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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Looks Ahead To Week 4 vs. Chargers · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate everybody working with us with our schedule. So excited
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  Speaker 2: for today. We tweaked the schedule a little bit coming
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  Speaker 2: off the East Coast trip. So that's why it's a
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  Speaker 2: little bit different. But looking forward to today's practice. Guys
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  Speaker 2: have done a great job this morning and ready to
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  Speaker 2: get to work.
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  Speaker 3: Mike, releasing D'Anthony Bell, does that pretend that maybe your
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  Speaker 3: starting safeties are getting healthy and your depth is replenishing?
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  Speaker 2: A little bit. It's... It's just how we handle the 70. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: there's more than 70 guys that we're monitoring and moving
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  Speaker 2: and shaking and things that we need to do to
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  Speaker 2: manage our roster, but the safety position is getting healthier, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Are Love and Bacardi any close to practicing?
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  Speaker 2: To my knowledge, Julian will be out there today in
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  Speaker 2: some capacity, and Ty will not practice today.
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  Speaker 5: Zach, did you make any decisions on him?
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  Speaker 2: Still working through Zach's situation. There's a chance that we
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  Speaker 2: open it up and he practices tomorrow and he won't
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  Speaker 2: practice today. We'll see. Not open yet, no.
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  Speaker 6: Zach, is it just as simple as is there more
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  Speaker 6: to it than just is he physically ready to practice?
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  Speaker 2: Like what else?
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  Speaker 6: Is it just a matter of is he physically ready
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  Speaker 6: to go?
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't make it as cut and dry as Like,
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  Speaker 2: it's just on him. It's a matter of, like, how
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  Speaker 2: many practices does he need, roster spots, things like that.
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  Speaker 2: But he's doing a great job, and I think he's
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  Speaker 2: in a great position, like, mentally. It's just what's the
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  Speaker 2: best time and when, and how does that create the
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  Speaker 2: most opportunities to get him ready to play? You know,
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  Speaker 2: we've got the Denver week. There's not a lot of
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  Speaker 2: great practice ops that week. How does that affect it?
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  Speaker 2: There's some other things going on that we just got
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  Speaker 2: to work through. But we'll decide by tomorrow. We'll either
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  Speaker 2: practice tomorrow or we won't.
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  Speaker 6: When you think back to last season coming off of
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  Speaker 6: a loss, how does this week feel like going into
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  Speaker 6: it compared to what you remember from your last loss
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  Speaker 6: that you had?
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  Speaker 2: I think it feels like a Wednesday. I think in
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  Speaker 2: our world, I think we try to remain as consistent
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  Speaker 2: as possible and think about the things that we can
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  Speaker 2: control within our process that we can improve. Obviously, the
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  Speaker 2: context after a loss is a little bit different than
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  Speaker 2: after a win, but really we try to keep the
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  Speaker 2: mentality the same. So it's a good exercise in practicing
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  Speaker 2: what we preached this week.
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  Speaker 6: You talk about Russian coverage needing to work together a
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  Speaker 6: lot and The film kind of showed you the rush
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  Speaker 6: was actually pretty good. You guys' time to pressure is
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  Speaker 6: really good. Does that imply that maybe the coverage isn't
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  Speaker 6: what you guys want it to be yet?
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  Speaker 2: I think we can do a better job as a team, frankly.
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  Speaker 2: I think we can do a better job as a
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  Speaker 2: head coach, game-planning coverages and calling coverages as well. So
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  Speaker 2: I think it's one of those things coming out of
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  Speaker 2: the game where we all kind of want to take
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  Speaker 2: another step in the right direction.
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  Speaker 6: So you're focused on what you have to do this week,
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  Speaker 6: but unique matchup going against a guy you know well.
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  Speaker 6: And Jim Harbaugh, of course, you've got Jay here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: The special part of that, unique nature of that, what's
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  Speaker 6: that like?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd like to say I'm excited for Jay. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I would imagine it's, you know, a different
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  Speaker 2: feeling for him. Pretty special, though. I mean, how often
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  Speaker 2: does a father-son get to coach against each other in
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  Speaker 2: an NFL game? So.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but just talking to Jay, he's trying to keep
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  Speaker 2: it as consistent as possible. I have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: respect for Jim. I talked about it the other day,
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  Speaker 2: but a lot of our principles are built off of
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  Speaker 2: his principles about how he builds his football teams, and
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of folks on his staff that we've
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  Speaker 2: worked with as well that we have great relationships as well,
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  Speaker 2: so a lot of respect for how they do business.
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  Speaker 1: Mike said the other day about your team The idea
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  Speaker 1: of 12 as one sort of morphed out of that
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  Speaker 1: experience at Michigan. Do you have an example of something
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  Speaker 1: you saw the way Jim approached it or handled it
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  Speaker 1: during that time at Michigan that then allowed you to
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  Speaker 1: kind of morph it and make it into your own
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  Speaker 1: way when you got here?
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  Speaker 2: I think I just felt the power of that team.
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  Speaker 2: That team was really connected. That was my first experience
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  Speaker 2: being in charge of a unit and being responsible for
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  Speaker 2: the spirit of that group. And we had a great group.
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  Speaker 2: And they were really connected. And you just felt the
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  Speaker 2: synergy of the group, of the belief, and the hunger,
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  Speaker 2: and the daily work ethic, the toughness. When it didn't
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  Speaker 2: go right, you felt the resolve. You felt the togetherness.
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  Speaker 2: We've had that. We had that at our teams in Baltimore.
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  Speaker 2: But I wasn't responsible. I wasn't really the one leading
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  Speaker 2: the charge. It's a little bit different dynamic.
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  Speaker 3: When you got that job, what do you remember about
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  Speaker 3: just figuring out what kind of defense you wanted to
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  Speaker 3: run and going about building it out?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was wild. That was wild. I remember Jim
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  Speaker 2: was asking us, we're running the Ravens defense, right? I
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  Speaker 2: was like, yeah, I think so. Kind of. There's some college–
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's some principles in college that you want
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  Speaker 2: to be able to get to that are different in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL. But, yeah, it was– There's a lot of,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's similar, you know, any, any new experience, right?
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of uncertainty. You're just trying your best
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  Speaker 2: every day to kind of make it, make the, you know,
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  Speaker 2: make the puzzle picture come together. I think the idea
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  Speaker 2: of how we wanted to operate and what we want
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  Speaker 2: it to look like in terms of how we played
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  Speaker 2: was pretty clear from the get-go, but it's a different
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  Speaker 2: game in college. It's tough. The formations are really tough.
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  Speaker 2: You got to deal with it. You know, I remember
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  Speaker 2: drawing something, you'd come up with something sweet. You put
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  Speaker 2: it on the board and be like, Oh, what are
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  Speaker 2: we doing? It's unbalanced. Like, ah, crap. Can't run it. Like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's 70 guys over there. There's nobody over there.
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  Speaker 2: Like the formations are a pain in the butt, but, um, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's some, there's some learning curve there.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned those challenges there, but what are some things
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  Speaker 4: that you took away from that year coaching the college
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  Speaker 4: game that helped.
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  Speaker 3: You coming back to the pros?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we, we, uh, you know, like they, we didn't
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  Speaker 2: have the communication back then. So you had to signal.
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  Speaker 2: So some of our, our calls tend to be, used
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  Speaker 2: to be pretty wordy. So it was, um, trying to
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  Speaker 2: like package things to make it simpler, but also like the,
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  Speaker 2: we talk about the elegant simplicity, like less words mean
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  Speaker 2: more things. Yeah, I mean, how we played was really,
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  Speaker 2: was really a point of emphasis. You know, that was
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  Speaker 2: one of the times, that was, became very clear like
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  Speaker 2: that was really important on the style of play, how
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  Speaker 2: we defeat blocks, how we stay square, how we play
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  Speaker 2: run defense, things like that.
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  Speaker 6: You mentioned, before that like your time at Georgia you
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  Speaker 6: kind of was rough every day fake fired all that
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  Speaker 6: kind of stuff yeah contrast that with what was it
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  Speaker 6: like with Jim with you know a lot of people
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  Speaker 6: think of him as a kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of a hard-nosed guy oh no I mean I can
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  Speaker 2: I'm just I'm speak for myself but I think we
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  Speaker 2: took a lot of pride in the environment that we
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  Speaker 2: had I was just I'm really I'm really proud of
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  Speaker 2: that year we we you know there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: adversity a lot of noise in the offseason and you
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  Speaker 2: felt the building come together. That's what I felt like.
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  Speaker 2: I felt like our staff was together. I felt like
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  Speaker 2: our staff was connected. I thought we had a great
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  Speaker 2: defensive staff. Yeah, I look back and living in Ann Arbor,
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  Speaker 2: I know Steph had a great time. It's a great
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  Speaker 2: town to live in. Met a lot of great people,
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  Speaker 2: friends that we're still with. I look back at the
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  Speaker 2: experience and it's overwhelmingly positive.
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  Speaker 6: Do you ever think Do you consider Trayvon Diggs as
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  Speaker 6: a safety? Does he have any of that in his background?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 5: When you look at Rasheed Shaheed, just his numbers so
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  Speaker 5: far this year, what do you see there? You guys
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  Speaker 5: have obviously made attempts to get him involved, and Jackson's
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  Speaker 5: got so many catches and stuff like that. Is it
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  Speaker 5: as simple as just the ball needs to go to
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  Speaker 5: him a little more, or just what have you thought
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  Speaker 5: so far with Rasheed?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what exactly his numbers are. I know
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  Speaker 2: the ball's fine in Jacks a lot right now. She's
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  Speaker 2: doing a great job. Because of the question, I'm assuming
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  Speaker 2: you're thinking the ball's not finding him as much.
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  Speaker 1: It will.
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  Speaker 4: It will.
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  Speaker 2: I think we've just got to stick to our process.
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  Speaker 2: It's just one of those things. There's always something that
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  Speaker 2: maybe we want to improve in our game, but we've
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  Speaker 2: just got to keep attacking it, stick with it, make
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  Speaker 2: some tweaks in how we approach everything, and trust that
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  Speaker 2: the ball will go in the right direction and we'll
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  Speaker 2: find him. But he's doing a good job.
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  Speaker 5: What do you kind of see? Big picture out of
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  Speaker 5: the running game through three weeks. Obviously, the couple fumbles
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  Speaker 5: will stay at the top of the list, but I
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  Speaker 5: imagine it's not quite clicking as a whole operation quite
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  Speaker 5: like you're hoping to just yet.
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  Speaker 2: Again, it's a process. If you would have asked me
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  Speaker 2: this last week, we ran the ball like 45 times
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  Speaker 2: for X amount of yards, closed the game out. We're excited.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to totally flip the switch on your answer.
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  Speaker 2: I think our guys are running off the rock. I
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  Speaker 2: think they're playing hard. I think we're practicing extremely well.
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  Speaker 2: I think our staff's working well together. Sometimes you just
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  Speaker 2: don't get the run game off the ground in a
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  Speaker 2: certain game and you don't hit the panic button. You
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  Speaker 2: just go back to work and try to find more
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  Speaker 2: solutions and just keep trying to solve problems and go
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  Speaker 2: try to make it better. That's what I see. But
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  Speaker 2: I see a lot of good things. I see physical play.
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  Speaker 2: I see decisive running. I see guys trying to finish blocks.
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  Speaker 2: Can we be better? Absolutely. But we just got to
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  Speaker 2: keep Keep just pounding away at the details and the process,
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  Speaker 2: and it'll come to life.
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  Speaker 6: What jumps off the screen when you watch Chargers film
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  Speaker 6: and how dangerous can they be this week obviously playing
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  Speaker 6: desperate as an 0-3 team?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they're a really good football team. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's three games so it's like what kind of sample
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  Speaker 2: size are we talking about? But They're a talented roster.
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  Speaker 2: They're well-coached. They're tough. They're physical. They're sound schematically. They've
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  Speaker 2: got really good players across the board. They're a really
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  Speaker 2: good team. What makes Jack so well-equipped to handle this volume?
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  Speaker 2: Because it's not just this season. Last year, too, he
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  Speaker 2: racks up all these targets. Why is he so well-equipped
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  Speaker 2: to handle that, do you think? Well, I'm Elite receivers
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  Speaker 2: play a lot. He's not going to play 40% of
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  Speaker 2: the snaps. Levin's going to be out there, and he's
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  Speaker 2: in great shape, and he works extremely hard. He trains
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  Speaker 2: throughout the whole offseason. He had a tremendous offseason. It's
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  Speaker 2: really all three offseasons since we've been here, since I've
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  Speaker 2: known him. So I don't think it's that complicated. Frankly,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just him being well-prepared and preparation to
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  Speaker 2: meet an opportunity.
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  Speaker 6: Had a big game in Washington and then wasn't able
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  Speaker 6: to play the rest of the year. He had a
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  Speaker 6: couple nice catches in this one. What are you seeing
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  Speaker 6: from him and where do you see him going from here?
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  Speaker 2: Excited that the ball found Torrey. Was he first in
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  Speaker 2: the progression? Maybe, maybe not, but that's just the way
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  Speaker 2: it goes. I'm excited for him. Come back from injury,
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  Speaker 2: play good football. He was having a great camp before
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  Speaker 2: he had the setback, so excited for him. We play
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  Speaker 2: with a lot of two-receiver sets, so when the guys
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  Speaker 2: get their opportunity, we've got to be able to do
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  Speaker 2: everything from all those different personnel groups. But he's doing
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  Speaker 2: a great job.
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  Speaker 4: What are the fundamental principles of winning situational downs on defense?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you've got to know the situation. You've got to
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  Speaker 2: understand what our philosophy is, kind of that with their philosophy,
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  Speaker 2: and play from, like, play to play. You start getting
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  Speaker 2: ahead of yourself or behind, you just got to be
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  Speaker 2: in the moment. Every play has a situation. It could
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  Speaker 2: be the first play of the series. Well, that means something.
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  Speaker 2: Where is it on the field? Who's in the game?
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  Speaker 2: What's the context behind the game? Every play is kind
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  Speaker 2: of a full life of its own. Sound pretty cliche there,
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  Speaker 2: but it really is. There's all these variables that go
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  Speaker 2: into every play. Why not? You should just focus on
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  Speaker 2: that thing, and then don't worry about anything else.
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  Speaker 4: Correct me if I'm wrong, but Chris Partridge was the
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  Speaker 4: only coach that you worked with at Michigan that you
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  Speaker 4: brought here, aside from Jay.
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  Speaker 5: Is that right?
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  Speaker 2: Chris was not there the year that I was there.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, that killed my question.
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  Speaker 5: Well, okay, I guess I'll ask it anyway. What do
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  Speaker 5: you like about Chris.
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  Speaker 2: As a coach? CP's an edge chaser. He's an anticipator.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a passion for coaching. Great building relationships. Connects
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  Speaker 2: with everybody. I got a question the other day. What
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  Speaker 2: do you look for in a coach? Watch CP do
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  Speaker 2: what he does. He does a great job.
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  Speaker 5: The right guard rotation the last couple weeks, what have
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  Speaker 5: you thought of that?
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  Speaker 2: Probably will. Yeah, probably will. Will it be the same numbers?
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  Speaker 2: If I was a betting man, I'd say it'd be
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  Speaker 2: really hard to do the exact same numbers, so it's
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  Speaker 2: probably going to be a little different.
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  Speaker 4: With a first-time offensive coordinator, in-game, with your experience, obviously,
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  Speaker 4: with building fronts to defend the run, is there ever
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  Speaker 4: an inkling for you? If you're seeing that the other
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  Speaker 4: team is winning with leverage, they're out-leveraging you with their alignments,
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  Speaker 4: is there an inkling to get involved.
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  Speaker 3: With Coach Fleury and trying to say, hey, like, these adjustments.
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  Speaker 2: During the game.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The question is if our run game isn't where we
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  Speaker 2: want it or if some, do I get, do I,
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  Speaker 2: do you.
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  Speaker 5: Feel inclined to get involved there?
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  Speaker 4: If you, if, if it's an issue where like they're
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  Speaker 4: out leveraging the alignments, like trying to mix things up as.
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  Speaker 2: Head coach, I just think like, do I talk to
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  Speaker 2: the other coordinators throughout the game about things that I see?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Do I let them, you know, do we, Do we
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  Speaker 2: empower our people to get to stuff that they want
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  Speaker 2: to get to? Absolutely. That's part of the game plan.
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  Speaker 2: It's both. I trust Brian. I trust J.O. I trust J.B.
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  Speaker 2: We've got really good coaches. Ham, Mac. We've got some
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  Speaker 2: firepower on our offensive staff. We didn't run the ball
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  Speaker 2: as well as we wanted to in a game. We
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  Speaker 2: know that, but we're still going to run the ball.
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  Speaker 2: We're not going to stop running it.
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  Speaker 6: When you guys prioritize your scout team looks for your offense,
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  Speaker 6: how much of that's based off of what the upcoming
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  Speaker 6: opponent does and how much of it's off of, hey,
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  Speaker 6: teams are starting to try to do this to counter
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  Speaker 6: some of the things we do?
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  Speaker 2: When we're on offense, it's the scout team defense. It's
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  Speaker 2: scripting is like it's kind of a balance of philosophy.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, hey, we want, there's a reason we're game
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  Speaker 2: planning certain things against premium looks. We want to be
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  Speaker 2: able to see that we can execute those things. You
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  Speaker 2: also have walkthrough where you can throw some change-ups in
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  Speaker 2: there as well. There's some times where you really want
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  Speaker 2: to put ankle weights on a play and stress test it.
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  Speaker 2: So you want to kind of get the worst-case scenario
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  Speaker 2: as well. And then I think as a staff, really
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  Speaker 2: in all three phases, you need an awareness of how
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  Speaker 2: you've been attacked in the past and things that the
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  Speaker 2: other team is seeing on tape so you can be
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  Speaker 2: ready for those as well because that's the stuff that
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  Speaker 2: the other team is looking at.
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  Speaker 5: Mike, big stretcher. Coming up here in the next month
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  Speaker 5: and a half, after your first season, you talked about
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  Speaker 5: the importance of getting that home field back. You obviously
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  Speaker 5: did it last year. What kind of was that process?
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  Speaker 5: Was it tangible changes or more just you guys got.
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  Speaker 3: Better overall in one more home game?
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  Speaker 2: I think probably all of the above. We definitely put
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  Speaker 2: a point of emphasis in the offseason. Speaking of Jade,
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  Speaker 2: we did a lot of research in the offseason about
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  Speaker 2: how we warm up, what's our process throughout the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: I remember talking about that with everybody. about trying to
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  Speaker 2: really dial in why we do what we do on
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  Speaker 2: a weekend basis. Some of it's schematics on what we
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  Speaker 2: can get to and what we can't, really on both
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  Speaker 2: sides of the ball. We had Sherm come talk to
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  Speaker 2: the guys. I remember everybody talking about that. That was great.
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  Speaker 2: So I think it was just kind of all hands
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  Speaker 2: on deck, knowing that we needed to create an advantage here.
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  Speaker 2: And the 12s were doing their part, but we weren't.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: We had to step our game up.
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: What kind of opportunity is that?
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: As soon as you schedule where.
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: You're going to be home a bunch?
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: You know, I hadn't thought about it until you asked.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: So it's great that we're going to be at home,
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: but we've got to play one game at a time,
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: you know, and just stack those games.
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: Mike, one player we probably.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: Don't ask a lot about is Jalen Sandell.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: Just his leadership, he seems just about to go about
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: his business.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a great player. He's a great center, decisive,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: you know. The way the NFL is going, teams are
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: getting different looks from different personnels, things like that. So
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: you've got to be able to identify these things and
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: be able to hit targets at the second level. He
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: does all those things. So he's playing good football. Mike,
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: this is Nick.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: I know that first game he played nine plays. In
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: this game he played more, but pretty much most of
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: what he did was at the line of scrimmage and
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: dropping into coverage. Is that part of the plan to
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: increase the play count and then maybe ask him to
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: do more as things go forward?
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he's a– He did a lot
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: of things that he did last year. But we'll keep–
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: it's a combination of expanding his role and then it's
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: also a combination of where we feel like is best
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: for us and best for him on a week-to-week basis. So,
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: he's doing a great job.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: I don't think we asked on Monday, but how did
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Sam come out of the weekend?
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Good, good. He's coming.
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: Sort of out of left field for you, asking because
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: I'm supposed to.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: What would you think about the possibility of NFL allowing.
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: Coaches to challenge pass interference again?
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: I think they did it for one season a few years.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: Ago.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: I'd need to know more logistically on how it was
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: going to work because it didn't work that one year.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: It just basically went away. How many challenges got overturned
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: that year? One maybe? Yeah, it was not many, so.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Anything else?
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, thank you.