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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Gives Final Updates Ahead Of Week 4 vs. Chargers · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Mike, how did you see the team kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of attack?
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  Speaker 1: Business as usual. Our guys did a great job this week.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like we just had a great Friday practice,
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  Speaker 4: but it's still X amount of hours away from game time,
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  Speaker 4: so the process continues, and looking forward to seeing the
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  Speaker 4: guys tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Injuries, nothing's out yet.
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  Speaker 1: That's okay.
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  Speaker 4: So, you know, Sharps obviously hasn't come back yet this week.
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  Speaker 4: Jadarian is out. Tayakata is questionable, and Chaz Surratt is questionable.
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  Speaker 4: Chaz is new. Jadarian re-aggravated his chest in practice.
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  Speaker 2: Was that Jadarian? I mean, is the concern beyond this week,
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  Speaker 2: or do you know yet?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know yet.
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  Speaker 2: Was that yesterday that he did that?
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  Speaker 1: That was on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: Julian had a good week of practice, then?
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  Speaker 1: Julian had a good week of practice.
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  Speaker 2: Bayless Jones, what does he bring to the team and
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  Speaker 2: to the backfield, if necessary?
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  Speaker 4: Bayless is a guy that we were excited to bring
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  Speaker 4: on last year, and when he had his opportunities, he
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  Speaker 4: did a great job. He's played great at Gunner for us.
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  Speaker 4: On offense, he's had a great offseason. Just like all
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  Speaker 4: these guys, if you get an opportunity, we're excited to
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  Speaker 4: see what he can do, and he's worked really hard
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  Speaker 4: to give himself a chance if that opportunity arises.
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  Speaker 2: What did you see from George Helani in the passing
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  Speaker 2: game against Washington? I think that might have been career-high
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  Speaker 2: in catches for him.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think he was the primary, but checkdowns, but
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  Speaker 4: how he played with the ball after it's delivered is
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  Speaker 4: really important.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he did a good job.
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  Speaker 4: Maximizing yardage on the check down game.
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  Speaker 2: How do you feel about the options you have in
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  Speaker 2: that group?
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited to see these guys play. It's the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's unfortunate with JD.
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  Speaker 4: Hopefully this gives him an opportunity to get healthy. We've
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  Speaker 4: got guys that are ready to go behind him. They're
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  Speaker 4: preparing their tails off and are good players. We feel
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  Speaker 4: like we have a good plan and we'll go play
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  Speaker 4: a game.
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  Speaker 5: Ty Okada, coming back, was that expected this week? Is
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  Speaker 5: that good news relative to what you were expecting when.
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  Speaker 2: The week started?
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  Speaker 1: I think... I'm not really sure.
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  Speaker 4: It's just kind of like one of those things where
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  Speaker 4: it's like he was out last week and we thought
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  Speaker 4: we had a chance for him to practice this week
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  Speaker 4: and he practiced this week.
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  Speaker 1: So that was cool.
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  Speaker 2: How did Zach look the last couple of days?
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  Speaker 4: Zach looks fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: There's a process to get him physically and mentally ready
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  Speaker 1: to go.
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  Speaker 4: We understand that and we'll work with him and make
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  Speaker 4: sure he feels great when the time comes for him
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  Speaker 4: to come back.
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  Speaker 6: Is it within the cards he could play next week.
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  Speaker 2: When he's eligible to or is it still too early?
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  Speaker 4: For me to make any declaration, I think it's unfair
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  Speaker 4: to Zach.
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  Speaker 1: There's a process.
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  Speaker 4: We want him to feel great about when he can
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  Speaker 4: come back and Um, and we'll abide by that process.
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  Speaker 6: Well, at the outset of all this, did you think
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  Speaker 6: October was, it's only seven and a half months since
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  Speaker 6: the surgery.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's, it's a great point. It's really remarkable
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  Speaker 4: on what he's been able to do. I mean, think
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  Speaker 4: about the journey that that entails of just the daily process.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we've spoken on what we feel about Zach
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  Speaker 4: and what type of person he is, but I mean,
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  Speaker 4: for how he's taken on this rehab and got himself
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  Speaker 4: in the shape that he's in and the strength that
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  Speaker 4: he has is, um, is pretty remarkable. So our hats
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  Speaker 4: off to him. We respect the hell out of him, obviously.
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  Speaker 4: And we obviously, and we want to do right by
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  Speaker 4: the process, you know, there's a, that's, that's really what
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  Speaker 4: our focus is on.
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  Speaker 5: We talked to Jay yesterday, partly about facing his dad.
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  Speaker 5: Can you imagine what it'd be like to face your
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  Speaker 5: dad on the opposite sideline?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if it'd be like some sort of
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  Speaker 4: like software sales competition or something.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I can't imagine. I can't imagine. Jay's been great. He's
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  Speaker 1: been great.
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  Speaker 4: But it's got to be– I mean, it's a special day. Like,
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  Speaker 4: it's for that family. I can't imagine, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So, I'm sure it is for Coach Harbaugh as well.
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  Speaker 2: We were talking.
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  Speaker 7: With Julian Love the other day, and Leo came up
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  Speaker 7: and talked about how it seems like this point in
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  Speaker 7: his career has rejuvenated him.
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  Speaker 2: And, obviously, you only got here late in his career.
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  Speaker 2: But for a guy with his.
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  Speaker 7: Experience and his age to be doing what he's doing
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  Speaker 7: the last couple years, what jumps out of Leo's game?
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  Speaker 4: Uh, you think about like, I think it's a great
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  Speaker 4: example of, uh, our coaches having a vision for a
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  Speaker 4: player and that mirror, like kind of matching and marrying
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  Speaker 4: up for what the player wants for him, for himself
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  Speaker 4: as well.
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  Speaker 1: And just in both.
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  Speaker 4: Parties is working like heck and to work together and, and, uh,
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  Speaker 4: attack something to make something come to life.
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  Speaker 1: But Leo's the one ultimately doing it every day.
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  Speaker 4: And for the attitude that he asked that it, that
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  Speaker 4: that takes in the effort to keep, you know, keep
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  Speaker 4: himself in great shape and, the mentality he has for
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  Speaker 4: continually to carve away your game and somehow become a
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  Speaker 4: better player is just a great model for really everybody,
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  Speaker 4: but especially for our team, how we want guys to
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  Speaker 4: operate and how we want to coach our players as well,
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  Speaker 4: how we want to work with our players every day.
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  Speaker 1: So we love Leo.
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  Speaker 4: He's a tremendous world-class player on many levels, but I'm
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  Speaker 4: glad you brought that up. He's a heck of a player, man.
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  Speaker 1: We love him.
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  Speaker 3: Mike, big picture, how concerning is this with Yadarian at
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  Speaker 3: this point to have.
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  Speaker 2: Him flare up again on him? Is it something he
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  Speaker 2: just needs some downtime from?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, by no means is this J.D. 's fault or
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  Speaker 4: anything like that. This is just what happens in football. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 4: injuries happen, so he can't control these things. He's done
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  Speaker 4: everything we've asked him to do since he got here.
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  Speaker 4: He's had a great attitude. He's been a great teammate.
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  Speaker 4: He has a great future. He's going to play great
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  Speaker 4: football for us when he comes back, whenever that is. And,
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  Speaker 4: and we move forward. So I don't think there's any
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  Speaker 4: like big picture things. It's just, it's just unfortunate, you know.
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  Speaker 6: Is it a concern as a long-term thing at all?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure how long it's going to be out.
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  Speaker 2: Brady Russell.
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  Speaker 6: You've talked in the past about how, what a Seahawks
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  Speaker 6: he is, but especially now he's playing fullback tight end
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  Speaker 6: special teams. What has he contributed all realms of your team?
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  Speaker 1: I think, I think you nailed it.
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  Speaker 4: He's, he's the engine of our, of our, core special
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  Speaker 4: teams unit. We expect him to play like that all
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  Speaker 4: the time.
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  Speaker 1: He has. And they're a great model.
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  Speaker 4: For really the rest of our special teams guys to
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  Speaker 4: see just how to operate on a daily basis. Great teammate,
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  Speaker 4: great attitude, loves everybody, great personality. I mean, kind of
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  Speaker 4: lights up the room when you walk in. Obviously, he's
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  Speaker 4: a tough player, plays incredibly hard. I mean, there's a
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  Speaker 4: lot of things there. And then on offense, I think
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  Speaker 4: we've seen him add an element to the passing game
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  Speaker 4: out of the backfield, which is cool, and he can
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  Speaker 4: block on the move. So those are traits that'll help
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  Speaker 4: us win.
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  Speaker 5: You had Dan Lanning out at practice yesterday. What's the
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  Speaker 5: background with that relationship? What was it like having him
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  Speaker 5: out here yesterday?
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  Speaker 1: It was great to see Dan.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's in town recruiting, so he just stopped
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  Speaker 4: by for however long that was, and it was good
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  Speaker 4: to catch up and see how they were doing, kind
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  Speaker 4: of bounce a couple ideas off one another, but.
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  Speaker 4: Dan and I never worked together, but just a lot
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  Speaker 4: of respect for him, going back to Georgia, things like that,
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  Speaker 4: and connecting over the years, just a lot of respect
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  Speaker 4: for him and how he runs his program, and he's
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  Speaker 4: a great guy, great family man, so a lot of
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  Speaker 4: respect for Dan.
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  Speaker 1: Wish him the best.
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  Speaker 3: Mike, do you have, like, a philosophy on when a
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  Speaker 3: starter gets injured and, like, when he comes back, is
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  Speaker 3: it his job?
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  Speaker 1: It's tricky.
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  Speaker 4: It's tricky, like, you'd like that to be the rule,
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  Speaker 4: but sometimes things just don't happen that way. And so
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  Speaker 4: I think, I think that what, I think the lens
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  Speaker 4: that like we look through it is like, what's the
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  Speaker 4: best for the.
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  Speaker 1: Team and the player.
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  Speaker 4: So sometimes those are hard situations that you have to
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  Speaker 4: navigate that there's some through not around conversations. There's a
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  Speaker 4: couple of examples that come off off the top of
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  Speaker 4: my mind as you're asking that question that, but I think,
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  Speaker 4: I think like honesty in those situations prevail and, And
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  Speaker 4: you got to work through those things, you know, but hopefully.
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  Speaker 1: That answers your question.
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  Speaker 2: You had Max active last week. Since he's gotten here,
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  Speaker 2: it was about a year ago that he got here.
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  Speaker 2: Just what has he shown you guys during that.
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  Speaker 1: Time to kind of eventually run the ball?
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  Speaker 4: I think it's daily deposits of just doing the best
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  Speaker 4: he possibly can and just like these incremental gains to
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  Speaker 4: the point where he's put himself in position to be
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  Speaker 4: active on game day sometimes and He's done a great
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  Speaker 4: job with the opportunity after he's earned it.
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  Speaker 6: Jakartier is another option for you guys on the practice squad.
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  Speaker 2: How have you seen him develop coming back from the
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  Speaker 2: injury last year?
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  Speaker 6: It seemed like he had a pretty good training camp
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  Speaker 6: if you guys turned to him.
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  Speaker 4: Jakartier has done a great job. He's a really good player.
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  Speaker 1: Working through some.
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  Speaker 4: Things right now that we're going to help him navigate
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  Speaker 4: through health-wise, but if and when he gets his opportunity,
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure he'll make the most of it.
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  Speaker 2: Anything else?
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.