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Head Coach Mike Macdonald On The Shutout Victory vs. The Minnesota Vikings · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Great, great really team win, a great atmosphere, twelves are rocking. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: just really proud of our team. You know, we just
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  Speaker 1: we really were doubled down in it, you know, doubling
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  Speaker 1: down on our process every week and really trying to
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  Speaker 1: just be dedicated to playing our style ball. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that's starting to show up, and which is great.
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  Speaker 1: And we talk about, you know, all three phases, complimenting
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  Speaker 1: one another, stacking plays over the course of the game,
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  Speaker 1: which which is a point of emphasis over the last
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  Speaker 1: probably a couple of months, and our guys have done that,
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  Speaker 1: and the result that they've shown when we do hit
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  Speaker 1: adversity in games is really incredible. Shoot, I'm the guy
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  Speaker 1: that they have to calm down sometimes, which is which
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  Speaker 1: is a great sign.
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  Speaker 2: So guys have each other's backs.
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  Speaker 1: Playing really hard, I mean, like even offensively today, Mike.
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  Speaker 2: We started the game slow, but we stuck to the
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  Speaker 2: game plan.
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  Speaker 1: We found some more runs in the second half and
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  Speaker 1: was able to close the game out there on that
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  Speaker 1: Sharp's run which is his Dina dynamite play. So great
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  Speaker 1: team win. I know the defense played really well. Proud
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  Speaker 1: of them. Takeaways definitely make a huge, huge, huge impact
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  Speaker 1: on the game, but it really was a team win.
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  Speaker 1: Complimentary football and uh excited to kind of get back
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  Speaker 1: and get to work for Atlanta.
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  Speaker 2: To celebrate a shutout. Those are pretty rare in this league. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's great.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you look at teams that when shutouts happen,
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  Speaker 1: it's normally it's hard to keep teams like out of
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  Speaker 1: plus territories. So when you get there, it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: taking the ball away in the red zone. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence's cause fumbles probably my.
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  Speaker 2: New favorite play of all time.
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  Speaker 1: Like, it's just an incredible, incredible play. I just saw
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  Speaker 1: this blur coming down and just violently attack the ball.
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  Speaker 1: It's been such a point of emphasis and to see
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  Speaker 1: him do that was was really great. They did get offensively,
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  Speaker 1: it seemed like the Big Black a lot of pressures and.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, off offensive line, maybe the times confused.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, when we need to start faster, especially in terms
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  Speaker 1: of protection and making sure you're on the same page.
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  Speaker 1: So on paper, it's it's nice to say we have
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  Speaker 1: it protected, but you know when at full speed and
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  Speaker 1: we got to we've got to be out ahead of
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  Speaker 1: plays at a bit faster on offense. But guys have
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  Speaker 1: resolved and I thought we protected Sam better in the
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  Speaker 1: second half, and and uh.
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  Speaker 2: And the run game helps with all that as well.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think allowed you guys to pick up
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  Speaker 2: on the protection front kind of as the game progressed
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  Speaker 2: there after halftime. I think everybody deserves credit. I mean
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  Speaker 2: we didn't. You know, we didn't like go all haywire.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you just go back to the drawing board,
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  Speaker 1: get to get the good protections that you like, get
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  Speaker 1: the better plays, stay out of certain situations, get a
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  Speaker 1: better feel for how they're matching us. I mean, there's
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  Speaker 1: kind of all things going on there, and then I
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  Speaker 1: think players maybe just calming down and executing at a
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  Speaker 1: higher level. But look, you got to give Minnesota a
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  Speaker 1: lot of credit too. They had a good plan and uh,
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  Speaker 1: they called an aggressive game and they did a good
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  Speaker 1: job before the short day touchdown went in This decision
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  Speaker 1: to ring the offense back out on the field before one, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I was just I was being like a too much
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  Speaker 1: of a nerd by just going saying, hey it's a
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  Speaker 1: three make it a three touchdown game rather than a
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  Speaker 1: three score game, and uh, to clinch credit. He was
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  Speaker 1: confident in what we're going to be in, so Uh,
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  Speaker 1: so we decided to call time out and.
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  Speaker 2: Go for them disagreeing with the year the fans. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it turns out there right.
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  Speaker 1: Offense, I'm sorry, any concerns about the offense. No, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's the same thing every week. It's look that there's
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  Speaker 1: there's things that that Minnesota did that was really good,
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  Speaker 1: and there's some things that we capitalize on which is
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  Speaker 1: good for us, and we gotta we got to understand
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  Speaker 1: those things so we can make sure they're you know,
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  Speaker 1: not issues moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: But that's the same thing every week. I'm sorry, Like
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's every phase.
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  Speaker 1: You know, everybody at this time of year, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to come up with the new ideas. So
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of you know, teams being inspired by
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  Speaker 1: things that happened from prior weeks. It happens in all
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  Speaker 1: three phases. Happens every week, so same process. It seems
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  Speaker 1: like the defense gets better every week of how can
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  Speaker 1: you assess where they are right now as we head out.
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  Speaker 2: Toward Yeah, it's funny.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like we we're not worried about all that.
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  Speaker 1: We're just we're just worried about playing playing our style
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  Speaker 1: of ball, playing for each other. Taking sure we do
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  Speaker 1: it every day and and then doing it on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: You know, It's it's like we're not we're really that
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  Speaker 1: out to like impress anybody or crew anybody wrong. Like
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  Speaker 1: we really don't care. It's just we're trying to prove
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  Speaker 1: ourselves right, you know, and our guys are dedicated to
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  Speaker 1: do that.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great group. I'm sorry, but he also had
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  Speaker 2: the pressure on the pick sick. Yeah, it seems like
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  Speaker 2: every game.
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  Speaker 1: That's one of those things that DeMarcus does, probably better
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  Speaker 1: than anybody I've been around, is he plays with anticipation
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  Speaker 1: and understands situational football just at an incredibly high level.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's fourth and one and you know, run
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  Speaker 1: our past type of situation and reads that it's a movement.
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  Speaker 2: And gets for it. Man.
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  Speaker 1: Just that's not like it's not part of like his technique.
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  Speaker 1: That says him being a great football player and understanding
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  Speaker 1: you know, situational ball and blocking surfaces and all that
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  Speaker 1: type of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just a awesome play about the effort of
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  Speaker 2: the force fall.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I said it. I mean it's just my
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  Speaker 1: new favorite play. I mean, just unbelievable. Just plays like
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  Speaker 1: a I mean literally just like a blur of a
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  Speaker 1: human you know, going because on the other side of
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  Speaker 1: the field, and then you're like, holy crap, like he's
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  Speaker 1: going to make the play and then you see him
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  Speaker 1: come down with the right hand and.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, okay, hopefully we recover the ball. That was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: He's awfully impressive coming in before a guy here.
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  Speaker 1: But it's anything about him just surprising him more than all.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I wish I could say yes, but it's
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  Speaker 1: just like a d loved them. We knew, we knew
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  Speaker 1: he'd fit in great with our with our culture, we
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  Speaker 1: knew he'd add to it. And I think, uh, that's
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  Speaker 1: probably the coolest thing is how well that groom, like
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  Speaker 1: the defensive lining room and our defense has really meshed
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  Speaker 1: and grown together, which is just a fun group to
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  Speaker 1: be around every day. Like, and that's the environment we're
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  Speaker 1: trying to create. And the players have done that. They
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  Speaker 1: are the ones have done it every day and and
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  Speaker 1: it's like we talk about what's fun and what's not fun.
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  Speaker 1: It's what's fun is going to work and having great
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  Speaker 1: days with the guys you work with and trying to
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  Speaker 1: achieve a goal together.
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  Speaker 2: What do you build out the Rappers. Helt injury shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be shouldn't be major. I don't think. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: just enough for him not to finish. Looked like that
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  Speaker 2: played almost every snap, or maybe he did play they snap.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't he really make a quick recovery this week?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean this guy talk about really tough football players,
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  Speaker 1: Ties one of those guys. There's a couple of things
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  Speaker 1: that we did to get them ready to play medically speaking,
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  Speaker 1: and and he.
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  Speaker 2: Just got ready to play.
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  Speaker 1: I mean he didn't obviously didn't take a lot of
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  Speaker 1: reps throughout the week, so mentally was ready to go
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  Speaker 1: and play good. And if and if d Bell was
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  Speaker 1: the guy to go in, we felt great about it
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  Speaker 1: as well, but felt like we ti deserved the chance
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  Speaker 1: to go start wait.
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  Speaker 2: To play that Lawrence made a twelve years bed making
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  Speaker 2: them play. What impactors that have a locker group of
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  Speaker 2: twenty somethings, I don't. I don't know if the guys
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  Speaker 2: see it as an age thing. I think that's just
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  Speaker 2: the standard of how we want to play.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, he's right there leading them with with with
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the crew.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think we asked about what you know,
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  Speaker 1: his kid game, twelve tackles and two pigs coming.
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  Speaker 2: Back in the injury.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, he had such a great message to
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  Speaker 1: the team in the locker room. Hopefully they got video
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  Speaker 1: of it. But the guy has been through a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, and it's something that people it's just that
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  Speaker 1: the position that we're put in as coaches and like that,
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  Speaker 1: that's really the reason you have a team is that
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  Speaker 1: you could be there for your brother when they need you.
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  Speaker 2: And I know we're in a business and there's transactions
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  Speaker 2: and stuff, but.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of the day, I mean, these are
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  Speaker 1: the relationships you're gonna have for a long time hopefully,
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  Speaker 1: and really great to see that we're the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the guys are there to support him and and he's
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  Speaker 1: playing great football.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's playing great football.
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  Speaker 1: And he's battled through some some health things throughout the
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  Speaker 1: year as well. I mean, and some of the plays
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  Speaker 1: he's making in the run game too, it's just really tremendous,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, really great plays that allows us to really
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  Speaker 1: call some some defenses that you normally wouldn't call in
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  Speaker 1: those situations. Specifically, obviously it's a fourteen point swig, so
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  Speaker 1: that matters a lot, but just what's the intangible in
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  Speaker 1: terms of how much that matters to a sideline. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was huge because coming off the takeaway as well,
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  Speaker 1: I think was that was that coming off the fumble? Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so just a huge, you know, turning point in the game.
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  Speaker 1: But again, if you make these situations bigger than they are,
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  Speaker 1: it's just hey, look it's the next play defense, We're
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  Speaker 1: up rock and roll fourth and one. You know, Josh
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  Speaker 1: job because there was a lot of credit. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he defended play of grass, so like he made the
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  Speaker 1: tackle to create the fourth and one, you know that
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  Speaker 1: might have forced been a pass situation rather than running it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, all that stuff adds up.
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  Speaker 1: And as that was a huge point in the turning
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  Speaker 1: point in the game of Joe.
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  Speaker 2: He was checked for concussion. What's the status. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: think he's fine, and he's fine. He had the break
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  Speaker 2: up one ear and his second pick to drive that
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  Speaker 2: past as well. Yeah he did, he did.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a great player he's going against, just competing.
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  Speaker 2: Did a great job. Recovery was still a close game
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  Speaker 2: early on. How big to dive on that one? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that was a big time.
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  Speaker 1: I mean ball's probably in jeopardy a little too much
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  Speaker 1: on offense, but uh, ball finds energy.
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  Speaker 2: Man, you know, balls on the ground, it's ours. That's
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  Speaker 2: our ratitude. Seems like we're asking you about rie boling
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  Speaker 2: every week now. But leader set, obviously it didn't Well,
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  Speaker 2: I'm yelling to ball security. I think anybody in the
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  Speaker 2: stadium is yelling at too. It is the balls just
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  Speaker 2: like out of here.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, man, such a great play, such a it
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  Speaker 1: was a phenomenal play until he caught it, and then
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: A great play. So we'll learn from it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure CP will have a presentation ready for when
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  Speaker 1: the guys get back. But bad, bad call by me,
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  Speaker 1: great great call by them, and a better play by Riek.
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  Speaker 1: So when your player's bill you out like that, it's
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  Speaker 1: a big.
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  Speaker 2: Time comment about all lines.
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  Speaker 1: ERG what kind of I means you did the team hat?
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  Speaker 2: And did you see that coming in? Did practice? That's
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  Speaker 2: just the way they rolled.
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  Speaker 1: I'm, you know, paranoid by nature. Our guys are awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Our guys are awesome. They've been awesome. They've just been
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  Speaker 1: they've been great. They didn't bring it every day. When
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  Speaker 1: guys need to pick me up other guys pick them up,
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  Speaker 1: you know, hold each other accountable to what we want
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  Speaker 1: to do and go chase it. Man, they've been great.
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  Speaker 2: Did they do anything though, Jackson that you guys hadn't
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  Speaker 2: seen or was just kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Matter the way that I got to look at I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure. I mean, I'm sure like protection is definitely
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  Speaker 1: an issue as part of it. But I got I
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  Speaker 1: got a better answer for you, probably uh tomorrow, probably tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: What did you do with all that? What'd you think
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  Speaker 2: of how Sam played? Lets a lot of those free
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  Speaker 2: rushers come in, some of the block passes of the
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  Speaker 2: line squabs kind of hud you kind of sustain when
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  Speaker 2: it was a little bit weird like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the block passes is tough, you know, like you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to put the put the ball in jeopardy.
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  Speaker 1: But he's also trying to get rid of it on time,
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  Speaker 1: So we'll look at that. But I thought he made
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  Speaker 1: some smart decisions decision that I thought he got away
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  Speaker 1: from the rush well, and I know it sounds weird,
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  Speaker 1: but I thought he actually took some good sacks in
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  Speaker 1: some of those critical moments, which is good team football,
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  Speaker 1: and did a great job.
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  Speaker 2: I mean there's a lot of things he's doing.
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  Speaker 1: Outside of the past game in that second half that
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  Speaker 1: really helped us win the game as well.
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  Speaker 2: So he's operating a high level. So some good sacks,
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  Speaker 2: not forcing the ball like you had, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like, look, you know, a field goal from
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  Speaker 1: the ten is just you know, with the with the
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  Speaker 1: ball not being in jeopardy, is better.
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  Speaker 2: Than a field is just as good as a field
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  Speaker 2: goal from like the sixteen or something.
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  Speaker 1: So not thinking of like prior, prior things, but just
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  Speaker 1: I thought those were.
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  Speaker 2: Good decisions in the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else, Thank you
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, thank you,