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Geno Smith: "Kenneth Walker III Is The Complete Package" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon. We do.
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  Speaker 2: So you guys would have liked to w B What
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  Speaker 2: were your biggest positives from Monday's game?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, shoot, positives. I felt like that game was so
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  Speaker 2: long ago. But you know, I thought we fought hard
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  Speaker 2: in the second half. You know, obviously, I thought, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we were pretty consistent just with moving the ball throughout
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  Speaker 2: the game. Overall, man, Like you know, I'm not a
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  Speaker 2: big fan of more victory. So we lost the game
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  Speaker 2: and that was that. But overall, you know, just love
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  Speaker 2: the way we competed and uh, you know, we gave
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  Speaker 2: ourselves a shot at the end.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know you're on.
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  Speaker 3: Pace for over five thousand yards through four games. That
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  Speaker 3: hasn't happened in the NFL since two thousand twenty two.
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  Speaker 3: Passings down all over the league. Why are you up
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  Speaker 3: this year?
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  Speaker 1: Shoot?
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, I'm I'm just taking advantage of the opportunities that
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  Speaker 2: we're having. You know, our games have gone in such
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  Speaker 2: a way that, uh, we've been passing the ball. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: we wanna take advantage of the fact that we have
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  Speaker 2: some really good wideouts and really good pass catchers out
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  Speaker 2: of the backfield. Our tight ends up been doing a
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  Speaker 2: great job, and it's really just been taking advantage of
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  Speaker 2: the looks we're getting. Like I said, it's a collective effort,
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  Speaker 2: takes all eleven out there. So I would say that
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  Speaker 2: we're on on pace for that as a group. And
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  Speaker 2: uh uh, you know, as as far as stats go,
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  Speaker 2: I really just care about wins and losses. I think
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  Speaker 2: we're just doing whatever it takes to try and win games.
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  Speaker 3: Are there any differences with the offense itself, with Ryan
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  Speaker 3: and how that's going that's contributing it.
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  Speaker 1: All to that?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: I would say, you know, just a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: of you know, just up tempo. You know, the more
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  Speaker 2: you uh up the tempo, the more plays you're gonna get.
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  Speaker 2: That's similar to how it is in college. And so
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  Speaker 2: we've been doing some tempo stuff and been on the
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  Speaker 2: ball and been able to you know, sustain drives. I
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  Speaker 2: think we've been better a lot better on third downs,
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  Speaker 2: which is giving us more opportunities and so that's gonna
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  Speaker 2: obviously lead to more passing yards and and even more
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  Speaker 2: rushing yards. You know, the more opts you get, the
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  Speaker 2: more chances you get, the more yards you get. How
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  Speaker 2: is it that.
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  Speaker 5: Those passes and past attempts are setting up the run game.
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  Speaker 5: I think we often think about it the other way, right,
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  Speaker 5: the run sets of the past you guys are doing.
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  Speaker 3: At the opps.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think think again, it just goes down to
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  Speaker 2: what do we what are we seeing that day?
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  Speaker 1: You know, what is the defense giving us? What are
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  Speaker 1: the looks? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: What what advantages do we have against uh set defense?
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  Speaker 2: And so you know, just looking at how how they've
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  Speaker 2: been playing us, We've we've had plenty of opportunities to
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  Speaker 2: not only run the ball, but pass the ball, as
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  Speaker 2: you said, And whether it's the run setting up the
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  Speaker 2: pass or or the opposite. We want to be balanced.
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  Speaker 2: We want to take what's given to us and not
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  Speaker 2: force the issue. And I think that's what we're doing
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  Speaker 2: a pretty good job at yesterday after.
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  Speaker 4: The Denver game, that a lot of the passes were
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  Speaker 4: off run calls that you switched, or that the looks
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  Speaker 4: presented to pass was a lot like that in Detroit?
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  Speaker 1: Or was at the pre game going.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I would say, you know, Detroit, they came out,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they're they want to play some man defense,
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  Speaker 2: and so they manned us.
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  Speaker 1: Up a little bit, and uh we were able to you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, get get some advantages in the passing game with
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  Speaker 2: just our matchups and stuff. And so as the game
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  Speaker 2: went along, we began to run the ball a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more. And uh again we're just taking whatever they
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  Speaker 2: give us, going out there and trying to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: do whatever it takes to score points and to put
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  Speaker 2: ourselves in the lead and win games. And so whether
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  Speaker 2: that's runner past you know, to me, it doesn't matter. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's about what what the defenses uh showing us and
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  Speaker 2: and what we can do to uh counter that at
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  Speaker 2: the time.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have more.
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  Speaker 4: Outs and latitude in that regard.
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  Speaker 1: Now than you did before?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? It was the same before, you know, I think again,
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  Speaker 2: just how the games have gone, it's allowed us to
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  Speaker 2: take advantage of it.
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  Speaker 6: Do you know, like you said, I mean, kes Walker
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  Speaker 6: got going in the second half and really made his
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  Speaker 6: presence felt. And I'm just wondering, You've been around a
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  Speaker 6: bunch of running backs, but what is it about his game,
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  Speaker 6: skill set, feel, what what makes him a little bit different.
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  Speaker 3: From other guys that's been around.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's the complete package.
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  Speaker 2: When you talk about running backs, I think he's one
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  Speaker 2: of the best running backs in the game. I think
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  Speaker 2: when you talk about Uh, a guy who's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: great in open space. Uh, the first guy's never gonna
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  Speaker 2: get the tackle, are never gonna bring him down. You
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  Speaker 2: saw him do a freaking front flip to get a
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  Speaker 2: first down. Man, that's I've never seen that in football.
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  Speaker 2: Takes incredible strength and uh creativity, really to even think
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  Speaker 2: to do that. You talk about him him in pass protection, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you talk about him out of the backfield catching the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously when he's running the football, you know he can
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  Speaker 2: juke you or he can you know, run you over.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, we have a great combination of running
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  Speaker 2: backs in that room, led by Kim Walker. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm on record as saying I think he's one
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  Speaker 2: of the best in the game. I think he's going
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  Speaker 2: to continue to show it. He's only going to get better,
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  Speaker 2: and we need him. You know, we got to count
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  Speaker 2: on Kim.
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  Speaker 5: I imagine that Mike showed that play at the Somersault
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  Speaker 5: play in front of the rest of the team.
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  Speaker 2: Was he didn't he didn't, but you know that was
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  Speaker 2: that was just an amazing play. Honestly, just to see that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the effort that it takes to you know,
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  Speaker 2: get that done. And again the creativity to even think
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  Speaker 2: to you know, flip over on your head and to
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  Speaker 2: keep going. You know, that's something that again we I've
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  Speaker 2: never seen before maybe never what happened again, But that's
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  Speaker 2: why we got Kim Walker on our team and that's
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  Speaker 2: why we love him.
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  Speaker 6: When you look at the Giants, they're really good in
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  Speaker 6: the red zone that defense.
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  Speaker 5: What is it that they do differently there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's their philosophy, you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: they you know, they they really are a being. But
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  Speaker 2: don't break defense. They harp on not letting you score
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  Speaker 2: touchdowns down there in the reds. They're gonna give you
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  Speaker 2: some tough looks, you know, make the man in zone
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  Speaker 2: look the same.
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  Speaker 1: You'll have to read it after the snap.
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  Speaker 2: Your guys have got to be, you know, running fast
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  Speaker 2: and getting to their spots, getting to the landmarks. Obviously
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  Speaker 2: they're pretty start up front. That gives them the advantage
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  Speaker 2: to just rush for and drop more guys in coverage,
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  Speaker 2: so they'll have an extra guy to maybe double someone,
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  Speaker 2: or you know there's a lerkbacker or safety somewhere trying
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  Speaker 2: to read my eyes so that he can get an interception.
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  Speaker 2: And so just being you know, great with understanding the
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  Speaker 2: coverage prem post snap and then making fast decisions getting
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  Speaker 2: the ball out. Some catching runs and then being able
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  Speaker 2: to run the ball is always gonna help us down there.
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  Speaker 1: In this press conference yesterday, Mike said that this past
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  Speaker 1: game was the best that's he's seen the O line play.
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  Speaker 6: How have you seen them improved over the first few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: I thought they did a tremendous job.
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  Speaker 2: It's never easy, you know, to pass protect that many
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  Speaker 2: times in the game. I thought, overall, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: runner in the pass looked pretty good. And I thought,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Aiden Hutchinson, I mean, as great of a
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  Speaker 2: player he is, you know, has zero sacks in the game.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I thought we ran the ball again very effectively,
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  Speaker 2: and I also thought it allowed us to pass the ball, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, and and at times that we did.
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  Speaker 2: And so for those guys to go out and compete
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  Speaker 2: the way that they did against a really tough officer,
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  Speaker 2: uh sorry, off defensive line, to compete the way they did,
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  Speaker 2: and uh for Stone to go out there and play
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  Speaker 2: the game he played, I thought it was tremendous.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I thought Haines stepped in there did a great job.
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  Speaker 2: I know, Ab was battling. You know, Connor did a
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  Speaker 2: great job leading the charge. Man Like the entire group laking.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Charles does what he does and it allows
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  Speaker 2: us to be explosive offense.
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  Speaker 5: I think Mike specifically mentioned the communication being on point.
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  Speaker 1: Did you feel that, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, in a tough environment, you know, I think as
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  Speaker 2: loud as that that game was, I thought our communication
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  Speaker 2: was spot on, you know. I thought guys echoed the
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  Speaker 2: calls down the line. I thought that we were clear
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  Speaker 2: and concise with.
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  Speaker 1: What we wanted to do.
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  Speaker 2: I thought when we got to the sideline, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the way that we communicated there. Overall, I just thought
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  Speaker 2: it was all, you know, outstanding, and I think it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna only gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Improve Charles progress this here. Yeah. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Charles since his rookie year, man like, he
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  Speaker 2: stepped right in and he's he's been the day one,
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  Speaker 2: you know, franchise left tackle for us, and you can
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  Speaker 2: just see his confidence has grown so much. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he's looking forward to those matchups against those you know,
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  Speaker 2: really great defense events. Uh, he looks at he looks
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  Speaker 2: at it as a chance to prove himself, and I
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  Speaker 2: think he's doing that.
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  Speaker 1: He's gotten a lot stronger. You can see it in
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  Speaker 1: this play.
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  Speaker 2: He's finishing guys, you know, in the run game, and
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  Speaker 2: just you know he's doing he's doing everything that it
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  Speaker 2: takes to to help this offense be great. And uh,
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  Speaker 2: he's a leader on the offense, you know, a quiet guy,
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  Speaker 2: not gonna say much, but just the way that he
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  Speaker 2: plays and overall just his demeanor.
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  Speaker 1: He really rubs off on the offensive line in the offense.
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  Speaker 1: Jason signed back here. You obviously played with him last year.
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  Speaker 1: What does he bring your.
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  Speaker 2: Team in terms of his experience and all the football
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  Speaker 2: he's seen. Yeah, JP's walking Hall of Famer man. You know,
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  Speaker 2: really just appreciate, uh, the veteran leadership he brings to
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  Speaker 2: the team, to the offensive line, to that room, just
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  Speaker 2: the countless reps.
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  Speaker 1: He's seen it all. You know, he's seen all the looks.
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  Speaker 2: He's got those you know, subtle tricks to the game
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  Speaker 2: that he can you know, teach those guys about little
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  Speaker 2: things about past setting or you know, just trying to
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  Speaker 2: gain an advantage on the defensive line or you know
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  Speaker 2: against the defense. And uh, you know again, if he's
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  Speaker 2: he steps in there and plays, we knows, we know
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  Speaker 2: what he's gonna do. He's always prepared. Uh, he knows,
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  Speaker 2: he knows how to play this game. He can play
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  Speaker 2: all five positions on the line. And I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: again a walking Hall of Famer, a guy that you know,
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  Speaker 2: we we appreciate having having back.
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  Speaker 1: And you're on a short.
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  Speaker 3: Week in your routine and your prep, what what changes
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  Speaker 3: and maybe what becomes a little bit more important for you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, recovery is the biggest thing. You know.
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  Speaker 2: We got a short week and then another another game
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  Speaker 2: right after that, so it's gonna be huge, very important
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  Speaker 2: for the guys to uh recover. Make sure that when
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  Speaker 2: you get home, you're doing the extra work, extra studying, uh,
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  Speaker 2: because you do lose a day and so uh the
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  Speaker 2: only way to gain that back is a boy doing
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  Speaker 2: the extra work and so uh taking care of your body,
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  Speaker 2: making sure that you're hitting tubs, cold tub, hot tub,
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  Speaker 2: getting your legs back, you know, after a short week,
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  Speaker 2: and then you know, flying back from the East coast,
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  Speaker 2: you know, all those things matter. And then again studying
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  Speaker 2: the opponent, you know, making sure you're watching film, you're
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  Speaker 2: in your iPad, uh, doing all the extra work to
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  Speaker 2: be ready for Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: You know, this was the first loss of the season.
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  Speaker 3: What was the message from the coaching staff and how
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  Speaker 3: are the players.
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  Speaker 6: Responding with the movies.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously, man, it sucks. You know, you never want
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  Speaker 1: to lose.
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  Speaker 2: We're all about winning over here, and so that was
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  Speaker 2: a game we felt like we could have won, but
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  Speaker 2: we didn't. We're three and one right now. The first
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  Speaker 2: quarter of the season's over. We're seventy five percent in
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  Speaker 2: the first quarter. Now it is on to the second
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  Speaker 2: quarter of the season. You know, some really tough matchups
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  Speaker 2: moving forward, and so God's got to be on it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this is the time, you know, for us,
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  Speaker 2: especially for me. You know, I feel like I haven't
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  Speaker 2: played my best yet to start rolling, you know, to
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  Speaker 2: get rolling, and I think it's gonna start here soon.
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  Speaker 1: I'm starting to get into my groove.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, us as a team, as an offense,
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  Speaker 2: really got to lock in and play together, you know,
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  Speaker 2: be connected, do all the little things, take care of business,
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  Speaker 2: and then go out there and take it one game,
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  Speaker 2: matter of time.
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  Speaker 4: Monday nights. You know, on third and eight, when you
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  Speaker 4: hit Smith and Jigga for the first down eleven yards
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  Speaker 4: in the third quarter, after you duck the blitzer, what
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  Speaker 4: are you looking at there when you're scrambling out to
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  Speaker 4: the right, what's your next progression and what.
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  Speaker 1: You're trying to look for. Yeah, just always keep my
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  Speaker 1: eyes down field, you know. That's the main thing.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like that's you know, a big part of
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  Speaker 2: my game is obviously you don't have the ability to
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  Speaker 2: scramble and get yards if I can. But uh, my
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  Speaker 2: game throughout my lifetime has been to you know, to
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  Speaker 2: hurt you with my arm, and so, uh, just trying
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  Speaker 2: to find guys open downfield, you know, keep my eyes open,
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  Speaker 2: trying to keep.
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  Speaker 1: The play alive.
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  Speaker 2: I thought Jackson did a great job at uh find
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  Speaker 2: the open window and we were able to get that
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  Speaker 2: third down conversion.
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  Speaker 4: Four games pulled up on that rollout, Did you see
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  Speaker 4: Hutchinson coming right at you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so's there of Yeah, he's a football player like
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  Speaker 2: the rest of 'em.
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  Speaker 5: Four games and what are you like in most about
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  Speaker 5: Ryan's scheme?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I just like the diversity that we have.
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  Speaker 2: I like the fact that, uh we're very aggressive, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a up tempo attacking style offense. Uh that's something that's
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  Speaker 2: to be a part of. And you know, just the
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  Speaker 2: way that coach Grubb calls the games man like, he's
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  Speaker 2: not afraid just to get the calls off the sheet man.
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  Speaker 2: He's he's being aggressive, he's trying to attack the defense.
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  Speaker 1: He's setting things up.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's always thinking about the next play, the
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  Speaker 2: next advantage that we can gain. And so I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, for us as an offense, I don't think
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  Speaker 2: we've executed exactly.
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  Speaker 1: The way that we want to yet.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, knowing that we have coach Grubb and
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  Speaker 2: a system that's gonna always put us in the right
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  Speaker 2: position to make plays, it's really up to us as
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  Speaker 2: players to execute and go out there and make it
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  Speaker 2: look great.
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  Speaker 5: When you do go up tempo, is that coming from
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  Speaker 5: him in the moment or is that something you decide
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  Speaker 5: ahead of a drive like this is an opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: To Yeah, it usually comes from him. He's got a
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  Speaker 2: great feel for that. So he knows, you know, when
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  Speaker 2: it's time to go up tempo. There are times in
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  Speaker 2: the game where you want to go up tempo. And
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  Speaker 2: then he also knows when to you know, pull it
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  Speaker 2: back and pull the reins back and allow guys to
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  Speaker 2: catch their breaths so we can, you know, get set up,
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  Speaker 2: get a look at the defense and then you know,
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  Speaker 2: adjust the tempo from there.
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  Speaker 1: But I think he has a great feel for that.
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  Speaker 5: You try to do that to keep certain like the
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  Speaker 5: same personnel on defense on the field, to keep them.
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  Speaker 1: That could be one reason for it. Yeah, Jeremy, Sorry, Geetum.
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  Speaker 7: How have you seen Jackson Smith and Jack McGraw and
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  Speaker 7: grow in terms of him able to find those pockets
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  Speaker 7: when you come out of the you know, out of
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  Speaker 7: the pocket, him finding pockets on the defense so you
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  Speaker 7: can get him those small passes to him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jackson, like I said, he's he's only going to
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  Speaker 2: continue to get better. You know, the things that he's
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  Speaker 2: gotten better at just over the past two years is
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  Speaker 2: his understanding of defense, understanding of route spacing and where
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  Speaker 2: he is in the progression. You know, he does a
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  Speaker 2: great job at being very quarterback friendly, whether that's you know,
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  Speaker 2: in and out of his cuts or you know, if
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  Speaker 2: I get into a scrambled situation, He's always finding the
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  Speaker 2: right pockets in the right windows. And to have a
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  Speaker 2: guy like him and to have Lockett who's also great
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  Speaker 2: at it, just gives us that added dimension dimension. You know,
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: we can play out of structure if we need to,
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: and I think all all of our guys are pretty
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: good at it.
• 12:58
  Speaker 7: Did you work in the off season with cant member
• 12:59
  Speaker 7: for you told us or not? Did you gotta do
• 13:01
  Speaker 7: some off season work together you and Jackson?
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: Yes? Yes?
• 13:04
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 13:05
  Speaker 5: Have you seen Aj Barner kind of progressing his wrong offense?
• 13:08
  Speaker 3: It seems like he's getting some more snaps he gets
• 13:10
  Speaker 3: touch down to him this last week.
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought Aj. I thought he had a phenomenal game.
• 13:14
  Speaker 2: I really think the past three games, you know, you
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: see where he's been stepping up and he's getting more
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: involved in the offense, and uh, you know, I think
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: his confidence is only gonna continue to grow. You know,
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: Aj is a hard worker. He's a guy who's always
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: asking questions, and he's asking the right questions trying to
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: figure out how he can get better.
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: And you know, he's a listener.
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: You know, he's he's a young guy, but he's such
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: a sponge and he wants to know things and he
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: asked the right questions and so he's only gonna get better.
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: You can see with the ball in his hands, man,
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: he can make some plays out there. And I wouldn't
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: advise him to try to hurdle too many guys. But
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: you know, it's good that he got his feedback down.
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: But I think AJ is a great player and only
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: gonna get better.
• 13:51
  Speaker 4: You haven't played your best yet.
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: Where would you like to be better going forward?
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: Uh? I just gotta play cleaner all around. I think
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: I know I can be a lot better. Certainly hasn't
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: been my best four game stretch here, but I can
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: be a lot cleaner just throughout the entire game. And uh,
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: you know, really just chasing that perfection, you know, that's
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: something that I'm I'm big on myself on this. I
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: know I'm not perfect, but I'm striving for it, you know.
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: So I'm just trying to play a perfect game if
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: I can, if you like it.
• 14:14
  Speaker 5: I think you mentioned before like the turnovers haven't been
• 14:17
  Speaker 5: a lot maybe his touchdowns.
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: You have, but does it pay?
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: Those have been a little fluky though.
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: I mean it is what it is.
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I do, but a turnovers a turnover, and so
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: I'll take that on myself and I say, you know,
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: I can do something better in that situation. So always
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: looking to, you know, play a clean game and leave
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: the game with zero turnovers. That's my goal, you know,
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: is to play the game and not have any turnovers
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: and uh or any turnover worthy plays, you know, not
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: give them a chance to get an interception or a
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: fumble or something like that. So you know, I wanna
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: make sure I clean those things up and not hurt
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: our team.
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: Did Did you ever have a chance to talk to
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: uh Drew Locke at all after he sat with these guys?
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I talked to Drew. Uh. I feel like we
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: talk almost every week.
• 14:53
  Speaker 6: Man.
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: I'm always checking up on Drew and be good to
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: see him this week. Man.
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: I know, uh, he's working his tail off and you know,
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: I can't wait to see him out there a Sunday.
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: Thank you guys,