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Press Pass | Mike Caldwell: "We're Gonna Be Us, We're Going To Do What We Do." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What's it take to get a defense to play as
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  Speaker 1: consistently as your group is this year?
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  Speaker 2: What what's the difference from previous year?
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  Speaker 3: How have you gotten them to play so consistently, which
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  Speaker 3: obviously the San Francisco game being the hang out there.
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  Speaker 4: I think just the guys understand.
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  Speaker 3: That they wanna wanna be good, and we put into
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  Speaker 3: work and they understand that we're gonna demand things from
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  Speaker 3: him and try to do it the right way, and
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  Speaker 3: they're enjoying it and they trust it.
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  Speaker 4: And it's the culture around here. You know.
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  Speaker 3: When we first got here, we try to put a
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  Speaker 3: stamp on it, and it continued to build that way
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  Speaker 3: in the guy that bought in, Doug does a great
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  Speaker 3: job of getting everybody on the same page.
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  Speaker 4: And when you're on the same page, good things happen.
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  Speaker 2: How much has c J. Stroud grown from since the
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  Speaker 2: last time you guys saw her.
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  Speaker 3: A bunch He was good back then and he's even
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  Speaker 3: better now. It's pretty amazing to see him come in
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  Speaker 3: and do the things that he's been able to do.
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  Speaker 3: Takes care of the ball, throw the ball wherever he
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  Speaker 3: needs to, makes a bunch of players with his legs,
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  Speaker 3: and he's a.
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  Speaker 4: Guy that.
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  Speaker 3: He's really putting on great performances week after week after week.
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  Speaker 1: Is that their offensive line getting enough credit for the
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  Speaker 1: way they're helping him out?
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  Speaker 4: I don't think so. They have a guy. The last
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  Speaker 4: time we played him there, they were kind of banged up.
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  Speaker 3: Now they're getting their guys back in there, and you
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  Speaker 3: can see them starting to get gain the confidence. And
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  Speaker 3: when you have a quarterback that's playing as well as
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  Speaker 3: he is, it just builds confidence throughout the team. And
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  Speaker 3: Demiko is doing a great job of leading that bunch
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  Speaker 3: and they're playing at a high level right now. Oka Ahead,
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  Speaker 3: it seems like most defenses are concerned about giving up
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  Speaker 3: big plays right and keeping everything in front of it,
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  Speaker 3: and these guys keep hitting a bunch.
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  Speaker 2: Of exports us.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, do you know what.
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  Speaker 3: Do you see it on tape that that they've been so.
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  Speaker 2: Good at it?
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  Speaker 4: Well, they're dynamic.
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  Speaker 3: You can see the speed at receiver, and you know
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  Speaker 3: they have a run game that you get the quarterback protected,
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  Speaker 3: and the quarterback has a strong arm and he drops dimes.
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  Speaker 3: You know, at times he's putting the ball exactly where
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  Speaker 3: it needs to be placed. And they got us a
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  Speaker 3: few times and it was miscommunication, But you have to
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  Speaker 3: be on your a game. If you're one step late
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  Speaker 3: or you don't get in the right coverage, you know
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna take advantage of it.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what we got to do.
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  Speaker 3: We gotta make sure we're able to get ourselves in
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  Speaker 3: the right coverage and go out there and compete. Is
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  Speaker 3: that put an extra pressure on the safeties in this one.
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  Speaker 4: There's really everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody safeties communicate, linebackers and nickel Land in the corners.
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  Speaker 3: But communication is, you know, it's the thing that we
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  Speaker 3: stress all the time. We have to be on the
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  Speaker 3: same page, and we do. Sometimes we do a good
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  Speaker 3: job of it. Sometimes we're not as good as we
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  Speaker 3: want to be, so we're working to get better at that.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like what Stroud is doing is rare for
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  Speaker 2: for a rookie quarterback. I mean, just what the Texans
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  Speaker 2: do to sort of made it easier maybe for him
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  Speaker 2: to get off to this hot start this year.
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  Speaker 4: I don't I don't think well they made it.
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  Speaker 3: They make it look easy because they're they're putting up
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of yards. But he's a guy that you
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  Speaker 3: look at him, you see maturity. Now, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: him personally, but you see that when he plays the game.
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  Speaker 3: It's not I'm running around him all over the place.
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  Speaker 3: He's poison in the pocket. He understands where to go
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  Speaker 3: with the ball, and you know he trusted offensive line,
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  Speaker 3: he had the run game behind him, and he's just
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  Speaker 3: making play after play aff to play.
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  Speaker 4: So they're not.
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  Speaker 2: Doing anything necessarily when you when you watch a tap
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  Speaker 2: and you're like the quarterback's able to easily get it
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  Speaker 2: to X, Y and Z, they're not necessarily doing anything
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  Speaker 2: to make it a little simpler.
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  Speaker 1: I guess.
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  Speaker 3: For I guess all coordinators have progressions that they want
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  Speaker 3: the quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: To go through, and he has his and he's going
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  Speaker 4: through him and.
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  Speaker 3: It's like it's like clockwork for him. If it's not here,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going there. If not there, I'm going here. And
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  Speaker 3: the offensive line has something to do with that because
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  Speaker 3: they're protecting him and you know, you send the blitz
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  Speaker 3: and he feels the blitz, he throws it to the
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  Speaker 3: right spot. There's different things that he's able to do
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  Speaker 3: to you know, help the success theor having.
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  Speaker 1: Where you're going against a quarterback that's thrown with the
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  Speaker 1: anticipation like he's been thrown with this year. How much
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  Speaker 1: stress does that put on the secondary?
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  Speaker 4: It's just big time. We have to be in our zones.
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  Speaker 3: Man the man, we have to make sure we have
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  Speaker 3: eyes on him so we're able to anticipate and break
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  Speaker 3: on the ball. And that's the thing. You have to
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  Speaker 3: speed the quarterback up. And we try to do it
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  Speaker 3: every week, and we'll go out there and try to
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  Speaker 3: do it again this week. Like you miss the days
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  Speaker 3: when there was nothing better as a defensive coordinator, a
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  Speaker 3: defensive player than facing a rookie quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it seems like.
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  Speaker 3: That was the best thing you could ask for back
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  Speaker 3: in the day.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I don't know about that.
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  Speaker 3: There's been some good young quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 4: But the game, the game's evolving.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you have seven on seven where guys are
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  Speaker 3: throwing the ball around all summer, and you have guys
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  Speaker 3: that are in college. You got some colleges go and
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  Speaker 3: move into pro style offenses, so you have guys that
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  Speaker 3: are ready to play. And when you're surrounded by weapons
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  Speaker 3: and you're ready to play, you know, he's.
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  Speaker 4: A special one and he's showing why he's special.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have to balance throwing some exotic looks at him?
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  Speaker 1: Trying to confuse him and just playing the way you
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  Speaker 1: want to play defense.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we're gonna be us.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna do what we do and at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the day, we have to execute what we.
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  Speaker 4: Try to do and they have to execute. And that's football.
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  Speaker 4: You know. You go out there, you try to take away.
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  Speaker 3: You want to make him play left handed, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and let their left hand you're gonna play right handed,
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  Speaker 3: you know, but you want to try to make them
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  Speaker 3: go away from what they do good.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, at the end of the day, that's
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  Speaker 4: what we're gonna try to do and see how it works.
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  Speaker 1: Pretis my seven