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Press Pass | Press Taylor on Bears Defense, Jaguars Run Game · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Bull's up press, how's it do? And hope you guys
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  Speaker 1: stayed safe through night and everything. It seems like when
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people talk about the Bears defense, they
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  Speaker 1: talk about how much they've improved since they got montes Wet. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it just about him as a player that can maybe
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  Speaker 1: have that kind of effect and kind of just change
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  Speaker 1: the complexion of the defense.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, I mean played against him when he got into
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  Speaker 2: Washington and the NFC East when we were in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 3: Tons of length.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's got a variety of pass rush moves,
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  Speaker 2: but he's able to affect the quarterback. And then what
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  Speaker 2: he's done really well since he's been there is take
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  Speaker 2: the football away, and that's something they do really well
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  Speaker 2: as a defense. You know, I spent a year with
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  Speaker 2: Coachiever Flues in Indianapolis as well, and he preaches it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean watching him practice, the way they go after
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  Speaker 2: the football, calls it, their shots on goal, that type
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  Speaker 2: of stuff like that is something that they've been very
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  Speaker 2: good at from his time as a defense coordinat across
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  Speaker 2: the league. So montes Wet's just another guy that adds
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  Speaker 2: to that. Honestly, they do a great job in coverage
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  Speaker 2: so now providing another dangerous pass rush element on top
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  Speaker 2: of how they play in the back end and how
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  Speaker 2: well they defend the pass.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, that's a challenge for us.
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  Speaker 1: Sweet last one for me. I know obviously in past
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  Speaker 1: protection a lot has talked about offensive tackles, but it
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  Speaker 1: was the interior offensive line. It just seemed like numbers wise,
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  Speaker 1: they're playing pretty.
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  Speaker 2: Well in pass pro, especially Ezra right, They've done a
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  Speaker 2: good job and they've had some tough matchups.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we feel like Grover Stuart from.
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  Speaker 2: The Colts is, you know, as good as a lot
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  Speaker 2: of these interior pass rush guys just players in general
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  Speaker 2: as there was so to do what they did against
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  Speaker 2: him as well, you know that hats off to them.
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  Speaker 2: But in this league, you know what you did last
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  Speaker 2: week doesn't matter. So it's about continuing to show up
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  Speaker 2: and perform and do your job at the highest level.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks press O, Mia, followed by Gary, I didn't even
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  Speaker 4: put the two and two together that you did. Spend
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  Speaker 4: the year with Flus in Indy. How have you seen
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  Speaker 4: his play calling, tendencies, his defense similar different evolved between
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  Speaker 4: when he was there when you guys were in Indy
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  Speaker 4: to where he is.
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  Speaker 2: Now, yeah, I got a chance to work with a
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  Speaker 2: lot of that staff that went with him to the Bears.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think they were a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: of the cover two Rod Marrionelli Monte Kiffin that he
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  Speaker 2: kind of grew up in, probably in Indy, and.
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  Speaker 3: They've evolved a little bit more. There's a little bit
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  Speaker 3: more single high.
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  Speaker 2: There's still varieties of shell, whether it's two for you know,
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  Speaker 2: quarter quarter a half, all the different things they play,
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  Speaker 2: So you see a little bit of that, but you
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  Speaker 2: also see the prototypes he's looking for, the you know,
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  Speaker 2: the linebacker mold that he looks for. And then as
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  Speaker 2: they built the defensive end of these you know, kind
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  Speaker 2: of the old school monsters of the Midway, just big guys,
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  Speaker 2: and then they're starting you're starting to see a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of prototype, at least in the back end with
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  Speaker 2: the safeties too. So you've kind of watched him develop
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  Speaker 2: that the identity of this defense and the fits the
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  Speaker 2: mold of what he's really looking for as a defense coordinator.
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  Speaker 4: And as for you guys in terms of run success,
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure you know it's been a talking point in
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  Speaker 4: the building as much as it's been outside the building.
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  Speaker 4: Tanks usage, the run game in general. I think you
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  Speaker 4: guys are still sixteenth in total attempts.
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  Speaker 3: When it comes to running the football.
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  Speaker 4: How would you evaluate where that run game still has
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  Speaker 4: room to grow?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think it's like anything, We're going to evolve
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  Speaker 2: as the season goes, and every every game is different
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  Speaker 2: based on the matchups, the presentation from the defense. You know,
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  Speaker 2: where they're playing man or they're playing zone or the
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  Speaker 2: high pressure team, whatever they be. But also the game
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  Speaker 2: script dictates a lot of how you're going to play.
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  Speaker 2: We were very efficient on first and second down the
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  Speaker 2: other day, able to kind of stay in those manageable
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  Speaker 2: normal down and distant situations where you know, some games
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  Speaker 2: we've been behind and you end up throwing the ball
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  Speaker 2: a lot more, or you're not as efficient on first down.
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  Speaker 2: You're in a lot of these second long situations where
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  Speaker 2: you know a four yard run may not be as
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  Speaker 2: beneficial to you on second ten as say second five.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a lot of those situations where I thought
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  Speaker 2: we were just very efficient with whatever we did, whether
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  Speaker 2: it's the quick pass game, the screen game we had
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  Speaker 2: the other day against the Colts as well, just staying
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  Speaker 2: on track and then and then it helps you want
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  Speaker 2: to stick with the run game because it was honestly,
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  Speaker 2: it was a grimy run game. We had two big
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  Speaker 2: runs that kind of broke it open and set our numbers.
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  Speaker 2: But for the part I just thought we were pretty efficient.
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  Speaker 2: There weren't a lot of pretty ones. Tank kind of
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  Speaker 2: made that one happen late in the game. And then
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  Speaker 2: you know, the nineteen year touchdown that that was great.
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  Speaker 2: It lined up well for us that were in a
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  Speaker 2: shell coverage, we were in a bigger set. We did
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  Speaker 2: a great job getting the run started, and then everybody
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  Speaker 2: just did a great job finishing round.
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  Speaker 3: That was the cool part to see about that particular play.
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  Speaker 2: But other than that, you know, it was it was
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  Speaker 2: two yards here, three yards here, maybe four yards here,
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  Speaker 2: and it just kind of but we were able to
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  Speaker 2: stick with it and finally break off those two big ones.
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  Speaker 3: Late Yeary, followed by d rock.
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  Speaker 2: Press says Brenton exceeded to expectations or did you kind
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  Speaker 2: of expect this from him if you had to use
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  Speaker 2: him a lot based on the fact that he had
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  Speaker 2: a pretty good camp. Yeah, we've always thought Brenton could
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  Speaker 2: be an impact player for our offense. You know, obviously
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  Speaker 2: he's behind another very good tight end and Evan, and
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  Speaker 2: Evan has taken advantage of his role. You know, last
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  Speaker 2: season he was one of five tight ends in NFL
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  Speaker 2: history to have as many.
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  Speaker 3: Catches as he did.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a crowded room in terms of we have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of really good players in there. So we
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  Speaker 2: certainly expected when Brenton had more opportunity, he would be
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  Speaker 2: able to produce, and that's been true. You know, Now
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  Speaker 2: it's on all of us to make sure that we're
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  Speaker 2: continuing every single week to maximize the matchups we have
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  Speaker 2: that's it, or we have that's involving multiple tight ends
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  Speaker 2: and a certain look to get a certain.
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  Speaker 3: Thing out of a defense. Then that's what we'll try
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  Speaker 3: to do.
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  Speaker 2: But like I mentioned earlier, each week's its own beast,
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  Speaker 2: and so you know, how are they going to play
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  Speaker 2: twelve personnel? How do you play twelve personnel with Evan
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  Speaker 2: on the field. There's all these different things you're kind
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  Speaker 2: of looking into and then what does it give us?
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  Speaker 2: Does it give us an advantage in some way, shape
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  Speaker 2: or form. Then we'll try to lean into that a
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  Speaker 2: little more, and then how's the game going as it
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  Speaker 2: affects itself. But yeah, Brenton's done a great job. He's
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  Speaker 2: proved that he can handle whatever workload comes each week.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, you rock it pressed.
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  Speaker 5: This might be some recency biased, but it does seem
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  Speaker 5: like rookie receivers are having a little easy time, I
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  Speaker 5: guess making a bigger impact in the league over the
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  Speaker 5: last you know, maybe ten years than maybe fifteen twenty
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  Speaker 5: years ago. Why do you think that might be.
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  Speaker 3: I think just obviously the game is heading more towards
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  Speaker 3: a passing league. I think that's that's true.
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  Speaker 2: To say numbers, you know, the average number of yards
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  Speaker 2: per quarterback and stuff like that is now you have
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  Speaker 2: everybody thrown over four thousand each season, where that was
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  Speaker 2: not as commonplace back in the day. I think part
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  Speaker 2: of that's just the way these kids grow up now.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, these kids grow up playing seven on seven forever,
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  Speaker 2: so they've seen all these coverage, they've seen all these
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  Speaker 2: route concepts to where there's not as much surprising them
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  Speaker 2: or overwhelming them early in their careers. But at the
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  Speaker 2: same time, I think it's a credit to the kids
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  Speaker 2: that come out like they're able to handle a lot. Brian,
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  Speaker 2: you'd never know it, but Brian plays multiple positions throughout
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  Speaker 2: the course of the game. For us, he and Gabe
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  Speaker 2: and Christian are constantly changing who they are in the huddle,
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  Speaker 2: and that's something nobody would ever notice. But it gives
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  Speaker 2: us so much flexibility as a coaching staff to be
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  Speaker 2: able to kind of shrink the play call because we
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  Speaker 2: can just handle it with personnel grouping. So but that's
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  Speaker 2: a credit to our guys. You can't put that on
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  Speaker 2: everybody all the time.
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  Speaker 3: It confuses people, it slows down their processing.
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  Speaker 2: Where you know, with Brian, he hasn't missed a beat
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  Speaker 2: in terms of that of you know, he's the Z,
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  Speaker 2: this plays the X, that play and there may be
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  Speaker 2: handfully plays the F for us. So that's just a
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  Speaker 2: credit to him. But I think a lot of these
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  Speaker 2: kids now just come up having.
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  Speaker 3: Thrown the ball a lot more.
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  Speaker 2: Having run a lot more concepts through summer obviously in
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  Speaker 2: their college and high school careers as well.
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  Speaker 5: Is the next step for Brian kind of figuring out
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  Speaker 5: how to handle it when teams try to take him
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  Speaker 5: away or make it a focal point to take him away.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's that's always a challenge for all
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  Speaker 2: as that comes in his career. It's on all of
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  Speaker 2: us to put him in the best possible position for
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  Speaker 2: him to be able to execute with that, I think
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  Speaker 2: that's a that's probably more so a quarterback coordinator type
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  Speaker 2: answer for you, I guess of you know, making sure
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  Speaker 2: that you have an effective player that can't get taken
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  Speaker 2: away by a certain thing. Now, I think we benefit
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  Speaker 2: from having a lot of really good skill players. So
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  Speaker 2: if you're going to commit resources to doubling a certain receiver, well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we feel like we have the ability ideally
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  Speaker 2: to run the ball. If you're playing shell coverages and
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  Speaker 2: things like that, and you're giving us a light box too.
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  Speaker 2: Now we have another matchup, we get an opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: attack where you don't have as much help over the top. Possibly,
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  Speaker 2: So that's something that certainly that's a good problem to
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  Speaker 2: have if you have a really good player and teams
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  Speaker 2: have to commit multiple resources to.
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  Speaker 3: Covering them and stopping them and taking them out of
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  Speaker 3: the game. Thank you, that's everyone, Thanks coach awesome, Thank
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  Speaker 3: you guys.