker 4: so that we don't have.
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  Speaker 1: To get to thirty. You tell me, it's a lot
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  Speaker 1: easier to call that for sure. What did you think
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  Speaker 1: of the game, Jill.
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  Speaker 3: Had I thought he was super efficient, responsible with the ball,
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  Speaker 3: obviously through the pick when he got kind of crunched
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  Speaker 3: in the back knee there, you'd love that obviously not
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  Speaker 3: to happen, but I think it matches every thing I've
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  Speaker 3: said that I love about Gino when you think about
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  Speaker 3: starting a game that way, and this guy is just,
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  Speaker 3: you know, one cool customer. You know, walks up and
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  Speaker 3: stays on it, doesn't flinch at all when you're talking
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  Speaker 3: to him. And he's just been there and done that
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  Speaker 3: and been in so many battles like that that you
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  Speaker 3: know he's just gonna be able to respond to tough situations.
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  Speaker 3: And he certainly did, you know, and was super efficient
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  Speaker 3: with the ball, almost seventy percent with completion percentage.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought he played a really good game. From
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  Speaker 1: Charles Cross, it seems like you got finishing Charles Is.
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  Speaker 3: It's just every week, I mean even today, you see
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  Speaker 3: stuff and you're like, he's still getting better. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I think he's a phenomenal player and I think we're
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  Speaker 3: really blessed. I think he's one of the better tackles
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  Speaker 3: in the league.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the stuff that Mike does was bringing sudden
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  Speaker 2: change and the mystery situations on you or all the situations.
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  Speaker 1: Is that that's again to show up and prepare. Oh yeah, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely all the time.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's that's calling a game, you know, is
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  Speaker 3: things change all the time, mechanics in the game, schematically
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  Speaker 3: making adjustments. I think the more you can have to
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  Speaker 3: play the chess match of football at practice, you know,
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  Speaker 3: that's that's our practices.
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  Speaker 1: Coaches always shows up the offense really like late last seasons.
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  Speaker 1: Nice to have that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, even early on when people ask me
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  Speaker 3: and I think even Gino how they felt about, you know,
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  Speaker 3: him being in this offense. That was one of the
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  Speaker 3: things that stood out was that you know how he
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  Speaker 3: can keep himself in rhythm matches very much with the
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  Speaker 3: offense that we were on.
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  Speaker 1: How was there any difference if calling an NFL game
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  Speaker 1: calling you a.
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  Speaker 3: No, I mean, I think the normal challenges that you have,
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  Speaker 3: like when you go into a football game is I
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  Speaker 3: think you have to understand the possession limitations in NFL football.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's a big deal.
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  Speaker 3: And realizing that you're not going to have the ball
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  Speaker 3: as many times and the clock and then especially when
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  Speaker 3: you're playing teams that that are really trying to utilize that,
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  Speaker 3: like the Patriots, so limited possession and you certainly have
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  Speaker 3: to keep in consideration and be pretty surgical about when
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  Speaker 3: you're making your strikes.
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  Speaker 4: White had three sacks last week and plays all up
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  Speaker 4: down the line. How do you how do you prepare
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  Speaker 4: for a player like that?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you got to know where he's at obviously,
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  Speaker 3: and then you know what are the things that that
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  Speaker 3: he struggles with? You know, and you take good players
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  Speaker 3: and they still have to have weaknesses, and so you
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  Speaker 3: go at those weaknesses.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, how much is patients played in your play?
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  Speaker 3: Like, you know, you can kind of see what's going
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  Speaker 3: on and do you have to just wait it out?
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  Speaker 1: Those things?
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes you attack right away, sometimes you got to be
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  Speaker 3: really really patient and wait. So just understanding the flow
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  Speaker 3: of that and the feel of the game and the
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  Speaker 3: guy you're calling it against.
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  Speaker 1: Ye