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Press Pass | Mike Caldwell: "...when one makes a play, we all make a play." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: It's one of those performances where I felt like it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't us and you go back, you talk to the
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  Speaker 1: guys and had the same feeling. So I just gotta
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  Speaker 1: come back in here, had a good day's work yesterday
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  Speaker 1: and continue that today and just get back on the
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  Speaker 1: field Sunday and go at it again. The guys were
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  Speaker 1: talking about how there was a lack of energy. How
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  Speaker 1: do you sort of fix that during the weekend then
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  Speaker 1: going into the game so there is no lack of
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  Speaker 1: energy moving forward? Well, think about it? Is you noticed it,
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  Speaker 1: uh watching the film about we have saying that when
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  Speaker 1: one makes a play, we all make a play, and
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  Speaker 1: you should be excited when your brother makes a play,
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  Speaker 1: and you didn't see that on Sunday for whatever reason.
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  Speaker 1: So we just, uh, you know, we're gonna dig deep
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  Speaker 1: and find out, you know, go back and let this
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  Speaker 1: game be a youthful game. Enjoy the game when you're
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  Speaker 1: out there, have smiling your face, to go out there
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  Speaker 1: and make plays and have fun with it. What can
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  Speaker 1: you do sort of to put the players in a
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  Speaker 1: better position to succeed really just uh just go back
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  Speaker 1: and look at what they do well and give them
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  Speaker 1: opportunities to do it. And you know, we study weekly
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  Speaker 1: on what rushed this guy, what match up is best
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  Speaker 1: for this person, and go out there and give them
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to do what they're good at. Jackson made some
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  Speaker 1: pretty big investments in the defense. Do you have the
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  Speaker 1: talent you need still to to have a top level defense?
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  Speaker 1: I think the talent is here. We're happy with the
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  Speaker 1: players here and we just have to get them understanding
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  Speaker 1: that when you do it the right way, you just
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  Speaker 1: have to do it the right way over and over
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  Speaker 1: and over again. You'll see times where we're right on point,
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  Speaker 1: then other times we're not. So that's part of coaching
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  Speaker 1: and we all own that we gotta get those guys playing,
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  Speaker 1: uh the way they need to play over and over
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  Speaker 1: and over. Well, what's the key to Derrick Inter getting
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  Speaker 1: multiple guys around him? We have to be good at
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  Speaker 1: standing in our gaps. And once you're in your gap
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  Speaker 1: and you secure your gap, go up whoever has a
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  Speaker 1: free gap, make the taple and we need a lot
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  Speaker 1: of effort getting to the ball, and that's the way
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  Speaker 1: you try to slow him down. Is this offense a
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  Speaker 1: lot and they played a lot of games together. You
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  Speaker 1: can tell on tape that they're really cookies of Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is a group that they understand the scheme they
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  Speaker 1: like to run, and it's harder to really practice it.
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  Speaker 1: But once you get out there, you tell them and
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  Speaker 1: you haven't watched film and try to make them understand
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  Speaker 1: the speed of which they try to run their outside
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  Speaker 1: his own and you know, understand what we're about to
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  Speaker 1: get into and have their mindset ready to go try
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  Speaker 1: to stop it. Doug said yesterday that he thinks the
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  Speaker 1: preference would be to, you know, have one guy that
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  Speaker 1: their cornerback spot, as opposed to keep trying a couple
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  Speaker 1: other guys. Do you feel like you guys are closed
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  Speaker 1: to maybe faking out who that could be. Well, you're
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  Speaker 1: always that uh, wanting just one guy to take the lead,
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  Speaker 1: But right now we're just trying to find a guy.
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  Speaker 1: We're out there and putting guys there, doing good job
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  Speaker 1: of coming in here, working extrafter practice, trying to understand
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  Speaker 1: their deficiencies and what they need to get better at,
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  Speaker 1: which we all do, and just trying to continue to improve.
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  Speaker 1: If or if Chad MoMA can't go on Sunday, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta turn back to Devon Lloyd. How do you go
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  Speaker 1: back to a rookie after you kind of pull the
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  Speaker 1: plug on and make sure they hit the confidence is
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  Speaker 1: still there and that he's ready to go. That's the
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  Speaker 1: thing about Devin when we ended up playing Chad, you know,
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  Speaker 1: while we had to talk and it wasn't you're being demoted.
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  Speaker 1: We're trying to give you a chance to sit back
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  Speaker 1: and take a look at how the game was being
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  Speaker 1: played early on in the season. And Devin's handled a
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  Speaker 1: great He's come back, He's worked real hard and had
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  Speaker 1: a couple of good weeks of practice. And it's not
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  Speaker 1: like we're going back to Devon. Devon has played the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, but his role could expand depending
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  Speaker 1: on what happened with Chad, and I'm excited for him
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  Speaker 1: see him go back out there. How much not having
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  Speaker 1: Andre Cisco last week changed the defense. He's one of
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  Speaker 1: your guys and you always uh want your guys with you,
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  Speaker 1: and when he wasn't able to play, it was it
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  Speaker 1: changed the defense because we had Duty out there playing
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  Speaker 1: multiple roles. He did a great job of handling that role.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a kind of comfort when you have a
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  Speaker 1: person that's been there with you throughout the whole season
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  Speaker 1: and do we did a great job of filling in
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  Speaker 1: and you know, we didn't have Cisco and hopefully we'll
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  Speaker 1: get him back soon. The pass rush hasn't exactly been
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  Speaker 1: good for a little while. Now, is there a way
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  Speaker 1: you can jump started spark it like midway through the
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  Speaker 1: season with the personnel that you have? Well, right right
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  Speaker 1: now I think about the pass rush is we're all
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  Speaker 1: frustrated about it. The players are frustrated about it. And
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  Speaker 1: what we can do is go back to third out
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  Speaker 1: there on Wednesday and Thursday and continue to work at
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  Speaker 1: pass rushing. And that's what we did the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks, saying we did it yesterday, do it again today,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, on Sunday, see what happens. Everyone's been
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  Speaker 1: a little quiet, But are you still seeing sparks of
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  Speaker 1: him heading in the direction you want him to be? Oh? Definitely, definitely,
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  Speaker 1: he's uh heading in the right direction and we'll please
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  Speaker 1: with what he's playing. And like giving your personal family
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  Speaker 1: connection to w n B A, when's basketball? What's your
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  Speaker 1: feelings on Britney Grinder getting released today? Really? Once I
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  Speaker 1: heard about it, I was like, Wow, that's a that's good,
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  Speaker 1: good for her, good for her family, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: good for the w n b A and women's basketball
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  Speaker 1: in general. So, uh guess a couple of players we
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  Speaker 1: talked about it this morning. Then you know, we're just
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  Speaker 1: happy that she's uh, she's coming back to her family.
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  Speaker 1: What have you learned about being a defensive coordinator that
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  Speaker 1: you maybe you you didn't know when you first started.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is your first kind of season in
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  Speaker 1: the role. What would you have told yourself going into
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  Speaker 1: the year. Really, the main thing I would just probably
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  Speaker 1: try to do is just try to understand the time constraints,
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  Speaker 1: Like you have so so much time but then so
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  Speaker 1: little time, And that's probably the big thing. Being able
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  Speaker 1: to understand setting up meetings, being able to get the
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  Speaker 1: information to the coaches, get the information to the players
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  Speaker 1: in a can really a short amount of time. And
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  Speaker 1: we had a great offseason and I thought we got
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  Speaker 1: the process. But once the season gets get picked up,
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  Speaker 1: there's so much information you want to dig in and
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  Speaker 1: find for the players, and then having a have an
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  Speaker 1: understanding of how much information they really need and how
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  Speaker 1: much you want to give them to kind of going
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  Speaker 1: on that. You probably came into the year thinking that
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  Speaker 1: the defense is going to look in a a certain type
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  Speaker 1: of way. How closely does it look to what your
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  Speaker 1: vision was maybe before the season. Really, the vision hasn't changed.
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  Speaker 1: I want the defense to be a certain I have
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  Speaker 1: a vision for an attacking defense. At times we've been
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  Speaker 1: able to do that, but at other times we needed
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  Speaker 1: to not be attacked as much based on what offense
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  Speaker 1: we're going up against. And this it'll be a weekly thing.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever we need to do on defense will get in there,
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  Speaker 1: find it out, get it to the players, and come
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  Speaker 1: out here and try to execute it. You know, that
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  Speaker 1: second corner solidified shock being in there has that sort
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  Speaker 1: of changed how you guys need to approach the defense.
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  Speaker 1: Not really, it's just guys that get opportunities to play.
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  Speaker 1: You have to go out there and make plays and
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  Speaker 1: we're and that's everybody. Well it's not just one position group.
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  Speaker 1: That's everybody. Coaches need to coach, players need to play,
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  Speaker 1: and you get opportunity to do it. That's your job
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  Speaker 1: when you go out there and do it. But it's
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  Speaker 1: far from my ideal situation. When you're searching for a
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  Speaker 1: starter at a cornerback position at this point the year, right, well,
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  Speaker 1: really I wouldn't say, searching for starting. We have guys
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  Speaker 1: that we understand, our younger guys, and those guys, given opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: will we develop into good players. We just need to
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  Speaker 1: give them more opportunities and let them continue to progress. Good,
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  Speaker 1: all right, thank you,