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UConn Football Weekly Press Conference Sept 14 - So Miss · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, good afternoon. Thanks for coming. You know,
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: recap a little bit of Saturday's game. You know, I
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: don't feel too terribly different than what I felt after
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  Speaker 1: the game on Saturday. You know, very good team, I thought.
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  Speaker 1: Played against some elite quarterback play in the third quarter there.
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  Speaker 1: Guy hit 11-11-11 passes in the third quarter, I believe,
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  Speaker 1: and only missed one in the whole second half. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think our guys battled for the most
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  Speaker 1: part in all three phases. We have a lot to
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  Speaker 1: clean up and a lot to, you know, fix schematically and,
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  Speaker 1: you know, certainly some of the mistakes that were made,
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  Speaker 1: but I think from an effort standpoint, you know, I'm not,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not disappointed in that part of it at all.
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  Speaker 1: So we head into this week, got to handle our
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  Speaker 1: first road trip, you know, coach Anderson, Southern Miss, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: very familiar there, played him a couple of times when
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  Speaker 1: he was at Arkansas state, you know, Joe Bolden, the
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  Speaker 1: defensive coordinator, there's brother Daniel played for me at Toledo,
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  Speaker 1: very familiar with him and their family, you know, and,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's Hampton, the quarterback, played against him when
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  Speaker 1: he was at Northern Illinois. We've got some familiarity with
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  Speaker 1: guys there, and they've done a good job in dealing
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  Speaker 1: with some of the issues, having a program for the
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  Speaker 1: first year that we're going through as well.
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  Speaker 2: So I know it'll be a stiff challenge.
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  Speaker 1: They'll play really, really hard, and we've got to go
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  Speaker 1: handle a road environment that I think will be a
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  Speaker 1: good one. So that being said, I'll take your questions.
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  Speaker 3: Coach, I think you've said that. teams make their biggest
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  Speaker 3: improvement between the first game and the second, the score notwithstanding,
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  Speaker 3: what improvements did you see between the first and second game?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think that, you know, they forced
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  Speaker 1: us into some mistakes and we missed some blocks. We
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  Speaker 1: missed some runs where we had creases and we didn't
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  Speaker 1: hit the seams. We, you know, we're just hair off
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  Speaker 1: on some of our throws offensively. But good teams will
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  Speaker 1: force you to make some of those mistakes. That's a
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  Speaker 1: big front. I mean, it's a, you know, that's a
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  Speaker 1: big 10 defensive front. And, um, you know, that, that's a,
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  Speaker 1: that's a, that's a little different ask than playing Lafayette
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  Speaker 1: and that's no disrespect to Lafayette. So, um, I think that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you, you can see improvement if you really
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  Speaker 1: pay attention to the tape in a lot of areas,
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  Speaker 1: is it just going to look like we're so much
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  Speaker 1: better than week two than week one in totality based
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  Speaker 1: off the opponent, I think has a lot to do
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  Speaker 1: with that. Um, you know, but I still believe that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're, improvement is a must, right? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we got to have continuous improvement in how we practice
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  Speaker 1: and what the operation of that looks like. I thought
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  Speaker 1: some guys from an attitude and effort standpoint, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe they're a little too high going into the game
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday. Some of them maybe thought it was going
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  Speaker 1: to be a little bit easier than maybe what it was.
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  Speaker 1: And some other guys are right in that sweet spot
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  Speaker 1: where you really, really want them to be. The key is,
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  Speaker 1: is can we, you know, can we get that into
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  Speaker 1: that sweet spot each and every week and figure out
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  Speaker 1: how to bottle that up and then reproduce that when
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  Speaker 1: the ball's kicked off. And you know, look, that's a
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  Speaker 1: challenge of every coach in America that's going through the
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  Speaker 1: same thing right now. So not any different than anybody
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  Speaker 1: else's locker room. But yeah, I think some areas and
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  Speaker 1: some guys, like I said on Saturday, I thought, you know,
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  Speaker 1: some good individual performances, some guys showed up and maybe even,
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  Speaker 1: maybe didn't flash as much Saturday, but their performance was
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  Speaker 1: as consistent Saturday as it was maybe against Lafayette.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned a couple of times, Coach, consistency in the
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  Speaker 4: running game had to improve.
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  Speaker 2: What's that look like for you?
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  Speaker 4: Is it a matter of just a lot of repetition
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  Speaker 4: and weakness in practice this week?
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  Speaker 2: Is it running the ball more in a game to
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  Speaker 2: get into a rhythm?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, you'd love to be in rhythm right
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  Speaker 1: from the start, you know, and again, you know, give
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  Speaker 1: Maryland a lot of credit, but they're, they're not, they
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  Speaker 1: watch the tape too.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So, you know, you're playing a lot of eight man
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  Speaker 1: front early in the game and it's, those are, those
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  Speaker 1: are opportunities to throw the ball, not necessarily run it. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think maybe their plan was to maybe
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  Speaker 1: let Caleb try to beat them with his arm and maybe,
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  Speaker 1: get another hat down there and maybe forced to stop
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  Speaker 1: the run. And then ultimately at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: you got another quarterback player down there too. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I just, yeah, you want to run it more. I
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  Speaker 1: want more plays than what we got, which means we
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  Speaker 1: have to be better on third down, which means we
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  Speaker 1: have to be better on first down. It's all a
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  Speaker 1: vicious cycle that you get caught up into. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we want to, we've got to play better. We've got
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  Speaker 1: to play more efficiently. And when we do that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll run it a little bit better because we'll have
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  Speaker 1: more opportunities, but, you know, practice reps of, You know,
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  Speaker 1: you got a couple backs in and out of the
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  Speaker 1: lineup there. Kenji got banged up a little bit. Sincere
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  Speaker 1: got banged up a little bit. So now Trey's in there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with the one line, which during the week
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  Speaker 1: it's some of that but not all of that. So
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  Speaker 1: this is– there's some rhythmic things there, you know, in
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  Speaker 1: the run game of timing of blocks that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we got to continue to be crisp on.
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  Speaker 6: You guys have been homebodies through camp in the first
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  Speaker 6: two games of the year, now going on the road.
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  Speaker 6: Is there any difference in practice from a home week
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  Speaker 6: to a road week?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think this week we're going to deal with
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  Speaker 1: some heat, you know, there. It's going to be a
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  Speaker 1: little bit different temperature-wise than maybe what it was here
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  Speaker 1: this morning. So, I mean, we're getting close to frost
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  Speaker 1: on the windchill here in the mornings. But, yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we've got to handle the elements. We've got to handle
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  Speaker 1: the trip. It's not the easiest trip to make. So
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  Speaker 1: we're going to handle the logistics of that and ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, you know, be on the road and
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  Speaker 1: get our guys ready to play. There is a little
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  Speaker 1: bit something different about going on the road. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you've got 70 or so guys and, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: just you, you get on a plane and, you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of you versus everybody type of mentality. I think
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  Speaker 1: there is something to that a little bit, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we've got to get our guys to go, go get
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  Speaker 1: a road win here.
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  Speaker 5: You mentioned playing against Hampton before, obviously that was four
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  Speaker 5: years ago in a different school. Is there anything that
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  Speaker 5: valuable that can hold over from that? Or is it
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  Speaker 5: just looking at his last couple of years?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think you can watch some of the
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  Speaker 1: tape and, you know, see, see the improvements. I mean, he's,
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  Speaker 1: he's much improved since, since those days and, Seems like
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  Speaker 1: he's got a good command of what they're asking him
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  Speaker 1: to do, and we've got to do a good job
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  Speaker 1: to try to affect him just like we do every
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  Speaker 1: week with the QB. We didn't do a great job
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  Speaker 1: of that Saturday. We never really got to the QB
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  Speaker 1: for Maryland and made him get off the spot.
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  Speaker 2: And get uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 1: When he did make some uncomfortable throws, his receiver stepped
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  Speaker 1: up and made some huge plays for him. Anytime, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter who the quarterback is, you want to try
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  Speaker 1: to disrupt the rhythm and timing of that passing game.
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  Speaker 7: Coach, Hayden Pegg has gone from being a special teams
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  Speaker 7: guy last year and now he's tied for your third
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  Speaker 7: leading tackler on the team. And he's playing behind a
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  Speaker 7: couple of pretty good linebackers. Can you just talk about
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  Speaker 7: his improvement and his contribution to what he's done early
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  Speaker 7: in the season?
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  Speaker 1: Great attitude and effort guy. Brings the same energy every
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  Speaker 1: day to practice. Incredible competitive spirit. Earns everything he gets.
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  Speaker 2: Goes to practice.
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  Speaker 1: And like I said, his practice reps look like his
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  Speaker 1: game reps. He's been a contributor in the kicking game,
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  Speaker 1: as you mentioned. Made a couple of really big plays
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  Speaker 1: the last two weeks and the more opportunities he gets,
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  Speaker 1: he continues to answer the bell. So, you know, those
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  Speaker 1: are the type of guys that you want in your program.
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  Speaker 1: And those are the type of guys that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the other guys naturally root for because they're doing it
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  Speaker 1: the right way. You play with a great attitude, you
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  Speaker 1: play with great effort, you know, it doesn't, sometimes that
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  Speaker 1: catches up, you know, maybe what you might lack in
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  Speaker 1: other areas. So yeah, I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm really
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  Speaker 1: happy that he's with us. I'm really happy he's on
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  Speaker 1: our football team. And, um, Man, oh, man, I'm really
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  Speaker 1: glad for that kid that he's playing the way he's
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  Speaker 1: playing because he certainly earned it.
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  Speaker 2: I can hear you. You don't need that microphone.
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: TV, everything. Upside for that unit, and how do you
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  Speaker 2: get to that upside? Well, I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're going to watch the tape and you give
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  Speaker 1: up some passing yards, right? So everybody's going to jump
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  Speaker 1: to the big conclusion pad that everybody jumps to.
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  Speaker 2: All the DBs aren't any good.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this guy, but we're making, we got two
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  Speaker 1: one-handed catches, one on third and five on a deep
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  Speaker 1: crossing route across the field. The other guy's got scholarships
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  Speaker 1: and NIL money too. You know, they get paid to
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  Speaker 1: play and they get paid to make plays too. And
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  Speaker 1: they made a few plays. So yeah, there's some things
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  Speaker 1: on the tape that we want back, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: those guys stayed in there and battled and competed. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they're only going to continue to improve with
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  Speaker 1: at-bats and the opportunities to play. So, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: got to live with the good. We got to live
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  Speaker 1: with some of the mistakes that they have. It's no
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  Speaker 1: different than other positions, right? It's no different at left tackle.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the guys are freshmen. It is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: There's no different at quarterback. It's a second start. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: these guys, some of these guys are young players. So
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  Speaker 1: it's not going to be perfect every time. We just
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  Speaker 1: got to make sure that we limit the explosives on defense.
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  Speaker 1: And we got to limit the catastrophic mistakes on offense
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  Speaker 1: that change the course of a football game. And When
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  Speaker 1: those things start to show up and start to happen,
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  Speaker 1: we'll play better, more rhythmic on offense, and we'll play
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  Speaker 1: more consistent on defense. But we've got to fight through
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  Speaker 1: some of the growing pains of these guys. They can
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  Speaker 1: only learn from their experiences. They can't learn sitting there
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  Speaker 1: on the sidelines.
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  Speaker 5: You mentioned Caleb being young.
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  Speaker 2: I think a couple starts.
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  Speaker 5: But what are the kind of the things that you're
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  Speaker 5: working on with him at this point in his career?
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  Speaker 5: You mentioned some of the timing things a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Just where does he need to improve? Just defensive recognition.
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  Speaker 1: Football IQ and trying to pour as much of that
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  Speaker 1: on him as we possibly can. When the picture changes,
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  Speaker 1: what are you going to do? You assume something pre-snap
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  Speaker 1: and maybe it didn't end up that way. Are we
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  Speaker 1: still locked into that or do we reset our feet
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  Speaker 1: and flip our mind to where the ball is supposed
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  Speaker 1: to go? Continuing to perfect the pre-snap process as it
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  Speaker 1: pertains to that. Consistently just awareness of down and distance.
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  Speaker 1: Consistently making sure that we're IDing the front correctly. and
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  Speaker 1: helping us get into good plays or out of bad ones.
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  Speaker 1: And then from there, post snap on the ball snap,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what's your process look like? So again, young player,
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  Speaker 1: more times he gets to do this, the better off
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  Speaker 1: he's going to be. You can only simulate so many
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: different defensive looks in a live practice format during preseason
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  Speaker 1: camp without sacrificing who you want to be defensively.
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  Speaker 2: So other teams that we play don't have to play
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  Speaker 2: our defense.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So they only get so many of these practice reps
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  Speaker 1: throughout the course of the week. And we just got
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  Speaker 1: to do a better job getting it to them and
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  Speaker 1: coaching them, coaching it better. And then he's got to
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  Speaker 1: do a better job of just continuing to learn like
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  Speaker 1: I think he's doing.
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  Speaker 5: So.
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  Speaker 6: After the game Saturday, both you and John Lister really
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  Speaker 6: emphasized the response and how you guys respond. Can you
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  Speaker 6: just talk about how that response starts?
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  Speaker 2: During practice?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think we'll find out what we are,
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  Speaker 1: but I think that you don't have a chance to
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  Speaker 1: do that on Saturday unless you have a great week,
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  Speaker 1: like you mentioned. So, you know, we got enough veteran
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  Speaker 1: people here to understand that this is a growth process.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's really good signs of prosperity over here,
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  Speaker 1: and there's really good bad signs of adversity over here,
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  Speaker 1: and the truth of the matter is I'm walking through
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  Speaker 1: the middle of this storm, and I can learn something
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  Speaker 1: from both of those, and we've had that early on
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  Speaker 1: in the season. I mean, last week we were the
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  Speaker 1: best team ever to step in Rensselaer Field. This week
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  Speaker 1: we're the worst team ever to, you know, put on
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  Speaker 1: a uniform, and I get it. So the truth is
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in the middle, and we've got to find out
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  Speaker 1: where that is and find a level of consistency there
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  Speaker 1: and then work to improve. But each and every guy,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you don't see any sayings in these walls,
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  Speaker 1: do you? You see one right there.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. it just says get better.
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  Speaker 1: So we can look at this from a, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a telescope view and everything is see everything. And, or
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  Speaker 1: we can be in the microscope and, you know, really
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  Speaker 1: put our energy in the right place in the 24
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  Speaker 1: hours a day that we do get and pay attention
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  Speaker 1: to getting better. And if we do that, then we
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  Speaker 1: will see improvement and we will handle the adversity the
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  Speaker 1: right way.
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  Speaker 2: Coach, did you see the.
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  Speaker 4: Defense in particular reacting well to what happened the other day?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you like the, or the approach that the
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  Speaker 4: guys have taken since having a difficult game?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I do.
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  Speaker 1: And there's really nothing else really to say about that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's the expectation. The expectation is to play
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  Speaker 1: better in all three phases. So, I mean, again, the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback hits 16 to 17 passes in the second half, right?
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  Speaker 1: And I find it hard to believe, and I will
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  Speaker 1: go watch the tape with anybody, that that is just
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  Speaker 1: because we're terrible on defense. That has nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with it. The kid made some really, really good throws.
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  Speaker 1: Some guys made some really tough contested catches where our
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  Speaker 1: guys in position. There's a couple of times where we
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  Speaker 1: let the guys get away from us a little bit
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  Speaker 1: that we got to do a better job of. And
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  Speaker 1: we got to practice with that part of it and
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  Speaker 1: practice that way during the week. And I have full
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: confidence that they'll do what they need to do to
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: shore up where we maybe had a couple of mishaps
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday and get it fixed.
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  Speaker 6: You had mentioned you guys play a lot of man.
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  Speaker 6: They were pretty successful against man on third down. I
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  Speaker 6: don't want you to keep singing the praise of their quarterback,
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  Speaker 6: but was it more just something that they were, you know,
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  Speaker 6: their athletes on the field or was it, Anything technique-wise
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  Speaker 6: that made them a little bit more successful against man
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  Speaker 6: on third?
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  Speaker 2: They made the catches, you know, and that's really their
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  Speaker 2: only thing. I can't change it.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I could, but they made the plays, made
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  Speaker 1: the catches, and you got to give credit where credit
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  Speaker 1: is due, and you got to go back and watch
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  Speaker 1: the tape and figure out how you can get better,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what we're trying to do.
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  Speaker 6: Just going off the adversity question, are there any specific
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  Speaker 6: voices in the locker room that have stuck out to
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  Speaker 6: you since Saturday?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Look, like this is real life. This isn't Twitter.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So this is real life. This is something didn't go
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  Speaker 1: our way on Saturday. And everybody has an individual responsibility
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  Speaker 1: to that. This isn't we just found some speech and
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  Speaker 1: some guy went in there, took a shirt off and
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: beat his chest and gave some epic speech. Now, all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, we're going to win every game here
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  Speaker 1: on out. This is not what this is. This is
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  Speaker 1: can you be really good in your process when it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't feel like you should be?
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: That's the same responsibility I have. That's the same responsibility
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  Speaker 1: we all have. So, like, that's what this is. This
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  Speaker 1: is not– this isn't man, oh, man, like I need
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  Speaker 1: some epic speech from somebody. This is– I need our
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  Speaker 1: senior leaders. I need our coaching staff. I need everybody
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  Speaker 1: to take full accountability for where we're at and to
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  Speaker 1: continue to improve. And that's all we're asking the guys
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  Speaker 1: to do, to be honest with you. So, we can
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: handle that. We can have a great Tuesday. We can
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: back that up with a great Wednesday. Calm them down
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  Speaker 1: a little bit on Thursday. We'll walk through on Thursday.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Turn them up on Friday.
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: We got to get on the airplane and go have
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: a stiff challenge and go down and put our best
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: foot forward and try to win the football game Saturday night.
• 13:46
  Speaker 5: Talked on Saturday about Shamar Porter. What's kind of just
• 13:49
  Speaker 5: the biggest growth you've seen from him from the start
• 13:50
  Speaker 5: of fall camp to now?
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: Getting comfortable, you know, learning what we're asking those guys
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: to do. You know, this is obviously this place is
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: very important to him, you know, and new things schematically,
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: you know, new terminologies like learning a new language. You're
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: in the same place, but you have to learn a
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: new language, right? Somebody walked into your house, said you
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: could live here, but you can't communicate or talk the
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: way you've talked your entire life. You've got to change
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: your whole approach. It's a difficult challenge. So I think
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: he's done a good job. I think he continues to
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: get better as the weeks go by, and we're going
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: to need him down the stretch here. So, you know,
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: we're going to continue to see that growth and that improvement.
• 14:30
  Speaker 7: Thanks, guys.
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: Appreciate it.