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Clint Hurtt: "This Is Going To Be A Physical Game" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Hello everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Oh there, you got good ready, whatever you are.
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  Speaker 1: What's been working the last couple of weeks. Uh the
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  Speaker 1: eliminated explosive plays in the passing game. Uh. Combination of
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  Speaker 1: two things.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, guys doing a great job of understanding commanding techniques
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  Speaker 2: and know when the shot players are coming.
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  Speaker 1: Tackling has been better. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Generally we wanna be in single digit for miss single
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  Speaker 2: digits for mis tackles in every game. We've done that
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  Speaker 2: in the last few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: So those always help, you know, don't give up the
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  Speaker 2: big stef stay on top of the deep end of
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  Speaker 2: the field, and obviously when the ball's thrown or the
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  Speaker 2: ball's uh running breaks the line of scrimmage, just make
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  Speaker 2: sure we get on the ground. And the mis tackles
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  Speaker 2: lead to explosives. So guys have done their really nice
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  Speaker 2: job of at their last two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: What happened people remember that?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? I believe for the Philadelphia game it was seven
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  Speaker 2: miss tackles. In this Tennessee game we added at six.
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  Speaker 1: Those are things that you've talked about though since trains
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  Speaker 1: you have been beginning too. How many guesses is too?
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  Speaker 1: Why that plays in the last couple of.
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  Speaker 2: Years Uh, been playing longer, and then obviously always taking
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  Speaker 2: a look at reevaluating your drill work and what you
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  Speaker 2: do in practice. You know, there's tons of different tackling
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  Speaker 2: drills and things like that we do, uh, But the
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  Speaker 2: biggest thing is obviously physically hitting something that has some
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  Speaker 2: weight and provides resistance.
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  Speaker 1: Some people call it a vertical sled whatever.
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  Speaker 2: I won't use the term that I use for it,
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  Speaker 2: cause it might be politically incorrect right now, but it's
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  Speaker 2: a heavier sled uh for guys to be able to
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  Speaker 2: hit and have to drive their legs, so it it's
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more similar to striking a ball carreer,
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  Speaker 2: so they have to really sink their hips, drive for
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  Speaker 2: five and and and wrap up it obviously as well.
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  Speaker 2: So we've done that the last few weeks. So if
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  Speaker 2: it hasn't broke, don't fix it.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the way that hangs from your vertical chain? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: No, but similar it's something like that, but it's on
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  Speaker 2: the ground, so you have to really get your pads
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  Speaker 2: down lower to get underneath it. E. Have you seen
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  Speaker 2: Clint any signs that there's some catch up that Devin
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  Speaker 2: Witherspoon havn't to get back or is it.
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  Speaker 1: Inn seen him? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that I would say that, cause I
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  Speaker 2: mean even he missed a ton of time and the
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  Speaker 2: uh spring time and training camp, and he hit the
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  Speaker 2: ground running when uh we started the season. Like I said,
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  Speaker 2: guys are really smart and sharp and they see football
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  Speaker 2: from a little bit of a different perspective. As a
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  Speaker 2: young player, there's always gonna naturally be some form of rest,
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  Speaker 2: but I think he'll he'll catch up pretty fast.
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  Speaker 1: What's if Devin Bush has to play more, if Jordan
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  Speaker 1: Tank go just what's he shown you at the time
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  Speaker 1: he's been in there?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, another guy that you know sees the ball really well.
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  Speaker 2: Uh get downhill. Uh, good at striking blocks and getting
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  Speaker 2: off as a part of his game. I know he
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  Speaker 2: wanted to prove on since he had got here a
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  Speaker 2: good feel in the passing game as well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and he's been a violent striker when he's had the
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  Speaker 2: opportunities that presented himself. So, Uh, he's done, he's done. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, excited that he's Obviously he's a tough transition.
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  Speaker 2: You know, a guy's played a lot of football and
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  Speaker 2: then here he comes into a situation where Jordan comes
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  Speaker 2: back earlier, maybe even then expected, and he goes into
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  Speaker 2: a backup world, but he hambled like a pro, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And now the opportunity ever presents itself again. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: based on where Jordan is at. But he's done a
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  Speaker 2: really nice job.
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  Speaker 1: How did you see Recto? He obviously did. He plays
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  Speaker 1: mister previously bas and comes back and plays the whole
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  Speaker 1: game as a hit fiend and all unw.
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  Speaker 2: He' kind of see that this oh great maturity. You know,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes that happens with young guys. You know, s things happen,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and something whether you have to you look
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  Speaker 2: at it like you gotta grab the attention of a
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  Speaker 2: player or you know, obviously he's kind of got to
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  Speaker 2: get some things figured out along the way. I would
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  Speaker 2: say that he has and handle it really really well.
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  Speaker 2: Commend him for that. Whatever those situations arise that sometimes
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  Speaker 2: the young guys they have a hard time accepting, you know,
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  Speaker 2: con constructive criticism. I'm not saying that was Trek in
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  Speaker 2: any instance, but when those things happen, how do you respond?
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  Speaker 1: You know, That's what shows the true character of a person, uh,
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  Speaker 1: in tough times.
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  Speaker 2: So and he responded really really well, proud of him
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  Speaker 2: for that and and he's uh played good boe.
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  Speaker 1: How oppressive is what Julian was able to do last
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  Speaker 1: week to not be here all week fly outside?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's way overblown him. He didn't do anything.
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  Speaker 2: His wife did it all. Alright, let's get that straight.
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  Speaker 2: She's the one that was in labor, she had the baby.
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  Speaker 2: You're just along for the ride. I got two kids.
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  Speaker 2: I ain't have to do a damn thing. Just stay
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  Speaker 2: out of the way and don't make any dumb ass comments.
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  Speaker 2: You know that's all you gotta do. So he Uh,
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  Speaker 2: he's getting way too much ready. But on a serious note, no,
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  Speaker 2: he uh unbelievable to be ready for the game. Smart
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  Speaker 2: on top of his stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: It was great to have him out there and obviously
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  Speaker 2: excited for him being a new dad. Uh, but she
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  Speaker 2: needs to get all the credit, not him.
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  Speaker 1: How did Devin it'll uh Devin Bush where its handle?
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  Speaker 1: He adjustment. It sounds like you said the plans during
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  Speaker 1: that game was with how Adams. He's sort of stepping
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  Speaker 1: in from Jordan. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Uh Dee Bush has been handling both roles, playing dinebacker
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  Speaker 2: in the big nickel spot.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: We like to dual train guys just so you don't
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  Speaker 2: wanna get knocked out of a package just because you
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  Speaker 2: lose one particular player.
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  Speaker 1: You want guys to learn multiple roles.
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  Speaker 2: And Uh, he's done a good job of being able
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  Speaker 2: to handle both spots, if that's what you're asking. So uh,
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  Speaker 2: in this carryover in both spots, it's not like there's
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  Speaker 2: a far departure in terms of coverage techniques and run
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  Speaker 2: fit responsibilities.
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  Speaker 1: Uh that tie into that. So he's done a nice job. Yea.
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  Speaker 1: If Jamal Adams canna make it back this week, where
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  Speaker 1: does he fit into.
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  Speaker 2: Thames or same roles that he's been it's in terms
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  Speaker 2: of playing in the big nickel spot and potentially dying.
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  Speaker 1: So I'll see where he's at.
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  Speaker 2: But he's still in the same in that in that role,
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  Speaker 2: you know where he can be a dominant factor run
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  Speaker 2: a line of scrimmage, the run defense.
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  Speaker 1: The last few weeks. What did we do to play up.
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  Speaker 2: Something like don Yeah, like I said in the Philly game,
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  Speaker 2: we were willing to conceive some stuff to be able
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  Speaker 2: to protect the edges and not give up anything deep
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  Speaker 2: down the field. That was definitely not the plan going
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  Speaker 2: into Tennessee. Uh, So we just had some things to
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  Speaker 2: term up in terms of just alignments, uh in not
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  Speaker 2: losing leverage on the football, playing some blocks better at
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  Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage to be better. So it always
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  Speaker 2: starts edge setting, knockbacks, and then obviously guys gotta be
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  Speaker 2: able to take their shots and their gaps and get
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  Speaker 2: things on the ground. Cause with a guy like we
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  Speaker 2: just saw, he pulls us a little bit of a
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  Speaker 2: different challenge. You wanna make him stop his feet, and
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  Speaker 2: we didn't do a great job of that. Within the game.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the first half of it was really where
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  Speaker 2: the mess was. They had way too much and the
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  Speaker 2: yards per care Like if they wanna say like seven
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  Speaker 2: in the first half. Second half, I wanna say they
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  Speaker 2: had sixteen carres for forty six, and it was like
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  Speaker 2: three point five or three point seven. So we got
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  Speaker 2: to fix in the second half. But the first half
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  Speaker 2: just left a really bad taste in our mouth. And
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  Speaker 2: then think, uh, there was like another thirty yards and scrambles.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. One of 'em was a big third down conversion
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  Speaker 1: that was just not a very good play. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you did th as just said, I think quarterbacks have
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  Speaker 1: brought ahead of yards rushing the last two weeks. It's obvious.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this, this, Yeah, the hurts runs to draw, like
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  Speaker 2: in the late part of the game, when the quarterback
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  Speaker 2: scrambles up from we gotta do a better job. The
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  Speaker 2: sacks are grade wouldn't keep those going, But we gotta
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  Speaker 2: make sure when we play a quarterback that's a nimble
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  Speaker 2: enough athlete to hurt us. When the pocket breaks down,
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  Speaker 2: we gotta corral and keep 'em in there. Uh So
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  Speaker 2: we don't let players get extended. That's a little been
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of an Achilles hill the whole year.
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  Speaker 1: People Draymont. Then you kind of laid in those guys
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  Speaker 1: at have time you can look better than the second half.
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  Speaker 1: How do you just decide when the people drugget poison
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  Speaker 1: to half time or lay in.
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  Speaker 2: I would say this is probably the weirdest or I
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  Speaker 2: don't wanna say weirdest, but the hardest part of this role.
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  Speaker 2: When you're a position coach, a d line coach, I
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  Speaker 2: could lose my stuff all the time, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: it'd be fine and get their attention and be ready
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  Speaker 2: to roll. When you're in this particular spot, I kind
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  Speaker 2: of gotta always catch myself and not do that.
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  Speaker 1: So I can keep everybody on the same age and
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  Speaker 1: not go there.
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  Speaker 2: But sometimes it's warranted, you know it that stuff happens,
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  Speaker 2: and and they're grown men, you know, it's just getting
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  Speaker 2: their attention, like fellas, we're better than this now, like
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  Speaker 2: what are we doing? And in Clayman's terms, but we
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  Speaker 2: get it figured out and get it worked out. But
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  Speaker 2: it's you have to have a little bit more of
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  Speaker 2: a calmer head, so to speak, more often when you
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  Speaker 2: have to deal with everybody, Cause coaching linebackers and coaching
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  Speaker 2: dbs is different than coaching the defensive line and how
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  Speaker 2: you handle it. So pick and choose my spots, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't like to go to that route anyway. Teenage
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  Speaker 2: kids makes you kind of calm some stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Down every now and then.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you think you may have more of a cachet
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  Speaker 2: to do that with some of the guys here that
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  Speaker 2: because you've kind of grown up with film with then
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  Speaker 2: my coach and uh maybe, so, I mean they know me,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they know where I come from and those situations,
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  Speaker 2: and like I said, I'm not like that all the time.
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  Speaker 1: So I think when you do that all the time,
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  Speaker 1: people like get okay, it gets old.
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  Speaker 2: Uh But that's generally not my approach, but uh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think, uh the relationships, guys understand where I'm coming
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  Speaker 2: from and whatnot, and so they, uh, we're supportive of it,
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  Speaker 2: and we gotta fixed the league.
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  Speaker 1: Guys have been there, like the Julie's Pig. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's gags game.
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  Speaker 2: The end, big get off for the Titans game.
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  Speaker 1: How much did that maybe help you on the stretch
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  Speaker 1: if you guys finishing with those.
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  Speaker 2: Games to all those things are great, Uh, great occurrences
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  Speaker 2: that happen in the game, cause now you kind of
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  Speaker 2: you learn some things. You've been in those situations before,
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  Speaker 2: whether you gotta come from behind in a game or
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  Speaker 2: you gotta finish the game in the end, like you're
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  Speaker 2: talking about. It's great for those guys to have recall,
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  Speaker 2: cause we've been in those moments in those situations before,
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  Speaker 2: whether we finish it like you said, with the pick
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  Speaker 2: or with the rush. I say all the time, rushing
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  Speaker 2: co and rush and coverage complement each other. Uh So
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  Speaker 2: those parts of it are great. You just wanna see
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  Speaker 2: us pull the full thing together, which iss be consistent
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  Speaker 2: with our run defense and obviously third down is another
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  Speaker 2: big part of that. Make things a lot easier when
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  Speaker 2: we get all those things tied together.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned the tackle stuff you guys kind of did.
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  Speaker 1: Is there I guess there a reason why you don't
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  Speaker 1: just do that in all year. Is just something practical
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  Speaker 1: or no, it's not.
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  Speaker 2: I mean what you try to do is you create
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  Speaker 2: certain instances that happen, like if you play a team
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  Speaker 2: that it's a big perimeter screen team and they put
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  Speaker 2: the ball outside. You know, there's things like with uh,
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  Speaker 2: sideline tackling drills, leveraging the football and incorporating tackling, and
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  Speaker 2: that is what you wanna try to emphasize and focus on,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and different things like I said, per pretending
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  Speaker 2: to who you play. But really, at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day was it was about us putting our bodies
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  Speaker 2: on people. You can't necessarily do it in practice, but
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  Speaker 2: to use a sled, to have some weight behind it
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  Speaker 2: to do that, to kind of emulate that we had
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  Speaker 2: to do.
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  Speaker 1: And it was like, you know what, it's been great
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  Speaker 1: for us the last two weeks. Let's keep it going.
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  Speaker 2: We're getting ready to play another really big back, you know,
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  Speaker 2: big tight ends, big physical guys.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta to put bodies on these guys. And it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a physical style of game. We know. We
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  Speaker 1: were very aware of how they play, so gotta be
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  Speaker 1: prepared for that. They hit the giliant uh brother guy
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  Speaker 1: that knocked the ball out. It seems like any time, Almo,
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  Speaker 1: pretty much every time you see a big hit like
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  Speaker 1: that where the ball gets dislodged, there's almost always a penalty.
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  Speaker 1: Was that a textbook example of how to do that? Claim?
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  Speaker 2: The absolutely lower your strike zone, obviously, always trying to
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  Speaker 2: lead with your with your shoulder. It used to be
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  Speaker 2: when you were taught out of tackle, you would always
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  Speaker 2: cross face. But now if you cross face, you were
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  Speaker 2: leading with your head, even though that may not be
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  Speaker 2: your intention. So you try to get near shoulder involved.
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  Speaker 2: So obviously, as you see the player coming, he did
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  Speaker 2: a great job of taking a correct angle where he
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  Speaker 2: made it as a right shoulder hit and his head
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  Speaker 2: didn't have to go across the bow. You know, if
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  Speaker 2: he was laid on that route and he does the rest,
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  Speaker 2: probably look at that a little bit differently. But it's
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  Speaker 2: asking a lot cause you think about how fast the
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  Speaker 2: game is going. A guy asks the process of all
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  Speaker 2: that information in real time. So it was a great
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  Speaker 2: hit I thought Diggie's hit that he got flagged on,
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  Speaker 2: you know, not trying to get fine. But I'm just ah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if I agree, cause he didn't have
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  Speaker 2: he didn't have his head involved with that one. I
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  Speaker 2: made me wonder if maybe they threw it cause they
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  Speaker 2: thought he could have pulled off. How do you know
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  Speaker 2: the guy's not in position to catch the ball? You know,
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  Speaker 2: So those are all the split second judgment things. I
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  Speaker 2: I was a s I was a so curious about
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  Speaker 2: that one, waiting to hear the response back from the league.
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  Speaker 1: You a trade grounds un.
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  Speaker 2: Apparent man, Yeah, you know it's a tough one. We
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  Speaker 2: just we knew going into the game. D Hoppo was
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  Speaker 2: gonna be a guy that was gonna trying to draw
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  Speaker 2: an initiate contact. He wants to be physical at the
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  Speaker 2: top of the route. That's how it create separation. I
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  Speaker 2: think Tray could have played that one a little bit differently.
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  Speaker 2: The double pass, it's not you know, Christmas was good
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  Speaker 2: and now you want up bringing us now we uh
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  Speaker 2: we drew. We worked out cause we knew they were
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  Speaker 2: a big gadget and uh gadget team and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: We worked a couple of double passes last week. Obviously
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  Speaker 2: we missed that opportunity should have been in the deep third.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good one to learn from, you know, on
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  Speaker 2: that one. He knew it as soon as it happened.
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  Speaker 2: How you, Artie has done really well, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: Artie is. It's tough when you get a veteran player
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  Speaker 2: that's been at one spoted majority of his career. Nickel
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  Speaker 2: is not an easy position to play into. His credit
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  Speaker 2: to me, I think you extend your career because now
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  Speaker 2: you can do so much more besides just playing the
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  Speaker 2: corner spot. He can play the nickel and everybody's known
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  Speaker 2: his own career, he can play man the man. So
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  Speaker 2: the fact that he understands all the run fit it's
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  Speaker 2: in the zones and his awareness, uh already's done a
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  Speaker 2: really nice job when he's had to feel into those roles.
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  Speaker 1: We're really proud of 'em. Anything else than appreciate you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Take care