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Press Pass | Ryan Nielsen on Week 1 Performances, Player Rotations · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Player almost.
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  Speaker 2: Right if you just comment obviously Tice and being placed on.
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  Speaker 3: Ir what that not only.
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  Speaker 2: Does for your defense, but also opportunities that creates for
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  Speaker 2: some other player.
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  Speaker 4: Sure hate it for him first, like he was playing
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  Speaker 4: at an elite level, really high. Can't wait to get
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  Speaker 4: him back, and we will when he's when he'll come
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  Speaker 4: back and be fine. It's just next man up mentality.
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  Speaker 4: It's part of the game. One of the things is,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we we've talked about no depth chart, things
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  Speaker 4: like that, and so the guys behind him have had
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  Speaker 4: plenty of reps, plenty of opportunity to go out and
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  Speaker 4: play against good, good quality opponents and show what they
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  Speaker 4: can do. And so we're very confident the next guy
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  Speaker 4: up out there will do a good job.
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  Speaker 3: What did you see Foster on Sunday?
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  Speaker 4: What did you see technique, fundamentals, extra effort where they
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  Speaker 4: were supposed to be excited about both those two players
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  Speaker 4: young players that did a pretty good job in the game.
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  Speaker 4: And so now let's take the next step.
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  Speaker 2: For you know, what do you look at for really
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  Speaker 2: more and for do you see the biggest improvement for
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  Speaker 2: guys and where do you think they may take the biggest.
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  Speaker 4: Step young players especially, you know, some guys who played
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  Speaker 4: in their first NFL football game against a really good team,
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  Speaker 4: really good opponent, and so some of the guys had
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  Speaker 4: some success and now they're you know, they're they're building
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  Speaker 4: on that and they know, you know, it's hey, I
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  Speaker 4: can play this game at this level. So that's confidence
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  Speaker 4: is a huge thing. I think that goes a lot
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  Speaker 4: with that. And then some of the guys that, hey,
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  Speaker 4: maybe need to do a little bit better, you know,
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  Speaker 4: maybe a little bit frustrated or disappointing their performance, and
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  Speaker 4: so they're really focused on this week and taking one
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  Speaker 4: day at a time to to not let that happen again.
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  Speaker 4: So look for a big step from our defense just
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  Speaker 4: from from one week to the next. It is, like
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  Speaker 4: you said, it's a huge most teams first week the
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  Speaker 4: second week make that big jump. We're looking forward to
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  Speaker 4: the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: I'm press for you with your live backers, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Koya and Deviget most of but also the rotation guys
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  Speaker 3: coming in.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, the whole group as a group, we thought we
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  Speaker 4: did they did a good job, really good job. The
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  Speaker 4: communication was really good. Matt did a good job in
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  Speaker 4: terms of what their offense did and gave him some
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  Speaker 4: good tips, uh Foyer, Devin flew around physical tackles. But
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  Speaker 4: then there wasn't a drop off when the next guy
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  Speaker 4: came in and you saw that it was really good.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we played down there and played those guys
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  Speaker 4: came in, flew around Chad, you saw ventrol in the box,
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  Speaker 4: and so they did a good job. They've earned some
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  Speaker 4: reps and so we'll continue that throughout the season. Right,
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  Speaker 4: it seems like a lot of guys in the locker
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  Speaker 4: road took pride in the run defense.
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  Speaker 5: Just what kind of start was that really for that
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  Speaker 5: unit against the run?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, that's that's what we want to be about,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and run in in the past, you know,
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  Speaker 4: pound the line of scrimmage eliminated explosive plays in pass
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  Speaker 4: and run. But it was a good start, like we
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  Speaker 4: can build off of that, you know, and kind of
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  Speaker 4: our expectations. So you know, we shouldn't have been surprised
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  Speaker 4: that that happened, you know what I mean. And that's
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  Speaker 4: kind of where the talk to the guys, they don't
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  Speaker 4: be surprised this it's how we practice, is how our fundamounts,
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  Speaker 4: how we're locked in. You know, players that we have,
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  Speaker 4: you know, that type of thing. But then let's take
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  Speaker 4: the next step this week. You know, let's be even better.
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  Speaker 5: How much does it help the run defense?
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  Speaker 2: Having edge guys like Josh and even Trayvon, who it
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  Speaker 2: seems like against the run has really stepped it up.
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  Speaker 4: Yea, helps our defense, our team. I mean we got
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  Speaker 4: good players. You know, had Eric in there, and you
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  Speaker 4: know they're really good. You do a good job using
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  Speaker 4: their hands, knocking the line of scrimmage back the big bodies.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, they run real well.
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  Speaker 4: Those guys did a good job on the edge, they
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  Speaker 4: really did, Uh, Trayvon getting off of Blox. I mean
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  Speaker 4: there was times Josh you know, his his his awareness
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  Speaker 4: in terms of the blocks and his block reaction, things
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  Speaker 4: like there's there's some disruption. There's some things that you
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  Speaker 4: didn't see on the stat line that he did during
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  Speaker 4: the game in the rush run game and the pass
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  Speaker 4: rush game that showed up on the tape. You know,
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  Speaker 4: on a toss plays in the backfield, taking two guys
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  Speaker 4: where you know Tyson can make a tackle, and so
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  Speaker 4: there's there's some really good things that those guys did. Again,
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  Speaker 4: we just got to build off of it.
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  Speaker 1: Feel about the formans of the interior of your defense,
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  Speaker 1: and you also seem to balance out the snaps there
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  Speaker 1: so that you would have you know, fresh guys.
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  Speaker 5: Sure we could at every position, we can get better.
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  Speaker 5: And so it was the same thing with those guys.
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  Speaker 4: I thought it was okay, could have been better at times,
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  Speaker 4: but at certain times there was very encouraging things. We
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  Speaker 4: played some young players, not an excuse, but young guys
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  Speaker 4: out there, and there's some of those guys that can
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  Speaker 4: play and need to get and play better for us
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  Speaker 4: with their.
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  Speaker 5: Ability and things that they've done.
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  Speaker 4: But as I think overall, when you really look at it, yep,
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  Speaker 4: towards the end of the game, I think there's a
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  Speaker 4: couple of plays that you'd like to have back in
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  Speaker 4: the run game. You know, a couple of the third
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  Speaker 4: down belly play and the last play of the game
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  Speaker 4: where you know it falls off attackle. If you make
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  Speaker 4: those two tackles, you feel even better because you felt
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  Speaker 4: pretty good about it right now.
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  Speaker 1: So as a defensive coordinator, did you feel like this
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  Speaker 1: is something that you guys have to do. You have
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  Speaker 1: to give these young guys in the hopes that they're
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  Speaker 1: going to get better as the season goes.
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  Speaker 5: Along.
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  Speaker 1: But if you don't, if you don't put them out there,
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  Speaker 1: then you know, how are they going to get better.
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  Speaker 4: It's one of the things that at all positions is
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  Speaker 4: have the rotation. Like we said with the linebackers, the
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  Speaker 4: D line, you know, in the secondary is continue because
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  Speaker 4: it's such a long I mean, look what happened to Tyson.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Tyson goes down Week one, and so the
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  Speaker 4: next guy up. You know, if Buster didn't play in
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  Speaker 4: the preseason and things like that, then we wouldn't know,
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  Speaker 4: you know what he would because he was playing against
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  Speaker 4: you know, really good so we knew, hey, we were
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  Speaker 4: confident something happening. He next guy and he goes out
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  Speaker 4: there and does does his job. Same thing in the
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  Speaker 4: interior of the D line. It's really important how we
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  Speaker 4: practice and they go against our best players, you know,
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  Speaker 4: those young guys and they have success or they don't,
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  Speaker 4: and we can work with them fundamentals and technique, and
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  Speaker 4: so we'll continue to work that group. I mean, we
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  Speaker 4: have seven D tackles on the roster, so there's a
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  Speaker 4: bunch of guys that we we think that we could
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  Speaker 4: they can play in there. So you'll see a combination,
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  Speaker 4: you know, three out the year, you know, and if
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  Speaker 4: some guy gets nicked or something like that, and God
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  Speaker 4: forbid that that happens. But next man up, mentality, is
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  Speaker 4: that something that.
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  Speaker 5: Might take a little time for.
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  Speaker 1: Let's let's just say a guy like Foyer who's used
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  Speaker 1: to being on the field at.
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  Speaker 5: All times, is that gonna take some some gigging used.
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  Speaker 1: To them not always being on the field and having
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  Speaker 1: to allow those younger players.
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  Speaker 5: To the problem.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, you know, that's probably more of a question for him,
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  Speaker 4: I think, just I mean, that's just how we've been practicing.
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  Speaker 4: You know that you go out there four or five reps,
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  Speaker 4: next guy in, you know, so it's probably be a
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  Speaker 4: better question for him. But don't see it being a
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  Speaker 4: too big of an issue.
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  Speaker 3: What does it do for you to have Chad and
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  Speaker 3: Ventro come in, have Foyer go off? Just given how
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  Speaker 3: good Foye is as a player, how does that help
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  Speaker 3: your defense? Certain packages things of that nature.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, the more you can do helps in all the
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  Speaker 4: packages you see her out there. You know, there's some
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  Speaker 4: things that we can do with those guys with their
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  Speaker 4: skill sets. But you're confident next guy in there, and
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  Speaker 4: be honest with there. At times, didn't know that Foyer
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  Speaker 4: was out of the game. He got a blow and
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  Speaker 4: then hey, looked out there and there's fifty one out there,
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  Speaker 4: and it was like all right, here we go, like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: next man up, Like it's it's uh, it was, it's
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  Speaker 4: it's awesome.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you see Chad out there.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Chad's out there making a play, and you're like,
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  Speaker 4: all right, you know, so you feel really good at
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  Speaker 4: all positions with our rotation.
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  Speaker 5: We've got a good roster. We've got a good we
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  Speaker 5: have a good roster. We got depth on our defense,
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  Speaker 5: that's one of the things we do have.
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  Speaker 4: And so you know, regardless of who else who's out
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  Speaker 4: on the field, you always feel like, hey, we're confident
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  Speaker 4: in every single play that every player is going to
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  Speaker 4: do their job.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: There seemed there seemed to be a pretty good balance
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  Speaker 1: with with Eric as far as inside or outside. How
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  Speaker 1: much does that I wanted it sort of take you
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  Speaker 1: to just sort of settle in on what is the
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  Speaker 1: best role for him to help.
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  Speaker 5: Pretty quickly, Like we knew exactly what we're going to
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  Speaker 5: do when he got here.
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  Speaker 4: You know, play some ends, play some tackle, that's kind
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  Speaker 4: of what his and then how we rotated. It was
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  Speaker 4: a personnel packages things like that, So it wasn't a
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  Speaker 4: big you know, and you'll see the continue that moving
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  Speaker 4: them around.
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  Speaker 5: Things like that for the rest of the year. So
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  Speaker 5: it wasn't that. You know, it wasn't a huge deal.
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  Speaker 3: It seems like Darnell's Savage plays a pretty unique role
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  Speaker 3: in the defense. I mean he was online of scrimmage,
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  Speaker 3: at safety and the slot. How unique is that to
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  Speaker 3: be able to have a player to do all those
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  Speaker 3: different things and.
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  Speaker 5: How play very very unique. You played really well. His speed.
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  Speaker 4: You know, some of the times in the second area
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  Speaker 4: when you don't show up with a lot of statistics
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  Speaker 4: regardless of whatever position, could mean you played really well.
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  Speaker 4: The ball didn't go to you because you're tight coverage
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  Speaker 4: things like that. You know, he had some tackles, you know,
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  Speaker 4: he was flying around. His ability to play close to
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  Speaker 4: the line of scrimmage and deep, you know, in the
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  Speaker 4: safety positions and be able to play different coverages with
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  Speaker 4: his skill set.
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  Speaker 5: You know, the Nickels safety, you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, and if he needed to in a pinch, you
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  Speaker 4: can go out there and play some corner you know,
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  Speaker 4: certain things because Nickel is very similar. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: you fired up about the guy. You know, he's he's
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  Speaker 4: very confident. He came off the field feeling very confident.
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  Speaker 4: He did a good job and we are as well.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we just got to continue to go with
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  Speaker 4: that and you'll see him continue to move around within
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  Speaker 4: the package.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, Thank you guys for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks