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Mike Macdonald: "The Guys Did A Tremendous Job" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, good to see everybody. It's good to be
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  Speaker 1: back outside.
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  Speaker 2: What we got with being out?
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  Speaker 3: What kind of opportunities his profession for me and I
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  Speaker 3: to potentially play a lot of snaps and prime type.
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  Speaker 4: Well, hopefully he picks off from where he ended the
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  Speaker 4: game the other day. I think you know, you saw
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  Speaker 4: some him come in and put some good snaps on
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  Speaker 4: tape forest a couple of critical third downs. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: if and when he gets his chance to keep on
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  Speaker 4: keep on doing what he's doing.
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  Speaker 1: Mike, would you.
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  Speaker 3: Think of your guys this week? Short turn around? Hey,
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  Speaker 3: you kind of got there.
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  Speaker 4: I thought the guys did a tremendous job. They deserve
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  Speaker 4: a lot of credit. We've had a lot of We've
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  Speaker 4: had a couple of spirited walk through type workouts, practices.
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  Speaker 1: Mesh of all the above.
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  Speaker 4: And when we're ready to go, you know, we'll meet
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  Speaker 4: again briefly tomorrow morning and then and off we go.
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  Speaker 2: Any read if Woland is beyond this week guard variety
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  Speaker 2: Spring or ah Ankle.
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  Speaker 1: Or well, we'll see. We'll see next week.
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  Speaker 4: But he looks he looks good right now, he's moving
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  Speaker 4: around all right, it's not ready to go this game?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the three question sable guys, and you have no
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  Speaker 2: chance to play there.
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  Speaker 4: Uh with with Derek and Boy and Julian, we'll see
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  Speaker 4: through tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Julian will take it.
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  Speaker 4: Probably all the way up to the game, those other
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  Speaker 4: two guys were confident they'll they'll be out there.
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  Speaker 2: John Lynch, Nick Bosa, Fred Warner called it a must
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  Speaker 2: win game. Kind of curious your philosophy on the importance
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  Speaker 2: of one game versus another, and how you approached the
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  Speaker 2: game when there's one team that might feel like deathbreat
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  Speaker 2: to win.
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  Speaker 1: Every games must win. That's our mentality.
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  Speaker 4: Every practice is a must must win practice, and then
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  Speaker 4: anytime you can go, you know, tee it up for real,
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  Speaker 4: there's always a sense certainty, you know, to do whatever
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  Speaker 4: it takes to win the game. I understand their position,
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  Speaker 4: but we're in a similar one as well. Again, it's
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  Speaker 4: early in the season, but every game is critically important.
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  Speaker 2: Like we hear you and players talk a lot of
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  Speaker 2: accountability where that comes out a lot when your offensive
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  Speaker 2: partner comes up here yesterday and just kind of kept
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  Speaker 2: to keep saying, you know, put it on me, one
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  Speaker 2: hundred percent on me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm one hundred percent on him.
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  Speaker 2: But what does that do for a player when he
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  Speaker 2: kind of takes that.
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  Speaker 4: And hey, we're all we're all in this thing together,
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  Speaker 4: and weep. Other people have used the terms accountability. We
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  Speaker 4: we talk in terms of our standard and and how
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  Speaker 4: we want to be and living up to being the
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  Speaker 4: football team that we've promised promise ourselves to become. So
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  Speaker 4: as individuals, when we fall short, we all want to
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  Speaker 4: look look inward. And our guys are doing that as
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  Speaker 4: well as well as our coaches, and uh, that's the
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  Speaker 4: way we'll always we'll always handle it here.
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  Speaker 1: That feels good. What do you make of that?
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  Speaker 3: Magic person changes.
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  Speaker 1: Can't speak the last year.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's we're talking about the twenty twenty four Seahawks.
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  Speaker 4: We got to clean up our run defense. Let's focus
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  Speaker 4: on that. But they got a great unit. We're on
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  Speaker 4: record of saying it. We got really good players. Let's go,
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  Speaker 4: let's go, let's go do it.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about the run defense. Light box has been a challenge.
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  Speaker 2: But when you guys have a neutral box, your top
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  Speaker 2: five run defense, So like, how much how much in
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  Speaker 2: a short week are you looking to do you like,
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  Speaker 2: looking to change what you're what you're doing versus you know,
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  Speaker 2: just lean into what you're good at.
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  Speaker 4: Both both great. I mean, I love that's a great question.
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  Speaker 4: Both is the short answer a little bit is of hey,
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  Speaker 4: what do we expect the forty nine ers to do
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  Speaker 4: and how they attack us? Uh, how do we how
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  Speaker 4: well do we identify the change up and how they're operating,
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  Speaker 4: and then how how well our guys are playing the
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  Speaker 4: different structures and so those are all things that you're
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  Speaker 4: doing every game. Uh that we were able to make
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  Speaker 4: adjustments last game, not so much of the Detroit game,
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  Speaker 4: and and and we're just chasing that. So right now
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  Speaker 4: we're we gotta come out. We want to have a
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  Speaker 4: ton of energy, be focused, let's go fly around and
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  Speaker 4: uh and go be us and and then to kind
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  Speaker 4: of let the chips fall from there.
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  Speaker 3: Have you noticed it?
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  Speaker 2: They's a lot different without McCaffrey being out there.
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  Speaker 4: McCaffrey's one on one and he's so it's anytime you
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  Speaker 4: take a player out of that, you have to make
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  Speaker 4: some adjustments. It's not like they're running a whole new offense. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: but how they feature who is playing the running back spot?
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  Speaker 4: I think I would I think it's fair to say
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  Speaker 4: it's kind of being filled in by committee by the
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  Speaker 4: runners that they have by debo, sometimes by by juice
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  Speaker 4: use check. So they've done a good job of kind
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  Speaker 4: of filling in you.
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  Speaker 1: Know what what uh what Christian brings to the table.
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  Speaker 4: But I think you know, you know, you want to
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  Speaker 4: give McCaffrey credit on the type of player he is
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  Speaker 4: and realize that this guy can can do so many things.
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  Speaker 3: Right look about.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Unfortunately, we're gonna we're gonna put Chinn on
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  Speaker 4: I ar and uh timeline, we're not sure, we don't.
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  Speaker 4: We think there's a really good chance to get him
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  Speaker 4: back by the end of the season. So, uh, we're
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  Speaker 4: just we're with him right now. He needs our support.
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  Speaker 4: The guy's gone through a tough time and he's gonna
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  Speaker 4: battle his tail off. He's going to be back better
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  Speaker 4: than ever. But it's just unfortunate for him. He's a guys,
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  Speaker 4: it's uh, you know, a guy that we lean on
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  Speaker 4: as a team and he's a he's a leader on
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  Speaker 4: our defense and our football team.
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  Speaker 1: So but he has an opportunity to come back.
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  Speaker 4: And be healthy and be fresh for the for the
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  Speaker 4: end of the season run.
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  Speaker 3: With him being how important was to be able to
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  Speaker 3: get James sheriff back and for the way that he
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  Speaker 3: played in the preseason.
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  Speaker 4: Potentially excited for Jamie when he gets his opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: Just excited to have him back.
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  Speaker 4: But he's a guy that we're invested in and it's
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  Speaker 4: good to have him back here where we can keep
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  Speaker 4: developing them.
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  Speaker 1: It's progressings two weeks to get an attempts to get
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  Speaker 1: a live.
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  Speaker 4: If yeah, if Cam, if Cam gets gets the call
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  Speaker 4: up at some point, he's ready to go. So, uh,
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  Speaker 4: he's practicing well. He looks confident out there, so we'll
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  Speaker 4: see what happens.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned the second level has been a bit of
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  Speaker 2: an issue. Is there an opportunity for Tyree's night to
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  Speaker 2: potentially get some more rotation in there?
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  Speaker 1: Right now? I would say no.
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  Speaker 4: I mean he's he's he's our backup linebacker doing a
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  Speaker 4: great job. But you start mixing and matching stuff, that's uh,
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  Speaker 4: not what we're looking for right now.
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  Speaker 3: You said your teamsponding well this week in practice.
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  Speaker 4: Did you see anything I'm sorry, you said your team's
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  Speaker 4: ponded well in practice this week.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see anything extra from your leaders or there was.
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  Speaker 3: No need for any of that in some of the
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  Speaker 3: players you've talked about now.
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  Speaker 1: I think.
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  Speaker 4: I think when you go through the hills and valleys,
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  Speaker 4: you start doing extra stuff, now you get out of whack.
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  Speaker 4: I think, let's let's keep our focus where we want
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  Speaker 4: to be. Let's tighten the focused down Senseenorency is always
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  Speaker 4: going to be high.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: When you lose and you fall short, there's a great
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  Speaker 4: opportunity to learn and learn from those things. And our
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  Speaker 4: leaders are at a great country. We had a great
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  Speaker 4: meeting this morning with those guys.
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  Speaker 1: They're on board. Are the rest of.
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  Speaker 4: The team is gonna gonn follow their lead as well
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  Speaker 4: as the coaches and on where we go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, specific meetings with the leaders, like like the council
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  Speaker 3: of leaders.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember we talked about in the off season,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the leadership council.
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  Speaker 1: But we're always talking to.
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  Speaker 4: Those guys and every once in a while we'll get
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  Speaker 4: together and just kind of get a temperaure. But this
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  Speaker 4: is like a weekly thing. It's not like a it's
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  Speaker 4: not like anything new or anything.
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  Speaker 1: How many guys running, uh seven or eight?
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  Speaker 4: Seven or eight guys team talk about the off season? Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: this is a leadership council you kind of sent in
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  Speaker 4: lieu of having captains, just guys that you're leaning on
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  Speaker 4: veterans that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 2: This week, like you did in Baltimore on Thursday games.
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  Speaker 3: Or was there any difference.
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  Speaker 4: Which in Baltimore John's done different things. We're anywhere from
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  Speaker 4: walk through the whole week to you know, going having
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  Speaker 4: like a legitimate actual practice on a Tuesday. So we're
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  Speaker 4: we we just did what we felt like it was
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  Speaker 4: best for us this week.
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  Speaker 2: How do you feel Carter Williams obviously was coming off
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  Speaker 2: a line against August. How do you feel like he's
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  Speaker 2: been dressed in these.
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  Speaker 3: First five games?
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  Speaker 4: I thought, Connor, I mean, there's there's been a couple
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  Speaker 4: of procedural issues that we want to get cleaned up.
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  Speaker 4: Outside of that, Uh, this guy brings a lot of
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  Speaker 4: energy and focus and competitiveness to our offensive line. And uh,
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  Speaker 4: he's he's one of our leaders on offense and with
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  Speaker 4: that unit. So I think he's doing a.
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  Speaker 1: Heck of a job. Anything else, Thank you, all right,
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  Speaker 1: thank you,