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Head Coach Mike Macdonald On The 20-12 Win Over The Jaguars · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, well, ready to go. It was a great win.
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  Speaker 1: Jacksonville is a really good team. Uh they've been playing
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  Speaker 1: really well. Just you go back to process there all
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  Speaker 1: the time, and I think, uh, we nailed our process
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  Speaker 1: this week. And I think, uh, you know what the
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  Speaker 1: challenge is, going to keep keep rolling, but focus on
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  Speaker 1: our style of the ball and staying composed, standing together,
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  Speaker 1: picking each other up, played by play, all that type
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. I know it sounds sounds cliche there, but
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  Speaker 1: don't really care because that's how that's how we roll.
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  Speaker 1: But just a great team win out. The defense played
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  Speaker 1: a tremendous game. You know, we played together, played complimentary
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  Speaker 1: some things. Some funky things happened there, you know on
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  Speaker 1: fourth downs, and you got to give their quarterback a
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  Speaker 1: lot of credit. He's he's a really good player and
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  Speaker 1: made some plays there in critical moments, and we just
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  Speaker 1: kept rebounding and kept fighting so and offensively we came
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  Speaker 1: through when we needed to. You know, the four minute
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was a heck of a play call.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of great play calls that we had, and
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  Speaker 1: Sam just operating. Obviously, Sam had a great game as well.
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  Speaker 1: So excited, excited for this flight home. And then go
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  Speaker 1: play Monday night football like seven sacks today kind of pressure.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think that pass rush?
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  Speaker 2: What was clicking that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I think uh, I'm gonna give you the same answer.
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  Speaker 1: But like how we played the run on early downs,
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  Speaker 1: set up situations to force them to pass. Then Russian
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  Speaker 1: coverage works together, you buy it extra second, Russia can
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  Speaker 1: come alive. We didn't do that last week. We did
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  Speaker 1: it this week and that's how we got to play
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  Speaker 1: you know, move forward. So but the guys played great.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, great, Sorry, How does the confidence that obviously Klint
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  Speaker 2: Kubiak has or your team, your players, everyone have in
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  Speaker 2: Sam Darnold showing up now across the board.
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  Speaker 1: We have one hundred confidence in Sam. He's playing great football,
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  Speaker 1: He's making great decisions, He's done that since he showed
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  Speaker 1: up and anything. He's playing great football. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Marcus Florence getting back this game and then do what
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  Speaker 2: he did.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, got some guys down, like you know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: missing Derek Hall is a great player. Hopefully he's back
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  Speaker 1: as soon as possible. But uh de La played a
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  Speaker 1: tremendous game. But he had two sacks to be able
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  Speaker 1: to play the run the way we played the run.
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  Speaker 1: He's he's one of the guys leading the charge there.
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  Speaker 1: You know, just a mentality too. I mean, the guy's
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  Speaker 1: just an absolute beast.
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  Speaker 2: What went into a starting Shaquille And how did you
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  Speaker 2: feel like that worked out?
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  Speaker 1: Thought Shack played a great game. He's been practicing really well,
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  Speaker 1: so smart man just so smart competes, uh did it
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  Speaker 1: had a great week of practice, and that's what we
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  Speaker 1: just why we decide to go with him. He might
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  Speaker 1: have been playing great. It's been doing a good job,
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  Speaker 1: play great on special teams. He has got a he's
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  Speaker 1: got a hamstring right now, so we'll see. Sorry against
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  Speaker 1: this team, that was critical. We knew that we had
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  Speaker 1: to do that going into the game. They were not
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  Speaker 1: opportunistic team. The numbers speak for themselves. I thought our
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  Speaker 1: ball security was tremendous. I mean, I know we were
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  Speaker 1: fortunate on some of those, like you know that the tip.
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  Speaker 1: There's a couple of tips where the ball is in jeopardy,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll look at those. But otherwise I thought our
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  Speaker 1: ball security was really good.
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  Speaker 2: You guys seem to really nail the kind of the
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  Speaker 2: end of the first half, beginning of the second half
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  Speaker 2: with the field goal, and then they coming out of
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  Speaker 2: that was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: They decided to take the ball, So that's how we
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  Speaker 1: want to play the end of the half, guys did
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  Speaker 1: a great job. Jackson has now gone over one hundred
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  Speaker 1: years for six games. I don't think he's had a
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  Speaker 1: game with fewer than seventy nine. Yeh.
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  Speaker 2: Can you say about his ability not just to have
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  Speaker 2: a big game here or they're about to.
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  Speaker 1: Do it every week? Yeah, I mean people are going
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  Speaker 1: to focus on them. But when you play complimentary ball
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  Speaker 1: on one side of the ball, if you're able to run,
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  Speaker 1: throw at action, do the whole thing, it's very hard
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  Speaker 1: to take one player out of the game when the
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  Speaker 1: ball can go anywhere. So he's taking advantage of opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: We're doing a great job of get him open. And
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  Speaker 1: Sam's got a lot of confidence in him too, so
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  Speaker 1: of positives. What about his ability to win just to
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  Speaker 1: take the top off the defense. I mean, he sort
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  Speaker 1: of came into the NFL as maybe people kind of
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  Speaker 1: wrongfully pegged in as a slot underneath guy. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: showing that it's a good evaluation that they wrongfully pegged
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  Speaker 1: him as a slot guy. That's the answer. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's just a great.
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  Speaker 2: Receiver Jared Reid to left late of the game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got a I think like somebody got whipped
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  Speaker 1: into his knee. So yeah, we'll see. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna give you a timeline right now, Bob, and then
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna take it away on Wednesday and really disappoint you.
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  Speaker 1: The running. What do you think of a run game today?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure the stats. I think I think we
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  Speaker 1: can do a better job. I think there might be
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  Speaker 1: some more plays out there. We stuck with it, which
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  Speaker 1: is important. Can't give you a great answer right now,
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  Speaker 1: but I think I felt like our guys are playing
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  Speaker 1: really hard. I think we had like one one bust
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  Speaker 1: in a critical situation, which we got to see why
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  Speaker 1: that happened. But outside of that, keep plugging away at it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, keep plugging away at finding solutions evolved as
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  Speaker 1: the game goes. Do what we do?
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  Speaker 2: I know we ask about Byron all the time. But
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  Speaker 2: another game, he had two sacks and I think ESPN
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  Speaker 2: had him with seven pressures, like the most most of
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  Speaker 2: have had in five years.
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  Speaker 1: Iron had seven, where we had seven, No, he did,
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  Speaker 1: Iron had seven on his own. Yeah it's pretty good. Yeah, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: for goot, I'm gonna claim that I was right on Byron,
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  Speaker 1: so I've been telling you for two years. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Cooper got us for a touchdown at as Seahawks. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we can talk about Jasm a lot, but
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  Speaker 1: how much, how big of a compliments he Yeah, really
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  Speaker 1: happy for Coop. I mean, this guy is a force multiplayer.
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  Speaker 1: I don't I don't having a I'm being a foggy
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  Speaker 1: brain right now. But whether it's him or Sam, you know,
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  Speaker 1: bringing him into the equation, it's really important to bring
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  Speaker 1: him here. He's he's one of the biggest reasons where
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  Speaker 1: our team is where they're at right now. And for
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  Speaker 1: him to have the productivities add behind it too. It's
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  Speaker 1: just just icing on the kid. But there's I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's explaining great football for us. I mean, just to
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  Speaker 1: run after the catch on that one play, it was
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  Speaker 1: just it was just tremendous.
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  Speaker 2: The stop on the two point conversion, I think that
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  Speaker 2: was after the penalty of moved bit closer.
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  Speaker 1: Did you think of that, well, I think they were
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  Speaker 1: They were doing a hide the eligible play and we
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  Speaker 1: had some confusion on who was eligible, who was in
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  Speaker 1: the game. At least I thought that's what they're doing
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  Speaker 1: it could be wrong. So so we just had a miscommunication.
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  Speaker 1: We had actually got on the field try to take
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  Speaker 1: a time out, but it's too late. So at that point,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there here in goal onine situation on the one,
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  Speaker 1: you know you gotta go. You gotta match him big,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what we did. And the guys we didn't
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  Speaker 1: even align right in that play. Frankly, I think I
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  Speaker 1: think Ernest made a tremendous play to to stop them,
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  Speaker 1: and just a relentless mindset that the guys had, So
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  Speaker 1: that was an awesome play. That's what they call picking
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  Speaker 1: up the coach in that situation, keeping rio and that tackles.
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  Speaker 1: They just how are you? I mean used to play
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  Speaker 1: a little so far? Whi nicki Minorio?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll have the time he miss and know he's
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  Speaker 2: come back. Have you seen him?
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  Speaker 1: He fight through his ankle. It's been a good It's
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  Speaker 1: been a long week for Nick and I think this
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  Speaker 1: is a this is a great opportunity for him to
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  Speaker 1: to learn, like to take the next step in his
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  Speaker 1: career and learn that this is what it takes to
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  Speaker 1: be successful in the NFL. And I thought he did
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  Speaker 1: a great job. I think you can feel him out
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  Speaker 1: there in the perimeter. There's always there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: there's details now that that we can go to work on,
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  Speaker 1: you know, where we can take the game to the
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  Speaker 1: next level where he can grow. That's what's exciting. But
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  Speaker 1: you're also making adjustments with him on the sideline.
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  Speaker 2: And.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's not too big for him. He's taking
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  Speaker 1: it in, he understands, he's executing at a high level. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited. I'm excited to see where Nick takes his game.
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  Speaker 1: But it's great to have him out there else. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right, thanks, Thanks