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Mike Macdonald: "We're Making The Most Out Of Every Day" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, great to see everybody. Uh, today kind of
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  Speaker 1: wrapped up a big push for us with last weekend
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  Speaker 1: the day off, and then we had two great days
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  Speaker 1: of practice here. We really got after it and great
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  Speaker 1: competitive practices. So all attention now is is the Thursday
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  Speaker 1: and get our bodies right to go play a game.
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  Speaker 1: What do you want to get out of it? There's
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  Speaker 1: so much to get out of these games. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of position battles that you want to see. You
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  Speaker 1: want to see how guys you know handle you know,
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  Speaker 1: live and in color schemes that necessarily they haven't been
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  Speaker 1: seeing the last you know, X amount of practices. Going
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  Speaker 1: against other people is really exciting. Be in front of
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  Speaker 1: the twelves is going to be a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: And we want to win the game. So that's how
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  Speaker 1: we'll call it, and that's how we'll handle all the situations.
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  Speaker 1: But getting our guys you know, great great reps as well.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we want to we want to get our
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  Speaker 1: guys an opportunity to go show what they've been practicing
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  Speaker 1: and been training to do. You said you would you
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  Speaker 1: play the starters. I guess with defining starters, I mean
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  Speaker 1: just the obvious kind of guys we see here. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there might be. It's not like, hey, we're taking the
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  Speaker 1: twenty two guys that are penciled in with the ones
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  Speaker 1: and they're not playing. It's kind of selected guys. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: some where, some position battles still going. We'll see it.
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  Speaker 1: If it's a young like the younger guys like Nickel,
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  Speaker 1: get get some uh, get some good reps. You'll see
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  Speaker 1: Gray initially, Elijah will you know, will play. So you
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  Speaker 1: know all those young guys that they need, uh, they
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  Speaker 1: need experience in reps too. Yeah, keep doing what he's doing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you don't have to reinvent quarterback play. Just
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  Speaker 1: do all the things that you're you've been trained to do.
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  Speaker 1: Go let it rip, be decisive, and you know, be
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback and person that we we draft you to
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  Speaker 1: be and that he's been coming out there every day.
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  Speaker 1: You see it. I think you guys see it. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of progress, a lot of things to be
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  Speaker 1: excited about, and there's a lot of things we want
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  Speaker 1: to work on too. So uh, I can't wait. I
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  Speaker 1: can't wait to watch it play. I can't wait to
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  Speaker 1: watch Drew play. You could you could name any one
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  Speaker 1: of the ninety guys that any go out there or
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  Speaker 1: could go out there, and there's something that fires you
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  Speaker 1: up about seeing that person go out for the first
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  Speaker 1: time and and see what they go do. Coach wear
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  Speaker 1: a lot mores. You shood practices well with that, UH,
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  Speaker 1: starters you're going and joint practices, but op in for
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  Speaker 1: instacing years, how do you kind of use of them
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  Speaker 1: to get to your friend bring. I don't think there's
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  Speaker 1: like a scientific, tried and true you have to do
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  Speaker 1: it this way method. Uh, you look at the studies
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  Speaker 1: and you know, things the league tells you and things
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  Speaker 1: that we handle in house. Rule of thumb is you want,
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  Speaker 1: you know, two to three pretty pretty good intense exposures
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  Speaker 1: before you kick it off. So you can manufacture that
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  Speaker 1: in practice with you know, borderline live period you can
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  Speaker 1: do that. It's hard to do that in house. So
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  Speaker 1: I think that's where the joint practices come from, where
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  Speaker 1: it's a little bit more controlled environment but still intense,
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  Speaker 1: which is important. And then some teams handle it by
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  Speaker 1: playing their starters in preseason games and you can get
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  Speaker 1: it get it done that way. So that's we're kind
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  Speaker 1: of doing the blended approach this year. UH. Coach read
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  Speaker 1: you know they have they have a history of playing
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  Speaker 1: their starts in the game, so our guys will have
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to go next week. And then obviously we
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  Speaker 1: have the practice against Green Bay and then the option
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  Speaker 1: to get guys in extra reps in the game as well.
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  Speaker 1: So I think it gives us some flexibility and opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to play against really good competition before we get ready
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  Speaker 1: to play the season. We go to see a lot
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  Speaker 1: of You've got to see a lot of Anthony Bradford
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  Speaker 1: out there, were playing the first team here of last week,
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  Speaker 1: and how have you seen him take this challenge with
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  Speaker 1: the competition, playing in a new scheme. How have you
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  Speaker 1: seen adjust to that? Well? I think he's taking control
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  Speaker 1: of his career. I think it's his mentality that it's
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  Speaker 1: up to him. Nobody else can want it for him.
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  Speaker 1: We obviously know that he has the talent to do
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  Speaker 1: to be a great player in this league, and he's
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  Speaker 1: shown it in practice consistently. He's has game reps where
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  Speaker 1: he's shown it. We all know it's it's a matter
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  Speaker 1: of consistency and that's the challenge for him to finish
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  Speaker 1: this start that he's put together. And we're about halfway
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  Speaker 1: through training camp. You know, let's go close the thing
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  Speaker 1: out the right way. You know, it's it's a long
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  Speaker 1: season and so we've got to keep stacking those reps.
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  Speaker 1: We make sure here that running and a big step
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  Speaker 1: to work this season and the chiefs have been made.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not thinking it in terms of we're not comparing
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  Speaker 1: anything the last season, especially offensively. It's a completely new scheme.
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  Speaker 1: It's a completely new coaching staff. I mean not completely new.
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  Speaker 1: We got some coaches that were here last year, but
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  Speaker 1: we got It's just like if you guys want to
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  Speaker 1: win the championship. Of course we want to win the championship.
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  Speaker 1: Of course we want to run the ball, but we
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  Speaker 1: have to get all the other stuff right first. So
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  Speaker 1: what I'm seeing is we're attacking details. We're coaching the
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  Speaker 1: heck out of them. The guys have a great spirit,
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  Speaker 1: they're trying their tails off, and we're making the most
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  Speaker 1: of every day and there's a lot of great stuff
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  Speaker 1: that shows up on tape. We haven't game planned anything yet.
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  Speaker 1: We've run a bunch of different run schemes. Uh So
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  Speaker 1: we got to stay the course. So you know, we'll
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  Speaker 1: go in with a targeted package, going into the first
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  Speaker 1: game and then we'll just build off from there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: throughout the rest of the preseason and then and then
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  Speaker 1: throughout the year. So am my confident that we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be able to run the ball? Absolutely? Absolutely is in
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  Speaker 1: the very encouraging, very encouraging. Abe's another one. He's a
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  Speaker 1: great example. Just the attitude, the effort, uh, the relentless
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  Speaker 1: pursuit of becoming a great player. And if we all
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  Speaker 1: have that attitude, we're gonna be in a good spot.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't well. I think he saw it his rookie year,
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  Speaker 1: the guy as a finisher, talk about finishing plays in
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  Speaker 1: a dominant position. He's one of those guys. So that's
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  Speaker 1: what we expect from Abe. He knows that's what that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of his superpower. So you know, he's one of
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  Speaker 1: those guys that will be following. It will be fun
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  Speaker 1: to show reps that, you know, when he finished his
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  Speaker 1: plays the way we want to. I think that's contagious
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  Speaker 1: throughout not only your offense, but your whole team. Callies
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  Speaker 1: yesterday with you away, do you have a plane in
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  Speaker 1: place for him to get those opportunities? Didn't show up
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  Speaker 1: for a game? Uh? No, Adi and I we've been
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  Speaker 1: splitting play calling duties really for you know, since we
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  Speaker 1: walked into the or in terms of practice and how
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  Speaker 1: we call periods. Sometimes I'll be working operations. Sometimes it's
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  Speaker 1: a good period. You know, AD's just calling happens to
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  Speaker 1: be calling that period. And it's not like a tried
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  Speaker 1: and true written formula of how we're gonna get ready
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  Speaker 1: to go. But I have, you know, a pretty good
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  Speaker 1: idea or process of what it's gonna take to get
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  Speaker 1: ready to call you know, the first game. But it's
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  Speaker 1: important for us to be on the same page and
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  Speaker 1: start to think alike. And he has some wrinkles that
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  Speaker 1: he how he likes to call it, which is opportunities
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  Speaker 1: for me to learn and grow. And and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: in these in these true call it periods where it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of live situations like we did there at the end. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's fun to go back and kind of go back
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  Speaker 1: and through what was his mind or what what was
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  Speaker 1: on my mind, And that's the way we can sharpen
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  Speaker 1: each other, and uh, it just become better play callers.
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  Speaker 1: So he's a he's a fun guy to work with,
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  Speaker 1: a strong Actually, well, I felt like we had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of explosives. We did a sudden change period. They
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  Speaker 1: scored on the first drive. We did a we call
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  Speaker 1: it a red zone lockout period where all three all
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  Speaker 1: three units are are you know, basically playing out red
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  Speaker 1: zone drives and the result of that, you know, allocate points.
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  Speaker 1: And I think they scored on three of the five drives.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the stuff that you need to ability. You've
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  Speaker 1: got to be able to move the ball explosively. And
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  Speaker 1: then when you get just like we worked here at
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  Speaker 1: the end, once you get in the red zone, can
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  Speaker 1: you close out drives? Can you stay composed, you know
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  Speaker 1: your suck and wind? Can you execute? Can you think
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  Speaker 1: when you're tired? All those things are really important, and
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  Speaker 1: we've shown the ability to do that over the last
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  Speaker 1: two days. We didn't see it days. Yeah, Lou's back
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  Speaker 1: tightened up a little bit. We don't think it's really
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  Speaker 1: day to day at this point. Yeah, the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: You just got a little tangle with his knee. So
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  Speaker 1: we're getting image and uh kind of go from there.
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  Speaker 1: But Josh had surgery on his hand, should be back,
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  Speaker 1: should be back soon. What kind of camp do you
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  Speaker 1: think Marquez about the scantlet has had so far? He's
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  Speaker 1: doing a good job. You know the things that that
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  Speaker 1: he does. Think A're gonna show up more when we're
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  Speaker 1: when we're live, be able to separate the defense, you know,
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  Speaker 1: get into that third level, to open up some of
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  Speaker 1: those intermediate routes. And if they don't take and if
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  Speaker 1: they don't, you know, respect what he can do. We
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  Speaker 1: saw last year. You know what he's able to done.
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  Speaker 1: I got a bad memory of quiz just the last
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  Speaker 1: play of the Nancy Championship stuck a dagger in our heart.
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  Speaker 1: So that's on my mind a lot. When I wrote
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  Speaker 1: wrote physical run like curios plus the difference, it's only
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  Speaker 1: two inches. That makes me six foot. You're right, these
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  Speaker 1: shoes at six what's the curiosity there? Yeah, just what
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  Speaker 1: you said. He's he's a great person, comes to work
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  Speaker 1: every day, does a great job. Uh, that's all you
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  Speaker 1: can ask for. And drafted rookie come in rock and roll,
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  Speaker 1: be available, know what to do, do it at full
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  Speaker 1: speed all the time. He's right there in the rookies
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  Speaker 1: like that. Now they are like years. It's interesting. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if the like sample size is enough to
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  Speaker 1: make a make a declaration, but it is interesting that
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  Speaker 1: the rookies are older and they hear it from the
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  Speaker 1: you know, when they tell the rest of the team
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  Speaker 1: their age, everybody gets a kick out of it. But
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the world we're living in now with
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  Speaker 1: you know, the incentives to come back and stay in school,
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  Speaker 1: which is on one hand, it's great. It's awesome that
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  Speaker 1: guys are getting more education and more experience and all that.
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  Speaker 1: I think you just kind of kind of have to
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  Speaker 1: see the playing field and then you know, operate accordingly.
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  Speaker 1: It's a quarter and kind of challenging that consistency. What
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  Speaker 1: do you see it from him in this again trying
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  Speaker 1: to I think he's having a tremendous camp. He's all
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  Speaker 1: the things that we're challenging him to do, he does.
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  Speaker 1: He's there every day. You guys know Reke, he's just
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  Speaker 1: a he's a great spirit. He's always you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: and he's the same guy every day. You know. He's uh,
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  Speaker 1: brings a lot of energy to the room, some kind
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  Speaker 1: of lightness to everything, some some brevity on how he operates.
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  Speaker 1: It's just but I think he's it's also he's one
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  Speaker 1: of those guys where he's also hungry to kind of
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  Speaker 1: get to the next level too, you know with his
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  Speaker 1: game and uh, we're challenging his coaches doing that, but
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  Speaker 1: it's a team effort. But I think he's having a
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  Speaker 1: great camp. No update with Hanks. So have you seen
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  Speaker 1: Fredrika Meringuez tape the opportunity the reps that he's getting.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited to see him play because he's doing a
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  Speaker 1: lot of great things in practice. He's very decisive with
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  Speaker 1: the calls, executing the right way. I mean, he's just
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  Speaker 1: he's doing a lot of great stuff in practice. So
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  Speaker 1: having the opportunity to do it in a in a
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  Speaker 1: game setting, I'm excited to see. I think our coaches
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  Speaker 1: feel the same way, well as Keil Griffin be able
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  Speaker 1: to kind of hit the ground run in next week
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  Speaker 1: or whatever. We have a plan for Shack. He's back.
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  Speaker 1: He's missed some time, so you can't just you know,
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  Speaker 1: throw him in and let him, you know, rock with
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  Speaker 1: the Wolves. But we have a plan, so we'll stick
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  Speaker 1: to that. M being out with him being out, Josh
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  Speaker 1: job now here for an entire season. How have you
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  Speaker 1: seen his game progress since kind of having the crashboards
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  Speaker 1: to their deep mats, play all the reps. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's another guy that he's really hungry to round out
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  Speaker 1: his game. So there's some areas where he's done a
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  Speaker 1: lot of work on which is fun to see him
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  Speaker 1: do that. And he's got a great opportunity in front
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  Speaker 1: of him. I mean, you know, we have we all
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  Speaker 1: know that we have our corner situation, and he's right there.
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  Speaker 1: And he played a lot of great football for us.
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  Speaker 1: We talked last year about his approach. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: also contagious. You walk in the building, you know, as
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  Speaker 1: a practice squad guy and kind of unknown guy in
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  Speaker 1: the building, and you just plug away at you know,
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  Speaker 1: play by play and play pay by play, and you
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  Speaker 1: stack reps and you and you start to make the
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  Speaker 1: players you're supposed to make. Then you're gonna get noticed.
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  Speaker 1: Then we're gonna give you opportunities. And he makes the
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  Speaker 1: best of those opportunities. And he's that's how we want
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  Speaker 1: to roll here. And he's a great example about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: how you can kind of change the trajectory of your career.
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  Speaker 1: So he's he's right there. Christian Haynes seems to be
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  Speaker 1: going on the west side right now. Is that kind
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  Speaker 1: of a switch fore you're doing? Yeah, but it's still
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  Speaker 1: kind of it's still a moving a Miba Lineman. That
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  Speaker 1: was great, Thanks for asking. Uh We talked about this
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  Speaker 1: last year. Coach Dungee is probably the reason that uh
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  Speaker 1: I decided to pursue coaching in the first place. It's
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  Speaker 1: definitely a driving force behind that. So much respect for
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  Speaker 1: I think that. I think the guys too, like the
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  Speaker 1: guys know, like, hey this, you know, Coach Dungee is
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  Speaker 1: the man. So awesome to have him here. Appreciate the
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  Speaker 1: word that he gave the team. Kind of leave it
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  Speaker 1: between us, but great having him here. I know he's
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  Speaker 1: really tight with Coach Frasier. So excited to see them,
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  Speaker 1: you know, share old stories. Is there anything you can
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  Speaker 1: tell us? Oh yeah, I was just we're just with
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  Speaker 1: my family. But everything's positive. Everything everything went great, and
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  Speaker 1: uh just very blessed, very blessed. But every everything all positive.
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  Speaker 1: We're not you know, people have big problems out there.
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  Speaker 1: I don't and get back about this report how she
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  Speaker 1: handled the practice rupture in last week. Well, he knows,
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  Speaker 1: he knows he's in a battle, and I think he
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  Speaker 1: respects Tory what he's doing, and and he's had a
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  Speaker 1: great attitude. He's had a tremendous attitude. He's a competitor
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  Speaker 1: at heart. I mean, he's had a great career, but
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  Speaker 1: there's also a lot of great competition too. So that's
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  Speaker 1: what you want from from Vets that you bring in. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: come on, come on, bring it doesn't go your way
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  Speaker 1: initially the way exactly you want it, that's okay. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're still halfway through. Let's rock and roll, go stack,
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  Speaker 1: start stacking some more plays and it's a fun competition
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  Speaker 1: to watch. Yeah, we're we're getting closer. It's probably dated
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  Speaker 1: day to day at this point, maybe a couple more days.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Both have hamstrings. Yes, uh, no update on him.
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  Speaker 1: It's positive. He's getting better, but we just don't know
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  Speaker 1: how long it's gonna take. My course, Uh just getting
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  Speaker 1: him tested out right now, we'll just call like a
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  Speaker 1: lower body felt funny. So we just took care of him.
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  Speaker 1: Everything else. I can't wait. I thought you could. I
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  Speaker 1: could have lost a lot of money. That that was
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  Speaker 1: gonna be an injury question man, and welcome back, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, I thought for sure that was. I'm thinking, like,
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  Speaker 1: who else is injured? Uh? E man worried same story,
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  Speaker 1: But let's close it out, you know, like, hey, now
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  Speaker 1: we're to the point where the standard is a standard.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it all the time, one play at a time.
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  Speaker 1: If it takes nineteen times, let's do it nineteen times,
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  Speaker 1: it takes five, let's do it five. And there's a
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  Speaker 1: responsibility that comes to that because we're expecting a lot
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  Speaker 1: of them. Thank you. Oh is this a kind of
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  Speaker 1: got like a who was? Well? I think they got
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  Speaker 1: to do their superpower. You know, Tyreek smith Is is
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  Speaker 1: a great rusher and so kind of bring that to
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  Speaker 1: the table. Special teams is going to be a huge
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  Speaker 1: part of it. Mike mose kind of like the enforcer
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  Speaker 1: on the edge with pass rush flexibility, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: be able to do those jobs and you can kind
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  Speaker 1: of go through line from there. All right, Okay, thanks guys,