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Mike Macdonald: "The Defensive Front Played An Incredible Game" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Like a jacket cord.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I will blame it on you then when
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  Speaker 2: you when I get the penalty questions. Yeah, overall, just
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  Speaker 2: a I mean it was it was sloppy, felt like
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  Speaker 2: a little bit, you know, operation wise, which we want
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  Speaker 2: to definitely need to address move them forward. But I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you what, our guys played incredibly hard. You got
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  Speaker 2: complimentary football towards the end of the game in the
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  Speaker 2: red zone. I thought played really great red zone defense,
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  Speaker 2: and then the offense getting that backed up situation was.
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  Speaker 1: Redeeming to say the least.
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  Speaker 2: And then going down and you know, ninety eight yard
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  Speaker 2: touchdown drive to pretty much steal it was was pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 2: So again, just the mentality how hard our guys are playing.
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  Speaker 2: Felt like we played physically h The guys are flying
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  Speaker 2: around on defense places electric, So our communication was on
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  Speaker 2: point given how how loud it was, so I think
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  Speaker 2: we gave their operations some troubles did so shout out
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  Speaker 2: to the twelve on that one.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely definitely boosted us on that one.
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  Speaker 2: But it's a great win. The man's awesome to be
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  Speaker 2: three and zero. But obviously we got a big one
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  Speaker 2: coming up too, so we'll shift our focus after we
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  Speaker 2: celebrate today.
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  Speaker 3: Today to where you want to be, Mike.
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  Speaker 1: I thought we took a step forward today. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the run game.
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  Speaker 2: I think they popped a couple of runs, but overall,
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  Speaker 2: I thought we tackled very very well. Didn't feel like
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  Speaker 2: the catch and run stuff. I mean, it's such a
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  Speaker 2: dangerous team, you know, the usual suspects when they get
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  Speaker 2: their hands on the ball. You gotta you gotta take
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  Speaker 2: great angles. You got you got inside out pursuit, you
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  Speaker 2: gotta set the edge. I thought our our thought, our
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  Speaker 2: our front played incredibly hard getting to the ball with
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  Speaker 2: a sense of urgency, which was which was really really
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  Speaker 2: fun to watch and be.
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  Speaker 3: Part of your run game than you did last week.
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  Speaker 1: What would you feel like was working there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, just stick to it. I mean these are
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  Speaker 2: this is us, you know. I mean, I think that's
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  Speaker 2: the message throughout the week. I mean, definitely, you want
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  Speaker 2: to improve on the run game numbers from last week.
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  Speaker 1: But you can't panic.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta you gotta stay poise, you gotta you gotta
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  Speaker 2: stick to the process, and there's always going to be
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  Speaker 2: things that you're chasing from week to week. So again,
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  Speaker 2: we're just I thought it was a step in the
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  Speaker 2: right direction run game wise, I thought our guys tried
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  Speaker 2: to play physical, but I.
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  Speaker 1: Thought they did a good job, especially at the end
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  Speaker 1: several times, and trading came about.
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  Speaker 2: The growth and all is shown here early in your
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  Speaker 2: time as a coach.
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  Speaker 1: What are you seeing now these last few games?
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  Speaker 2: Me today felt like he was lifting the backfielding. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Derek played a tremendous game. I really I felt the
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  Speaker 2: whole front on how fast they were playing, but playing
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  Speaker 2: incredibly physical, incredibly hard, playing smart, you know. And how
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  Speaker 2: we're hitting the quarterback. I mean no no quarterback penalties,
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  Speaker 2: just but hitting him legal and he's playing I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this is kind of this is the type of player
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  Speaker 2: that you envisioned. He's a physical guy with that can
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  Speaker 2: set the edge and can drop one necessary. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he's just uh, he's playing at a high level right now.
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  Speaker 2: So we're excited about.
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  Speaker 3: Derek defensive front twice not already for those guys to
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  Speaker 3: get the job done minus Leonard and Byron for a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot of them, Yeah, just speaks to their speaks to
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  Speaker 2: their depth resiliency. Again, I thought that the front, I
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  Speaker 2: thought they played a tremendous game.
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  Speaker 1: So all those guys. Coaches included A D and CP
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  Speaker 1: and Hines. I thought they did a great job getting
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  Speaker 1: the guys ready to ready to play.
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  Speaker 3: Guys lost Leonard and firing up front there too to
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  Speaker 3: continue to play that kind of level from upfront, given
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  Speaker 3: that they weren't out there for you, How would you
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  Speaker 3: see out of the guys that.
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  Speaker 1: Had Yeah, I mean that's the expectation.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I think, you know, you just go down
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  Speaker 2: the line, the guys are suited up. That's you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's how we expect our defense to play. And there's
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  Speaker 2: it's just it's kind of like, okay, so they're down,
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  Speaker 2: next guy's rolling, let's let's uh, let's go back to work.
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  Speaker 1: What do you know about the severity of Leonards injury.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know the severity of it. It's like a
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  Speaker 2: like mid section thing. I don't know if it's a
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  Speaker 2: ribs or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But I think we got it. I think we got
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  Speaker 1: a picture of it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what the results of that are, So
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  Speaker 2: we'll see here in the next couple of days. Iron
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  Speaker 2: Byron he got a hamstring on a double team.
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  Speaker 1: Again, not not sure of the severity. So we'll look
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  Speaker 1: at this week. You know, after the first quarter interception.
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  Speaker 2: It's big time. That's a big time. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: just our red zone defense. I thought was poised. We
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  Speaker 2: communicated well, just did I mean the red zone that's
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  Speaker 2: what wins you games. I mean those critical situations, high leverage,
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  Speaker 2: high leverage downs.
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  Speaker 1: But our guys have a great mentality.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when again when they get in the red zone,
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  Speaker 2: it's not the reason is not good. So you have
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  Speaker 2: to have the mentality of we're defendentive.
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  Speaker 1: Blade of grass.
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  Speaker 2: Really about the ninety eight yard drive for Charbonay to
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  Speaker 2: get going there at the ends, a kind of stalur
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  Speaker 2: runner he is.
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  Speaker 1: Is he a guy?
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  Speaker 2: To him? That's him, that's Zach Sharbonnay, that is finest.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, you know it's a four quarter game.
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  Speaker 2: So if the run, you know, just stick to the
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  Speaker 2: run game, you know, keep keep trying to move him,
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  Speaker 2: keep running the rock. Speaks to his mentality, the offensive
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  Speaker 2: mentality to go out and close it out.
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  Speaker 1: Being out. You got to watch a lot Thomas. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the way that those two played.
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  Speaker 2: With I thought they did a nice job. I thought
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  Speaker 2: it was great to see Drake get some action.
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  Speaker 1: He felt like he made some plays. I felt those guys, I.
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  Speaker 2: Thought, you know, it's like tight, he's just a poised dude.
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  Speaker 1: Man, like he's he's a rookie. But you don't look
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  Speaker 1: at it, you don't.
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  Speaker 2: You just don't feel it like that when you look
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  Speaker 2: in his eyes. It's not too big for him. I
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  Speaker 2: thought he took a step, you know, from the from
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  Speaker 2: from the New England game. So he'll keep getting better.
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  Speaker 2: He's doing he's doing a tremendous job. Yeah, hey, look man,
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  Speaker 2: if you're if you're doing a great job in practice
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  Speaker 2: and and and kicking butt, then we're gonna find a
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  Speaker 2: way to get you on the field. So just speaks
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  Speaker 2: to Kobe and his work ethic and just keep keep
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  Speaker 2: working at a hammer at at one play at a time,
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  Speaker 2: to production speak for itself, and we'll figure out a
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  Speaker 2: way to get you out. There was there and at
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  Speaker 2: right guard you didn't end up rotating at all.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we just felt like throughout the week a B.
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  Speaker 2: Really earned all those opportunities. But it's kind of weak
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  Speaker 2: to weak thing right now. You know, we'll see, we'll
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  Speaker 2: look at the tape. I know, you know we had
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  Speaker 2: a couple with there's a holding penalty that AB had,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't really want to speak to like how
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  Speaker 2: will he played, because.
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  Speaker 1: I just I don't I don't know for sure right now,
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  Speaker 1: but this.
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  Speaker 2: Is a general question.
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  Speaker 3: But a defensive coach, teams are going more to light
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  Speaker 3: boxes to defend the past, which is leaving opportunities for
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  Speaker 3: the run game.
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  Speaker 2: Outside of a couple of plays against pretty good at
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  Speaker 2: design runs with light boxes.
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  Speaker 1: On the defense, how do you.
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  Speaker 2: Balance You're saying, we're on defense, we're good versus Okay, how.
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  Speaker 3: How do you balance the the lighter boxes with still?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's that's the game, right, It's just
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  Speaker 2: you know, how man any opportunities you want to get
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  Speaker 2: him on the perimeter. I mean, if you stick a
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  Speaker 2: guy in the post and less people on the edge,
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  Speaker 2: that's where the ball is probably going.
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  Speaker 1: We got two guys back there. You got to be
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  Speaker 1: better in the middle.
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  Speaker 2: If you can defend the run and split safety, that's
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  Speaker 2: some high powered stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's not easy to do.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of stress on the interior defense and
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  Speaker 2: on your edge with your edge mechanics. Guys have to
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  Speaker 2: play multiple gaps, so it's heavy lifting. So we're you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's not easy. You gotta know how like who you're
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  Speaker 2: using in run fits and when you can use them,
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  Speaker 2: so it's it's uh, if you can do it, it
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  Speaker 2: just gives you such an advantage. Now there's times where
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  Speaker 2: you want to play single high and and you know
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  Speaker 2: we kind of call it accordingly there.
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  Speaker 1: But I love the question, you know, more football.
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  Speaker 3: Questions you picture you guys are three and now the
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  Speaker 3: rest of divisions only wanted two and know it's early,
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  Speaker 3: but having having two game leads to start.
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  Speaker 2: That's feel good, right, I'm glad we won today.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, it's a lot. We got a long
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  Speaker 1: way to go as.
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  Speaker 2: A long season. We've got to game coming up, but
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  Speaker 2: we like we're not talking about like division are. Our
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  Speaker 2: first goal is to win each game and the next
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  Speaker 2: goal is to get in the dance, and then the
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  Speaker 2: next goal is win the division. So we're a long
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  Speaker 2: way away from there. So we can help our chances
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  Speaker 2: again next week if we go to Detroit and get
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  Speaker 2: a win today.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he played pretty dang well.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's again he's poised. There's some things that
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  Speaker 2: weren't going our way offensively, and he just brings.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody along with him. And I think you speak like.
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  Speaker 2: The drive at the end kind of speaks to our mentality. Offensively,
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  Speaker 2: wasn't our greatest day, but you know, getting at operating
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  Speaker 2: for the most part, I thought we did a great
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  Speaker 2: job getting in and out of the tempo stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I thought he thought he played really well
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  Speaker 1: as long as catch for DK. I mean, just as
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  Speaker 1: an offense, to have a weapon like.
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  Speaker 3: That that you can just even a day when things
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  Speaker 3: aren't going great.
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  Speaker 1: If I have him go like that was yeah. I
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  Speaker 1: mean I felt like it broke a record with DK.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, at any point in time, you can,
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  Speaker 2: you can put points on the board wherever you're at.
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  Speaker 1: So we love him.
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  Speaker 2: He's working his butt off and I'm just glad that
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  Speaker 2: we get fourteenth our side. I mean, he's just he's
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  Speaker 2: a problem. He's a he's a massive problem for for
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  Speaker 2: for defenses. First interception, you know, were you a little
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  Speaker 2: surprised that Ryan dialed up in an empty play there
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  Speaker 2: back in the in the shadow the post there.
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  Speaker 1: When no we had gotten the ball out, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with enough space.
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  Speaker 2: Where we can pretty much run or there's some things
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  Speaker 2: you don't want to run in those situations, but.
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  Speaker 1: Just a tough play.
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  Speaker 2: To tough outcome, you know process wise.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think we're all right.
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  Speaker 2: Trying to challenge a player around the DP Iulian.
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  Speaker 3: Can you talk about what you saw.
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  Speaker 2: Helped me out there? Uh, the one that on on
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  Speaker 2: Spoon at the end of the quarter. Yeah. We we
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  Speaker 2: thought that maybe the clock ran out at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the quarter, and that's what we're gonna challenge. So
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  Speaker 2: like the play would have been dead, but our guys
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  Speaker 2: were on it. Initially we thought we had a chance.
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  Speaker 2: We went back and looked at it, so we didn't
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  Speaker 2: challenge it anything else. I try you
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, I can't