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Shane Waldron: "I Thought It Was Great For Our Confidence" · Seahawks Press Pass

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Speaker 1: All right, how's it going? Made our way inside? Here,
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Speaker 1: here we go. I didn't say anything.
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Speaker 2: What did you see is the difference in the two
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Speaker 2: halves last week and being able to kind of finish
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Speaker 2: drives and stuff like that in the second half confar
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Speaker 2: to the first last week.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, you know, last week we did a
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Speaker 1: good job of creating explosives. You know, still want to
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Speaker 1: look for areas of improvement and third down overall. And
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Speaker 1: then I think just in the second half, you know,
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Speaker 1: just keep playing football, keep playing football, thought Gino and
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Speaker 1: the rest of the offense did a great job of that.
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Speaker 1: And then you know, as the tides started to change
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Speaker 1: towards the end and getting points on those last three
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Speaker 1: drives obviously leading to the victory. You know, it was
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Speaker 1: important for us. I thought it was great for our
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Speaker 1: confidence and great for our offense moving forward.
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Speaker 2: You ever noticed Gino getting frustrated at all when things
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Speaker 2: aren't maybe going quite.
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Speaker 1: As smoothly or yeah, I don't know if frustration is
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Speaker 1: the right word. It's more of the competitive nature of
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Speaker 1: you know, wanting to score every time you have the ball,
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Speaker 1: that is the goal of the offense, but also knowing
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Speaker 1: that you know, We're playing against some great defenses around
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Speaker 1: the league, and it might not play out that way
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Speaker 1: every single drive. So how do you harness that you know,
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Speaker 1: want to and expectations of scoring every drive to then also,
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Speaker 1: if it doesn't work out on a particular drive, get
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Speaker 1: to the sideline, hit reset, learn from what happened on
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Speaker 1: that drive, and then apply it to the next one
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Speaker 1: moving forward.
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Speaker 3: So Jackson Checker really bought.
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Speaker 2: Like the short passive industry.
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Speaker 3: So what about his skill sets for the last times?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought he did a really good job, especially
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Speaker 1: on the shallow cross he caught on the first third
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Speaker 1: down of the game, of really being able to catch
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Speaker 1: the ball ground at, accelerating up the field, getting the
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Speaker 1: yards after the catch, you know, finishing strong at the
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Speaker 1: end of the run. And I think Jackson's just done
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Speaker 1: a great job of improving every single week, you know,
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Speaker 1: really getting a great handle on the offense, the timing
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Speaker 1: and the rhythm of the pass game and how he
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Speaker 1: fits into that. And it's just showing up week to
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Speaker 1: week now with his ability to let his skill set
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Speaker 1: shine on the game day.
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Speaker 3: Do you feel like you guys are feeling the screen
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Speaker 3: game a little bit better at this point? Too, but
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Speaker 3: with just kind of the way it's kind of coming together.
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Speaker 3: You've had some successful ones here the last few weeks,
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Speaker 3: and that that's sort.
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Speaker 1: Of yeah, I think, you know, as far as complimentary
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Speaker 1: football in terms of you know, different offensive player, I
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Speaker 1: think having a screen game is always going to be
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Speaker 1: something we're striving for. You know, we worked hard at
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Speaker 1: it to improve it and it has worked out the
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Speaker 1: last few weeks. And then just depending on what you know,
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Speaker 1: defensive structure we're going against for what may present a
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Speaker 1: positive look for a screen you know, just working on
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Speaker 1: those and working on the execution. But like the rest
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Speaker 1: of our offense, where it's the run game, the past,
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Speaker 1: game play, actions keepers, you know, having all those things
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Speaker 1: at our disposal and being balanced and then utilizing them
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Speaker 1: at the right time, I think is the most important thing.
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Speaker 1: And it's been nice to see a few screens hit,
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Speaker 1: you know, over the last few weeks.
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Speaker 3: Twenty five Kerry's walker and sharpings that sustainable. Is that
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Speaker 3: a goal that you know, build on.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, you know, it was great to get
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Speaker 1: that balance, let both guys you know, get their touches.
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Speaker 1: I think it's hard to put a goal on every
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Speaker 1: single game because the games might play out a little different.
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Speaker 1: You know, even this past one we felt like we
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Speaker 1: were getting some runs going. You still have multiple two
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Speaker 1: minute type of drives within those games. But yeah, getting
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Speaker 1: a good mix of those guys, you know, they both
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Speaker 1: bring a great skill set, both deserve touches, both deserve
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Speaker 1: to you know, get a chance to make plays within
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Speaker 1: the game. So you know, getting the guys involved, like
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Speaker 1: the rest of our offense with the wide receivers tight ends,
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Speaker 1: you know, the more guys that we can get involved
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Speaker 1: every single game feels like then we have a good
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Speaker 1: balance and a good attacking mindset on offense.
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Speaker 2: You have you ever said a number like you know,
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Speaker 2: go back later and look like sixty percent runs forty pass.
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Speaker 1: For you set run or anything like that, or do
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Speaker 1: you just yeah, I think we're going with more an
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Speaker 1: idea and and you know, knowing that, hey, in certain scenarios,
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Speaker 1: whether it's first second down, you know, having our idea
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Speaker 1: what we would like to be in that in that
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Speaker 1: sense in that game, but each game that might change
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Speaker 1: depending on the front or the defensive structures we're going against.
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Speaker 1: And then you know, as the game evolves, you know,
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Speaker 1: adapting and adjusting during the game as well.
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Speaker 3: I think it's few waiting.
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Speaker 1: For you guys.
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Speaker 3: Is that a problem or do you think.
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Speaker 1: That's more of games have just gone I think it's
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Speaker 1: a combination, you know. I think some of the games
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Speaker 1: have gone that way where we've had, you know, some
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Speaker 1: extended two minute drives, especially looking back at the Baltimore
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Speaker 1: game where we end up, you know, throw heavy at
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Speaker 1: the second half of that game. But you know, our
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Speaker 1: goal is to get that number up and get to
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Speaker 1: be a more balanced offense. I think for us, you know, overall,
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Speaker 1: each individual game has had has had its good and
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Speaker 1: had its bad. And we've had a couple of the
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Speaker 1: games offensively this year where we've lived in the wrong extreme,
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Speaker 1: you know, playing catch up. Even the looking at the
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Speaker 1: second half of our game against the Rams week one,
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Speaker 1: where we have the three and outs and don't get
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Speaker 1: enough runs, I think those are those run totals are
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Speaker 1: really a product, like I've mentioned before, third downs of
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Speaker 1: our execution throughout the four quarters of the game, and
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Speaker 1: with our goal to be balanced, and in order to
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Speaker 1: do that, you know, we have to do a good
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Speaker 1: job of holding our the bargain on offense and scoring
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Speaker 1: consistently throughout the game in that is there a certain
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Speaker 1: amount of yardage number you need to get to one
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Speaker 1: hundred that you're comfortable.
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Speaker 2: With because you had ninety nine last time. Is there
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Speaker 2: a certain number or yeah?
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Speaker 1: I think that, you know, the hundred always sounds better
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Speaker 1: to just get to that century mark. But I think
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Speaker 1: the even distribution. You know how the game plays out.
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Speaker 1: You know, the number of carries, the time of possession.
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Speaker 1: You know, which again can go both ways in the
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Speaker 1: time of possession world because if you're scoring and you're explosive,
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Speaker 1: you might not possess the ball that game. But you know,
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Speaker 1: in a perfect world, yeah, you do want to over
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Speaker 1: the one hundred yards. You do want to get you
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Speaker 1: know that time of possession up, You do want to
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Speaker 1: have more carries. I think, But each individual's game is
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Speaker 1: going to play out, and I still think, you know, obviously,
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Speaker 1: the winning the game is going to take precedence over
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Speaker 1: anything that happens. So whatever we need to do week
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Speaker 1: in and week out on offense, the main goal is
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Speaker 1: to get the victory.
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Speaker 2: You look at this defense, of course, you're going to
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Speaker 2: look at Aaron Donald. What about Byron Young because he's
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Speaker 2: gotten in the backfield with an awful lot of.
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Speaker 1: Yes, how is he doing? Yeah, I think he's done
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Speaker 1: a great job. I think, you know, a lot of
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Speaker 1: it obviously plays off of the focus that Aaron is
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Speaker 1: able to get. And so whether it's Young or Hoyd
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Speaker 1: or all the other guys that are rushing the pass
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Speaker 1: or with their games that they present, you know, doing
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Speaker 1: a really good job knowing and respecting Aaron, but also
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Speaker 1: respecting the other guys that are part of the rush package,
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Speaker 1: including Byron there that that have done a good job
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Speaker 1: of getting home. So for us, it's that focus, that
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Speaker 1: commitment to you know, our communication, how we're handling those
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Speaker 1: different pass rushing pass rushing situations. And then also, like
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Speaker 1: I said, not you know, getting out of line because
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Speaker 1: you're so focused on one individual who's obviously deserves the attention,
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Speaker 1: has earned every single bit of respect that he's gained
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Speaker 1: around the league.
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Speaker 3: Jackson the first third down play the cross or you
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Speaker 3: mentioned that he stayed on his feed there. It seems
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Speaker 3: like the tendency a lot of times is for receivers
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Speaker 3: to chelse people they don't have to. Is that like
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Speaker 3: a common approaching the play?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you know the ability of different receivers
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Speaker 1: like to me, staying grounded, being able to play with
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Speaker 1: your feet in the ground as much as possible, it
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Speaker 1: is a great trait. And I think part of that
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Speaker 1: is when your catch transition happens. You know, are you
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Speaker 1: able to catch the ball with you know, one foot
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Speaker 1: on the ground that leads to two three and now
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Speaker 1: you're instantly transitioning or is there in there certain scenarios
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Speaker 1: in traffic where guys might jump to protect themselves, but
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Speaker 1: as many times as we can catching the ball grounded
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Speaker 1: with that ability to instantly transition, It's really something that
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Speaker 1: Jackson's showed to be a skill a unique skill set
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Speaker 1: that he has.
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Speaker 2: The second to last drive for you guys to touchdown
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Speaker 2: down if you saw four catches for Locke plays a
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Speaker 2: touchdowns the game on the the.
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Speaker 3: Trade, it seems like so often a pick, third down,
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Speaker 3: good lay game. It's tyro lock be all.
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Speaker 2: What is it about the game that he's a good listen?
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Speaker 1: Well, I think the first is Geno's unique trust tyler,
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Speaker 1: you know, and it seems to me like an a
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Speaker 1: lot of those clutch situations, you know, his ability to
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Speaker 1: just win, you know, to figure out a way, whether
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Speaker 1: it's a sideline catch where you know, his his feet
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Speaker 1: are inbounds. Even if you know everyone around the stadium
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Speaker 1: is kind of wondering, it's just, hey, he's always in
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Speaker 1: you know. That's the starting point. And I think that
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Speaker 1: confidence that Gino has in Tyler, through the hard work
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Speaker 1: and through the resume that he's able to put out there,
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Speaker 1: I think gives everyone the confidence that he's going to
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Speaker 1: come through in those most crucial, crucial situations.
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Speaker 3: You know, so many guys are pest.
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Speaker 2: In the offense and third down in particular, you guys
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Speaker 2: are processed over as why is it again?
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Speaker 1: I think for us, you know, because every third down,
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Speaker 1: you know, there's not this one over you know, umbrella
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Speaker 1: policy on third downs that this is what it is, right,
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Speaker 1: every third down play is such an individual entity. There's
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Speaker 1: eleven guys that are committed to that play and you know,
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Speaker 1: breakdown might occur here. They're one play that's totally uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, different from the next play right there. So
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Speaker 1: I think making sure that our process is right, starting
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Speaker 1: with our communication up front, starting to you know, with
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Speaker 1: our protection plan, and then to the route depths, the
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Speaker 1: route timing, to Gino's decision making, to Gino's processing you
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Speaker 1: know what he's going through. And I think in my mind,
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Speaker 1: you know, because a few of the third downs you
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Speaker 1: might luck out on something. It might be hey, something
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Speaker 1: flash or something that happened, and you maybe got away
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Speaker 1: with a throw, and you're happy about that. Obviously you
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Speaker 1: want to convert and go and keep the drive alive.
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Speaker 1: But the process would say, hey, you know that that
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Speaker 1: was a risky throw, that's not really where the read
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Speaker 1: would have taken you. Okay, let's go ahead and look
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Speaker 1: through it for the next time. And then there could
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Speaker 1: also be a similar third down where you go through
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Speaker 1: everything perfectly and the ball might get tipped at the
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Speaker 1: line of scrimmage or something went wrong right there. So
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Speaker 1: to me, that's the process over the results of those,
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Speaker 1: and if we're doing it the right way, you know,
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Speaker 1: over the long stretch of the season, you know, we'll
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Speaker 1: be happier with the outcome. Then if we're just you know,
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Speaker 1: using hope as a method just because something worked out nice,
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Speaker 1: you know, maybe out of you know, out of the
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Speaker 1: clear blue sky.
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Speaker 3: You go over stuff like that in the game, or
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Speaker 3: you do that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's you know, one thing that coach
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Speaker 1: Olsen and coach Joseph do a great job, and then
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Speaker 1: I'll jump in there too. In between getting the next
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Speaker 1: drives ready is recapping the previous drive. And again you
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Speaker 1: can't go back and change the plays, but you can
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Speaker 1: instantly learn from them, especially those third down plays where
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Speaker 1: you're going through the surface right there and talking about
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Speaker 1: the detail, what happened, why it happened, Okay, good clear communication,
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Speaker 1: and then be able to move on to the next
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Speaker 1: series what happened?
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Speaker 3: A thought over the process twenty five or so down.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the process has been there, you know.
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Speaker 1: I think the guys are bought in. Everything's everything's where
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Speaker 1: we want it to be. And I think for us
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Speaker 1: it's living in the you know, some games we've had
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Speaker 1: really positive results on third down. Other games, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's dipped a little bit. And I think for us,
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Speaker 1: just making sure that, you know, are we on the details,
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Speaker 1: and we talked about that, you know, two weeks ago,
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Speaker 1: coming back in the basics of everything that we're doing.
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Speaker 1: I think just keeping harping on that, you know, no
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Speaker 1: different than the screen game, no different than the red zone,
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Speaker 1: first and second down. I think if we're good on
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Speaker 1: the details and the fundamentals, then the results will come.
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Speaker 3: Urt Rippin was saying, you was look at Rams. It
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Speaker 3: really impressed him with McVeigh just how well he knew defense,
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Speaker 3: new defensive responsibilities and where this guy might go on
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Speaker 3: this formation. But how much should you learn that from him?
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Speaker 2: How much of that is a big part of today's
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Speaker 2: play call.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's a big part of what Shawn's
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Speaker 1: been able to do. I go back, I think different experiences,
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Speaker 1: different stops in coaching. You know, when you're able to
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Speaker 1: really learn the other side of the ball. I think
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Speaker 1: it's important as an offense from now as an offensive
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Speaker 1: play caller, but you know, even going back to being
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Speaker 1: a position coach, you know, having the experience like for
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Speaker 1: me when I was a quality control coach for Josh
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Speaker 1: McDaniels and learned a ton about defensive football from him
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Speaker 1: as he was on the other side of the ball.
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Speaker 1: I think Sean has a unique ability to really like
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Speaker 1: right when we got there when Wade Phillips as a decordinator.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure it's the same now with Raheem where he's
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Speaker 1: able to really understand and digest the full defensive structure
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Speaker 1: of the of the Rams defense, you know, not just
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Speaker 1: being in there as an offensive coordinator. You really saw
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Speaker 1: that right away with Sean, and I thought it was
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Speaker 1: something even in the Washington days with him, you know,
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Speaker 1: when Joe Berry was a decordinator. You know, Sean knew
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Speaker 1: all the calls there, and he's really done a good
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Speaker 1: job of that. So for me, it's it's really open
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Speaker 1: my eyes to really understand and how important that is
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Speaker 1: as an offensive coach, you know, making sure that you're
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Speaker 1: really up to date, whether it's your own defense that
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Speaker 1: you're going against, understanding their calls, understanding the things that
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Speaker 1: they're going to look to bring to the table. And
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Speaker 1: then throughout the league, I think that looking at it
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Speaker 1: through the defense's lens is just as important as anything
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Speaker 1: we can do.
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Speaker 3: How do you do that if you do that off
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Speaker 3: season because you don't have time for game planning and
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Speaker 3: coaching your own guys.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think really it's it's a good thing in
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Speaker 1: the offseason. You know, when you're battling against your own defense,
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Speaker 1: you know, over and over again, you start to get
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Speaker 1: get a feel of, you know, the structure there. And
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Speaker 1: then I think it's you know, putting the defenses in
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Speaker 1: different families, you know, throughout the course of the league.
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Speaker 1: You know, there's different coordinators that come from you know,
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Speaker 1: different trees and and you know figuring out, okay, what
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Speaker 1: style of defense does this does this week go into?
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Speaker 1: And then as you build up, you know, accumulate the years, right,
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Speaker 1: you start to understand what family are you going against
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Speaker 1: this week? You know, what were some of the tips
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Speaker 1: and notes from this Maybe not that exact defense, but
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Speaker 1: you know some one that's in that tree or in
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Speaker 1: that system that you've played in the past.
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Speaker 3: What is it about Jason Peters's play that made you
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Speaker 3: guys comfortable running him as much as she did last
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Speaker 3: week and kind of the the time that you've seen
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Speaker 3: him play over these last few games.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you know, when Jason first got here,
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Speaker 1: the person was unbelievable, his willingness to help, his willingness
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Speaker 1: to just get in here and fit right in with
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Speaker 1: the with the Seahawks and with the culture here. But
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Speaker 1: then as he gets on the field more and more,
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Speaker 1: you really just see his unbelievable athletic ability start to shine.
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Speaker 1: And I think, you know, this past week was a
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Speaker 1: great example of it. You know, I think age is
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Speaker 1: number just a number for him, and you know, his
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Speaker 1: ability to move his foot speed, combined with his power
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Speaker 1: is still as at a high level right there. So
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Speaker 1: he puts it on tape and now it's as exciting
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Speaker 1: to see him as he keeps growing and developing it
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Speaker 1: in our system. Did you're thinking is exact Lower's shoulder
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Speaker 1: into the guy, but he doesn't get.
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Speaker 3: Out of bounds.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, there's a there's a time and a place.
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Speaker 1: You know sometimes you know the end of those game
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Speaker 1: situations there we know, hey, you do want to get
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Speaker 1: out of bounds. There's certain times like when Noah, you know,
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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks back, is able to cut back
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Speaker 1: against the grain and gain a bunch of extra yards
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Speaker 1: decated an unbelievable job at the end of the game.
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Speaker 1: But I think there are some times where you can
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Speaker 1: pick and choose when's the time to get what you
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Speaker 1: can get and then maybe not get out of bounce.
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Speaker 1: And other times when you know, like Zach's had some
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Speaker 1: success running a few folks over this year, so you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe that's not the ideal time to run someone over.
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Speaker 1: But don't want to take away from his playmaking ability.
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Speaker 1: But he'll learn and keep growing in those scenariosa. The
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Speaker 1: Zach style. Oh Man pick a back that's run somebody over,
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Speaker 1: and you know, I do think you know, you got
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Speaker 1: some of those throwback Adrian Peterson runs where he's finishing
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Speaker 1: lower on his shoulder and staying in that slasher run
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Speaker 1: style there. But you know, I think he's his own guy,
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Speaker 1: he's his own player. You know, he brings a lot
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Speaker 1: of combination of some different guys, but obviously the physical
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Speaker 1: finishes will remind you any of those type of guys. Guys,
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Speaker 1: all right,