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Head Coach Mike Macdonald On The 27-19 Win On Monday Night Football · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, great, great win.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, we just talk about like how how we play.
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  Speaker 2: We pick each other up all the time. I thought
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  Speaker 2: our defense played outstanding. Their defense is a dang good defense.
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  Speaker 2: You know, what are the average in like twelve points
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  Speaker 2: a game?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how many.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know what the score was. But so
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  Speaker 2: we outperformed that. We obviously got to take care of
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  Speaker 2: the football, but the guys played hard. We responded all
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  Speaker 2: the adversity affected the quarterback took the run away, you know,
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  Speaker 2: all the things that we said we need to be
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  Speaker 2: able to do. There's a couple of plays there at
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  Speaker 2: the end that probably could have called some better plays
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  Speaker 2: to put us in better situations.
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  Speaker 1: But our guys fought.
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  Speaker 2: And it's great to win at home, you know, definitely
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  Speaker 2: a point of emphasis.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what, the twelves. Twelves are on fire.
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  Speaker 2: That he has a great atmosphere, and our guys were
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  Speaker 2: fired up and our our home crowd was just tremendous.
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  Speaker 2: So we're thankful for them to keep showing up, keep
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  Speaker 2: supporting us. And told the team we come back after
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  Speaker 2: the bye that you.
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  Speaker 1: Know it's time to go.
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  Speaker 2: You know we're gonna go into the last half stretch
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  Speaker 2: of the season and playing a lot of really good
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  Speaker 2: football teams.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, so what do we get?
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  Speaker 2: Tons Jones a lot ever since he got here, But today,
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  Speaker 2: I mean you have to stack that.
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  Speaker 1: You guys end up protecting the penalty. But inter eleven tackles.
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  Speaker 1: Just what you say about him. I thought Ernest played
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  Speaker 1: a really great game.
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  Speaker 2: The plays actually I'm thinking of is like they're getting
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  Speaker 2: down there in the low red zone and he's just
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  Speaker 2: scratching and clawing and fighting, making great plays there, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to bleed all that clock.
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  Speaker 1: So just an absolute absolute warrior.
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  Speaker 2: And I know there's a lot of guys involved, but
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  Speaker 2: just all the short yards run and stuff that sobody
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  Speaker 2: stops for you guys today. Yeah, I thought we had
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  Speaker 2: a good plan coming in and then and then look,
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  Speaker 2: the guys are the ones that do it and short
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  Speaker 2: yards it's not always going to be pretty. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you gotta you gotta win your one on ones and
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  Speaker 2: then some and our guys did that big time stops
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  Speaker 2: right there on third and one and fourth and.
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  Speaker 1: One did the first potential safety the sack by each other.
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  Speaker 1: Did you what was the explace you gott back? I
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  Speaker 1: mean they just said it. Look, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I saw the I saw them signal safety,
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  Speaker 2: so I thought it was a safety, and all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden it wasn't. So I'd like more of an explanation.
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  Speaker 2: So that's that's what happened. But they I saw them
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  Speaker 2: signal safety. We thought it was a safety. All of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden, it wasn't. Like you talked to wait in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL, and how important does Julian ceed have to
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  Speaker 2: be union the importance of team recilient. Yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 2: we talk about picking each other up for the whole
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  Speaker 2: sixty minutes.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, these these games are absolute.
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  Speaker 2: I mean these are these are hard games, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and and Houston's a really good football team.
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  Speaker 1: So we got to pick each other up.
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  Speaker 2: You know, our offense picked our defense up against Tampa,
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  Speaker 2: we weren't able to close it out. We picked our
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  Speaker 2: offense up today on defense. So it's just that's how
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna rolls.
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  Speaker 1: That's how you have to win. You know.
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  Speaker 2: Then once we start to get all three phases going,
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  Speaker 2: you know, rolling in the games, and that's that's when
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  Speaker 2: you have games where you're not coming down to the
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  Speaker 2: last possession.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, Greg, go ahead, I'm sorry. This mentality of don't
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  Speaker 1: put them in the end zone.
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  Speaker 2: How do you drill that?
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  Speaker 1: How do you reinforce that game?
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  Speaker 2: How's that in a manifest It starts from the very beginning.
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  Speaker 2: It's the culture that a D helps create. On defense,
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  Speaker 2: it's our veterans, uh, it's how we practice. We take
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  Speaker 2: a lot of pride and how we practice. We we
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  Speaker 2: we we we've intentionally, over the last couple of weeks
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  Speaker 2: put our guys in some really really difficult situations and
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  Speaker 2: then and have them respond to it. So we get
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  Speaker 2: used to playing those situations and our guys have done just.
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  Speaker 1: Taken us a while to kind of get used to it.
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  Speaker 2: But these are the things that we're learning, you know,
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  Speaker 2: as a as a as an organ, as a as
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  Speaker 2: a program, how we build our guys and build our mentality.
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  Speaker 2: But it's the players, man there. They take a lot
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  Speaker 2: of pride in what they do and the standard they.
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  Speaker 1: Want up hold, and and they do it. They just
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  Speaker 1: keep fighting. Sudden change or yeah, you name it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we call it deaths on football. You've been getting hands
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  Speaker 1: on the football since day one. Forty nine pass attempts,
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  Speaker 1: twelve pass break ups today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a couple of dropped, a couple of mbps, missed
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  Speaker 2: opportunities on big plays. We gotta squeeze it, man, there's
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  Speaker 2: some we got a chance to close games out.
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  Speaker 1: We got we gotta make They.
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  Speaker 2: Gotta start going with the Leslie Fraser School of Ball Skills.
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  Speaker 1: Told you told it was Friday that Red had really
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  Speaker 1: good week. To look like they were getting anything on
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  Speaker 1: him today, Just what would you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there's a couple. I mean, he's he's
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  Speaker 2: on his stuff. There's one that we uh, we could
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  Speaker 2: have played a little better and he came right to
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  Speaker 2: the sideline and he knew that I knew, so I
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  Speaker 2: bet that was good. But talking about plays like late
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  Speaker 2: in the down the poise forty fifty yards down the
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  Speaker 2: field where he has no help and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: playing through the hands, playing the ball, I mean, just
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  Speaker 2: those are the things that he's been working really hard
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  Speaker 2: on that show today, it sounded like you were.
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  Speaker 1: Mostly happy with the offense. But what do you how
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  Speaker 1: do you just balance everything the good and some of
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  Speaker 1: this lines?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we got we I mean we'll look at the
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's a ton of penalties throughout the whole game,
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  Speaker 2: so it's kind of a blur right now.
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  Speaker 1: It just seems like there was a lot. Uh so
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't really a clean game. We'll look at it.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get explanations for it.
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  Speaker 2: I thought our guys fought, you know, our guys fought
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  Speaker 2: really hard. It seems like the things that went wrong
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  Speaker 2: were kind of late.
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  Speaker 1: In the down.
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  Speaker 2: You know what happened, Uh when the ball started, you know,
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  Speaker 2: be in jeopardy. So we got to take care of
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  Speaker 2: the football interception.
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  Speaker 1: With that as a side.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, right, the paint that's exactly where supposed to be.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry, where's supposed to be right where the ball is.
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  Speaker 2: How did you see Jackson grow as a person as
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  Speaker 2: a player over the last threw and a half because
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  Speaker 2: of what.
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  Speaker 1: He's doing this season is print spectacular. He's just.
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  Speaker 2: He's a seahawk manly, how he operates his determination, the
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  Speaker 2: pride he takes in his work, I'll tell you what
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  Speaker 2: that like. Guy's a great teammate, you know that the
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  Speaker 2: great ones are, And I know everybody's out there supporting him,
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  Speaker 2: and he fights like crazy for his for his.
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  Speaker 1: Teammates as well. So but he's he's obviously doing great.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what what he ended up with today.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you can see it, replay that
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  Speaker 2: skirmish out of silent, which is the poise he showed.
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  Speaker 2: Well we knew that, Yeah, well he knew he knew
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  Speaker 2: that if another one was gonna knock him out. I
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  Speaker 2: originally thought that, but we gotta we gotta look at that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it seemed like that was a I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: it didn't look good over there, you know. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: glad that he's okay, and I'm glad and he's and
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  Speaker 2: he made a smart decision in that moment. That was
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  Speaker 2: a really really poised, smart decision. Five and two head
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  Speaker 2: into the buy and you said, you haven't played a
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  Speaker 2: complete game on once. You will that you've got are you?
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  Speaker 1: Are you feeling fortunate? You're feeling encouraged to five and two? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of cool.
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  Speaker 2: It's like we were when we're now finding we're finding
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  Speaker 2: ways to win games, which is like I said, it
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  Speaker 2: is really difficult to win. And so you got to
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  Speaker 2: celebrate those things. And then look, we could be seven.
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  Speaker 2: We could be seven and oh and have won every
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  Speaker 2: game by thirty points. And trust me, we're gonna find
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  Speaker 2: stuff that we're gonna want to improve on. But it's
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  Speaker 2: very like when we watch the tape and we'll go
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  Speaker 2: back and red group and self scout and study and
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  Speaker 2: try to get ahead and get all those things. Try
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  Speaker 2: to get those answers for next week. It'll be very
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  Speaker 2: clear on where we need to grow. The guys see it,
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  Speaker 2: they got the guys see it, they feel it. We've
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  Speaker 2: got a great group of guys and uh, I'll tell
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  Speaker 2: you what they're gonna be. They're gonna be really determined
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  Speaker 2: coming out.
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  Speaker 1: Of the buy okay or uh Tory he had an ankle?
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  Speaker 1: Did he come back? I think he came back and
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  Speaker 1: finished the game, So we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: I'll give you a really hard and fast timeline tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: What did you think of the push you were getting
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  Speaker 2: to the run game and do you feel like you
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  Speaker 2: leaned on it as much as you could have laid
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  Speaker 2: the game when you were trying to well, yeah, we
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  Speaker 2: were searching for answers, you know. To be able to
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  Speaker 2: punch it in the low red was nice, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to be able to get the I mean, we got
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  Speaker 2: the penalty at the end to close it out, but
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  Speaker 2: it would been great to get a first down there
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  Speaker 2: and you know, the one run we do pop we
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  Speaker 2: get a holding call, I mean, and so we knew
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  Speaker 2: against this front it was gonna take every down. You
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  Speaker 2: gotta you gotta keep you gotta keep attacking, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and it's eventually something that's that's your chance to go
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  Speaker 2: get the run game alive.
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  Speaker 1: And so that was the mentality.
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  Speaker 2: I think we'll look at it and realize that there's
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  Speaker 2: things that we want to.
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  Speaker 1: Get better at.
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  Speaker 2: But our guys are playing really.
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  Speaker 1: Hard freezer now for a few months. It might go
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  Speaker 1: in the freezer, had.
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  Speaker 2: A sack at a pass breakup I think like a
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  Speaker 2: third down as well.
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  Speaker 1: He seems like he's really stepped into.
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  Speaker 2: Play in Yeah, yeah, he he's just really proud of Tie.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, talk talk about another guys as we walked
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  Speaker 2: in the door. Just just does everything right all the time,
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  Speaker 2: with a great attitude as teammates love them.
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  Speaker 1: Just an absolute worker.
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  Speaker 2: It's tough, smart, We take a lot of pride and
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  Speaker 2: upholding the standard. And that was one of the things
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  Speaker 2: that our guys talked about last night, and uh Ti
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  Speaker 2: is one of those guys that does it. So he
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  Speaker 2: did a He's done a phenomenal job. Now hopefully you know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll get Julian back. We should, we should get the record.
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  Speaker 2: We should get Julian and Spoon back and d Hall
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  Speaker 2: after the buye, you know, something changes. But he deserves
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  Speaker 2: a major shout out and because he's worked his tail
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  Speaker 2: off for this opportunity and he's helped us win what
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  Speaker 2: you know, two football games here in the last three games.
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  Speaker 2: Have you seen the chemistry between Ernst Jones and Drake
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  Speaker 2: Thomas kind of manifesteduff on the field and both of
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  Speaker 2: them getting tackles for lost today and get his hands
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  Speaker 2: up three passes, Yeah, Drake, same thing we talked about
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  Speaker 2: all week. Uh, I mean, Ernest has a good relation
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  Speaker 2: him and him and teen nine are also really tight.
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  Speaker 1: I think that that inside back.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we've we've met to have them turnover in
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  Speaker 2: that room over the course of the year, but Ernest
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  Speaker 2: is the leader of that room and so it'll go
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  Speaker 2: as he goes. And uh, they just keep preparing. Mean
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  Speaker 2: teen it's done a great job preparing too. It's just
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  Speaker 2: you guys, see what Drake's doing out there. It's hard
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  Speaker 2: to take him off the field at the risk of oversimplify,
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  Speaker 2: like with the trip play, it's hard to not think.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well it's Darnold's playing the way he is white,
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  Speaker 1: take the ball out of his hands. Yeah, what's the
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  Speaker 1: thought behind him?
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  Speaker 2: We just wanna stay aggressive. I mean, we wanna keep
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  Speaker 2: the foot on the gas. And so that's really where
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  Speaker 2: it came from, you know, trust Cooper, I guess Truss
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  Speaker 2: Cooper cup right, I mean I think he's earned that.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean, like, like you, you don't like the
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  Speaker 1: result of the play.
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  Speaker 2: But but uh, we wanna stay aggressive with you know,
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  Speaker 2: keep the foot on the gas.
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  Speaker 1: Here they got thank you, all right, thanks