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Cooper Kupp: "We're All Together In This Thing" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Coach are just talking about kind of the sense of
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  Speaker 1: urgency now that takes place after that game on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see that just the ability to improve, but
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  Speaker 1: an added sense of urgency.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's I think maybe it's less about like.
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  Speaker 3: Adding urgency as much as it is just addressing the
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  Speaker 3: importance of it. It's part of our process. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think the the guys have I mean, we talked
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  Speaker 3: about over and over again. It's all we talk about
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  Speaker 3: is just our process. How dialing to our process can
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  Speaker 3: we be and not letting it be stagnant. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's more so point to it, like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: this is what gets us where we want to go,
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  Speaker 3: is handling our day to day stuff. It's it's the
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  Speaker 3: small wins and stacking them over and over and over again.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna give us the best chance to do those
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  Speaker 3: things that we envision ourselves doing at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the year. And so I think that's more so what
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  Speaker 3: the emphasis is on, not so much like we have
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  Speaker 3: to do more or be more urgent.
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  Speaker 2: I think the you know, guys are guys are very
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  Speaker 2: dialed in here.
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  Speaker 4: When your quarterback has a rough day and a player
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  Speaker 4: on the other side of the ball in this case of.
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  Speaker 3: Ernest Jones is sticking up for him as empathically as
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  Speaker 3: he did on side.
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  Speaker 2: Just what does it tell you about this team? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's just the thing.
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  Speaker 3: He speaks to, that connection, and we've talked about that,
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  Speaker 3: Mike's you know, message to us from day one.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's twelve is one. We're all we're all
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  Speaker 2: together in this thing.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, Ernest is a guy that a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people in this room, a lot of people in
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  Speaker 3: this building have a ton of respect for, and rightfully so.
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  Speaker 3: And so you know what it does, It shows you
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  Speaker 3: that there's a there's that connectiveness and there's that understanding
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  Speaker 3: that this is gonna be something that's you know, we
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  Speaker 3: win games.
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  Speaker 2: We lose games.
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  Speaker 3: Again, it's this most cliche thing ever, but in football,
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  Speaker 3: it's just it's the most true thing. And we know
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  Speaker 3: it's many games where we're gonna need the defensive pick
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  Speaker 3: us up and you know, we're we almost got away
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  Speaker 3: with one there where offensively we weren't on top of
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  Speaker 3: our stuff as much as we should be, but shoot,
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  Speaker 3: almost won a game that you know we had no
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  Speaker 3: business really really being a part of the way that
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  Speaker 3: we were playing offensively, and you know there's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: games like that. There's gonna be games where offensively we're
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  Speaker 3: able to get things going and we got to pick
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  Speaker 3: up the defense. And it's just it's just part of
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  Speaker 3: how football works. And but really cool by by Ernest,
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  Speaker 3: and I mean it means a lot for the guys
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  Speaker 3: here and shows kind of you know, shows that we
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  Speaker 3: we believe what we've talked, what we've talked about.
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  Speaker 1: Probably just her coach talk about red zone offense. Put
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  Speaker 1: in your estimation after watching film, what was missing, what
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  Speaker 1: what was lacking, and what needs to be better next week.
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  Speaker 2: It's just details hits it.
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  Speaker 3: You get down there and I mean you're you're already
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  Speaker 3: playing the game on a you know, a razor thin margin,
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  Speaker 3: and it gets even uh smaller in the red zone.
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  Speaker 3: Just you know, being able to be that much quicker
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  Speaker 3: and that much more on your details. Everything's just that
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  Speaker 3: much tighter. You know, you hesitate it all down there,
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  Speaker 3: and you're not gonna get what you want, so you know,
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  Speaker 3: just little things and and shoot, there's just I say,
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  Speaker 3: across the board, guys just being better.
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  Speaker 2: Guys have been better in their details.
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  Speaker 3: And then we hone into that stuff, and we've had
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  Speaker 3: weeks that we've been really good and it just shows you,
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  Speaker 3: It shows you just that the difference being able to
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  Speaker 3: have that little bit anticipation, a little bit more anticipation
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  Speaker 3: where man, is it some film study here or there
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  Speaker 3: that's gonna do that opportunity, and then being able to
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  Speaker 3: you know, pull a trigger, let let rip on on Sundays.
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  Speaker 2: He seemed to get a little bit more involved in
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  Speaker 2: the second game.
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  Speaker 3: You're starting to see the impact he can have as
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  Speaker 3: as he gets more time here. Yeah, i mean, shoot,
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  Speaker 3: he's he's a you know, very special football player, and man,
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  Speaker 3: the sky's limit for him. I'm excited to see it
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  Speaker 3: kind of continue to grow. And he's i think the
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  Speaker 3: understanding of this offense a little bit. Having been with
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  Speaker 3: Clint last year, you see just the subconscious stuff that's
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  Speaker 3: kind of coming back up that he like, man, shoot,
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  Speaker 3: he's known, he knows this stuff. It's just getting in
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  Speaker 3: again into the details of stuff that you haven't running
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  Speaker 3: this offense for a year now and you get to
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  Speaker 3: come back and be a part of it. And but yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited about seeing kind of as that as he
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  Speaker 3: starts to grab onto some of those things more and
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  Speaker 3: what his impact can be on the game. A weird
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  Speaker 3: feeling to be disappointed that the Rams won a game.
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  Speaker 3: Uh no, you know it was it was uh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean yeah, we're past past that. Now it's a
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  Speaker 3: congo line of Rams waiting to talk to you after
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  Speaker 3: the game in the field.
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  Speaker 2: What that means to you and look at the moments
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  Speaker 2: where revisiting.
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  Speaker 3: That say yeah, I mean it's it's really cool. I
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  Speaker 3: mean the at the end of the day, like you know,
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  Speaker 3: coming into work, I love this game. I love the
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  Speaker 3: journey of it. But it's like it's coming in and
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  Speaker 3: doing it with a group of guys and finding ways
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  Speaker 3: to you know, work together to achieve a goal. It's
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  Speaker 3: just it's special. It's really special. I don't take that
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  Speaker 3: for granted. And really it's really cool to see that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, but those relationships and things like that have
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  Speaker 3: have grown up. You just you get close with people
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  Speaker 3: and you've managed, like you show people that you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: be there for them and more than just football stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But it's just that it's a journey.
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  Speaker 3: So that's all the stuff you're doing here at the
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  Speaker 3: time in between meetings and just getting to know guys
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  Speaker 3: and uh know their families and it's just it's.
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  Speaker 2: A very special thing.
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  Speaker 3: So that it was very meaningful, very meaningful, and you
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  Speaker 3: know it just like shows me again that is like,
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  Speaker 3: that's a very That's the thing I hold a lot
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  Speaker 3: of value in is being able to impact people's lives and.
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  Speaker 2: Have that, you know, have.
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  Speaker 3: That like above football, So like guys just friends that
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  Speaker 3: I get to check in on, and that that was
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  Speaker 3: very special. Expect that as long as you were out
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  Speaker 3: there as many guys as you met, I knew that
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  Speaker 3: there was a I knew that there's a group of
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  Speaker 3: guys that won't you know, were I had spent a
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  Speaker 3: lot of time with in my time in l A.
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  Speaker 3: But to that extent that it was was it was,
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  Speaker 3: It was very special.
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  Speaker 4: The game you said, it's not easy to do what
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  Speaker 4: Sam did and you know put moving past the mistakes
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  Speaker 4: and everything in real time. How can you tell when
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  Speaker 4: a quarterback is has done that has moved on versus
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  Speaker 4: is maybe still letting the mistakes affect them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you can see in just their demeanor.
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  Speaker 3: You can see whether it's you you know, saying things
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  Speaker 3: that they normally don't. You know, what's their messaging like
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  Speaker 3: how what's their energy like going up and down the sidelines.
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  Speaker 3: And I think when that demeanor starts to change, Okay, now,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's whatever the way it switches, you know, whether
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  Speaker 3: it be like, oh suddenly they're super positive or super
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's like there's something that you can tell,
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  Speaker 3: there's something, there's a response happening to whatever whatever went on.
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  Speaker 2: And Sam's just been steady like like that was the thing.
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  Speaker 3: It's like he's just he's the same as he was
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  Speaker 3: on Drive one, as he was, you know, right there
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the game.
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  Speaker 2: And that's a that's a hard thing to do.
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  Speaker 3: If you could snap your fingers and prove one thing
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  Speaker 3: about the way this offense is playing, what would you
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  Speaker 3: what would it be, Oh, I've just snapped my fingers
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  Speaker 3: and improve one thing. The details.
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  Speaker 2: An example of the detail.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, I mean, it's it's for every single person. There's
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  Speaker 3: it's all different things, right, It's like it's your stem
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  Speaker 3: as a wide receiver, it's you know, what, what's your
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  Speaker 3: angle coming out of that thing? What's your initial angle
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  Speaker 3: off the line of scrimmage? Do you know who you're
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  Speaker 3: going to? Are you understanding where the run's trying to
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  Speaker 3: hit offensive line. Are you stepping underneath yourself? Are you
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  Speaker 3: stepping forward? Except by why are you stepping the right foot?
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  Speaker 3: Why are you hitting the right part of the defensive lineman?
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  Speaker 3: You know that quarterback where your eyes at the running
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  Speaker 3: back or your track's good as it tied in. It's
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  Speaker 3: the same thing. It's it's all tied into the same stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And so all of those things that you know, you
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  Speaker 3: don't know unless you're in these meetings and you know
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  Speaker 3: what we're teaching. All that can be better and every
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  Speaker 3: single person on the offense can improve it. And that's
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  Speaker 3: our goal week in and week out, is to make
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  Speaker 3: sure that we're by the end of the year those
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  Speaker 3: details are better and we're on track for that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Thanks asking