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Pete Carroll: "This Is A Championship Matchup For Us" · Seahawks Press Pass

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Speaker 1: Well, fortunately, uh, we're back back here this week working
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Speaker 1: at it, uh with some really good perspective about the
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Speaker 1: finishing up this season on the right note against a
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Speaker 1: really good team needs it as well as we do.
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Speaker 1: It's a championship matchup for us, and fortunately we're in
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Speaker 1: that situation to uh see if we can generate another
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Speaker 1: good ball game and uh uh keep this thing moving along.
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Speaker 1: We're making some progress. We're doing some things better. Some
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Speaker 1: things we st we continue to work on. Uh that
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Speaker 1: we'll try to get ironed out this week. But uh,
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Speaker 1: knowing that that this club just came off of great
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Speaker 1: victory over a division rival and played amazing game, it's
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Speaker 1: gonna be hard and so uh that's what we expect
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Speaker 1: this time here.
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Speaker 2: What do you know about Mason Rudolph and his style
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Speaker 2: of play?
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Speaker 1: Well, you know he he's been around for a few years.
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Speaker 1: He's s started a number of games. We got to
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Speaker 1: all kinds of film on him, so we can see him.
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Speaker 1: Some big, strong arm, good looking kid the right the
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Speaker 1: other night through some drop some dimes on 'em and
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Speaker 1: and uh made some huge plays and gave him a
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Speaker 1: real spark, uh where they jump you know to twenty
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Speaker 1: one zip you know right off the bat and and
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Speaker 1: uh miss obvious. You know that he lifted 'em and
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Speaker 1: and they got great play out of other guys too,
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Speaker 1: the turnovers and all that help.
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Speaker 2: But he was right in the middle of all that.
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Speaker 3: What do you know to be true about a Mike
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Speaker 3: Tomlin coach team.
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Speaker 1: That's a good question, cause it's so obvious, you know
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Speaker 1: it really is. They they play tough, they're aggressive. They
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Speaker 1: they don't settle for just lining up and just giving
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Speaker 1: it to you. I mean, you just gotta beat 'em.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna come after you. They're gonna d attack you.
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Speaker 1: Always challenging with the defensive uh, game plans, big backs,
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Speaker 1: run the football, the whole thing.
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Speaker 2: Special teams is really good.
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Speaker 1: They blocked three punts this year already or something, so
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Speaker 1: they've had a big factor and on how they play.
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Speaker 1: And a fantastic turnover team. Again he's always does that,
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Speaker 1: and he did it again.
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Speaker 2: I think you and micros agreated by one win on
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Speaker 2: the on the all times one most. I think you
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Speaker 2: forgot it by one, right.
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Speaker 3: What I guess what stands out about him as a
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Speaker 3: coach other than you know the style of.
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Speaker 2: What they played, but just his demeanor, how he handles
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Speaker 2: his teams, or what you've seen for him.
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Speaker 1: M Mike is always he His consistency is what's most
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Speaker 1: noticeable to me and something I really you know, appreciate.
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Speaker 1: But he's also been a uh a really stand up
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Speaker 1: up front dude. He's been all always at the point
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Speaker 1: of the discussions, whether he's working with the the rules
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Speaker 1: committee or whatever.
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Speaker 2: You know, he's had an opportunity.
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Speaker 1: To express what he feels and who he he, what
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Speaker 1: he thinks is necessary and it it just screams of
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Speaker 1: who he is. He's a really really good good man
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Speaker 1: and and uh, you know they've had the good fortune
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Speaker 1: of having him for years, I think sixteen years and
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Speaker 1: never lost, never had a losing season. That's a pretty
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Speaker 1: good marker. Now that's that's hard to get that done.
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Speaker 1: And and uh have a l l ultimate respect for him.
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Speaker 2: Have you ever talked to him about you and he
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Speaker 2: the rarity in the NFL, the longevity and the consistence. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: oh I haven't. Sorry, is there any progress?
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Speaker 1: Well, he's a little spark to him today, a little
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Speaker 1: spark and when when he's when he's firing, uh, you
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Speaker 1: you know it. He was bounce around pretty good and
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Speaker 1: the wal through. We see what happens in practice today.
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Speaker 1: So this is the first time really he's been able
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Speaker 1: to show a little bit of something to get uh,
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Speaker 1: getting back on the field. He's wanted to and and
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Speaker 1: tried to. But uh, yeah, it's it's a fun watching
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Speaker 1: him out there.
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Speaker 3: Got some more playing time this last week. He'll be
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Speaker 3: playing his former team.
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Speaker 1: What did what did you expect from him when you
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Speaker 1: acquired him?
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Speaker 3: And and what did he get?
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Speaker 1: We hope that he'd be right in the midst of
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Speaker 1: the competition for playing time and and and all, you know,
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Speaker 1: and in uh contributing in a number of ways. He's
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Speaker 1: a really good all around athlete. And he's got a
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Speaker 1: good versatility to him. You've seen us play him on
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Speaker 1: the edge uh quite a bit as an outside backer.
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Speaker 1: He has all of that flexibility. He's a real good
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Speaker 1: natural football player. So uh, he's fit in it. It's
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Speaker 1: been hard, you know, behind Bobby and and Jordan uh
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Speaker 1: a good deal of the time, but uh, his spirit.
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Speaker 2: Has always been there.
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Speaker 1: I Uh, you know, he's got a great chance to
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Speaker 1: play a lot this week and and I know he'll
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Speaker 1: be fired up for that. So yeah, it's it's a
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Speaker 1: there's always something to that, you know.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: Last week, Uh uh Rio had his chance to you know,
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Speaker 1: go back against his old club, and there's something to
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Speaker 1: that that just kind of juice his guys up. And
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Speaker 1: and I I totally respect that and and uh and
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Speaker 1: I like honor in that cause it's it's it's it's meaningful,
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Speaker 1: it's it means something.
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Speaker 3: So define what Devin will practice today before you.
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Speaker 1: Know, Uh, let's see what happens. You know, he bounced
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Speaker 1: around and walk through. Let's see what happens when we
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Speaker 1: get out there. I don't know they yet.
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Speaker 2: How does that Jordan Brooks do. He's pretty sure. He's
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Speaker 2: pretty sore. So we gotaha, wait and see what happens.
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Speaker 2: What's uh, what's the player with Jamal Adams? This week?
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Speaker 1: He was a walk through, also bouncing around. So uh,
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Speaker 1: he's gonna he's gonna practice today. It's the first time
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Speaker 1: in a while we've got a chance to get him out.
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Speaker 1: He's had a good break and uh, we'll see it.
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Speaker 1: See what that means. I I don't I can't conclude
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Speaker 1: anything about that, but I'm I'm happy for him.
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Speaker 2: I know he's pumped up to be back out there.
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Speaker 2: He if he.
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Speaker 3: Comes back, else does he return as the starter? At
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Speaker 3: that's fine.
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Speaker 2: M we'll see, we'll see. You have to wait and
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Speaker 2: see on that. I that's your name, Devin Bush.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, he hasn't gotten as much playing
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Speaker 1: time as those other guys this year. So I guess
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Speaker 1: going into a game with him as the starter, is
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Speaker 1: is he to kind of get himself his mindset ready
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Speaker 1: or kind of uh the differences they need to be.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's some special circumstances here.
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Speaker 1: You know the fact that he's playing against his old
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Speaker 1: team and you get drafted by him and all that
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Speaker 1: kind of stuff as well as you know, game plan
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Speaker 1: and prepping and all that.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot going on, and so uh, it's.
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Speaker 1: This is an important week for him to be right
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Speaker 1: down the middle and really you know, keep his head
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Speaker 1: down and and and get his work done, uh, so
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Speaker 1: that he can prepare well, cause he the the what
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Speaker 1: he wants to do is he wants to help his
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Speaker 1: team play well.
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Speaker 2: And so he's got to be really ready to do that.
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Speaker 1: And there is reason to be distracted, you know, first time,
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Speaker 1: you know, you know, you know a few times he's
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Speaker 1: got a chance to play a lot and and all
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Speaker 1: that possibly and then uh, his club and whatever else
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Speaker 1: is going on, you know. So that's the kind of
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Speaker 1: guy I'm looking forward to hanging out with a little
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Speaker 1: bit this week and talking them through it and just
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Speaker 1: seeing how he's doing and making sure that he's level
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Speaker 1: and and clear.
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Speaker 2: Did you did you know through the game? Okay, yes
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Speaker 2: he did. He had.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he came out great and and uh he looked
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Speaker 1: terrific again today.
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Speaker 2: So he's back and going.
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Speaker 3: We're we're over the hump after that forty nine Ers
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Speaker 3: game where big plays were a big issue. I think
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Speaker 3: it's been like nine explosives in the last two games.
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Speaker 2: One play over twenty yards. What have you guys done
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Speaker 2: to clean up tho.
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Speaker 1: We have done some stuff. No fast thing I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: do is tell you what we're doing. I'm it's hard enough.
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Speaker 2: Things have worked. Whatever it is you're doing. Just what
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Speaker 2: it's up for your defense to take those away? Well,
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Speaker 2: it's it's it's made a difference, you know.
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Speaker 1: We we have we've we've we've uh slowed down the
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Speaker 1: throwing game c considerably, you know. And and the points
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Speaker 1: we are are down in the range with you you
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Speaker 1: can live with and and and all that so, uh,
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Speaker 1: we got a long ways to go here to make
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Speaker 1: this season really something and and but we're we've turned
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Speaker 1: a corner that really is significant, I can tell and
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Speaker 1: we all know that, and so we're we're building on that,
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Speaker 1: whatever that means.
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Speaker 2: So that what do you do about their run defense
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Speaker 2: and kind of how it's been. Yeah, we've been rope
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Speaker 2: a doping here the last couple of weeks. You know
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Speaker 2: that's an old reference, right you know that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we we it's not where we want it, and
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Speaker 1: it's not how we like it. Uh yet it's uh,
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Speaker 1: it's been an interesting balance because the passing game has
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Speaker 1: really been been quite along with that.
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Speaker 2: So it's not what we wanted all.
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Speaker 1: Uh the second half of the game last week, I
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Speaker 1: think we gave up forty yards Russian or something like that.
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Speaker 1: And that's a terrific turnaround because we got knocked around
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Speaker 1: in the first half and the quarterback has some some
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Speaker 1: big carries and all that. But to be able to
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Speaker 1: adjust and fix and and and get a winning fix
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Speaker 1: is is what's crucial. And to keep the points down,
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Speaker 1: whatever that combination is. If that's the way it's continues,
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Speaker 1: that's way, he continues. I don't know, I'd not I'd
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Speaker 1: rather have it be different rather have you know, get
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Speaker 1: get him on a hundred yards Russian TJ.
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Speaker 2: Watt. Obviously could you could breck a game, not to
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Speaker 2: give away the game, but how do you neutralize a
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Speaker 2: rusher like that?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I've said in the past about he and
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Speaker 1: his brother and you know, the guys that are that
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Speaker 1: are that impacting.
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Speaker 2: You have to do a little bit of everything. You know,
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Speaker 2: there's no one way to stop him.
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Speaker 1: He's such a volatile football player and uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's it's just really a challenge. And so that's why
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Speaker 1: he's got seventeen. He's doing it again. You know, he's
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Speaker 1: having another great year. Everybody knows he's there and and
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Speaker 1: he ain't hiding. Uh So we had to do a
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Speaker 1: nice job and uh and keep him guessing a little
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Speaker 1: bit of best weekend, try to keep him from being
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Speaker 1: a you know, a big part of this game situation.
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Speaker 2: Last week with Julian Love. What was it like trying
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Speaker 2: to get him ready for a game or here man?
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Speaker 1: Well, Uh, coach Roy Andson flew back with him. You know,
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Speaker 1: he flew out on a plane. Uh after we had left,
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Speaker 1: and uh, coach just grilled him for the five hour
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Speaker 1: trip or whatever it was across the country, and uh,
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Speaker 1: and he was dead tired now.
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Speaker 2: It w he was cooked.
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Speaker 1: He you could tell even after the game he had
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Speaker 1: he had had a bit obviously a huge week and
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Speaker 1: a very trying, trying week in a different way. It
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Speaker 1: just it lasted so long. You know, all the person
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Speaker 1: are a challenge and extraordinary and all that, but he
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Speaker 1: had to go through it for three or four days,
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Speaker 1: did to try to get through it. Uh, and helped
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Speaker 1: Julia get through it and all that. So uh, it
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Speaker 1: took its toll. He did a great job. He played
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Speaker 1: fantastic football, game was on it, no issues. So during
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Speaker 1: the week he was zooming. During the week he was
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Speaker 1: he was in on the meetings and stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: So he just didn't get the physical work on the field.
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Speaker 2: Have you ever seen a situation like that with a player.
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Speaker 1: Who not exactly No, we've had babies during the season
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Speaker 1: and stuff like that, but that one was really he
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Speaker 1: could had they were thinking about the week before even
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Speaker 1: you know, and so we it was.
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Speaker 2: It was a long haul for those guys.
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Speaker 1: And thankfully they had a beautiful baby boy, and and uh,
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Speaker 1: wherever thing worked out great.
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Speaker 2: What is it about TJ.
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Speaker 3: Waters the rusher that makes him different from a Miles Garrett,
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Speaker 3: from a micro persons from a Nick Bos and the.
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Speaker 2: Way that they kind of get there.
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Speaker 1: All those guys you just mentioned have their own physical
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Speaker 1: m s, unique s, w make up, you know, and
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Speaker 1: they're they're all those guys are different, but they all
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Speaker 1: have the same kind of uh impact, and they Mike
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Speaker 1: is a little different in how they use him at all,
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Speaker 1: but it's they're extraordinarily.
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Speaker 2: Uh gifted at at what it takes to be a
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Speaker 2: pass rusher.
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Speaker 1: And that's the length and quickness and explosion in athleticism
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Speaker 1: and sense and timing and feel all of those things
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Speaker 1: to be that high a caliber player.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's not just how fast you are or
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Speaker 2: how big you are. It is there's so many other
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Speaker 2: things going and.
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Speaker 1: To sustain over years and continue to be a really
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Speaker 1: impacting player, that's a whole different level you know of
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Speaker 1: of guy and and uh those guys you mentioned, they're
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Speaker 1: all they're way out there. They're all very exceptionally gifted
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Speaker 1: with their the physique and the physical side of what
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Speaker 1: they have to offer, But they wouldn't be able to
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Speaker 1: do it.
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Speaker 2: You know, so it takes all that one.
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Speaker 3: Patrick Peterson is a guy you're familiar with, but at corner.
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Speaker 3: You spent the last two games in safety. What have
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Speaker 3: you seen in in that move that he's made in
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Speaker 3: in the characteristic.
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Speaker 2: Now he's making the transition.
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Speaker 1: You know, I I don't know if I've ever said
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Speaker 1: this to you guys, but when when Patrick came to
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Speaker 1: our camp at sc I, I had made the comment
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Speaker 1: that he was the best player at his position we'd
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Speaker 1: ever seen in all those years we were there.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he was so perfectly gifted and and all that,
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Speaker 2: and so we you know, I we'd uh obviously tried
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Speaker 2: to get him to come Andy. We couldn't get him.
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Speaker 1: But uh so I've been on you know, watching him
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Speaker 1: for a long time, and he's an unbelievably gifted athlete.
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Speaker 1: And but it's w again, like we're talking to the
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Speaker 1: other guess there's way more than that. It's all the
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Speaker 1: sense and awareness. He's using all of that to make
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Speaker 1: this quick transition. And he looks smooth back there, and
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Speaker 1: he's comfortable doing it. So this is what happens sometimes
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Speaker 1: the corners, you know, in their later years, they get
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Speaker 1: a chance to do this and uh, he he's totally
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Speaker 1: capable of pulling this off.
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Speaker 2: So doing a nice job so far.
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Speaker 3: What did that What did Gino show you kind of
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Speaker 3: just in the last three weeks with you know, the
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Speaker 3: injury and maybe want to play that they're not getting
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Speaker 3: to play.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good question, man, because we've been through
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Speaker 1: a lot and we've had a lot of discussions about
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Speaker 1: dealing with the challenge of it and trying to get
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Speaker 1: back and what's the timeline, how much should we do?
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Speaker 2: How much could you take? How you feel?
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Speaker 1: I mean, all of those conversations every day three weeks ago,
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Speaker 1: you know, as we started it, and then holding him
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Speaker 1: back to in week two to try to see how
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Speaker 1: far he could come back without any real activity, testing
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Speaker 1: him on game night and and all that stuff.
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Speaker 2: It was and he was so frustrated, you know, and
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Speaker 2: I was It killed me to have to go through that.
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Speaker 1: But you know, fortunately it worked out, you know, and
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Speaker 1: he came back and had a great week last week
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Speaker 1: and played it phenomenal football game, won a game and
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Speaker 1: all that, and he's back now, like like just checking
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Speaker 1: in with him today.
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Speaker 2: So, uh, there's has been a lot that ha that's
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Speaker 2: happened and fortunately, I think.
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Speaker 1: Because of our background and and we've been connected and
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Speaker 1: you know, communicated so much for so many years that
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Speaker 1: even though it was hard, it wasn't hard. And you know,
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Speaker 1: we weren't nobody was yelling at anybody or know that
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Speaker 1: kind of stuff. It was just having to just work
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Speaker 1: through it and just kind of hug our way through
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Speaker 1: it and and and you know, and make the right
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Speaker 1: choices and make the tough choices and just keep hanging,
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Speaker 1: which Gina was famous for. He did, He did exactly that,
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Speaker 1: and when the time was right and he was ready
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Speaker 1: to go, look what he did.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: So it it's a real memorable spend of time there
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Speaker 1: with with one, you know, one of my all time
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Speaker 1: favorite guys. And and uh, I'm glad we made it
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Speaker 1: through it. And I loved the success that he was
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Speaker 1: able to uh show last week And what was j.
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Speaker 2: What was Julian able to do during the week at all?
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Speaker 2: For the pre who was young virtual stuff or yeah?
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Speaker 2: Yeah he did, Yeah, he was zooming. Uh he was.
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Speaker 1: He was in on all of the meetings and he
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Speaker 1: got anything that he wasn't available for he had recorded,
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Speaker 1: so he he had had the notes and all that stuff.
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Speaker 1: So then he there was some calling back and forth
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Speaker 1: when you know, when there was time in between stuff
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Speaker 1: and all, but it was all remote, you know. So
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Speaker 1: was he there for the like the walk through the
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Speaker 1: day before or no, n No, he wasn't around at
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Speaker 1: all either. I think he he came by the building
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Speaker 1: to tell us he was going back to the hospital,
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Speaker 1: you know. I think he checked him one one.
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Speaker 2: Oh for any of that. Uh.
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Speaker 1: He got in about four o'clock the the the night before,
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Speaker 1: and so you know, our g coaches went right to
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Speaker 1: to work with him, and.
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Speaker 2: Then we had the meetings that night and he was
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Speaker 2: with us. Then you still a jack the ship and
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Speaker 2: the jig, the his ability to stay even keel and
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Speaker 2: s and he had stay committed. He choosed to get
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Speaker 2: any better and better. Yeah, I I I.
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Speaker 1: He's he's really a special kid. And and uh hm
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Speaker 1: he's so composed and s and so confident. He knows
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Speaker 1: he's gonna make the plays that he's making, you know,
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Speaker 1: and then it just expects it, which is what you
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Speaker 1: know great players do. He has no question, No, he
14:02
Speaker 1: didn't doubt anything that he that he's faced with. You know,
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Speaker 1: he's got this remarkable confidence and all that and the
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Speaker 1: the ability to go with it. He would never be
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Speaker 1: able to do that if he had this great ability
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Speaker 1: that taught him over the years. That that's who he is,
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Speaker 1: you know, but it it's even more than that. And
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Speaker 1: I think you're you're te he's he's a great competitor.
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Speaker 1: He's really smart. It makes sense to him. Uh he
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Speaker 1: can do things once and he's got it, you know.
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Speaker 1: And and uh so there's a remarkably valuable first year
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Speaker 1: player because of all of that. I mean, look at
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Speaker 1: a fifty something catches already and bunch of you know,
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Speaker 1: bunch of connections on third downs and stuff like that.
14:34
Speaker 2: So he he's he's doing great. You talk and do
14:38
Speaker 2: was what w what twaite did you see from himproved? Yeah?
14:42
Speaker 2: That there he demonstrated a real grit.
14:43
Speaker 1: Now he never even doubted for a second that he
14:46
Speaker 1: was gonna be able to go and whenever it took,
14:48
Speaker 1: it didn't matter. He never he didn't miss anything more
14:51
Speaker 1: than than he absolutely had to. The the the cast
14:55
Speaker 1: barely dried, you know, in his hand, and he's out
14:57
Speaker 1: there practicing and stuff. So that's just one remarkable thing
15:02
Speaker 1: about him. You know, that he was able to to
15:04
Speaker 1: see through that setback and not not be affected by it.
15:09
Speaker 2: And he still was.
15:09
Speaker 1: Catching the ball and catching but one hand and whatever
15:11
Speaker 1: he had to do didn't miss anything, you know.
15:13
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's just a rare m R. You know,
15:16
Speaker 2: rare young man. Uh.
15:17
Speaker 3: The the pass rush obviously got going pretty big this
15:20
Speaker 3: past game. Between whether it's losing your chinna early adding
15:23
Speaker 3: Leonard Williams. Just have you seen that group evolve throughout the.
15:26
Speaker 2: H I'm I'm really fired up about him that. You know.
15:28
Speaker 1: We I think we're leading the NFC and sacks or
15:30
Speaker 1: something like that right now we're s it's tied with
15:32
Speaker 1: somebody or whatever. We're way up there. It's a good statement,
15:35
Speaker 1: and uh it's a really it's a really good part
15:39
Speaker 1: of our game. This was a game plan that we
15:41
Speaker 1: we went into knowing we had to get the pass rush.
15:44
Speaker 1: Uh revved up. Uh it really the pressure was on
15:46
Speaker 1: it guys in that regard. We talked straight up about
15:48
Speaker 1: it and called on him and then they came through
15:50
Speaker 1: and got it done right from the earlier part of
15:51
Speaker 1: the game, you know, and the message was sent clear
15:53
Speaker 1: and it helped us out again. So I mean, it's
15:57
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's a really good group and and there
16:01
Speaker 1: there there seems like they're gelling. You know, seems like
16:03
Speaker 1: even though we didn't have a big game last week
16:06
Speaker 1: of the week before, numbers wise, we still were effective
16:08
Speaker 1: in what we were doing and and so we've been
16:10
Speaker 1: continuing to get better.
16:11
Speaker 2: So it's a nice sign for this time of year,
16:13
Speaker 2: which is is Amy of Lewis.
16:14
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, would you hear back from the league on
16:18
Speaker 1: the Trey Brown passing?
16:19
Speaker 2: Haven't heard yet. I don't know. Did so happened with
16:22
Speaker 2: Jason Pieters in the game or yeah he did? He?
16:25
Speaker 1: Uh he had a plan in fascion injury sounds pretty good.
16:29
Speaker 1: Uh that Uh, he he's getting around, Okay, he he's
16:35
Speaker 1: moving around alright. Y. We we don't know that, uh
16:37
Speaker 1: how that's gonna hold him back yet?
16:38
Speaker 2: We gotta wait, does the plan there just a little
16:41
Speaker 2: bit er? Uh, we don't know that yet.
16:42
Speaker 1: You gotta wait and see what all makes you know,
16:44
Speaker 1: Smith one of your old time favorite guys.
16:46
Speaker 2: When you see see the Star, all goes into you know,
16:50
Speaker 2: Smith being one of your old time paper guys. God,
16:53
Speaker 2: I love his story, you know, I.
16:55
Speaker 1: Uh he's taught me so much and and uh I
16:58
Speaker 1: admire him, Uh, for the way he's he's handled the
17:01
Speaker 1: you know, the whole competitive part of the thing. He
17:04
Speaker 1: he he's taught us about belief in yourself and how
17:06
Speaker 1: powerful that is, you know. And uh, I mean as
17:10
Speaker 1: m as as clear and illustration as of anybody that
17:12
Speaker 1: can ever remember me. That's why he stands out so much.
17:14
Speaker 1: You know, I forget this year is last year, Go
17:18
Speaker 1: back two, three, four years?
17:19
Speaker 2: Where was he then? He was the same guy every
17:21
Speaker 2: time out and just kept hanging.
17:23
Speaker 1: I mean, I I probably didn't give him enough credit
17:25
Speaker 1: cause I probably didn't believe it that he was really
17:27
Speaker 1: you know it, maybe he's kind of faking and he's
17:29
Speaker 1: saying the right stuff. He meant it, man, he he
17:31
Speaker 1: was on it and he proved it, you know, he
17:33
Speaker 1: he proved it that. That's what the last year was
17:35
Speaker 1: all about.
17:35
Speaker 2: He proved that.
17:36
Speaker 1: Uh, his confidence in himself and belief and all that
17:39
Speaker 1: conviction and all that was was real, you know, and
17:41
Speaker 1: he came through in a huge way. And I mean,
17:43
Speaker 1: he's he's playing terrific football for.
17:45
Speaker 2: Us, and the belief when he wasn't playing behind him, no,
17:49
Speaker 2: well not so much not so openly.
17:51
Speaker 1: Hey, I you know, I'm he He wasn't bragging about nothing,
17:53
Speaker 1: or he wasn't challenging nothing other than it was just
17:56
Speaker 1: the way he was. It was now that I look back,
17:58
Speaker 1: I see it, I d I didn't like I said,
17:59
Speaker 1: I wasn't. I wasn't sure it was that unique until
18:02
Speaker 1: when the opportunity arose. And now he exploded on the
18:05
Speaker 1: scene with his brain right intact, right where it needed
18:08
Speaker 1: to be, the uh take full advantage of the opportunity,
18:11
Speaker 1: and he did what.
18:12
Speaker 2: What kind that body whacker that basics play every safe?
18:15
Speaker 2: I think that's play when he's been busy. Yeah, I
18:19
Speaker 2: just in teer. What kind of season does he have?
18:20
Speaker 1: I mean, does he really solid? I mean he's got
18:22
Speaker 1: a hundred and I don't know, was it forty or
18:24
Speaker 1: fifty tackles or something like that. Again, I don't even
18:27
Speaker 1: keep track of that, but he he, he's he's way
18:30
Speaker 1: out there consistency wise, and he's done a great job
18:33
Speaker 1: of leading and he's been a perfect symbol for our
18:35
Speaker 1: guys in in on this club and for the younger
18:38
Speaker 1: guys and Hi Hi his uh willingness to work with
18:42
Speaker 1: w again with Jordan and you know, just help those
18:44
Speaker 1: two guys grow together.
18:46
Speaker 2: As I as you know, teammates and all that and
18:48
Speaker 2: bring out the best. I mean, just on and on.
18:50
Speaker 2: So there's just a everything in the world is going
18:52
Speaker 2: is been positive about it.
18:53
Speaker 3: You don't think Phil Ams would be eligible for to
18:55
Speaker 3: come back to be those sup words he had just recovering.
18:57
Speaker 2: Hi.
18:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, today, he's not going to day. We're gonna do
19:00
Speaker 1: go day to time. We would like to get him
19:03
Speaker 1: available as soon as possible. So we're we're working at it.
19:06
Speaker 1: We're not quite there yet.
19:07
Speaker 2: I which is the way you all.
19:08
Speaker 1: Been able to play back the last couple of weeks,
19:10
Speaker 1: the way you did it with those game winning drives
19:12
Speaker 1: on not really demonstrate what it will take. Then this
19:15
Speaker 1: thing out of high note, well, it's it's it is
19:17
Speaker 1: about finishing. They're great, great illustrations for us about finishing
19:21
Speaker 1: and and uh we use that in extend that illustration
19:26
Speaker 1: to things other than just the game. But but this
19:28
Speaker 1: this this season is is is an opportunity to finish
19:32
Speaker 1: and and if we can maintain the same kind of
19:34
Speaker 1: discipline about how we finish and how we were focused
19:37
Speaker 1: and were available for those moments, here's this game right here,
19:41
Speaker 1: and then there's the next game. And that would have
19:42
Speaker 1: been the end of the season, you know, going into
19:44
Speaker 1: the playoffs.
19:45
Speaker 2: And all that. So it's so valuable.
19:49
Speaker 1: It just it empowers the the reason to believe and
19:52
Speaker 1: to keep focusing in the way that we do and
19:54
Speaker 1: believing in the process and how we practice and all
19:57
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. And Uh, now I was just
19:59
Speaker 1: talking to him to but we we need to have
20:00
Speaker 1: a great Wednesday. Wednesday's a big deal around here for us,
20:03
Speaker 1: and this is an opportunity have like the best Wednesday
20:05
Speaker 1: we've had all here. Why would we not, you know,
20:06
Speaker 1: it's just us, and so uh, we'll want see Uh.
20:09
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a hext go the day
20:11
Speaker 1: to day to be clear, Jordan's not practicing, he won't
20:14
Speaker 1: go to there and uh, what's what less one ind injury?
20:16
Speaker 3: What's going out a d in the ribs with the
20:19
Speaker 3: scritch and.
20:19
Speaker 1: The Yeah there we we know a little bit more.
20:23
Speaker 1: Uh and and I I don't know if you need
20:25
Speaker 1: to go into anything about that.
20:26
Speaker 2: Let's wait h on that.
20:27
Speaker 1: But we know a little bit more about his injury.
20:29
Speaker 1: Something else kind of showed and and surfaced on on uh.
20:32
Speaker 1: And so we'll we'll we'll be dealing.
20:34
Speaker 3: With that play again this year.
20:36
Speaker 2: I don't know that yet. Okay,