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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "Can't live in the past..." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Those those types of things are unacceptable. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a great kick right where we wanted it to be,
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  Speaker 1: balls on the ground. Just poor execution, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: couldn't get couldn't get them on the ground. Great great
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  Speaker 1: play by them, you know, just failed execution was the
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  Speaker 1: effort on that play and in general lacking today for
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  Speaker 1: you guys. I mean, at times I think but but uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I thought our you know, I thought these
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  Speaker 1: guys were were actually in a good place going into
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  Speaker 1: this football game. And you know, standing here right now,
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  Speaker 1: obviously that might have been might it might be a
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  Speaker 1: little different. But you know, we talked all week about
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  Speaker 1: you know, this this team that we're playing is a
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  Speaker 1: good football team, it's a National Football League's Division opponent,
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  Speaker 1: all those things. Uh, Dimico has those guys playing extremely well,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of energy, and we were going to have
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  Speaker 1: to come into this game with that same same type
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  Speaker 1: of same type of energy. And and I give credit
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  Speaker 1: to to Houston. They they got after us today.
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  Speaker 2: What is your biggest reason for why the offense isn't
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  Speaker 2: functioning at the high level that I guess we all
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  Speaker 2: expected it to.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're seeing, you're seeing, you know, the drops, you're
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  Speaker 1: seeing the the turnovers, you're seeing uh penalties, untimely penalties.
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  Speaker 1: You're seeing flashes of you know, excellence and brilliance and
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  Speaker 1: then then a setback. And it's just the consistency that
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  Speaker 1: we need, needs to improve and it's not there right now.
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  Speaker 1: You know, We've got to continue to work and continue
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  Speaker 1: to get better and uh, you know, figure figure some
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  Speaker 1: things out.
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  Speaker 3: Do you do you think there's any sense that this
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  Speaker 3: team maybe read too much of all the off season
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  Speaker 3: hype and is now pressing to try to maybe get
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  Speaker 3: to where they thought they might be.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think that's I think that's real. I
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  Speaker 4: think that's real.
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  Speaker 2: And and.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you know, I've been around this game too
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  Speaker 1: long to know that you can't you can't live in
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  Speaker 1: the past or you're gonna you're gonna fail in the future.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, we've just got to focus one day
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  Speaker 1: at a time. We got to get better each day
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  Speaker 1: and can't worry about next week or the week after,
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  Speaker 1: can't worry about the London trip coming up, We can't,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we just got to focus in on on
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  Speaker 1: the week at hand. And and you know that that
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  Speaker 1: that part of it starts with me and making sure
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  Speaker 1: that the guys are you know, hearing that message, you know,
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  Speaker 1: loud and clear for me, and and we'll make sure
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  Speaker 1: that they get that message.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, Doug. In the locker room Wednesday after practice, they
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  Speaker 5: they seem really focused and really ready to go, as
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  Speaker 5: if the Kansas City loss had already been put behind them.
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  Speaker 5: What you said, it was a great week of practice.
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  Speaker 5: Have any understanding as to why the slow start once again?
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  Speaker 1: You know what, I wish I had a crystal ball. Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I would probably answer a lot of questions, but uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I thought the guys were were more focused
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  Speaker 1: this week. I thought that the you know, the Kansas
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  Speaker 1: City game, whether we pressed a little bit in that
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  Speaker 1: game and and and made too many you know airs
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  Speaker 1: in that game to bounce back have the type of
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  Speaker 1: week we did. But again, you know, the guys are gosh,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they're doing and saying and and all the
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  Speaker 1: right things, and and it's just really hard to put
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  Speaker 1: a finger on it. You know, it's coaches need to coach,
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  Speaker 1: players need to play, leaders need to lead. That part
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  Speaker 1: of it starts with.
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  Speaker 4: Me, and and.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we've got to got ourselves in a you
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  Speaker 1: know a little bit of a pickle.
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  Speaker 4: Here, and we've got to work it out.
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  Speaker 6: Doug.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, just what went wrong with the past rush?
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  Speaker 6: Today?
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  Speaker 3: You weren't able to bring down a strou They're missing
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  Speaker 3: four out of five of their starters on the offensive line.
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  Speaker 7: Why wasn't n able to get home consistently?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I mean, you can maybe point to several things,
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  Speaker 1: but we have to do better. We have to do better.
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  Speaker 1: Starts up front, starts with the offensive line on offense,
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  Speaker 1: starts with the defensive line on defense. It starts right there. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this again. We need to coach better,
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  Speaker 1: We need to play better. We need to execute better.
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  Speaker 1: Whether we are reading our press clippings. We need to
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  Speaker 1: get out of our own way right now. We need
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  Speaker 1: to evaluate ourselves, beginning with me, and we got to
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  Speaker 1: figure out how to win a game.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, Yeah, go ahead offensively, Doug. Obviously you guys come
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  Speaker 7: out halftime and moving the ball a lot smoother. What
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  Speaker 7: changes were made at halftime?
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, grabbing their attention at halftime and
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  Speaker 1: just letting them know that that, you know, the first
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  Speaker 1: thirty minutes was was unacceptable. It's not up to what
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  Speaker 1: our standards are and our expectations, my expectations for this
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  Speaker 1: football team. We're I say, we're too good, right, we
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  Speaker 1: got we got the pieces, but we're not playing well.
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  Speaker 1: And so they came out they executed extremely well. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we got it back to that seventeen to ten mark
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  Speaker 1: and then the kickoff return happened. And those are just
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  Speaker 1: the moments that right now are just keeping us from
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  Speaker 1: pushing through this wall, getting over this hump, right, And
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  Speaker 1: those are the things, Those are the moments that you know,
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  Speaker 1: every man in there takes ownership, accountability, and we just
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  Speaker 1: can't let those happen.
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  Speaker 2: I know last year.
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  Speaker 7: Sorry, just one more follow up. I know last year
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  Speaker 7: obviously when you took over, you were very considerate of
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  Speaker 7: where this team was, where they had been. How much
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  Speaker 7: harder have you found yourself coaching them, perhaps situations like
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  Speaker 7: that at halftime and really getting out.
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  Speaker 4: I think we're past a lot of that. I think
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  Speaker 4: they understand where.
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  Speaker 1: I'm coming from, because listen, I challenged this group quite
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  Speaker 1: a bit during the week, you know, and I try
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  Speaker 1: to make it as hard as I can during the
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  Speaker 1: week so that hopefully on Sunday they can they can
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  Speaker 1: play and all of that.
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  Speaker 4: And.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we've we've come a long way as a team,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and these guys have really, you know,
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  Speaker 1: worked hard to put themselves in this position to have,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to be in the conversation you know, around.
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  Speaker 4: The league and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But right now it's not good enough. It's not good enough,
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  Speaker 1: and that that does start with me. That that's that's
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  Speaker 1: a direct reflection on me. And I got to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that that we're doing that we coach better, offensively, defensively, unspelled.
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  Speaker 1: All three phases had a hand in this one today,
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  Speaker 1: all three phases. And I'm taking nothing away from Houston
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  Speaker 1: because they played they played well, But for us personally,
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  Speaker 1: we've got to do a better job of coaching and
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  Speaker 1: making sure that our guys are prepared.
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  Speaker 4: I do the right things. In practice, we're doing the
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  Speaker 4: right things, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, we put together a good week and
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  Speaker 1: and then ultimately finish up with a with a win
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Because most of the guys are back from last year,
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  Speaker 2: do you get a sense that there's a feeling in
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  Speaker 2: there of, well, you know, we turned it around the
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  Speaker 2: second half last year. We eventually get it right and
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  Speaker 2: and there's not the urgency to get it right quickly.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 4: That might be a question for for those guys.
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  Speaker 1: I don't I don't feel that, but I feel like
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  Speaker 1: this is the this is the NFL, and if you
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  Speaker 1: you know, you've got to be ready to play every
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  Speaker 1: single Sunday or Monday or Sunday night or Thursday night,
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  Speaker 1: whatever whatever is on your schedule. And you know, you
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  Speaker 1: don't take anybody for granted. I don't care who's playing,
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  Speaker 1: who's not playing. This is the NFL, and everybody's good,
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  Speaker 1: and you've got to be in the right frame of mind,
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  Speaker 1: you know, every Sunday when the ball's you know, teed up.
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  Speaker 4: And kicked off and and.
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  Speaker 1: You know, today just is not it's not a reflection
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  Speaker 1: of really who we are. But again, you know, we've
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  Speaker 1: got seven days to listen to the criticism, which is
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  Speaker 1: which is rightfully, so we got to take it. We
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  Speaker 1: got to take accountability for it. We got to block
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  Speaker 1: out the noise and and figure out how to win.
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  Speaker 6: I believe you said off the top, Doug, that you
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  Speaker 6: got in your own way, couldn't get out of your
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  Speaker 6: own way today. How difficult is it to get out
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  Speaker 6: of your own way? Sounds like it's between the ears
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  Speaker 6: for some of these guys. It looked like it was
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  Speaker 6: between the ears for some of these guys in the
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  Speaker 6: huddle at the line of scrimmage. So what can you
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  Speaker 6: do as a coach off the practice field to get
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  Speaker 6: them out of their own way?
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  Speaker 1: If you can, it's a it's a you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: the that's the psychological part of being a head coach
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  Speaker 1: sometimes and and you know, if you figure that out,
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  Speaker 1: those are those are those are breakthrough moments.
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  Speaker 4: I think. I think too.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I say, you know, coaches have to look
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  Speaker 1: at themselves, because we got to make sure in all
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  Speaker 1: three phases, are we you know, are we are we
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  Speaker 1: doing enough?
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  Speaker 4: Are we doing too much? Do we need to cut back?
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  Speaker 1: You know, all those types of things to free these
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  Speaker 1: guys up to just you know, to go play. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, sometimes sometimes if you can just simplify and
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  Speaker 1: you know, you think about training camp, right, you come
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  Speaker 1: out of training camp and you run your basic stuff
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  Speaker 1: offensively and defensively, and you have some success in camp,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes you have to get back to that sort
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  Speaker 1: of mentality. I think and and listen by no means
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  Speaker 1: do you panic? You know, again, it's it's early. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of ball ahead of us. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I know, we've got the right men in that room,
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  Speaker 1: in that locker room to figure this out. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's got to do their part.