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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Recaps The 38-37 Win vs. The Rams · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Right all right, back to back right here. So good
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  Speaker 1: to see everybody. Just want to first, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: to double down on what what we said after the game.
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  Speaker 1: Just one an all time atmosphere by the Twelves and
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  Speaker 1: all our fans. I mean, just what an incredible atmosphere.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of one, and it really helped us win
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  Speaker 1: the game. You know, it really helped us stay in.
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  Speaker 1: It gave the guys a lot of spirit. We talked
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  Speaker 1: about twelve is one with the Twelves and our team
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  Speaker 1: playing together. It's just that that's ah that's the vision
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  Speaker 1: right there. So really thankful for being a Seahawk and uh,
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  Speaker 1: proud of our team. There's a lot we can there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot we're gonna be able to learn from and
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  Speaker 1: that we need to improve from. Come out of the
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  Speaker 1: game just talking about just true football. But but that's
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  Speaker 1: part of our process as well, and that's part of
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  Speaker 1: the things we'll be doing this weekend and going to
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  Speaker 1: the next week.
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  Speaker 2: You stood at the podium a lot of times last
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  Speaker 2: year for after home losses, and then you put a
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  Speaker 2: lot of work into turning that around this offseason. What
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  Speaker 2: were the kind of wins that you guys feel like
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  Speaker 2: you stacked to get to last night and to kind
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  Speaker 2: of turn.
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  Speaker 1: That around at Linfield. Yeah, I think one, we just
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  Speaker 1: had to become a better football team, you know. I
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  Speaker 1: think we just the mission we had in the offseason,
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  Speaker 1: and becoming more connected and tougher will help win game
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  Speaker 1: obviously helps win games like that and all those incremental
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  Speaker 1: things throughout throughout the way. I mean, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: like you know, our warm up and how we do
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  Speaker 1: home games and you know, hotel and all the pulse,
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  Speaker 1: you know, all that stuff. Yeah, probably it has something
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  Speaker 1: to do with it. But I think really the driving
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  Speaker 1: force maund is just us becoming a better, tougher, more
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  Speaker 1: connected football team.
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  Speaker 3: You need those home wins for the standings first and foremost.
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  Speaker 3: But is there just a sense too like rewarding the
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  Speaker 3: fans when last year didn't go well at home and.
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  Speaker 1: You go out and yeah, yeah, totally, I mean absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I Mean part of our vision is for to create
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  Speaker 1: this atmosphere that's nobody wants to come play at, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and uh, that's what we're trying to create, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And the trolls play a tremendous part of that. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they're that they're really they really are the driving force
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  Speaker 1: behind that is and and we take pride in it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we really do.
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  Speaker 4: Like when you when you look at the throw Sam
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  Speaker 4: makes on the corner to Cooper on that final drive,
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  Speaker 4: because it's as big as spot as you can be
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  Speaker 4: in tight over the over the short corner there and
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  Speaker 4: the touchdown throws well like some of the big makes
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  Speaker 4: in the big spot there. What do you kind of
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  Speaker 4: think back.
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  Speaker 1: To looking at it last night, Uh, it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: just it's like it's not a surprise, it's just it's
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  Speaker 1: it's that's that's what Sam does. You know. I just
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  Speaker 1: on the on the radio earlier just citing all the
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  Speaker 1: times throughout the year that he's come up big in
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  Speaker 1: some of those critical ending game situations and uh, happy
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  Speaker 1: form obviously. I mean, but those are tremendous plays that
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  Speaker 1: you get and you need to be able to make those,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to win a game like that. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: fired up to see it obviously, and it's a great
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  Speaker 1: catch by Coop and just like to me, it's just
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  Speaker 1: a spirit of our team and Sam just keep fighting, man,
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  Speaker 1: keep keep keep just chopping away until until the game's over,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 3: Josh Jones on that final play, he's helping Sam time
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  Speaker 3: to make that throat.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got extra click, I mean, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: get all the way to Sobby and his progression. And
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  Speaker 1: Sabby actually had a chip on on on number eight
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  Speaker 1: there to get the play started as well. So teamwork.
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  Speaker 1: And Josh did a great job coming in for Charles.
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, I'm not playing after a while
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  Speaker 1: and not getting full speed reps all the week. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it took him a little bit to kind of get
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  Speaker 1: his feet wet, but once he did, I mean I
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  Speaker 1: thought he thought he did a great job.
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  Speaker 5: I think he just said it on the radio. But
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  Speaker 5: how many two point plays do you have or do
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  Speaker 5: you convert the goal.
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  Speaker 1: Line players and that, well, I think it varies every week.
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  Speaker 1: But it also bleeds into like your low low red
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  Speaker 1: third down menu as well. So sometimes you like you
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  Speaker 1: do go into the game tabbed okay, these are our
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  Speaker 1: lead two point plays, but you're also you're also going
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  Speaker 1: to have options based off of what you're game plan
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  Speaker 1: and for like the the third down low red area
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  Speaker 1: as well. So I think that's what happened yesterday. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think that was a two point play to start
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  Speaker 1: the game. It was kind of an either or kind
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  Speaker 1: of part of the base game plan type of thing.
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  Speaker 5: You mentioned last night, your decision not to kick the
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  Speaker 5: pat there, but it wasn't during the drive, right, you
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  Speaker 5: guys would not have win. You wouldn't win the division
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  Speaker 5: if you tied last night.
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  Speaker 2: And you and finished the same record.
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  Speaker 1: Was thinking too, well that yeah, that's part of your
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  Speaker 1: That's part of the whole thing, right, is you try
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  Speaker 1: to get into the playoffs and then secure spot in
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs or do you risk the not getting in
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs? But the upside is pretty dang high. We
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  Speaker 1: choose to go for it. You know, when you.
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  Speaker 2: Got a team running duo and they've got an offensive
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  Speaker 2: line that good, how do you defeat that?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we did a good job of it sometimes and
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  Speaker 1: sometimes we didn't. And the first decision you gotta make
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  Speaker 1: is how many guys are gonna play on the line,
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  Speaker 1: and are you going to pressure it? And what double?
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  Speaker 1: How many double teams are are you willing to live with?
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  Speaker 1: And then you know they do a great job at
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  Speaker 1: inserting and and kind of creating new gaps. It's kind
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  Speaker 1: of like the way they were on there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: inside plays is it's basically like extra fullbacks create an
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  Speaker 1: extra gap, So you have to if you're going to
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  Speaker 1: play on edges, you got to mitigate those gaps. And
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  Speaker 1: it's at a certain level. If you're not going to
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  Speaker 1: play with a thirteen man box, someone's gonna have to win,
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  Speaker 1: you know, their angle, and you're gonna have to kind
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  Speaker 1: of play one and a half guys. So that's what
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  Speaker 1: we that's what we do. We've done it. We've done
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  Speaker 1: a great job with that this year, and we did it.
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  Speaker 1: We did it well on uncertain plays last game, and
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  Speaker 1: I thought we got better as the game went on
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  Speaker 1: and we made a couple of adjustments by you know,
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  Speaker 1: some of the structures we were playing and some of
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  Speaker 1: the movements we were doing. But but they're really good
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  Speaker 1: at it too, you know, so but we have to play.
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  Speaker 1: We have to play those plays. Better.
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  Speaker 3: Tell you about your guys up front that you played
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  Speaker 3: your best run defense of the game, like you just said,
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  Speaker 3: down the stretch there when they played, you know, as
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  Speaker 3: many plays that.
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  Speaker 1: They had in that game, was it was yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean the mentality of our guys was was tremendous. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I think the belief they had and you know what
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  Speaker 1: things we had to do in terms of schematically seeing that, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: look we're gonna make you know, we're gonna be We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be all right. You know, just gotta keep playing,
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  Speaker 1: make make a couple of adjustments and will be good.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll say this too, John, our our strength and
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  Speaker 1: conditioning staff deserves as there's a lot of praise as well.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, our guys, I feel like in the second half,
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  Speaker 1: especially over the last month or so, have just felt like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we got we got gas in the tank.
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  Speaker 1: We got ample gas in the tank. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've been and Danny and Mark and Tim and Thomas,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, those guys have been awesome.
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  Speaker 6: You think of ken Walker's as a hole in that
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  Speaker 6: the third and sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: Where he picks that up just kind of well, that
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  Speaker 1: was a critical part of the game. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: were really I mean, when you're calling runs in those situations,
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  Speaker 1: you're hoping to pop the run. I mean, that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: happen all the time, but I try to take care
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  Speaker 1: of the ball and trying to have some upside to
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  Speaker 1: the play. But he really really sparked us in the
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  Speaker 1: first half. That was awesome.
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  Speaker 7: Some of these guys after your big special teams moments
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  Speaker 7: with his d Bells block earlier in the year, some
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  Speaker 7: of Toy's return.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah YadA that Jay's.
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  Speaker 8: Like, I did like some details in the week that
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  Speaker 8: allow you guys to hit for big plays logistically had
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  Speaker 8: does Jay just come to like, hey, we do this score?
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  Speaker 3: Do you guys collab on that beforehand?
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  Speaker 1: We do not collab on it. Jay is a Jay
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  Speaker 1: and Fits. They they're a driving force. So just I
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  Speaker 1: love their mentality. I love how we coach them. H
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  Speaker 1: I love how Jay and Fits think about the game
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  Speaker 1: and how they try to position our players. Again, it's
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  Speaker 1: to me, it's it's our responsibility as coaches to give
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  Speaker 1: our guys advantages and and Jay doesn't as good as
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  Speaker 1: anybody about doing that and how and and I love
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  Speaker 1: how he coaches the guys too, about thinking outside the box,
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  Speaker 1: how we build our systems. It's just it's the vision
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  Speaker 1: about how we want to be as as a team.
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  Speaker 1: Is how we coach on special teams. And because there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of credit wanted to take calculated risks, you know,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't coach scared, which I really appreciate and respect about them.
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  Speaker 1: Now like you know, we'll get together by the end
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  Speaker 1: of the week and understand, like after we see how
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  Speaker 1: we practice certain things about how we're going to go
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  Speaker 1: into a game. But those ideas are coming from Jay.
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  Speaker 7: You.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's been a game changer. It's been a game changer.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and I felt like we were doing it
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  Speaker 1: last year too. It just you know, we weren't getting
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  Speaker 1: the results we wanted at certain times. And but uh,
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  Speaker 1: but you see the coaching and the and like the
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  Speaker 1: inputs daily and you knew at some point that it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna it's gonna come to.
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  Speaker 5: Life a little last night that there was a weakness
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  Speaker 5: on that side of the rams Hunt coverage. Is that
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  Speaker 5: something else Harms exploited and scouted.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll just say, like, you know, they had it.
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  Speaker 1: We had a good plan on our power turn. The
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  Speaker 1: guys executed really well. You know. So when you do that,
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  Speaker 1: when you marry you know, sound good fundamental, aggressive scheme
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  Speaker 1: with with great fundamentals and great decision making in real time,
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  Speaker 1: then you have a chance to make some really great
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  Speaker 1: plays on special teams, at.
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  Speaker 5: Least special teams. And Jay Harbor, they've actually directly influenced
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  Speaker 5: the outcome of.
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  Speaker 7: Winning and losing.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you've been on a team that's had that direct
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  Speaker 5: of a correlation of winning and special team.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like our twenty one Michigan unit was pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: It turns out Jay was leading that one too, So
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  Speaker 1: it's a common denominator there.
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  Speaker 3: It's three games in a row, he's had a huge
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  Speaker 3: hand and wins. Just obviously every time you trade for
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  Speaker 3: a guy, you hope he has that kind of impact.
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  Speaker 3: But what can you say about what he's.
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  Speaker 1: Meant these last month or so? Oh, yeah, thankful for
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  Speaker 1: John and and making the deal and yeah, this is
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  Speaker 1: definitely part of our vision of what we had for him,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And I think it's still growing on offense,
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  Speaker 1: but uh, it just shows you just keep plugging away.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like maybe you know the first game, that's
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  Speaker 1: probably probably easier said than done to come in the
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  Speaker 1: first week and make a huge impact on offense or
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  Speaker 1: especial teams for that matter. With like defensively, it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of like, okay, I'm playing quarters, or I'm playing some visions,
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  Speaker 1: or I'm offensively, there's a lot of like timing and
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  Speaker 1: you're kind of depending on more than one person to
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  Speaker 1: let your job come to life. Special teams included, So
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  Speaker 1: just keep sticking with the process, keep keep doing all
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  Speaker 1: the things, and and you got a chance to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to make your talents come to life, which is doing
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  Speaker 1: On the radio.
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  Speaker 7: You talked about how you know, maybe you gave them
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  Speaker 7: a lot, uh defensively on a short week. Is that
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  Speaker 7: a common dilemma that Thursday Night Games presents it is?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think you. I think we felt
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  Speaker 1: momentum on some of the things we were doing schematically
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  Speaker 1: over the last month and felt like we could you know,
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  Speaker 1: take a couple like next like easily next steps of
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  Speaker 1: what we were of kind of like the next iteration
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  Speaker 1: of what we've built, and felt like it wasn't that
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  Speaker 1: taxing on the guys. But when you when you include
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  Speaker 1: short week and not having the ability to go fast
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  Speaker 1: and being at home where it's communication is at a
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  Speaker 1: premium and it's not exactly easy to communicate, there are
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  Speaker 1: some things that that I that I that we asked
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  Speaker 1: too much of the guys, and that that that's my job.
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  Speaker 1: So that's we're definitely gonna learn from that.
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  Speaker 7: Beyond that aspect of it, what were what were other
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  Speaker 7: factors that led to some of the explode I think
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  Speaker 7: it was seven passing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously way too much. I mean different situations. So
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  Speaker 1: some of them were like early down actions that uh,
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  Speaker 1: they did a good job of scheming, guys. And then
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  Speaker 1: there's also a combination of we have to play our
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  Speaker 1: fundamentals better in those moments, played more decisively, so we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna learn from that, you know, and that's Russian coverage
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  Speaker 1: working together. And then the third down stuff, we had
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  Speaker 1: a couple of miscommunications and that can't happen, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and to me, if we're not executing it at the
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  Speaker 1: highest level, then that means that I didn't make it
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  Speaker 1: clear enough for them to go execute in those moments.
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  Speaker 1: And so that that those sting, you know, in those moments,
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  Speaker 1: that that stings knowing that those are sometimes they are avoidable.
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  Speaker 2: When you first got started last year, you talked about
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  Speaker 2: having dreams, about tough conversations you're gonna have to have
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  Speaker 2: with some of the guys that, Yeah, what what kind
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  Speaker 2: of invasor dreams nowadays?
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  Speaker 1: What kind of what dreams?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 1: Some of those bad play calls. Honestly, it's so I
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  Speaker 1: think that's those hot you know, they really do one.
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  Speaker 6: More of the going for for two at the end
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  Speaker 6: with the new overtime rules. How much have you I
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  Speaker 6: guess kind of played those scenarios out and the fact
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  Speaker 6: that they you know, if you went for two, they
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  Speaker 6: get the ball back.
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  Speaker 1: All, oh, yeah, quite a bit, you know, quite a bit.
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  Speaker 1: And and Brian Harris has done a great job like
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  Speaker 1: prepping us and we meet better every week kind of
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  Speaker 1: what's going on in the league, and and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he drives a lot of those conversations. Rule thumb is
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  Speaker 1: it's staying near a coin flip nowadays. So it's really
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  Speaker 1: a preference on how you want to handle it. We
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  Speaker 1: have our reasons on why we want to take the
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  Speaker 1: ball second, and we kind of reserve the right to
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  Speaker 1: to change our philosophy based off of certain things that
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  Speaker 1: are going on. But that was going to be our strategy,
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  Speaker 1: you know, going in every week.
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  Speaker 7: Do you just refresh every guy who's going to be
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  Speaker 7: a captain and how to handle stuff like that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's you know, make sure you're telling
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  Speaker 1: the right guys and what they're doing. But uh, pretty
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  Speaker 1: simple to say, Jacks, we want the ball second, and
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  Speaker 1: we want to kick this direction and easy easy go
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  Speaker 1: went on court.
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  Speaker 6: Down three times.
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  Speaker 4: They seem like they tried about five or six, like
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  Speaker 4: to kind of see his aggression on those fourth down calls,
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  Speaker 4: particularly backed up in his own half on the first one,
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  Speaker 4: and kind of what would you kind of make of
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  Speaker 4: the way that they kind of went after you on
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  Speaker 4: that and going.
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  Speaker 1: For those fourth and shorts. Well, they've been they've been continued.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they've been getting more aggressive as of late.
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  Speaker 1: And it's probably a tribute to how efficient they've been
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  Speaker 1: on offense and the confidence they have and in in
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  Speaker 1: their unit and serve deservedly so. But you know, if
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  Speaker 1: they're if their teams are going forward early, especially in
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  Speaker 1: their in their area of the field, probably mean they
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  Speaker 1: take the ball first. I mean it's like, well, I
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  Speaker 1: think we deferred, but I'm trying to get off to
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  Speaker 1: a fast start, you know, willing to take the chance.
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  Speaker 1: So gotta gotta tip your cap to him.
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  Speaker 5: How does that change your defensive play? You're defending four
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  Speaker 5: downs in the first quarter instead the three.
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  Speaker 1: It affects it, It affects it. Yeah, It's like it's
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  Speaker 1: like playing Army or Navy, you know, like it's it
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  Speaker 1: really is. You know, it's like what's third down, what's
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  Speaker 1: second down? You know, what's second long it's so that's
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  Speaker 1: that's a challenge.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe to be less just taking or more conservative because it's.
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  Speaker 1: In some situations, I mean, it's like a cop out answer.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you want to be a more conservative and sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you say, well, let's take the fight to them, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So there's kind of a time and place for both.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably more of a feel thing and how you
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  Speaker 1: call it, what you guys are doing well at the time.
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  Speaker 4: Like you, you and Leo Bot talked about not playing
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  Speaker 4: the run game as well as you wanted last night.
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  Speaker 4: The numbers seem like they're still pretty good, like three
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  Speaker 4: yards of carry, no runs over ten yards. What kind
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  Speaker 4: of stood out to you about the way you guys
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: handled the run and what what didn't you like about it?
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: Despite the fact the numbers kind.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: Of look all right, well, there are too many efficient
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: runs on like first down. You know, it's a you know,
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: talking about pressure on the quarterback, it's hard to create
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: pressure on second one. So I felt like we weren't
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: getting off the drives the way we normally want to.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: Uh So that's probably a driving force behind it. And
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: then you know, to our guys credit, you just keep fight.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: We changed a couple of things up schematically and then
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: you can understand like how they're attacking you. They have
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: they can kind of get to everything, but you can't
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: get to everything within one game, you know, like you
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: like carry so many plays. So once you kind of
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: get a feel for the formations and the plays that
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: you're getting, guys played a little bit better. You just
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: want that curve to be sped up a little bit more.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: You want to start the game faster.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: After the game, but after seeing a few replays of it,
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: the throw and catch to Cooper Cup on that.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Last drive, the yeah and crow, I mean just guy
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: in his face stepping into the throw, no fear ripping it.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Same thing. It's like, okay, don't throw picks, but you're
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: not if you if you, if you tell him not
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: to turn the ball, or he's not gonna make plays
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: like that. So we want him to be decisive and
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: rip it and trust his trust his training, just like
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: just like everybody else on our team. And to me,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: that's that's a byproduct of if you have that mentality,
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: and that's what that's that's Sam's mentality.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Do you have any more clarity on Tory Wharton or
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Charles Cross.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't.
• 16:59
  Speaker 7: Unfortunately we can, Uh Kobe do weakon Kobe need to
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: get MRIs.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: They well, me, a lot of guys are getting memoriz
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: like MRI is part for the course after games. But yeah,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: those guys would get imaged. I think that's happening this morning.
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: Uh, the decision didn't make Mills, but Riley Mills active
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: over Peely. What went into that?
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Uh just you can't carry every D lineman every game,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: you know, we had to. We're kind of a guy
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: short last game by having them both up, so we
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: felt like it was just the best best thing for
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: us to uh just have one D lineman active or
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: one of those two guys active, and wanted to get
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: rallied the opportunity.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: You only had six snaps, but it looked like maybe
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: it step forward to what was your value?
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry, yeah, we'll look at it and look at it.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: It felt in real time, it felt better, But I
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: can't give you the the full details. We probably could
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: have played a little bit more. Honestly, take some of
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: those early down snaps off of off of Leo and Murphy.
• 18:02
  Speaker 8: How do you think can you insess how you play
• 18:04
  Speaker 8: has handled the total emotions of last night's game. The
• 18:08
  Speaker 8: totality and then local if anything you fetch the players.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Play well, it was it was an emotional game, you know,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: and I think there's some search, there's some circumstances where
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: we can we can be better, you know, it can
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: be a little bit more poise, and I think have
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: an experience in those types of games. It's gonna it's
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: gonna help us moving forward. And to your point, that's
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: why you you lean on guys that have you know,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: been there, done that. That de Marcus Lawrence is the
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Leonard Williams of the world to you know, give you
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: pois in those moments, and and and stay the course.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: You're one game at one game at a time. Mentality
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: that something you really click into, you focus on even
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: more now it benefits you after a big win where
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: you still got two more games you gotta you get
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: to get to your goal.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's it'll always be like that,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: you know, how can you not? I mean, if it's
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: just irresponsible not to do that way, but yeah, that'll
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: be our That'll always be our mentality with what you know?
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: Now, how concerned are you about freaking.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: With their names?
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Concerned about everybody a bigger picture.
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: Thought on special teams. As you look around the NFL,
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: is it clear to you that like some teams just
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: take it more seriously and they put more emphasis on it,
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: and they like truly consider it one third of the
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: game more so than other teams.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: I can't. I can't speak for everybody else. I know
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: the teams that I've been on. It's a critical part
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: of your football team. Learned that from John Harbaugh and
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: and uh, we share the same philosophy here, you know.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: So that's that's what that's what we believe in. You know,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: that's how we treat it.
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: You look like Octa and o'cada really had good blocks
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: on that spring race.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's what I'm saying. It's just peer aggressive
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: scheme with great decision making, great fundamentals, great effort. Uh,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: great things are gonna happen. So those guys, those guys
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: did a great job.
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: Jahab a player not to play scared. I'm wondering how
• 20:10
  Speaker 8: that relates to what you always talk about let it
• 20:13
  Speaker 8: rents part of you.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I was speaking more in terms of like
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: he's he's he's not afraid to take risks, you know.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: But the reason is because he's done the work. You know,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: he's done the work, he's done the research. The guys
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: are prepared, and so as a like from a head
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: coach perspective, it gives you a lot of confidence. And
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: so like, you know, we're gonna we're gonna call an
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: aggressive game on in all three phases because we've we've aren't.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: It's the message of the players. You guys have done
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: the work, you know, let's go be aggressive. Let's go
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: let it rip, Let's go see what happens the.
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: Whole culture of the brotherhood, the re establishing home field.
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: Did you think you it would stick this quickly a
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: year and a half year and three quarters into your program.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: I didn't don't. I honestly don't. Didn't have like a
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: timeline on it. It's just it's just that was the
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: vision from the get go, so that that's what we're chasing. Now.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Do we want it to happen last year? Yes, you know,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: But I think one of the things I'm learning is like,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: just stick to it, you know, just stick to it,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: don't don't compromise anything, just just stick to it, trust it,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: and just keep it, keep attacking, keep attacked till it
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: comes to life, you know, and then and then trust
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: your people. Man, they'll they'll make it happen.
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: In this league, there were a lot of first time coaches.
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: It doesn't stick, right, you want ten games last year,
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: so it was like it.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Was a failure.
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: But when it doesn't stick, the league doesn't wait. And
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: what is it when you got here that you realized
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: you had the time runway to lay down a whole
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: program and.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: All, I don't I don't think I looked at it
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: through the lens of like I only have X amount
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: of time. It's just we're just we got a vision
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: about what we want to create. Talking about from this
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: is from me going through the interview process with with
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Jody and John and sharing that I felt like we
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: had alignment. And uh, it's kind of like with your players,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: like you just see it every day with the inputs
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: that you're making and decisions you're making and you have
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: a lot of trust them and what's the process and
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: or like or like a coach, Hey, you know, I
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: can see what we're doing every day and maybe we're
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: not getting the results we want, but like, let's I
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: got faith in what we're doing and I hope hopefully
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: they felt that, but you're not. I wasn't thinking in
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: terms of like time and okay, I only have X
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: amount of time. Just you can't. It's just we don't
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: think that way. It's just just trying to make it
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: happen every day.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: You know, how are you going to spend them any by?
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: And what's the schedule for the guys, Well.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: The guys were coming on a Monday, so it's a
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: little bit funky month. Mondays like a Monday's like a
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Monday for the players. But then Tuesday and Wednesday are
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: gonna be like a Wednesday, and Thursday we're gonna take
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Christmas off, and then Friday will be like a Friday.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: We'll travel on Friday, so it'll be the same thing
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: for the coaches. So be good. We need we need
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: to break frankly, I mean we need to take a breath,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: kind of regroup. We got to zoom out schematically on
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: where we're going so we can be clear going into
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: in the into this next game and down the home
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: field stretch here, and so it'll be important to get
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: some rest and also to to get some clarity on
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: where we're going and then work ahead on Carolina. But
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: We're not gonna be gardening our desk in the office.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: We get it's twenty twenty five. We can we can,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: we can work remote. So that's the expectation.
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: Do you get like a bonus Monday practice on Monday
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: or is that not the case.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: I don't think we're going to do extra up on Monday.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: I don't think I think we need more kind of
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: recovery type stuff.
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: The run game one hundred and seventy one yards. Obviously
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: a lot of that came on the can walk around,
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: but even if you take that out, still look pretty productively.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: What'd you think of the run game?
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I'll just say it felt better, you know. Like again,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: I haven't watched it, and I talked to Clinton and
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: JB this morning, and and you know, typical they're happy
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: to with some things and something they know that we
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: need to work on some others. But to me, in game,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: I felt I felt our Run game more, you know,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: And that's a tribute to our details and us sticking
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: to the process and whittling some things down.
• 24:14
  Speaker 8: You know.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: It's probably the opposite on what we did on defense.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I think we maybe focused a little bit more on
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: offense and so we can learn that lesson learned on
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: defense as well.
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: Everything else.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Okay, all right, thank you.