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Head Coach Mike Macdonald On The 31-17 Victory Over The Steelers In Week 2 · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good to see everybody, for those who made the trip.
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  Speaker 2: Look, we're just really proud of our football team, you know,
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  Speaker 2: after coming off a loss that uh, you know, you're
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  Speaker 2: disappointed in how you started the season and just to
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  Speaker 2: resolve on our team and coming as you know, all
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  Speaker 2: the things you gotta come across the country ten am start. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: this is a this is a really it's a great
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  Speaker 2: atmosphere to play a football game. It's a tough atmosphere
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  Speaker 2: to play a football game.
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  Speaker 1: They got they got.
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  Speaker 2: Great fans, it's a great atmosphere and and so you know,
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  Speaker 2: and then the game wasn't pretty early. You know, there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of things that we got to get cleaned
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  Speaker 2: up operation wise and taking care of the football and
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  Speaker 2: spotted them you know several points. I think you probably
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  Speaker 2: had it up to about eleven points, missed a field goal,
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  Speaker 2: and our guys didn't flinch. You know, we knew it
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  Speaker 2: was gonna be its gonna be really tough coming in here.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's'n be times where you know, our backs
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  Speaker 2: were against the wall, but our guys wererossing the whole game.
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  Speaker 1: And just fought to the very end.
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  Speaker 2: And we had a couple of breaks there in the
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  Speaker 2: second half that went our way and we took advantage
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  Speaker 2: of it. So really proud of the team, looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to the flight back. Uh, but once we get back,
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  Speaker 2: we'll be back to work and try to.
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  Speaker 1: Go one and o again this week. The job of
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  Speaker 1: your defense shorthanded.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, yeah, I mean, our coaches deserve a lot
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  Speaker 2: of credit getting Darren ready to go and and d Bell.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to learn our system in two weeks. And
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  Speaker 2: DK I thought played a really good game. Obviously had
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  Speaker 2: the interception, which is a tremendous play, game changing play,
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  Speaker 2: and the rest of the defense is I just think
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  Speaker 2: right now we're playing really really hard, and I think
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  Speaker 2: the details came to life more of this game, and
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  Speaker 2: so look forward to watching the tape and uh and
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  Speaker 2: trying to get better.
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  Speaker 1: You think the way the guys that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know me in sacks it's Russian
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  Speaker 2: coverage working together. You need time to be able to
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  Speaker 2: get to the quarterback and uh that those are team sacks.
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  Speaker 2: But our guys are playing really really hard, and they're
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  Speaker 2: playing together, and we should we should get we should
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  Speaker 2: only get better from here on out. I wish I
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  Speaker 2: could say it's like we went over it on Friday night.
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  Speaker 1: But we have you have to talk rules.
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  Speaker 2: You know the rules of the game, and play by
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  Speaker 2: him better than everybody else. But uh, I can't tell
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  Speaker 2: you when when exactly we've talked about it, but as
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  Speaker 2: a heck of a play by George understanding the situation
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  Speaker 2: and then staying in bounds and recovering it, which actually
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  Speaker 2: Brian Airs talked about you know Sideline recoveries yesterday. From
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  Speaker 2: that matter of fact that Brian Airs deserves a lot
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  Speaker 2: of credit to. So, uh, but George made a heck
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  Speaker 2: of a play.
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  Speaker 1: There's kind of a bunch of.
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  Speaker 2: Different Yeah, it's great, it's it's it's uh, it's tougher
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  Speaker 2: than it than it looks because the landing zone is
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  Speaker 2: it's easy to kick it short in landing zone. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, if you're gonna kick it, kick it low,
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  Speaker 2: you gotta be gonna be on your stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And and he's on his stuff right now, is understanding
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  Speaker 1: that that went over, that it didn't touch him and
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  Speaker 1: that was just a ball situation. Yeah, we're just going
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  Speaker 1: to pick it up.
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  Speaker 2: Any ball on the ground we're picking up no matter
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  Speaker 2: of the situation.
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  Speaker 1: Let's let it play out. Sta playing and Obviously there's
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  Speaker 1: the interceptions, but otherwise.
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  Speaker 2: Number Yeah, it had some adversity early, but you know
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  Speaker 2: it's not like I'm talking to him the whole game,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm looking at him the guys. Guy's stone cold
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  Speaker 2: out there and just keeps playing. And when finally close
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  Speaker 2: it out there at the end, you saw the emotion,
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  Speaker 2: saw the excitement, and he deserves it. I thought he
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  Speaker 2: played a really good games.
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  Speaker 1: Touchdown Yeah, yeah, that was big.
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  Speaker 2: He's been doing all camp and that's why we train
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  Speaker 2: the way we trained. It's, hey, you're in a you're
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  Speaker 2: in a tough atmosphere, but we're executing like we do
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  Speaker 2: on a ok A number three it's Russ Trump. We're
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  Speaker 2: having the we're trying to have the same mentality, and
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  Speaker 2: he's done it consistently.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm happy for Tori.
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  Speaker 2: When you live at your offense.
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  Speaker 1: All those things, is that kind of closer to the
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  Speaker 1: vision of what you'd like to.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, marrying the marrying the run in the pass,
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  Speaker 2: staying on schedule, creating explosives.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Jack's had a great catch.
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  Speaker 2: I was a great throw and catch, and then you
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  Speaker 2: know we're kind of like in a.
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  Speaker 1: You know, third and goal from the whatever yard line is,
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  Speaker 1: that's tough.
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  Speaker 2: And so we were trying to bleed some clock and
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  Speaker 2: try to maybe maybe pop a run. And we did,
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  Speaker 2: and the guys blocked their tails off and and Ken
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  Speaker 2: made a heck of a run.
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  Speaker 1: So I can't wait to watch the tape.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure there's a lot of details that that we
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  Speaker 2: need to get cleaned up. And uh again, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: let's let's use this now we want from I mean,
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  Speaker 2: what's the big difference between week one and week two?
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  Speaker 2: We said we need to make a big jump from
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  Speaker 2: week one to week two. I feel like we did,
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  Speaker 2: but we're not satisfied. We need to keep growing and
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  Speaker 2: keep getting better as a team. Well, I felt like
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  Speaker 2: I felt like our operations. The timing of the pass
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  Speaker 2: game was really good. I thought our protection plan was awesome. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: situational football. I felt like the third down plan was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: The guys executed. I don't know what the numbers are
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  Speaker 2: on third down, but I felt like it was better
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  Speaker 2: than last week. Had some critical third down, especially on
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  Speaker 2: the first drive. To go down in the first drive,
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  Speaker 2: you execute the third down, keep the keep the drive going,
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  Speaker 2: and then go punch it in. Starting with the lead
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  Speaker 2: is is really nice and we need to do that
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  Speaker 2: more often.
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  Speaker 1: Spread the ball around on offense. Yeah, that's that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of what I was trying to get out last week.
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  Speaker 2: I mean this this offense is designed for just get
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  Speaker 2: the ball to everybody, and I felt like it did
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  Speaker 2: that today and we're on our way on that front.
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  Speaker 1: Was the mood at halftime, maybe because doumbinating the game
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  Speaker 1: statistically went fourteen. We didn't bat on. Our guys are Austin.
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  Speaker 1: We knew we had to do.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the defense going out there, I think they
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  Speaker 2: get Did they get a field goal on that drive
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  Speaker 2: on the drive coming out of the third quarter.
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  Speaker 1: I think they did.
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  Speaker 2: They caught that up that play on the sideline.
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  Speaker 1: But our guys were great. We knew we needed to do.
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  Speaker 2: We need to go get a stop, We needed to
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  Speaker 2: attack the ball, we need to take away on defense.
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  Speaker 1: We did those things.
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  Speaker 2: Seemed like under center and play action was us a
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  Speaker 2: lot more touchdown something of those.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel that place, you know, change of things
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  Speaker 1: we want to go to. Yeah, look, I mean this
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  Speaker 1: is what we do.
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  Speaker 2: We're under center, team and gun change ups and at
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  Speaker 2: some point you have to pass the ball. But we're
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  Speaker 2: committed to what we do and what we've done all
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  Speaker 2: camp and what we've built systematically. So I thought our
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  Speaker 2: game plan was great. I thought Clink Clink called the
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  Speaker 2: great game because there's a lot of credit and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm honestly, I'm really I'm I'm most excited about where
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  Speaker 2: we're going. I just I've seen us execute throughout the
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  Speaker 2: off season. I saw us being disappointed after last week,
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  Speaker 2: and I've seen us have resolve and bounce back and
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  Speaker 2: be determined about getting better and committed.
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  Speaker 1: To this team.
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  Speaker 2: You know, It's it's easy to kind of lose hope
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  Speaker 2: after you kind of get that initial feedback that it
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  Speaker 2: might not be working. But our guys are trusting the
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  Speaker 2: process and we're sticking to it. Yeah, I'm really happy
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  Speaker 2: you asked that, Bob, because, uh, you know, Reek had
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  Speaker 2: a tough week, you know, and I thought he played
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  Speaker 2: a tremendous football game. And what people don't realize is
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  Speaker 2: we you know, we missed a ton of tackles. You know,
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  Speaker 2: CP is gonna have a field day on on tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: with the tape. But Reeks, the guy that chased him
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  Speaker 2: down from the backside and talk him ultimate effort, committed
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  Speaker 2: to the process having your teammates back playing with shocking effort.
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  Speaker 2: He does that and he and he got him down
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  Speaker 2: and we ended up leaving that drive with no points.
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  Speaker 2: So we defended Blade of Grass and Reek was the
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  Speaker 2: guy that there's a ton of credit on that front
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  Speaker 2: and helped us win the football game.
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  Speaker 1: So he really, I'm really proud of Reek. He's really
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  Speaker 1: he's done a great job this week. Jalen. He had
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  Speaker 1: a cramped I think in his leg, So I don't think.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's anything serious.
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  Speaker 2: There's really there's really no other injuries to report.
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  Speaker 1: I believe.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, you mentioned the third down having more
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  Speaker 2: efficiency there. How did you see that after the catch impact.
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  Speaker 1: This game compared especially Cooper, so like he had a
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  Speaker 1: couple of times where he was in Yeah, I said
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  Speaker 1: a couple of times.
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  Speaker 2: The headset when he makes those players and like that's
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  Speaker 2: Cooper Cup, Like, let's not to remind ourselves who this
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  Speaker 2: guy is. Yeah, I mean, uh, brun after the catch
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  Speaker 2: is going to be a really big and really important
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  Speaker 2: part of our offense.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Timing is crucial and and you gotta take advantage.
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  Speaker 1: Of when you give those opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: So our guys I felt like the guys did a
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  Speaker 2: great job, you know, extending plays and moving the ball forward.
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  Speaker 1: He made the third down there.
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  Speaker 2: It was critical play in the game. I mean, but
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  Speaker 2: that's that's the same we know and love. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's the guy that shows up on tape. He's done
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  Speaker 2: it his whole career, and he's doing it for us
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  Speaker 2: and just really heads up play a j understanding to
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  Speaker 2: to uncover and getting too scramble drill.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was a tremendous play. It really, it
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  Speaker 1: really changed the.
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  Speaker 2: Tide of the game, frankly because we went down and scored.
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  Speaker 1: It. Yeah. Look, I mean you guys, you.
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  Speaker 2: Guys know Spoon as good as anybody. If it was
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  Speaker 2: physically possible for him to do it, he would have
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  Speaker 2: done it. Just we just couldn't get there, and it
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  Speaker 2: was probably the most prudent decision not to.
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  Speaker 1: Have him go. So anything else, thank you, all right,
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  Speaker 1: Thanks guys,