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  Speaker 1: You know, we're we're assuming all those guys are gonna
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  Speaker 1: be healthy. We'd rather go into this thing assuming everybody's
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  Speaker 1: gonna make it. They've obviously been dealing with the injury bug,
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  Speaker 1: um sat some guys that were probably trying to get
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  Speaker 1: recovered versus Dallas, Um. But we're assuming that their best
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  Speaker 1: are gonna be available at all times. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: it is a very tough front to play against. Just
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they're tough, they're physical, they're big, they're strong.
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  Speaker 1: They've done a great job really against everybody they've played
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  Speaker 1: in terms of stopping the run. Uh, they just present
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  Speaker 1: matchup issues in terms of who they are and the
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  Speaker 1: way they play, the structure they play for for defense front,
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  Speaker 1: you sort of came to the conclusive, Look, these guys
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  Speaker 1: are not very good depending the past, they're excellent depending
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  Speaker 1: the run. And you kind of went that way. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it kind of just the way that game
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  Speaker 1: expressed itself. That doesn't mean that we're carrying over and
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  Speaker 1: saying we're not gonna be able to run the ball
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  Speaker 1: because we struggled in the first game. You know, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do everything we can to move the ball. Whatever
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  Speaker 1: that that looks like um, we were certainly are doing
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  Speaker 1: our best to put together a play and where we
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  Speaker 1: can move the football on the on the ground if
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  Speaker 1: need be, UM and then doing what we can to
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  Speaker 1: to come up with complimentary passes, movement, screens, play actor,
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  Speaker 1: whatever that may be, just to put us in the
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  Speaker 1: best position, put our players in the best position. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we had some certain schemes that we we wanted to
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  Speaker 1: try against them the first time that probably didn't shape
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  Speaker 1: out the way we hope they would, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: you kind of scrap those, look for new ideas, go
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  Speaker 1: back to the drawing board a little bit too, to
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  Speaker 1: come up with the best plan. And the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of games, by necessity or design or this way played out.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the weather dictated a certain game playing in
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  Speaker 1: New York, and then you guys just wanted to make
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  Speaker 1: sure you had to lead and shut everything down, including
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  Speaker 1: put some players on the bench on this past Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: But is this this game? Do you think you need
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  Speaker 1: Trevor to have the type of game this week that
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  Speaker 1: he did against Tennessee, that he did against Dallas. I
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  Speaker 1: hope not. I hope we don't need Trevor to do
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  Speaker 1: anything at all. And there were everything's rolling. No, we
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  Speaker 1: certainly everybody we expect to raise their level of play
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  Speaker 1: and executed a high level. Um. Yes, certainly, we were
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  Speaker 1: playing the last two games just like we played all
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  Speaker 1: the other game to win. Whatever that looks like. If
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  Speaker 1: we need to try to throw it for four yards,
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  Speaker 1: because that's the only way to move the ball, well
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  Speaker 1: we'll go that route. If we can run the ball
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  Speaker 1: for two hunt yards, then we'll go that route. It's
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  Speaker 1: really it's a game by game, series by series kind
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  Speaker 1: of decision within uh, the game that we make as
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  Speaker 1: a staff and as a as a unit as the
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  Speaker 1: game moves on. Um, certainly we're gonna need everybody to
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  Speaker 1: be at their best. This is a playoff atmosphere game.
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  Speaker 1: The implications, Um, you know, if you win, you continue on.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't, your season is over. So we all
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  Speaker 1: know that, and we expect all our players to be
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  Speaker 1: at their best, and coaching staff as well, players and
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  Speaker 1: the coaches hand leading everything in the wake of what
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  Speaker 1: happened on Monday night. Yeah, I mean, it's certainly something
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  Speaker 1: that's on everybody's mind. Um, you know, uh, Demir Damar
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  Speaker 1: and the Bills, the Bengals, the NFL everybody's on everybody's mind,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, first and foremost we are concerned about
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  Speaker 1: the health and safety of all the players, Damar and
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  Speaker 1: his family. You know, we're praying that there's there's peace
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  Speaker 1: and comfort for his family, that the doctors, everybody has
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  Speaker 1: a steady hand uh and and clear minds and consciousness
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  Speaker 1: that work through getting him back to health. UM And
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  Speaker 1: so that's there's certainly kind of a cloud near that
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  Speaker 1: everybody is conscious of and aware of. And I think
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  Speaker 1: coach has done a great job of making resources available
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  Speaker 1: for the team and letting everybody know that whatever you
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  Speaker 1: need will provide for you, whether that's just somebody to
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  Speaker 1: talk to, um more answers as we move on to
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  Speaker 1: things and and just move forward with it. But as
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  Speaker 1: we move forward, you know, everybody's thoughts and prayers are
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  Speaker 1: with Damar and everybody involved in this thing. How do
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  Speaker 1: you address it? More So, I called I called him
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  Speaker 1: that night just to check in on him. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a traumatic experience for anybody that was involved in
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  Speaker 1: the situation. And you know, you watch, whether it's football,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's outside the building, you watch somebody in a
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  Speaker 1: life threatening situation. You know, everybody's affected by that, so
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to call and just just talk to him,
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  Speaker 1: make sure he was good. He had actually just left
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  Speaker 1: the hospital that night. He'd gone up to see and
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  Speaker 1: check on him and just be there. Um, it's certainly
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  Speaker 1: something you don't plan to deal with, you don't have
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  Speaker 1: a plan for. You know, we as football coaches and
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  Speaker 1: football players, we we like the structure of our job.
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  Speaker 1: We like knowing we of a meeting here, we do
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  Speaker 1: this at this time, we do this at that time.
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  Speaker 1: And but there there's no playbook, there's no manual for
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  Speaker 1: somebody being in a life threatening situation. So, um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I have a lot of respect for my brother, the
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  Speaker 1: way he handled things, the way the NFL has handled things.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously that wasn't the right time to continue a game.
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  Speaker 1: That there's you know, there's a human element to this
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  Speaker 1: thing that I thought everybody used some common sense and
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  Speaker 1: and handled that thing the right way. So far, are
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  Speaker 1: you interested, curious, excited to see how Trevor handles the
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  Speaker 1: biggest stage of his career or do you already know
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  Speaker 1: what you're going to get on us? Very confident and
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  Speaker 1: just the preparation that he's gone into, and I think
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  Speaker 1: at times like this where there's a little more anxiety,
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  Speaker 1: maybe a little bit people would say more on this game.
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  Speaker 1: It's just more of an emphasis of relying on our process,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the thing that got us put us back
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  Speaker 1: into the situation where this is a relevant game that
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  Speaker 1: that you kind of just want to fall back onto
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  Speaker 1: that a little bit more kind of double down in
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  Speaker 1: our process, the things we've done to get us here. Um,
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  Speaker 1: we make the saying for our guys, we need to
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  Speaker 1: tighten things up, but we don't need to tighten up,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you want to just make sure we're on
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  Speaker 1: all the details. We go through every little nook and
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  Speaker 1: cranny of the plan, making sure everything sound everybody's comfortable
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  Speaker 1: with it, because we come up with a lot of
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  Speaker 1: football plays, and if people aren't comfortable with something, we
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  Speaker 1: don't need it on there. We've got plenty of other things.
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  Speaker 1: So he seems like he was made for this moment.
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  Speaker 1: I mean he handled it a claims and he handled out.
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  Speaker 1: He's at the pressure in high school. This is where quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 1: this is where franchise futures are made. And he's stepping
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  Speaker 1: onto the stage exactly and and you know, we're very
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  Speaker 1: confident and the guy that he has shown us to
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  Speaker 1: be so far, and we don't expect anything different from him.
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  Speaker 1: Like you said, he's been in he's been in big
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  Speaker 1: game atmosphere before, whatever level that was, whatever that meant
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  Speaker 1: at the time. But you know, we're we're very excited
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  Speaker 1: that he's leading our team as we gay team. You're
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  Speaker 1: playing this team for the second time. How hard is
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  Speaker 1: it to still have like an ace up your sleeve
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  Speaker 1: at this time of the year. Well, I mean a
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  Speaker 1: lot of it is. You kind of I feel like
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  Speaker 1: everybody's kind of shown who they are at this point
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  Speaker 1: in the season. You're trying to do everything you can,
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  Speaker 1: so you've got you know, we've got things we feel
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  Speaker 1: like we hang our hat on. We've kind of got
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  Speaker 1: what we call our bread and butter type things that
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  Speaker 1: we feel like we can execute regardless of the defense.
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  Speaker 1: Um And I think the nice thing of having played
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  Speaker 1: these as a couple of weeks ago as your process,
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  Speaker 1: you have a good feel for who they are. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it is late enough in the year that that you're
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  Speaker 1: comfortable with what they like to try to do, and
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  Speaker 1: but you also play the cat and mouse game. We're
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  Speaker 1: sitting in there thinking, all right, what would they do
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  Speaker 1: differently based on how that first game went. So you
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  Speaker 1: kind of that's the paranoi of being coach, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: and what you the process you go through. But um, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: do you worry about any nerves going into this kind
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  Speaker 1: of game with execution being that much more important? Not necessarily?
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  Speaker 1: Like like we said, we we trust our process, we
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  Speaker 1: trust what's gotten us to this point, and that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of you lean a little harder on, uh, your preparation,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that gives you the confidence to just
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  Speaker 1: go out and perform. Now we understand there's gonna be emotions.
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  Speaker 1: There's emotions in all these playoff atmosphere games, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: we kind of want our guys just to lean on
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  Speaker 1: their preparation and be confident in that snooded by himself
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  Speaker 1: maybe you know a couple of snaps down the road
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  Speaker 1: with the way you play the other day, he did
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  Speaker 1: a great job. You know, with all those guys will
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  Speaker 1: continue to try to use everybody that's available and put
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  Speaker 1: them in position where their help. They're doing what's best
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  Speaker 1: for their skill set and in giving us any opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to move the football whoever that may be. How much
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  Speaker 1: fun is it to see guy scores first, it's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: It's exciting. Yeah, it's exciting. You kind of want to
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  Speaker 1: watch and make sure you don't throw the ball to somebody,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's kind of one of the things those guys. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he gave it back to the raff. I think they
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  Speaker 1: went and got it. We're making sure in the headset
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  Speaker 1: they went and got it for him. But what was
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  Speaker 1: fun is just to see everybody on the field with
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  Speaker 1: him and then on the sidelines congratulate him. So that's
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  Speaker 1: a cool moment for anybody. Not a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: get to score touchdown in the NFL. Uh, So for
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  Speaker 1: Snoop to get his first one, that was exciting. The
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  Speaker 1: guys were really excited for him. What did you learned
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  Speaker 1: this year? What did you know previously about Harmon Jones?
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  Speaker 1: What did you learn this year about him? And how
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  Speaker 1: kind of made to say hand and he's been in
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  Speaker 1: that room get all of them, maybe all the teams. Yeah, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I I did not know much about Marvin. I'd watched
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  Speaker 1: him play, uh from Afar Simon Cincinnati's time in Detroit,
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  Speaker 1: Jim Bob Cooter was actually the offense court in Detroit,
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  Speaker 1: so Jim Bob knew him well, had some interactions with
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  Speaker 1: him obviously their time together, so had a very high
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  Speaker 1: opinion of him, and he's done nothing to disappoint. Marvin
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  Speaker 1: has been a steady, consistent pro um you know, and
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate in a way, shape or form, he's kind
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  Speaker 1: of you know, filled his role to the best visibility,
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  Speaker 1: knowing like it's kind of been built for these other
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  Speaker 1: guys and Um, Christians A Evan, all those type of guys.
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  Speaker 1: But Marvin's done a great job. And any time we've
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  Speaker 1: needed Marvin to come through, he's come through. Whether that
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  Speaker 1: be a third down, whether be in the red zone,
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  Speaker 1: you know, whether he was a primary, was a secondary
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  Speaker 1: target on a play, he's shown up and made play.
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  Speaker 1: So he's somebody we certainly know we can count on.
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  Speaker 1: Um He's done it throughout his time in his career
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  Speaker 1: and so so we're happy we have Marvin right now.
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  Speaker 1: Ball security, with ball security, with everybody's to concern at
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  Speaker 1: all times. I think, again, you want to double down
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  Speaker 1: on the things that we believe, and we believe protecting
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  Speaker 1: the football is the most important element of the game. UM.
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  Speaker 1: So obviously you know, we go through every every Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: we start our day with the ball security, talking about it,
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  Speaker 1: how we can do it better, how their team tries
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  Speaker 1: to take the ball away from you. We do it
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  Speaker 1: out of the field as we work through. UM. So
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  Speaker 1: it's continued to be a point of emphasis for everybody. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we we don't we don't want to allow
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  Speaker 1: anybody to slip in any way, shape or form, whether
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  Speaker 1: they've put the ball on the ground or not. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna coach the fundamentals and techno of what we believe
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  Speaker 1: gives us the best opportunity to hold in the football.
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  Speaker 1: This against the team it's sort of be up and
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  Speaker 1: all that other sort of lost six in a row
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  Speaker 1: is the most important thing. Get out quick, get a
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  Speaker 1: league way to start fast. I think it's definitely very important,
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  Speaker 1: especially you know, a team that's trying to get a
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  Speaker 1: new quarterback kind of into the game, settled into the
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  Speaker 1: flow of the game. You know, we would love to
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  Speaker 1: say we start fast every single game. UM, And that's
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  Speaker 1: always the goal we always try to. Coach does a
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  Speaker 1: great job putting together opening scripts and adjusting as we
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  Speaker 1: need to make sure we're putting the ball in the
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  Speaker 1: hands of the right guys and attacking the defense. However,
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  Speaker 1: we see fit going into that game. Um So, certainly
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  Speaker 1: going out and scoring early kind of gives you the
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  Speaker 1: ability now to maybe put them in pass situations. Um
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  Speaker 1: you try to take the ball out of hands. However,
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  Speaker 1: that goes easier said than done, but yeah, that's certainly
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  Speaker 1: the plan is always trying to get out to an
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  Speaker 1: early lead if possible, because you're playing a game that
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  Speaker 1: couldn't you into the playoffs, you start looking ahead at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the playoff, the poll is at any
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  Speaker 1: point this week, we we definitely have the guys are
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  Speaker 1: responsible for breakdowns. They're aware and I've been in that
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  Speaker 1: position and it's not a lot of fun. You're aware
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  Speaker 1: of the odds of who could be where based on
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  Speaker 1: how we get in. Um So you kind of as
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  Speaker 1: a as a former q C, you pick the top
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  Speaker 1: two most likely and you go all in. You get
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  Speaker 1: all that done, and then you just save some crazy
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  Speaker 1: scenario happens it's some other team. I'm gonna be here
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  Speaker 1: for ten hours Saturday after the game and get it
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  Speaker 1: all done. I mean, it's just it's kind of the
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  Speaker 1: way it goes, and it's decision you make. So that's
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  Speaker 1: what they're doing. There's no game no no, no game
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  Speaker 1: playing closing teams defense. But did you have the opinion
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  Speaker 1: of how adopted his first career started. Honestly, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: watch any I don't have anything. Sorry, I didn't get
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  Speaker 1: a chance to see it that way. I some of
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  Speaker 1: those games you end up getting home and seeing on
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  Speaker 1: a Thursday night, whatever may be. Sometimes you just end
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: up watching coaches copy. If I just watched coaches copy,
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  Speaker 1: I usually just stick to our side of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes I'll peek at the night before a game just
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: to see what their offense looks like. But if you're
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  Speaker 1: going to run to James on the goal on uh,
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  Speaker 1: that surprise you even Doug called that third five to Michael.
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  Speaker 1: I know Snoop has a different name. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if everybody knows that, but seeing if that was where
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  Speaker 1: you're going, uh uh a little bit. But it's something
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  Speaker 1: we talked about something coach. Usually coach he'll kind of
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  Speaker 1: have an idea of what he wants to call in
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  Speaker 1: a certain situation. Lets us all know so we can
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  Speaker 1: spread the word across UM. So guys were prepared for situations,
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  Speaker 1: so there's not a lot that catches off guarding those situations.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's a third and goal typical pass situation in
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  Speaker 1: that I thought it was a great job by him
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  Speaker 1: of hitting with a run as one of the offense.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think at all about, like I guess, the
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  Speaker 1: numbers that some of your guys are doing this year.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Christian kirk first one thousand yards season in
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  Speaker 1: his career. Evan Ingram's that the franchise record for tight
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  Speaker 1: end yards in the season. I mean, for you as
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  Speaker 1: one of the coaches with those guys, is it kind
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  Speaker 1: of cool to be able to see the success that
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  Speaker 1: they're having in the system. Yeah, it's cool to see
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  Speaker 1: guys that are fully bought into the process and to
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  Speaker 1: kind of reap the benefits of that. You know, that
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  Speaker 1: certainly a vision we had for those guys when we
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  Speaker 1: brought them here, but without putting numbers on it, we
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  Speaker 1: just felt like these were guys that could help us
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  Speaker 1: move the football and so whatever that looked like, those
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  Speaker 1: guys have been fully brought into that. So for them
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  Speaker 1: to get that individual success and accomplishments and she that's great,
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  Speaker 1: and that's great. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: and I think all those guys would tell you the
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  Speaker 1: most important things that we win the football game, and
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  Speaker 1: they've done. That's what's been fun to see them accomplish
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  Speaker 1: these numbers and also get us going as an offense
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  Speaker 1: and as a team to lead us to more wins,
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  Speaker 1: to put us in a position where we are now. Um,
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  Speaker 1: it'll be something that's more fun to reflect on after
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  Speaker 1: the year, to look back and see the numbers that
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  Speaker 1: guys accomplished and things like that. We're certainly proud and
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  Speaker 1: happy for those guys, um, but you know them and
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: everybody involved, we just want to win. So you gotta
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: resign out at this point. I've let Trent know a
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: couple of things, some opinions on some guys that may
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  Speaker 1: be available. So I say it in passing, keep it moving,
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  Speaker 1: because that's ultimately his realm and he'll do a great
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  Speaker 1: job with this. Yeah,