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Mike Macdonald: "I'm Excited To See Our Guys Play" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Uh alright, Uh, great to see everybody. It's here, it's time. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: guys are excited. We're excited. Uh, excited to be at home,
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  Speaker 1: excited to be in front of the twelve. It's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be loud. I hope that my ears are ringing. I
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  Speaker 1: hope that we have trouble communicating. That's a big point
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  Speaker 1: of since this week. But uh, got a really good
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  Speaker 1: opponent coming into town. But we got a full weeks
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  Speaker 1: of work, a full week's worth of work ahead of us.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, it's just a exciting time. So get a
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  Speaker 1: lot of work to do, though, you know it's the
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  Speaker 1: prep's not done until you kick off or so. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: let the guys know that we just had a great
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  Speaker 1: walk through and I'll be uh having a great Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: practice here in a minute.
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  Speaker 2: What's the dire risk between practicing and preparing this week
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  Speaker 2: compared to any of the other preseason games.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, well, we're working stuff taylored towards the towards the
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  Speaker 1: opponent almost probably eighty five percent of the practice.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: We'll do some stuff that's you know, fast, try to
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  Speaker 1: work execution with the ones on ones, but mostly it's
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  Speaker 1: dealer's choice type of plays the whole time, so everything's
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  Speaker 1: pretty much directed it, you know, the other side of
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  Speaker 1: the ball at this.
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  Speaker 2: Point, what is it like? You're obviously you're lucked in
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  Speaker 2: if you've then or anything like that. But this journey
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  Speaker 2: that's started you back in jan right now it's here
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  Speaker 2: with the regular sea.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Yeah, well it's come a little full circle being
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  Speaker 1: up on the on the podium here on the stage
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  Speaker 1: and M'm having flashbacks of our intro press conference forgot
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  Speaker 1: to where' my hoodie? But yeah, I think we just
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  Speaker 1: you know, I told everybody to the just or this
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  Speaker 1: week how much uh, how appreciative we were of all
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  Speaker 1: the work that goes into it. Uh, so many people
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  Speaker 1: behind the scenes, you know, all the players, all the
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  Speaker 1: support staff, everyone in the building. I mean, just it's
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  Speaker 1: so much. I mean, it's so much work and just
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  Speaker 1: try to get it aligned and kind of bring it
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  Speaker 1: in the same direction, which I just am very appreciative
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  Speaker 1: everybody's attitude and and I think wrong our way to that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think that's an ongoing process from here
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  Speaker 1: to eternity hopefully. And but here we are, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so we gotta go play a football game and and
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  Speaker 1: go try to play our best foot forward.
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  Speaker 3: Because it took a few games for Baltimore defense to
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  Speaker 3: adapt to your scheme, How do you compare this defense's
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  Speaker 3: h readiness.
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  Speaker 1: And during that, you know, I I wouldn't say it's
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  Speaker 1: a a fair assessment to say it took time for
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  Speaker 1: them to adapt. I think we're all learning. There's definitely
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  Speaker 1: things that I took from that experience of our slow
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  Speaker 1: start that we've we've been, we've changed and evolved, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the end of through the end of twenty twenty two. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: through the off season. I mean some've been a long
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  Speaker 1: time through the off season of twenty three and then
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  Speaker 1: into this offseason. So I would I would consider it
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  Speaker 1: a constant, you know, evolution of how we approach it,
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  Speaker 1: how we teach it, expectations what we call uh lot
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  Speaker 1: of a lot of great lessons learned in that situation.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully we've learned from them, you know. And and and
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  Speaker 1: the guys go out and play great, but things are
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  Speaker 1: gonna happen that we're gonna need to fix, whether or
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  Speaker 1: not that's you know, reared in their heads again from
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  Speaker 1: you know, past mistay, but don't expect that. I think
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  Speaker 1: they're the guys in a great spot. You know what
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  Speaker 1: everything is, go ahead, but.
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  Speaker 2: Say, who with everything that you have to sort of
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  Speaker 2: have to do on game day? That was a head coach.
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  Speaker 2: It's added from what you had to use it. That's
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  Speaker 2: aford here. You obviously got experience with that the preseason.
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  Speaker 3: But I guess do you feel like all those kind
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  Speaker 3: of kings are worked out and you kind of know
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  Speaker 3: how exactly where it is?
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  Speaker 2: Would the call of the place on defense.
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  Speaker 1: And being the head coach all that, Yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: we're confident in our process. Uh, I would have to
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  Speaker 1: say that we've got everything worked out. That's not I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't say that. I mean, we're we're aware that things
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  Speaker 1: can happen that we're probably that we might not be
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  Speaker 1: prepared for. We're we've tried our very best to be
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  Speaker 1: you know, dot in our eyes and piece in our cues,
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  Speaker 1: being thorough in our preparation. Uh, confident in our people
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  Speaker 1: that you know, on their roles and everything. Our communication
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  Speaker 1: has been really smooth in the preseason. There's been a
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  Speaker 1: couple of things that we've debriefed on that we've we've
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  Speaker 1: had to make right and uh, that's okay, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's that's that's what's gonna happen. So I think
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  Speaker 1: in those times it's just you know, staying present, being
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  Speaker 1: a clear, being clear, you know, communication wise, and make
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  Speaker 1: them just trying to make the best decision you can
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  Speaker 1: in the moment from from having you know, assessed how
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna try to play the game from from the
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  Speaker 1: get going. Then you know obviously how it evolves, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as the game starts to declare itself. So though you
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  Speaker 1: know those are things that uh we'll be you know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll be learning from and growing from as the weeks
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  Speaker 1: kind of start to you know, progress here, but uh
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  Speaker 1: feel good where a rat.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe sis what difference they call it or not till
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  Speaker 2: eight to that decision.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna be gone hazy. Yeah, defense
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  Speaker 1: is it's a team effort. I'm just want to pitting
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  Speaker 1: the button and saying the words you said.
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  Speaker 2: You hope your ears are ringing as a guy's cushion
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  Speaker 2: defense your whole career. How much different you can that
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  Speaker 2: may when when that are crowdably good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's a huge difference. I mean, teams operate
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  Speaker 1: have to operate on silent account, which you know, if
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  Speaker 1: there's you can go into all the different reasons on
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  Speaker 1: why that's why that's tougher. Sometimes on defense it makes
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  Speaker 1: it harder to communicate and and and get things, you know,
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  Speaker 1: get uh things aligned. But those those are good problems
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  Speaker 1: to have cause why it's down as on both sides
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  Speaker 1: of this match up, what do you even go back
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  Speaker 1: to when you're skied you need and and when you're
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  Speaker 1: when you're working specifically for the broncostess. Yeah, for the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of the seasons is tough cause you know, y uh,
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  Speaker 1: everyone has an idea about who they are and what
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  Speaker 1: they wanna be and what type of you know, the
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  Speaker 1: plays that kind of what they wanna hang their hat on,
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  Speaker 1: uh schematically the personnel, how they wanna utilize their personnel.
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  Speaker 1: So you don't have that sample size you know, at
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  Speaker 1: this time of year. So you really just have to
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  Speaker 1: focus on executing your stuff, uh the best you possibly
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  Speaker 1: can and make them, you know, beat you throw in
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  Speaker 1: your fastball. So that's been the mess with the guys,
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  Speaker 1: you know, or we're gonna be running our stuff. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna run our stuff from now until whatever. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's hard to kind of pick and choose
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  Speaker 1: and tailor it to how they've operated, cause the samples
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  Speaker 1: is not there, cause you never about us.
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  Speaker 2: Can you ever wear back like bot? You go back
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  Speaker 2: and look at his l much of it as college tape,
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  Speaker 2: and then and then what stands.
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  Speaker 1: Out about them and how they do Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's uh a sliding scale, you know, so to speak.
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  Speaker 1: But on how much you you know, factor all the
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  Speaker 1: things you know that this this system is is you know,
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  Speaker 1: Sean's system. It seems like that they've been really successful
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  Speaker 1: with for such a long time, and both seems like
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  Speaker 1: he's a great fit for what they're asking him to do,
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  Speaker 1: which is a little bit different than some of the stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Now you know, some of those things might carry over
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  Speaker 1: how he operates. Things like that his strengths probably will
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  Speaker 1: definitely you know, transfer from from college to the pros.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, I wouldn't put too much stock into it.
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  Speaker 1: But we all lot of respect Froim as a player
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  Speaker 1: and uh, but we're also defending like the plays that
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  Speaker 1: you know, Sean has been running for for years.
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  Speaker 2: Second, you know, if you have to face it last
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  Speaker 2: year as the work what was what was?
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  Speaker 1: I mean? I'll speak to just my experience of him
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  Speaker 1: and being here for the last six months. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's just a he's just a beast man. I mean
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  Speaker 1: he's like he's uh I, I've told you this, but
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  Speaker 1: you have to count for where he's at at at
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  Speaker 1: any given point. And we got a coup guys like that.
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  Speaker 1: But DK's definitely the top of the list, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and people that can go take it to the house
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  Speaker 1: on any on any play, whether it's a catch and run,
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  Speaker 1: speak of the devil, whether it's a catch and run
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  Speaker 1: or you know, taking the top off the defense. So
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  Speaker 1: we hopefully, hopefully Denver as a hard time finding them
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  Speaker 1: on I'm guessing you have a.
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  Speaker 2: General sense of what you think this team is going
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  Speaker 2: to do for you.
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  Speaker 1: How far you do a season, does it take? How
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  Speaker 1: much of a sample size that you kind of mentioned
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  Speaker 1: that kind of need before you kind of get ss.
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  Speaker 2: For Okay, this is what we are.
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  Speaker 1: This is yeah, I think you have to be you
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  Speaker 1: have to evolve the whole time, and as the season
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  Speaker 1: starts to you know, you get to the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the season, you know you kind of run out of
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  Speaker 1: change up. So now you're looking at me, Okay, these
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  Speaker 1: are our tendencies now because this is what we feel
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  Speaker 1: like we're good at that's good. You should have tendencies.
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  Speaker 1: Good good teams should have tendencies. Otherwise they're just playing
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  Speaker 1: random football. We don't want to operate like that. But well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how do we keep the ball? You know,
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  Speaker 1: keep it, keep the picture moving, keep them honest so
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  Speaker 1: that you know they can handle all the complimentary plays
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  Speaker 1: as well. So, but that's not where we're at right now.
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  Speaker 1: We're trying to We're trying to find our fastball, so
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  Speaker 1: to speak. So, but that's how it works. It's not
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  Speaker 1: like a given time or whatever where you're making certain
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  Speaker 1: decisions to constant uh evaluation, constant evolution.
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  Speaker 2: With that, how how excited are you just said this
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  Speaker 2: would be the first factual game you had pre season,
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  Speaker 2: had camp at first time, having one out of there
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  Speaker 2: all the game against and other opponents seek.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm excited to see our guys go play. I
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  Speaker 1: mean every anytime, even in the preseason, the guys that
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  Speaker 1: were playing those games, I was excited to go, you know,
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  Speaker 1: go see him do it for real. So this is
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the the mistakes are are higher, obviously, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think are I'm just there. You can just go
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  Speaker 1: down the list of everyone that's gonna step on the
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  Speaker 1: feel I can kind of I could give you a
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  Speaker 1: a reason on why. You know, it was exciting to
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  Speaker 1: see them go do their thing and and and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, go play some ball quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: You expect.
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have like all the run percentages and like
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  Speaker 1: past percentage. It's more like types of plays you have
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  Speaker 1: to defend. They're smart coaches, they got they got a
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  Speaker 1: great scheme. He's a really good player. They're gonna we
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  Speaker 1: expect them to do the things that Bo does well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to keep the ball moving, trying to try
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  Speaker 1: to create some explosive plays, be successful in the red zone.
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  Speaker 1: But that you know, I'd probably say that every week,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but I think these guys do a really
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  Speaker 1: good job of that.
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  Speaker 2: What about Bo as a quarterback makes some good fit.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he plays on time. It seems like he makes
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fast decisions. And then uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of like Drew was. He like he's an underrated
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  Speaker 1: like athlete, you know, just being able to move in
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  Speaker 1: the pocket extend plays. Seems like he's really accurate. I
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  Speaker 1: think he has probably an underrated arm. He can he can,
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  Speaker 1: he can deliver the ball just about anywhere. So I
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  Speaker 1: think the decision making how fast he plays is probably
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  Speaker 1: one of the things they like about.
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  Speaker 2: What's thet.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, you're gonna get it. He's gonna play everybody. They
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  Speaker 1: do a great job of playing all the guys. It's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of different personnel groups running past or complimentary
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  Speaker 1: drop back game. I think it's consistent for the quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: but you know they can they can create explosives that
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  Speaker 1: way too, and then they you know, they get the
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  Speaker 1: ball to their playmakers. So it's a tried and true system.
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  Speaker 1: They've they've done it really well for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: You had Tyas s. Bouser obviously in Baltimore for well
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  Speaker 2: what I guess, what can he maybe do with you
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  Speaker 2: guys here enough?
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  Speaker 1: We will be a similar role that he did in Baltimore.
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  Speaker 1: Tias is a guy that has a lot of pass
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  Speaker 1: rush value. UH can play on the edge on early downs,
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  Speaker 1: he can play outside back or for us, has a
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  Speaker 1: lot of drop ability. And then you know he's used
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  Speaker 1: to a lot of the special team schemes that were running,
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  Speaker 1: so he'll be effective in the in those areas as well.
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  Speaker 1: And then the way the kickoff game is going now too,
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  Speaker 1: like he might be an asset for us in that
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  Speaker 1: phase as well, with.
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  Speaker 2: The channels of how how how much more of since
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  Speaker 2: do you know where he's gonna be at for your
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  Speaker 2: help if you're making the nine stands?
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  Speaker 1: Or how well we didn't put him on a R
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  Speaker 1: so I you probably put two and two together on
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  Speaker 1: when we hope him have him back. So there's no
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  Speaker 1: definite timetable right now, though Williams he's gonna he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: play for us eventually. Uh No, he looks great and
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  Speaker 1: we'll uh, we'll see how it plays out throughout the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the week.
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  Speaker 2: Anything else one is anything that was did that he
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  Speaker 2: didn't expect.
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  Speaker 3: Camp first, I mean every every day, right, I mean
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to I wanted to finish my workout today
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  Speaker 3: and work on some third.
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  Speaker 1: Down, but things popped up and see you just you know,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta gotta gotta adjust on the fly. And that's okay,
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  Speaker 1: It's part of the gig. I everyone should have that mentality,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So we can't let it onto the next
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  Speaker 1: speaking of which, thank you, Okay, okay,