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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Recaps The Week 11 Loss, Provides Injury Updates · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, everybody were ready? Uh, Brian, why don't you
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  Speaker 1: get us going?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, coach, any update on the gradesabel imaging from this morning?
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, so really fortunate. There's I guess we avoided
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  Speaker 1: a significant injury, which is really positive. I'd say the
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  Speaker 1: words I heard were day to day, so you know
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  Speaker 1: how that goes. It could be day to day, it
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  Speaker 1: could be a week, could be too, you know, more
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  Speaker 1: than that. So but nothing significant, which is which is
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  Speaker 1: a huge positive.
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  Speaker 2: And then I'm just curious, coach, Uh, do you find
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  Speaker 2: that in these division games that it's more likely that
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  Speaker 2: your people save things for those games, or that there's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be you know, surprises, or that you just know
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  Speaker 2: these teams so well that you know what's coming.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, and many coaches that hold things, I
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  Speaker 1: think that it's it's tough to do. Uh. I do
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  Speaker 1: think it's different because I do think you know each
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  Speaker 1: other really well, and it's you know, we're we're you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're two years into this thing on our defensive, defensive
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  Speaker 1: and special team scheme. It's our first year with our
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  Speaker 1: offensive scheme, so I think it's the beginning of that
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  Speaker 1: learning phase too. I mean, we're you know a year
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  Speaker 1: into this thing, so uh, it'll be definitely interesting for
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  Speaker 1: you know, the games to come. Thanks Jen.
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  Speaker 3: Defensively, coach, why did the team seem to be so
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  Speaker 3: effective and first down yesterday?
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  Speaker 1: Well we knew. I mean, the the Rams have a
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  Speaker 1: great early down operation. They change cadences and they shift
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  Speaker 1: in motion a lot, and that was a big point
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  Speaker 1: of emphasis throughout the week is making sure our clutches are
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  Speaker 1: in the ground. And we had one hundred percent on
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  Speaker 1: our comms and uh, I thought for the most part
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  Speaker 1: we did that, especially on on early downs, and then
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  Speaker 1: our guys can go play when that happens. So tribute
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  Speaker 1: to how they trained all week and how they practiced,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought it showed up in the game.
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  Speaker 3: Of course you wanted to win, but in what ways
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  Speaker 3: was this the confidence boost?
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  Speaker 1: Especially for the defense? I think you're I think you
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  Speaker 1: leave every game with with things that you know, you're
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  Speaker 1: you're excited about, and things that you learn from your
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  Speaker 1: team about you know, who we can become. Uh, yesterday
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  Speaker 1: was no different, and you're leaving every game saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: what could be you know from if we can learn
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  Speaker 1: from these things and grow from our mistakes and grow
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  Speaker 1: from and understand some things on our on the preparation
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  Speaker 1: end that that we can improve. That's that's also exciting
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  Speaker 1: to know that, hey, look where we can go if
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  Speaker 1: you know, we handle all these other things too. So
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  Speaker 1: I think that think that's what you're taking from from
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  Speaker 1: every game yesterday included Corbin oh Jack.
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  Speaker 4: Going back to the final couple of minutes the first
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  Speaker 4: half yesterday. With you being a defensive minded coach, how
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  Speaker 4: do you handle balancing the act between wanting to be
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  Speaker 4: aggressive and keeping playing keep away there, especially with a
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  Speaker 4: team like the Rams. That's something that you actively make
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  Speaker 4: part of your game plan each week depending on the opponent,
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  Speaker 4: or is it just kind of something that's fluid during
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  Speaker 4: the course of the game.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we have we have our end of half strategy
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  Speaker 1: on going into games, and no, that's pretty consistent. Does
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  Speaker 1: change a little bit based off the opponent and some
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  Speaker 1: other some other things going in and in general, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're you know, we're not in the business of letting
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  Speaker 1: them score and the easiest way for them to do
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  Speaker 1: that is to have the balls or we're trying to
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  Speaker 1: we're trying to really score at the end of the
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the half. But you do want
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  Speaker 1: to give yourself enough time where you can have all
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  Speaker 1: plays available and you know best, you know, so you're
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  Speaker 1: not kind of constricted. I actually thought we handled the
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  Speaker 1: end of the half really well. I mean, if something
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  Speaker 1: were to happen, you know, going in, I mean, really
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  Speaker 1: the only thing that could have happened that we could
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  Speaker 1: have gotten, you know, put in a tough spot if
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  Speaker 1: there was a if there was a defensive penalty that
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  Speaker 1: put us down like the one yard line, and we
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  Speaker 1: really only had like one play left, you know, in
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  Speaker 1: terms of time where you know, you could have maybe
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  Speaker 1: had it, you know, one or two plays. So them
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  Speaker 1: not having any timeouts allowed us to, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: operate like that.
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  Speaker 4: How did you feel about the way that the pass
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  Speaker 4: rush played out after the first few drives?
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  Speaker 3: It seemed like that first point that you.
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  Speaker 1: Guys forced that.
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  Speaker 4: After that, you guys were able to get Matthew Stafford
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  Speaker 4: at least off of his normal rhythm in the pocket
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  Speaker 4: and not a lot of snaps.
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  Speaker 5: But how'd you feel the way that.
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  Speaker 4: The pass rush played there for the last three quarters
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  Speaker 4: of the game.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Well, for the most part, I thought our guys
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  Speaker 1: played extremely hard in the back in the back end
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  Speaker 1: and where assignmon sound played with the right leverages and
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  Speaker 1: did a good job to you know, to kind of
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  Speaker 1: get them off rhythm. Sometimes. You know, you look at
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  Speaker 1: our the metrics and what we look at on defense
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  Speaker 1: of how much we affected the quarterback, and we didn't
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  Speaker 1: really meet our We didn't meet our mark yesterday, so
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  Speaker 1: there's room to grow as well. But the guys rushed hard.
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  Speaker 1: I thought they rushed together that you know, we were
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  Speaker 1: making like team decisions, which is great. And uh, I
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  Speaker 1: thought we made smart decisions when when we did get
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  Speaker 1: to the quarterback and you know, hitting them legally and
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  Speaker 1: also making I'm sure that you know, make them know
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  Speaker 1: that we were there as well. So it's kind of like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's good, but it's also, hey, we're not We didn't
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  Speaker 1: hit our mark, and I think you know, when you're
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  Speaker 1: not affecting the quarterback consistently, that's one of the metrics
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  Speaker 1: that really drives winning football.
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  Speaker 5: Mos veta am I going back to your decision making,
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  Speaker 5: you talked a little bit about this in the morning.
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  Speaker 5: How do you balance the analytical and the gut instinct
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  Speaker 5: and has that changed a little bit in the last
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  Speaker 5: couple of years or not.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's always evolving in terms of what our
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  Speaker 1: risk appetite is and what we're trying to do. I
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  Speaker 1: think from from for me personally, I feel like where
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  Speaker 1: I've grown is taken the mentality of, you know, trying
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  Speaker 1: to be let's figure out how we're like, let's go
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  Speaker 1: win the game. We're trying to go win football games,
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  Speaker 1: rather than you know, what's a way, you know, kind
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  Speaker 1: of taking a way around it, you know, a certain situation,
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  Speaker 1: so that that that drives a lot of our decision making.
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  Speaker 1: I think, I think when the analytics are aligned with
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  Speaker 1: your intuition, that definitely makes it, you know, an easier
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  Speaker 1: decision to make. And when you know when they're juxtaposed,
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  Speaker 1: then you're you know, you got to you got to
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  Speaker 1: trust your gutta how well you know certain sides of
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  Speaker 1: the ball are playing, the score of the game, things
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  Speaker 1: like that. Uh, I don't know, it's it's probably not
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  Speaker 1: an exact science, probably not a very good answer either.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry it might.
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  Speaker 5: Not have been the best of questions. But how did
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  Speaker 5: Josh job let mean, what did he allow you to
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  Speaker 5: do his return on the back end there?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we saw that, I mean we saw that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we do have depth at corner where you know, Neamiah
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  Speaker 1: came in and played good football for US against Arizona.
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  Speaker 1: But when you have you have Riek, Josh and Spoon
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  Speaker 1: out there, it's three starting corners that are playing good
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  Speaker 1: football and allows us to match up a little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: And I think we did that yesterday, and uh, the
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  Speaker 1: guys like that. You know, when you give him, when
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  Speaker 1: you let him match up every once in a while,
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  Speaker 1: I think, uh, you know, any any really good corner
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  Speaker 1: is going to appreciate that that challenge. Thank you, Curtis.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Mike, Sam's been so good for you this year.
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  Speaker 6: When you kind of go back and evaluate those interceptions yesterday,
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  Speaker 6: what kind of stands out to you is our common
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  Speaker 6: threat among it? Is it that you know, some pressure, avoiding,
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  Speaker 6: some trying to get rid of the ball from what's
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  Speaker 6: coming in the face. Well, what do you kind of
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  Speaker 6: see when you kind of break that down and see
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  Speaker 6: what happened with those plays yesterday?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think the majority of them came
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  Speaker 1: laden downs where we just need to get to the
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  Speaker 1: next play. And Sam's played in time and in rhythm
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  Speaker 1: a lot this year, and he's made a lot of
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  Speaker 1: plays for us doing that. And he's also made a
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  Speaker 1: lot of plays off schedule, so again you don't want
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  Speaker 1: to take the playmaker out out of out of him.
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  Speaker 1: And but you also to understand, you know, when we
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  Speaker 1: when we need to when we need to be able
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  Speaker 1: to get the next play versus you know, putting the
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  Speaker 1: ball in jeopardy down the field and and well we'll
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  Speaker 1: learn from it and we'll grow from it. But that's
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  Speaker 1: that's really what we saw.
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  Speaker 6: And then I know you spoke about it a little
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  Speaker 6: bit this morning, but when you hear what Ernest has
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  Speaker 6: to say to come out and kind of back Sam
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  Speaker 6: after a game like that, just to kind of have
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  Speaker 6: somebody step up and vocalize it in a way like that,
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  Speaker 6: to what can that kind of mean for you guys?
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  Speaker 6: And how does it speak to the group you got
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  Speaker 6: right now?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think he speaks for the whole team. You know.
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  Speaker 1: It's just I think that's the way everybody feels. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's we fell short yesterday. There's there's no other way
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  Speaker 1: to to slice it. The Rams they won the game.
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  Speaker 1: They won it fair and square. You know, they they
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  Speaker 1: played better than us and coached better than us. And
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  Speaker 1: that's that's what happens, you know. So it's a tough one.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you got it. But like all these losses,
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  Speaker 1: you have to can't let it beat you twice. You
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  Speaker 1: gotta go back. You gotta take it on the chin.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta gotta move forward. You gotta learn from it.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, and that's that's what's what that's what we've
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  Speaker 1: done today and that's what we intend to do. And
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  Speaker 1: then you know, starting forty five minutes ago we moved
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  Speaker 1: on to uh to Tennessee. John, Yeah, Mike. Before last week,
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  Speaker 1: you guys have had pretty much the same five up
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  Speaker 1: front all season. Uh.
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  Speaker 7: I guess how'd you see go with.
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  Speaker 3: Olu at center yesterday and then Ampton or I'm sorry
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  Speaker 3: Christian came in laying the game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. For Christian not having you know, really been active
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  Speaker 1: and seeing his first football action, I thought he did
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  Speaker 1: a good job. There's something he's going to clean up
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  Speaker 1: and he'll do that. I thought, Ohlu did a tremendous job,
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  Speaker 1: you know, stepping in, being ready to go decisive with
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  Speaker 1: his calls. Again, things that we need to clean up
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  Speaker 1: as a front, as an offensive line, but it's not
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  Speaker 1: for a lack of effort. And we'll get we'll get
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  Speaker 1: those things fixed. I mean, we're just continuing to grow.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you see a lot of great things. You
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  Speaker 1: see us kind of it's kind of like working with
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  Speaker 1: you know, guys on our defense, Like you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: ask him to like find new things to screw up,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So it's it's a it's a positive that
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  Speaker 1: there's things, new things each week that that pop up
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  Speaker 1: that we want to be able to attack, Greg.
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  Speaker 8: Sir, back to the cornerbacks, the corners in the matchups.
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  Speaker 7: Are you getting a point where it's almost NBA style
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  Speaker 7: where you're going to put a corner on a specific
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  Speaker 7: receiver And because of the surplus of starting corners, are
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  Speaker 7: you tenants that you're not going to play your card
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  Speaker 7: lay your cards out? But would that lend itself to
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  Speaker 7: more man defense just because of the skill sets?
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  Speaker 1: I think it just gives you more flexibility. So if
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  Speaker 1: if we did want to do that, Greg, we can,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, which is exciting, you know, and we've we've
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  Speaker 1: had the capability of doing that. But I think I
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  Speaker 1: think our guys have shown that they're good man and
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  Speaker 1: men defenders. And you know Nick does a great job too.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Ernest has done a great job in man coverage,
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  Speaker 1: so it gives us that opportunity. I mean a lot
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  Speaker 1: of times we are playing some form of zone and
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  Speaker 1: our guys are really good at that too. So it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of up to us as coaches to make a
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  Speaker 1: good balance and make it clean going throughout the week
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  Speaker 1: because it's hard to do both all the time. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of detail that goes into it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: when you start playing Man, there's all sorts of you know,
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  Speaker 1: and they know you're playing Man. There's also sorts of
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  Speaker 1: things you have to be able to work through that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you got to aggregate some of those reps
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  Speaker 1: so the guys get used to it and can put
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  Speaker 1: compared to like the things that you know that how
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  Speaker 1: teams are going to attack you when you're in some
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  Speaker 1: of our you know staple type uh, you know zone
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  Speaker 1: coverages and.
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  Speaker 8: You're running back rotation considered in the red zone. We
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  Speaker 8: saw Halani yesterday on first down in the red zone
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  Speaker 8: multiple times. Kenneth Walker in his ability to in traffic
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  Speaker 8: to get guys miss is he maybe a consideration to
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  Speaker 8: tweak those rotations at the red zone and short.
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  Speaker 1: Guards need to go on. I think I think Ken's
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  Speaker 1: showing the ability. You know, he's showing that he's earning
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  Speaker 1: more opportunities to get the ball, and uh, all three
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  Speaker 1: of our backs are doing a great job. And I
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  Speaker 1: think he really felt Ken yesterday and uh just even
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  Speaker 1: in the past game too, like on checkdowns and finding
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  Speaker 1: him you know, late in the play just shows you that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's such an explosive player with the ball
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  Speaker 1: in his hands, and and he knows, you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: there's things that he needs to clean up in his
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  Speaker 1: game too, and he's done a great job in practice
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  Speaker 1: doing that and I won't continue to do that, but
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  Speaker 1: I think I think Ken's showing that he deserves some
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  Speaker 1: more opportunities.
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  Speaker 8: Is he throw all the hell things from the summer
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  Speaker 8: and not need to pace him through that anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're not just gonna give a you know, one
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  Speaker 1: of our running backs one hundred percent of the snaps.
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  Speaker 1: That's just not responsible for a whole season. So we're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna go We're not going that far. But to
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  Speaker 1: my knowledge, can you know, as good as you can
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  Speaker 1: feel going in a week eleven or twelve or whatever
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  Speaker 1: it is, I think he's pretty clean, healthy, Bob. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Mike any update on Tyree's night at all. Uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so concussion protocol so today is in good spirits. But
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  Speaker 1: he's you know, he's in it. So we'll see how
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  Speaker 1: he you know, he passes all the all the hurdles.
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  Speaker 1: But we've seen how that goes, Bob, you know, on
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  Speaker 1: how the you know, the cadence of these things go.
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  Speaker 1: So honestly, I don't know how long it's going to be,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't. But he's just in it right now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and when we're you mentioned on the radio on
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  Speaker 4: the last drive of the game that there was maybe
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  Speaker 4: something time wise you can you might have done differently
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  Speaker 4: or whatever. Was there anything specific you had in mind
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  Speaker 4: there on that that that you thought maybe could have
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  Speaker 4: Obviously you guys were up against the up against it
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  Speaker 4: being at the one yard line.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think in general, you know, we actually, just Brian,
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  Speaker 1: are going through our our like our clock running operation
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  Speaker 1: throughout the season and it's been pretty good. Now I
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  Speaker 1: think you start starting making some of these decisions and
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  Speaker 1: I think you actually have to add maybe a second
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  Speaker 1: or two on your operation because you were dealing with
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  Speaker 1: silent cadence on the road. We could have done the
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  Speaker 1: first the first clock running play we needed to be
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  Speaker 1: able to improve on that. We were in a tough
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  Speaker 1: spot with Aj being on the sideline him having a
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  Speaker 1: run into the hash which could have been better. And
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  Speaker 1: really the big decision was do you take the time
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  Speaker 1: out I think it was thirty six seconds, maybe it
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  Speaker 1: was a little bit more clock running to hold it
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  Speaker 1: or do you do you hold the time out and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, try to hold off the ability to use
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  Speaker 1: the whole field like we did there, you know with
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  Speaker 1: five seconds ago. So different schools with thought, different philosophies.
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  Speaker 1: That's the one that's kind of tested our you know,
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  Speaker 1: we've had some stress tests with that type of philosophy
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  Speaker 1: and all the two minute scenarios we do, and we've
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  Speaker 1: really been at consensus to keep rolling and try to
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  Speaker 1: stay on the ball and keep pressure on the defense
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  Speaker 1: while killed in your time out. So that's that's what
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  Speaker 1: we did.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Great, Thank you, Brian. Yeah, coach, I was
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  Speaker 2: curious if there was a player or a play that
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  Speaker 2: stood out to you after watching the film that maybe
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  Speaker 2: didn't jump out watching it in real time.
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  Speaker 1: The fourth and one that got out against us on defense,
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  Speaker 1: nick A men Worry made a tremendous tackle at the
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  Speaker 1: one yard line gave us a chance to get out
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  Speaker 1: of that drive. You know, we had to play last
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  Speaker 1: week against Arizona that I felt like we didn't finish
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  Speaker 1: very well on one of on McBride touchdown, and uh
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  Speaker 1: just shows you the resolve and the growth that you
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  Speaker 1: know that Nick's showing. But that was a that was
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  Speaker 1: a phenomenal play. Thanks break.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Well, my question is he's basically become an every down
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  Speaker 3: guy for the most part for the last month or so.
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  Speaker 3: What allows him to do that? I mean, is it
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  Speaker 3: as simple as he can tackle and cover. I mean
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  Speaker 3: he's doing it against you know, yesterday a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: three tight ends, you know, or three receivers and previous games.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: What allows a guy to be an every down player
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: in that role?
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: He's a special talent. He's to me the input like
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: it's like you see that you see the inputs on
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: a daily basis. You see his attitude about trying to
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: nail the game plan and his attention to detail and
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: when that's there. Uh, in addition to the physical capability,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: you want to work with guys like that, and and
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: he's gonna help us win by by being out there
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: and so that's really the like, that's what's driving that
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: decision to have him out there and try to find
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: more spots and uh, and he's doing a great up
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: And there's things each week that you know, you say, hey, look, okay,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: here's the next iteration of your game that you had
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: to take it to. And he's he's taking on those
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: challenges and and it's again, it's just like it. But
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: if he didn't have the attitude that he had, in
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: the sense of urgency about you know, being on his
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: details and understanding his assignments learning really two different separate positions,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: we wouldn't be able to do what we're doing with Nick.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: And one more, just on the the D line rotation,
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: Leonard played that I think all the four Snaps and
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: some of your other starters played quite a bit. Is
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: that just a matter of was that there the rams
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: temp boat keeping you guys from substituting, or just the
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: fact that there weren't that many plays overall, so they
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: were fine playing that many.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: I think it's more of the latter. You know, you
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: go in with a plan about how you're going to
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: handle their tempo, which like the second player of the game,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: you know, I Frankly, I dropped the ball in that one,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: So the guys bailed me out there, but they really
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: didn't go no huddle much. There's one no huddle into
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: third down. It really didn't have any two minute snaps,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: so uh, that was really you know, that would prevent
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: us from subbing obviously in those in those situations. And
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: then I think just the way they played out in
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: the second half, that just wasn't as many snaps as
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: we probably anticipated. So that's probably why it shook out
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: that way. Thank you. Okay, a couple more Curtis.
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah, my age ends up with ten catches for seventy
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: yards for you, a handful of key third down conversions,
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: you know, the short yardage game and everything. Well, can
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: you kind of speak to his performance in the game
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: yesterday and kind of what he's meant to the overall
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: taking that that lead tight end role so far of
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: the season.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: What was accept the challenge? I mean, it's it's, uh,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: you got to be able to It's kind of like
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: people on defense playing two different positions. You know, you
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: gott to learn all the blocking schemes, all the pass
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: protections and then be solid, you know and running multiple
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: routes and being sure handed when when Sam finds you,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: so he's been he's been found in those situations. It's great.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: You know, that's a great example of you know, Sam
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: working through his progressions and find him late in the
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: down that that he's doing at a high level. You
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: know a lot of those catches that that Aj have,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: he's not number one in the brokussion and Sam's you know,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: clicking through it. So that's a positive. You know, there's
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: a couple of plays that we want back with a
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: J yesterday. He knows that and he'll grow from it.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: But you know, he's been a he's been a tremendous
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: asset to our team. But and we expect him to,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: you know, take the next step. Last question, Greg.
• 19:26
  Speaker 8: Yes, sir, the take us back on the timing at
• 19:28
  Speaker 8: the end of the game again with five seconds and
• 19:31
  Speaker 8: one time out is six yards about as far as
• 19:34
  Speaker 8: you're able to go there whatever you're studied, and I
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: think maybe you got a fortunate o'clock there. How how
• 19:41
  Speaker 8: thinly were you slicing that at the end.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: It's about as sindley about as thinly as you can
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: slice it. So you know, we want the ball to
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: be out. Danger has to be out, you know, immediately,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: without getting into all the strategy behind it. But it's shown,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: it's shown that there is examples though where you can
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: you can gain like a you can get a catch
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: and throw, you know, or you know, some sort of
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: completion ball and get down within five seconds.
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: So that's why you can do that in four seconds.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: In this case, I'm not sure. I mean, it can't
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: be probably not. It's probably not ten, you know, it's
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: probably you know, five to seven.
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: Probably myers tell you to I mean, that was the
• 20:27
  Speaker 8: field they had sixty one yards?
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: Is career hide at that end?
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Five years ago? Did he tell you what is?
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: I mean?
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Right, we're right, if we're really we're right at the line,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: if not behind it. So we didn't exactly put Jamie
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: in a great position right there. And but to his credit,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: is going to go out there and and give it
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: his best, you know. And but we just felt, you know,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: I think we had a similar situation last year was
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: actually probably longer. I don't remember what the situation was,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: what game was it, but that we asked me to
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: hit a long one, and uh, but it's just in
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: my experience, just if he hits it clean, and we
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: gotta we got a chance. It's right at the edge
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: of the line. It's probably better, better, better odds than
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: thrown up at hell. Mary. Thank you, thank you. Everyone
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: will see you Wednesday. Okay, all right, thank you.