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Press Pass | Liam Coen Recaps Preseason Opener vs. Steelers · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Well, Liam, I would imagine that one of the first
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  Speaker 1: things you looked at on film from last year is
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  Speaker 1: how the team really struggled in their first possession coming out.
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  Speaker 1: It was a lot of three and outs and just
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  Speaker 1: not good. Twelve plays forty four yards, you take seven
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  Speaker 1: minutes and nineteen seconds off the clock, but it's marred
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  Speaker 1: by a couple of penalties. What were your thoughts on
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  Speaker 1: that drive.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we wanted to take the ball and you know,
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  Speaker 2: get the one.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, and we weren't going to keep them in very
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  Speaker 3: long anyway, and we just wanted to get those guys
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  Speaker 3: those reps. And I thought it was obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 3: well executed in terms of the majority of it. And
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  Speaker 3: then the theme of the day showed up for us
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  Speaker 3: on that one drive, which was self inflicted wounds.
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  Speaker 2: So you get the.
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  Speaker 3: First play of the game, you get a false start,
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  Speaker 3: go backwards, overcome, move it forward, get a good screen.
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  Speaker 3: The ATM makes people miss, and then you know, we
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  Speaker 3: throw the screen.
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  Speaker 2: The Travis BT's got a pressed up corner.
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  Speaker 3: The guy you know, the Nickelie blocks and they call
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  Speaker 3: OPI I didn't see the block in the back on
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  Speaker 3: Ezra there, So that puts in us in third and twelve,
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  Speaker 3: and the thought was, hey, let's do a control pass here,
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  Speaker 3: try to maybe get it to if we could have
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  Speaker 3: got it to third and four, so we probably would
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  Speaker 3: have gone for our fourth and four.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me, So one of the skill players got a touch.
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  Speaker 3: I was pleased with, you know, wanted to get everybody
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  Speaker 3: kind of a touch, and involved was pleased with the
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  Speaker 3: fourth down conversion, you know for those guys.
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  Speaker 2: So that was good. It was some good stuff. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we want to finish with a touchdown.
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  Speaker 4: William, you kind of hinted at it, but just in
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  Speaker 4: terms of the penalties tonight, how do you address that
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  Speaker 4: with the team? I know you talked about it beforehand,
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  Speaker 4: you wanted to see more disciplines. How do you sort
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  Speaker 4: of get to that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I did just address it.
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  Speaker 3: I think that ultimately, it's it's something that takes no
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  Speaker 3: talent to do. And you know, we can't beat anybody.
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  Speaker 3: This is something we've been preaching for a long time
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  Speaker 3: since we arrived, was we cannot start to beat people
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  Speaker 3: until we stopped beating ourselves, and that has remained pretty
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  Speaker 3: consistent since February wherever it's been.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, frustrating for sure.
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  Speaker 4: And then I guess just just last for me came
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  Speaker 4: little seventy yard field goal. What was your immediate reaction,
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  Speaker 4: what were the what was the thought process sending them
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  Speaker 4: back out?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so it was I forget what the time, you know,
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  Speaker 3: when it was five seconds.
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  Speaker 2: We tried to run all slants.
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  Speaker 3: To get a down down time, ouse situation, to try
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  Speaker 3: to get it past the fifty if you could. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: they played three deep soft zone. There wasn't an easy
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  Speaker 3: completion right now. So we checked it down and just
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  Speaker 3: banged it, you know, and just Cam looked at me
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  Speaker 3: and was like, yeah, let's I want it, and so
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  Speaker 3: gave it a go and.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, that was pretty cool to see.
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  Speaker 1: On Yeah, Liam Hunter's performance tonight, how would you rate that?
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  Speaker 2: I guess eighteen snaps.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think he you know, made a
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  Speaker 3: couple of good catches on some option routes and you know,
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  Speaker 3: missed the one tackle defensively that I noticed, Like that
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  Speaker 3: was the only things that I, you know, kind of
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  Speaker 3: noticed about is overall play in terms of that, I'll
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  Speaker 3: have to watch the tape on how he operated defensively
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more. But I thought offensively, he made
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  Speaker 3: the right decisions on those option routes, made a good catch,
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  Speaker 3: almost broke out of that one where kind of Trevor
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  Speaker 3: put it behind him on that third down we talked
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  Speaker 3: about but you know, I'll have to go watch the
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  Speaker 3: tape a little bit more to know more mechanically though,
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  Speaker 3: Oh good, yeah, no, no, yeah, he wanted to keep
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  Speaker 3: playing offense after the first Raby came up to me,
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  Speaker 3: It's like, can I go back in on? Oh no, no,
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  Speaker 3: no time to go on d So that was no
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  Speaker 3: problem from a communications standpoint. It was just more we
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  Speaker 3: got to go see the film for the actual how
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  Speaker 3: he executed.
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  Speaker 5: Liam, You've talked a lot about Trevor and just running operation.
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  Speaker 5: How'd you feel like he did it tonight?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think aside from the first play in terms
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  Speaker 3: of I think he just was at the line with
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  Speaker 3: a can and kind of just took a little long
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  Speaker 3: and it got us a little jumpy. But I thought
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  Speaker 3: aside from that, well, you look at getting through some progressions,
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  Speaker 3: got back to strange on a progression for a first
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  Speaker 3: down that was really nice to see. I thought we
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  Speaker 3: protected Trevor pretty well. You know, I thought he was
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  Speaker 3: accurate with the ball, you know, safety made a good
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  Speaker 3: drive on on BT on that one inbreaker, but the
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  Speaker 3: ball was kind of where it needed to be, maybe
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more firm for him, but I thought
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  Speaker 3: he operated a good click.
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  Speaker 5: And then you know, obviously guys are going to celebrate.
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  Speaker 5: It was a big play. But seeing you know, Travis,
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  Speaker 5: Josh anz Allen, everybody get excited for camps, I'm kind
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  Speaker 5: of shure the culture you want to both build it is.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think overall you felt a good sideline
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  Speaker 3: vibe down there in terms of there was good energy.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we had Wyatt mile M take a dude
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  Speaker 3: to the sidelines on a screen that drove him all
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  Speaker 3: the way to the stands. You know, we we shoved
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  Speaker 3: you know, got the run in from the whatever yard
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  Speaker 3: line where nine guys or whatever pushing the pile. So
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  Speaker 3: you know, you definitely felt maybe a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: a physical difference between the two teams in some ways
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  Speaker 3: up front. You know, on both sides in terms of sides,
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  Speaker 3: they're big, man, that's a it's a big team. But
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  Speaker 3: I was proud of the way that the guys played physically.
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  Speaker 3: They've played hard, they played tough. We just didn't play
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  Speaker 3: smart enough.
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  Speaker 1: Any concern about the ease with which the Steelers went
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  Speaker 1: down against the first team defense.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's a little concern with you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think we were playing a little.
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  Speaker 2: Loose on some of our coverage system.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I was a little disappointed with the early
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  Speaker 3: third and two. I think it was where we're playing
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  Speaker 3: a tight three deep in that situation and we got
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  Speaker 3: off coverage to give an easy Omaha away. That was
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  Speaker 3: a little frustrating to see. So, you know, those are
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  Speaker 3: some things when you're playing a new system. Right, They've
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  Speaker 3: been playing a lot of man coverage over the last
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  Speaker 3: year here and playing a lot more zone coverage, so
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  Speaker 3: oftentimes you almost start to do too much the other
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  Speaker 3: way where we're giving up a lot of grass and
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of room. So I imagine we're going
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  Speaker 3: to want to ask these guys to get a little
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  Speaker 3: stickier overall, you a little, but offensive line played one
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  Speaker 3: of the biggest changes over all this team this offseason.
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  Speaker 5: What's your general thoughts on them and how they executed it?
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  Speaker 2: Second third team?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought zero sacks is always nice to have.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't feel like the quarterbacks were under duress all
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  Speaker 3: that much until kind of the end there where you
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  Speaker 3: felt it, you know. I didn't think we got great
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  Speaker 3: movement in the run game, but I thought that we,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we tried to lean on him a little
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  Speaker 3: bit and had some good runs. I'd like to be
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  Speaker 3: able to see us, you know, running better than we did.
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  Speaker 3: But I was pleased with their overall effort. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I thought Sean had great communication with those guys and
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  Speaker 3: they they did their best. But we can definitely be
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  Speaker 3: better there.