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Press Pass | Mike Caldwell: "We Got to Get Back to Tackling." · Press Pass

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Speaker 1: You got to have confidence in yourself. You know, you've
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Speaker 1: been doing this a long time. They've put in so
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Speaker 1: much work and they understand that. You know, it's time
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Speaker 1: to go out there and let the work pay off.
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Speaker 1: And it hasn't the last few few games, and it's frustrating,
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Speaker 1: and you go back to work and you grind and
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Speaker 1: you go back out.
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Speaker 2: There and give another go.
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Speaker 1: But mentally, you know, every time you step out on
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Speaker 1: that field, you need to think that you need to
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Speaker 1: know that you're able to get the job done, and
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Speaker 1: it's the opportunity to go get it done.
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Speaker 3: Don't reference potential rusts when it came to both Andre
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Speaker 3: and Tyson health wise in terms of how much game
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Speaker 3: match they saw Sunday versus what you're expecting for them
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Speaker 3: this upcoming Sunday, Where would you evaluate where both those
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Speaker 3: guys are.
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Speaker 2: I think both those guys are going in the right direction.
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Speaker 1: You know, anytime you miss time, you you know, football
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Speaker 1: is such a muscle memory job, and anytime you miss it,
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Speaker 1: you I guess you missed the day to day movements
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Speaker 1: and it takes.
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Speaker 2: A while to get back into that end.
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Speaker 1: Those guys that are, you know, working hard and they're
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Speaker 1: getting ready to go again this week. So then them
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Speaker 1: sitting in the second half was more just were they
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Speaker 1: not necessarily ready to play a full game or what
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Speaker 1: went into that decision.
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Speaker 2: No, they were ready.
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Speaker 1: It's just that anytime you're dealing with a certain type
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Speaker 1: of injuries, you wanna not let fatigue be.
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Speaker 2: A factor in it.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I don't want to say a pitch count,
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Speaker 1: but you know, just let the guys work their way
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Speaker 1: back into it and think about it is we've talked
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Speaker 1: and we stressed next man up, and we have confidence
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Speaker 1: in the guys behind them. You look at it, you
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Speaker 1: look at Cisco and you look at Dewey, those guys
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Speaker 1: you know you can put him out there and you
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Speaker 1: know sometimes you don't even know the difference.
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Speaker 2: And then you see Buster, he's done such a good job.
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Speaker 1: Give him opportunity and let Tyson not have a setback,
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Speaker 1: and you know, it's just opportunities for guys that we
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Speaker 1: trust and they came in and did a good job
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Speaker 1: for us. It's always next man up here, and that's
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Speaker 1: just another way.
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Speaker 2: To use it.
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Speaker 3: Mike, what do you think the miss tackles have gone
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Speaker 3: done on one to eighty from the start of season.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: It's it's something that you know, it's hard to put
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Speaker 1: your finger on. But again, my message to the guys
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Speaker 1: this morning and again this afternoon.
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Speaker 2: We work it every Wednesday. We're gonna work at Wednesday
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Speaker 2: and Thursday. We got to get back to tackling.
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Speaker 1: And the only way you get back to it is
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Speaker 1: go out there. You drill it, and you focus on
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Speaker 1: it and get guys to take the extra step. And
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Speaker 1: it's all eleven guys. It's not just one guy missing
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Speaker 1: that tackle. All eleven guys have to be there to
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Speaker 1: get the guy on the ground.
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Speaker 3: The fact that it was so good earlier in the seasons,
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Speaker 3: did I give you confidence that they can.
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Speaker 2: You know, kind of happen again. Well, my confidence is
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Speaker 2: in the guys. They're gonna come back.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna work hard, and they're gonna do what we
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Speaker 1: ask and they're gonna get another opportunity to go out
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Speaker 1: there and write the ship.
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Speaker 2: And that's what you look for.
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Speaker 1: Guys that want to get it right, Guys that work hard,
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Speaker 1: and we have those guys.
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Speaker 2: This year.
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Speaker 1: Really, he's he's grinding, you know, it's a tough situation.
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Speaker 1: He's on a team that had a bunch of talent offensively,
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Speaker 1: and you know they had some tough breaks, but he's grinding,
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Speaker 1: he's making progress. You see him like his progressions are
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Speaker 1: starting to be smoother. He's getting the ball out of
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Speaker 1: his hand faster, and he has some weapons around him.
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Speaker 1: So he guy like, we face a bunch of young
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks this year and haven't fared well against a bunch
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Speaker 1: of them. But you know now it's another opportunity for
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Speaker 1: us to get back. So anybody that rolls in here
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Speaker 1: this week, we need to be ready to play. It's
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Speaker 1: more about us making sure we're ready to play than
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Speaker 1: whoever we play. When you're in this kind of hole
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Speaker 1: and you know you need to win to get into
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Speaker 1: the postseason, when you walk in those team meetings, do.
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Speaker 3: You get the vibe from the team that they're ready
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Speaker 3: to do what it takes to get back on the
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Speaker 3: right foot.
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Speaker 2: We just want to win, no matter or.
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Speaker 1: The only thing we're focused on this week is being
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Speaker 1: wanted to know at the end of the week because
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Speaker 1: anything else doesn't matter. We have to write our ship
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Speaker 1: and get back to having a good feeling on Mondays,
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Speaker 1: and that's what we're working for, and that's what we're
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Speaker 1: gonna try to do