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Pete Carroll: "We Are Playing Good Ball Up Front" · Seahawks Press Pass

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Speaker 1: Okay, what's going on that much around here? Uh?
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Speaker 2: There be a smile of a big smile.
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Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm good, Pete. What can you tell us about, uh,
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Speaker 1: the trade for Leonard Williams. Uh that it's not finalized
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Speaker 1: yet until you know, until he arrives coming in probably
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Speaker 1: by midday tomorrow or something like that. But it's i
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Speaker 1: was reported as accurate you know out there.
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Speaker 2: What do you like about him?
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Speaker 1: Oh? Man, everything everything. We didn't watched him for a
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Speaker 1: long time, you don't. I've known of him for a
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Speaker 1: good while Trojan and all that, you know, And uh,
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Speaker 1: he's a fantastic football player. And let's see, he's kind
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Speaker 1: of guy that can, you know, make a difference in games.
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Speaker 1: He's really a nice player.
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Speaker 3: How is his skill set problem that what you already
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Speaker 3: have on the line.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he's a little different. His style is different,
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Speaker 1: you know. And and uh he's he's a you know,
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Speaker 1: a classic three technique you know, he'sn't been doing that
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Speaker 1: for for a long part of his career and he's
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Speaker 1: really good at it. And uh n he he's an
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Speaker 1: all around player's versatile run in pass, rush, rush the
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Speaker 1: pastor and cause issues and problems for your opponent. He's
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Speaker 1: a terrific kid. He's a leader and and a uh
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Speaker 1: a competitor and and uh just the kind of guy
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Speaker 1: that you know you fortunate to have on your team.
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Speaker 2: He he's he's played multiple spots along the defensive line.
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Speaker 2: Where where do you like him best? What's what's his
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Speaker 2: best way?
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Speaker 1: He can he can play anywhere, just like he said,
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Speaker 1: he really he can play five technique, he can play
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Speaker 1: three technique, and he plays on the the on the
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Speaker 1: center as well. He's done all of that. So he
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Speaker 1: he brings a lot of versatility up hut. Just competing,
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Speaker 1: just trying to get better, you know, just looking for
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Speaker 1: a way to try to help us. How much does
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Speaker 1: a player like that just help the guys around him
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Speaker 1: in terms of the attention like he's been known for that,
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Speaker 1: you know, he's been known for that, been recognized as
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Speaker 1: a as a leader in their program, and a guy
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Speaker 1: that does affect other people. He's really bright, really you know,
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Speaker 1: got his act together, really sharp kid, and and uh
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Speaker 1: uh he'll he'll really fit in well, he'll fit in well,
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Speaker 1: uh with our guys.
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Speaker 3: These type of deals in the trade deadline, that that
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Speaker 3: what kind of message just that truly send to the
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Speaker 3: locker room when John makes a move like that and
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Speaker 3: you know, giving up a high draft.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well we're we're we're competing, you know. Well that's
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Speaker 1: that's what we always say and tell you that's that's
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Speaker 1: really what this is about. It's trying to get better,
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Speaker 1: try to help our team. And uh, this is one
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Speaker 1: of those one of the late opportunities to do something
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Speaker 1: like that. And John did a a beautiful job of
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Speaker 1: you know, figuring it out and how to work it
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Speaker 1: and and uh picking out the guy that really fits
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Speaker 1: and and can be a part of this team. And
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Speaker 1: I'm really excited for our guys to get to know,
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Speaker 1: you know, and and uh see who he is and
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Speaker 1: what he's all about. His competitiveness is really very similar
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Speaker 1: to the guys that we have in this program, and uh,
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Speaker 1: he's gonna fit in rate.
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Speaker 3: I know you were long gone to USC by the
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Speaker 3: time he got there, But did your connections there give
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Speaker 3: you any extra background on him?
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Speaker 1: I don't know. You have to ask Leonard about that.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that.
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Speaker 4: How long have you been tracking him?
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Speaker 3: I mean you speak with so much familiarity about his
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Speaker 3: game and.
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Speaker 4: And who he is.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, cause coming out and he was He's a classic.
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Speaker 1: You know, he's a guy that could you can imagine
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Speaker 1: coming into your program and being a factor immediately. And
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Speaker 1: uh so, you know, we didn't have a chance, but
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Speaker 1: we certainly did study him and looked him up and
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Speaker 1: and then watched him. He's been traded before, you know,
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Speaker 1: he's been he's moved before, and uh so had to
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Speaker 1: play him, you know, and he's been a problem. He's
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Speaker 1: look good against guys in our division already, and so
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Speaker 1: that that's a just another added boost, you know, to him.
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Speaker 1: But it would just been t I just been tuned
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Speaker 1: into him just really because he was an Nesty guy.
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Speaker 1: I think probably made it special along the way did.
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Speaker 4: Julian and and uh Jamalibo played with him previously?
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Speaker 1: Did you get any Chanda too, channa play with him
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Speaker 1: in school about or of what what help you like? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they n just since it's happened, but it, uh you know,
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Speaker 1: they rave about him. You know as a teammate when
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Speaker 1: you guys are.
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Speaker 5: Really ron you had swarms of defensive line and how
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Speaker 5: hard is it to achieve that quality rotation?
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Speaker 1: Like wow, what time and what time in the world
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Speaker 1: was that? I never felt like we were had swarms.
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Speaker 1: But I'm sorry, what the question is, how hard is.
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Speaker 5: It to attain that we to have proven in tier especially.
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Speaker 1: Inter Well, yeah, y t y. We all know that
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Speaker 1: the guys of this stature come out into drafts and
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Speaker 1: they get drafted in the top ten, you know, and
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Speaker 1: and so you have to be positioned in the top
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Speaker 1: ten to get 'em, and so you know, f fortunately
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Speaker 1: over our history, we haven't had that opportunity. But the
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Speaker 1: unfortunate part is you can see the teams that have
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Speaker 1: and they loaded up and they're they've got guys you
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Speaker 1: know that that can r really m recab it make
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Speaker 1: a difference. And uh they're the ones that you always wish,
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Speaker 1: you know, you wish you could have, you know, but
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Speaker 1: we we haven't had an opportunity to get him. Were
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Speaker 1: you are you okay? Well I guess not.
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Speaker 5: Are you acquiring with the numbers of play time numbers
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Speaker 5: with read and with uh Raymont gents and your defensive
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Speaker 5: line is that part?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we we're gonna We're gonna continue to do our
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Speaker 1: rotations and keep our guys fresh, you know. We we're
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Speaker 1: trying to coach our guys for the long haul. And
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Speaker 1: uh so we'll be you know, you'll see how we
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Speaker 1: do it. But we're you know, we're gonna make team
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Speaker 1: the same approach, you know, the same philosophy.
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Speaker 4: What have you thought about how Draymond and Mario.
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Speaker 1: Have played so far? Oh, I think those guys are
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Speaker 1: doing well and they're helping us. We're playing good, good
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Speaker 1: ball up front. Uh, they've been active, They're they're different,
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Speaker 1: they don't play the exact same style, but they've both
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Speaker 1: done a really nice job and they're everybody's gonna play.
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Speaker 1: Everybody's still part of everything.
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Speaker 3: What were your thoughts on how the uh edge defenders
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Speaker 3: played with Chetta being out Frank Clark, Uh, Derek.
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Speaker 1: Hall, Yeah, well the boy did a really nice job. Again,
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Speaker 1: he's had another good game, did well. Derek Hall probably
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Speaker 1: played his best game for us, and particularly on special
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Speaker 1: teams as well. He seemed he's coming along and he
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Speaker 1: looks like he's he's come to life force and and uh,
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Speaker 1: I think we can expect to see him continue to
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Speaker 1: do well. Uh. The Taylor, you know, he's gave us
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Speaker 1: good edge pressure and and played hard, played more than
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Speaker 1: he's been playing and and did a nice job. And
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Speaker 1: and uh, I thought those guys did just fine. If
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Speaker 1: Frank get you know, Frank got started and he came
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Speaker 1: in on Thursday and played in the game. I think
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Speaker 1: he had twenty plays or whatever it was, and uh,
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Speaker 1: he did a good job.
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Speaker 2: Talked about the offensive line last night, but after you
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Speaker 2: watched that performance here.
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Speaker 1: Going against guys like Garrett in that front, just what'd
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Speaker 1: you think of that? Yeah? I those are the first
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Speaker 1: guys I wanted to talk about at the team meeting today,
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Speaker 1: you know, uh, talk about how what a terrific job
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Speaker 1: that Charles did, giving m M Miles all the credit
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Speaker 1: that he's you know, he's a fantastic football player. But
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Speaker 1: Charles really did well in in in battling with him.
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Speaker 1: He wound up, you know, flipping the other side. And
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Speaker 1: when our guys had uh shots, uh on the other side,
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Speaker 1: they did well too. You saw, Uh Jason was in
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Speaker 1: in the last drive, you know, and he had Miles
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Speaker 1: on his side the whole time and we made it
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Speaker 1: through the drive, you know, and and he didn't wreck
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Speaker 1: the drive, which he can do. And uh so I
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Speaker 1: was really praised the are the three tackles for doing
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Speaker 1: a fine job in general against a really good edge group.
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Speaker 1: And uh, I thought that was the That was a
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Speaker 1: really an exciting part of this game. What do you
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Speaker 1: think of Jason's performance?
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Speaker 2: It was was twenty six kind of the numb or,
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Speaker 2: I think, kind.
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Speaker 1: Of the amount of staff didn't really have a number
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Speaker 1: on him. We just wanted to just rotate him in
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Speaker 1: there and see what happens, you know, and see how
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Speaker 1: we did. We haven't had a chance to see him,
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Speaker 1: you know, live yet, so that was you know, it
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Speaker 1: was something I've been waiting for. He did very well.
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Speaker 1: He did very well, He moves very well, was aware
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Speaker 1: of what's going on. Uh worked well with with uh
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Speaker 1: with a B on that side there, and you know
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Speaker 1: he's gonna he's gonna be able to play. You know,
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Speaker 1: he's gonna be able to play and help us. So
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Speaker 1: there's there's a whole added dimension to to to Jason
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Speaker 1: getting in the game. He's he's been there, you know,
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Speaker 1: he's been through it and on the sidelines, in the huddle,
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Speaker 1: breaking the huddle, at the line of scrimmage. He's a
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Speaker 1: he's gonna be a tremendous value to us and uh
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Speaker 1: so I'm excited about his ability to contribute to what
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Speaker 1: we're doing. You want to continue that rotation right now, see,
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Speaker 1: we'll see.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, with that rotation, is that something in the last
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Speaker 3: few years philosophically that you've been more open to because
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Speaker 3: last year you did that at the guard position too,
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Speaker 3: and continuity such a big thing at the audio.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Really, we're trying to get out of that thought
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Speaker 1: that you can rotate offensive lineman. You know, we're just
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Speaker 1: trying to grow through that because why is that we
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Speaker 1: rotate guys everywhere, you know, and and particularly guys that
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Speaker 1: have earned their way and they're they're they're worthy of
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Speaker 1: being out there. They deserve to play, and it makes
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Speaker 1: us better if they do play, you know, just as
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Speaker 1: you go down the road and you need you guys.
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Speaker 1: It's worked out for us the entire first part of
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Speaker 1: the season. Everybody's played. I mean everybody's played, you know,
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Speaker 1: and all the rotations and all of that. And I
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Speaker 1: don't think you I no longer well, you know, subscribe
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Speaker 1: ascribe to the thought that you can't rotate offensive lineman.
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Speaker 1: We've already proven that. So it's a good it's a
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Speaker 1: good part of our thought process. I think anything helps us.
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Speaker 1: Phil should be back this week. You should be ready
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Speaker 1: to go. Abe is not ready yet. With Peters.
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Speaker 2: You knew that you were getting a veteran presence, But
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Speaker 2: is there anything surprising or unusual about how gracious he
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Speaker 2: has been with his time and his teaching and the
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Speaker 2: way he's accepted.
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Speaker 1: So many Yeah, he's over the top, and I mean
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Speaker 1: he's he's a fantastic guy with our guys. I mean
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Speaker 1: he's willing. Right from the day one when he walked
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Speaker 1: out of it, he was staying with guys and talking
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Speaker 1: about stuff and sharing, you know, sharing his experiences. He's
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Speaker 1: a he's very open to do that, and that's a
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Speaker 1: that's a really i think a significant strength that he
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Speaker 1: brings us. That he's willing to be a part of it.
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Speaker 1: And he's got good observations and perspective. He's got good
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Speaker 1: sense for what's going on. He's helping.
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Speaker 2: Has there been a setback with ab at all? What's
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Speaker 2: kind of a timeline with him and how.
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Speaker 1: He has been been real sensitive him. He's running and
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Speaker 1: he's doing stuff. He's still uncomfortable with it. You know,
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Speaker 1: it still bothers him, but he's he's working hard now.
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Speaker 1: He's not like he's not working out. He's working hard,
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Speaker 1: just not quite ready. We're trying to alleviate the discomfort
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Speaker 1: you know that he's playing with and so it's just
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Speaker 1: not time to put him out there yet.
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Speaker 3: The procedure that he had on his knee.
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Speaker 1: No, I don't know. They didn't injections. I think.
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Speaker 5: You mentioned you mentioned the s morning DK be in
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Speaker 5: pretty sick Saturday night.
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Speaker 2: I guess given that, how impressive kind of was it?
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Speaker 1: It was a very impressive ball game for him m
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Speaker 1: gauging from how how bad he felt just the night before,
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Speaker 1: I mean nine o'clock at night, you know, the night before.
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Speaker 1: He he he figures it out and the docs got
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Speaker 1: through it and helped him, and then he made it
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Speaker 1: so he was very tuned in in the game. He
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Speaker 1: played a really nice game.
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Speaker 2: I think he had five catches but on fourteen targets?
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Speaker 1: Was that so that wasn't by design exactly what we
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Speaker 1: want to know? We need to do better. There so many.
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Speaker 2: Offensive line line and playing.
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Speaker 5: What does that say about Andy Daker said.
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Speaker 1: He's able to Yeah, I mean, I'm glad you brought
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Speaker 1: it up. I think Andy and Khali are doing a
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Speaker 1: fantastic job with these guys to be able to handle
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Speaker 1: that and handle the mentality of the guys in the
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Speaker 1: room and the confidence level that that takes and and
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Speaker 1: how all that is and it kind of navigated you know,
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Speaker 1: in their in their meetings and on the practice field.
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Speaker 1: I think it's really uh an obvious statement about their
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Speaker 1: their ability to handle this thing. And uh so, I
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Speaker 1: think Andy's done a great job.
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Speaker 5: What's the teaching point to riqueling on the hands of
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Speaker 5: the face deal with the ice screams there? Or did
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Speaker 5: you not see it as matter?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well we're gonna I'm gonna find out more about it.
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Speaker 1: Uh I. I have questions about about some stuff that
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Speaker 1: that happened in the game, and and I'm just curious
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Speaker 1: to hear what what the guys say. You know, but
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Speaker 1: you you know, you can't contact him in the face.
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Speaker 1: There is a there is a uh a likelihood when
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Speaker 1: your hands are in here, but sometimes it goes up
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Speaker 1: in it and it elevates the you know, the guy's
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Speaker 1: head a little bit. I don't think that's at all
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Speaker 1: what they're trying to call. That's not what they wanna call.
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Speaker 1: And so I have to be we have to be
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Speaker 1: really careful about it. We have to adjust. We can't
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Speaker 1: wait for anybody else to adjust. We have to adjust.
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Speaker 1: But I s I still wanna know more, but I don't.
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Speaker 1: It was the point of emphasis too, I I believe
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Speaker 1: this week, you know, and they're in their messaging that
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Speaker 1: they send us and and uh, I'm still curious.
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Speaker 5: All over the field or a defensive backs in particular.
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Speaker 1: The emphasis no I it was, uh yeah, it was
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Speaker 1: the guys up front too.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Tamal I you guys, I you said you.
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Speaker 1: Kept Tamal a few plays kind of just with his knee.
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Speaker 1: How was he? How was that going? I mean, with
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Speaker 1: his knee and everything. We're still working on it. We're
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Speaker 1: still trying to find the right rhythm of how much
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Speaker 1: how much to play him until he builds up enough
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Speaker 1: week week by week by week, you know, work here too,
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Speaker 1: where we can find the right rhythm, you know, because
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Speaker 1: he was sore last week and it took him late
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Speaker 1: in the week before he was really ready to go.
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Speaker 1: So it was good that he made it and played
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Speaker 1: and all that, but we have to we're trying to
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Speaker 1: figure out how to manage that. And it's really it's
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Speaker 1: always what happens after you play, you know, how do
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Speaker 1: you feel? And so well, I don't know anything today
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Speaker 1: on that, but we're working on it. So we're we're
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Speaker 1: trying to just find the happy medium of playtime reps
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Speaker 1: until he can really build up the tolerance. When you
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Speaker 1: look back on the film, what did you think of
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Speaker 1: Geno's for moments, h he did great, and at the
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Speaker 1: beginning and the end. In the middle, we weren't. We
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Speaker 1: weren't as clean, you know. And what we didn't do
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Speaker 1: is we didn't get the explosive plays with the field
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Speaker 1: positions that we took advantage of in the first quarter
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Speaker 1: and we took advantage of in the drive too, you know.
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Speaker 1: And I think I said this in this morning, but
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Speaker 1: when you play a really good defense, it's hard to
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Speaker 1: go the whole field. I mean, I bet, I bet
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Speaker 1: they haven't had a handful of times all year long
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Speaker 1: and somebody's going eight yards on them or seventy five
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Speaker 1: yards on them. And uh so we did that. We
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Speaker 1: did take advantage of the short fields and did well
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Speaker 1: by it, and we created the change that with DK's
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Speaker 1: big catch and with with Kenny's big run. Without those plays,
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Speaker 1: it would have been really hard to score on those drives. Also,
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Speaker 1: you know, those were forty yard plays and so you know,
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Speaker 1: we we we needed to find a couple of explosions
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Speaker 1: in there that would change the field position to give
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Speaker 1: us a chance, you know, to work our way through
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Speaker 1: in the scoring zone and all. But I thought, I think,
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Speaker 1: you know, played winning football. He got it done. You know,
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Speaker 1: we had a miss, you know, mishap on the play
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Speaker 1: the guy tips the ball up and all, we don't
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Speaker 1: see it right, But that's you know, stuff's gonna happen.
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Speaker 1: We need to do better around him. I'd love to
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Speaker 1: he won the game.
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Speaker 4: Wish was active yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Would you like about his skill set or how we
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Speaker 1: fit in yesterday? He deserves the chance to get out there,
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Speaker 1: you know, and and he's kind of got stuck there.
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Speaker 1: Guys have been really healthy and he has got his opportunity,
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Speaker 1: and so I wanted to give him a chance. And
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Speaker 1: I take part in special teams and do a little
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Speaker 1: bit of that stuff, and and he backs up three
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Speaker 1: spots for us, you know. So he's got it. Got
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Speaker 1: a good role in that regard. I wish he could
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Speaker 1: get more play time, you know. He just we just
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Speaker 1: haven't been able to get that done yet. No offense
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Speaker 1: run after catch ability again jumps out about that. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he's hard to tackle. He did in Denver. Also, you know,
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Speaker 1: there was a couple of big plays in dinner, like
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Speaker 1: big plays, like seventy yard plays that he had similar.
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Speaker 1: It looks just the same. He just kind of runs
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Speaker 1: through guys and he just doesn't go down. He's fast
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Speaker 1: and he's big enough that it's hard to knock him down.
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Speaker 1: He obviously has a really good balance too, because he's
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Speaker 1: been able to stay alive. I remember on the sidelines,
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Speaker 1: how really did that a couple of weeks ago. He's
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Speaker 1: just he's a factor, and so I just wish we
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Speaker 1: could get to him more. Zach make another game good? Well, yeah,
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Speaker 1: they made that well. The both ready to go again.
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Speaker 1: We're very fortunate this week we made it through pretty clean.
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Speaker 4: Is there anything to going to Zach and then the
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Speaker 4: fourth quarter of the overcannon of EJ.
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Speaker 1: No, it's just just kind of you know, he had
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Speaker 1: had a lot of opportunities. We just want to make
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Speaker 1: sure that he played and got a chance to contribute,
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Speaker 1: and and when he he did well, we stayed with it.
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Speaker 1: You know, we didn't feel like we needed to roll
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Speaker 1: him out of there. He looked very good at into
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Speaker 1: the game. He he blocking in and uh run the football,
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Speaker 1: so We're very fortunate to have both those guys going
15:31
Speaker 1: at it right now and keep it going. What makes
15:34
Speaker 1: sact char that he's so efficient in in his play
15:37
Speaker 1: and execution of him Why, Yeah, he's he's he gets it.
15:42
Speaker 1: You know, he the game comes easy to him. He understands.
15:45
Speaker 1: He's really disciplined, very accountable kid. I mean, when you
15:49
Speaker 1: tell him something, he does it is close to exactly
15:52
Speaker 1: the way you tell him. And he's able to you know,
15:55
Speaker 1: adapt in in the in the flow of things and
15:57
Speaker 1: come up with the right choices and decisions to make
16:00
Speaker 1: things work out. You know, it's hard for a young guy,
16:03
Speaker 1: uh to do the blitz pick up and you know
16:06
Speaker 1: in the past protection stuff, he hasn't had a problem
16:08
Speaker 1: with it at all, and he's physical enough to take
16:10
Speaker 1: care of it. So he just offers us kind of
16:13
Speaker 1: a you know, really you know, a full body guy.
16:17
Speaker 1: He can do it. He can run, he can catch it,
16:18
Speaker 1: he can he can block, and Uh. He's been very
16:21
Speaker 1: effective on special teams as well, and then nice John
16:24
Speaker 1: mu punt team and does some really good things for us.
16:25
Speaker 1: So he's an all around player that we really trust
16:28
Speaker 1: and he's given us all the reason to do that.
16:30
Speaker 1: What accountable?
16:32
Speaker 4: Can you say that all your pups as you've called them,
16:35
Speaker 4: seems like all.
16:36
Speaker 1: Your rookie players seem to be accountable for who they
16:39
Speaker 1: are and what they are or very really fortunate to
16:41
Speaker 1: be able to say that. Honestly, it's not always like
16:44
Speaker 1: that with young guys. You know, you don't you don't
16:46
Speaker 1: have the opportunity to sense them, or there's not enough
16:49
Speaker 1: information you can't really tell. These guys have all showed
16:51
Speaker 1: us and shown us you know quickly that they are
16:56
Speaker 1: the guys that you can give responsibility to and they'll
16:59
Speaker 1: hold their up there of it and they'll come through,
17:01
Speaker 1: and we believe in them and trust him, and uh,
17:05
Speaker 1: it's it. We're just you know, it's just it's fortunate
17:07
Speaker 1: that we've hit such a high number of him in
17:08
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. And it's you know, it's working.
17:10
Speaker 3: Out pass protection stuff for running backs. Do you feel
17:13
Speaker 3: like backs are coming into the league a little bit
17:15
Speaker 3: more more well prepared to handle that because of the
17:17
Speaker 3: fact college teams are throwing the football?
17:19
Speaker 1: But would it would make sense that way? It would
17:22
Speaker 1: make sense that because there is so much passing game
17:24
Speaker 1: in college football. I don't really know that's true though,
17:29
Speaker 1: you know, they they have a lot of experience, but
17:32
Speaker 1: more so. But we still feel like, for the most part,
17:36
Speaker 1: we have to teach the guys, you know, the real
17:38
Speaker 1: technique and the tactical part of how you position your
17:41
Speaker 1: body and do the blocks and the physical part of it.
17:43
Speaker 1: But in this case, you know, he came from a
17:46
Speaker 1: you know, a great program this last year, you know,
17:48
Speaker 1: with uh with Chip and he knows this stuff. I'm
17:51
Speaker 1: talking about Zachie in here. How do you know?
17:53
Speaker 4: So the short term value of getting a guy like
17:56
Speaker 4: Leonard versus also the launch.
17:58
Speaker 1: Really well, you know, I think I'm hoping this time
18:02
Speaker 1: as well. Also, I don't even have a clue what
18:06
Speaker 1: you asked me. I'm sorry, IM screwing up.
18:08
Speaker 4: But who also has some person knows? Say, how do
18:10
Speaker 4: you balance the short term value of getting by like
18:12
Speaker 4: Winnard of course of the also the long term sacrifice
18:15
Speaker 4: of giving it a valuable draft pick in the second round.
18:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, that that's the choice. You know, how do you
18:21
Speaker 1: how do you make that choice? And when do you
18:22
Speaker 1: do it? And you know, how do you know, how
18:24
Speaker 1: do you gauge the the the the pluses and the minuses.
18:27
Speaker 1: And we thought this was uh one of those situations
18:29
Speaker 1: where we'd get a rare player and he's young enough.
18:32
Speaker 1: I mean, hopefully we can have a chance to get
18:34
Speaker 1: him back again and it could be a big, a
18:36
Speaker 1: big factor. It go the this kind of a uh
18:40
Speaker 1: of a choice, you know, reminds us that we don't
18:43
Speaker 1: have these options very often to get a player like that.
18:45
Speaker 1: So when you get a player that that is that
18:47
Speaker 1: obviously it's a you know, really the head of his class,
18:50
Speaker 1: and we we'd like to take a shot at him
18:52
Speaker 1: when we can. So we're we're battling, you know. I
18:57
Speaker 1: hope it works out right. We'll find out. You know,
18:58
Speaker 1: we've had some really good number two is the last
19:00
Speaker 1: few years, you know, and so we realized that there's
19:02
Speaker 1: a player we look at it like, Okay, that could
19:04
Speaker 1: be that guy, could be that guy, you know, so
19:06
Speaker 1: we know we're giving up something next year. Help. Yes,
19:10
Speaker 1: I appreciate you bringing that up. The three that we
19:12
Speaker 1: got in the Denver deal is uh is a factor
19:14
Speaker 1: for us. You know, we know that that's there, so
19:17
Speaker 1: that that that's the positive.
19:20
Speaker 2: Part of this p You guys have been near the
19:22
Speaker 2: top of the league and penalties taken so far this
19:24
Speaker 2: year what what is your kind of thought on how
19:26
Speaker 2: you guys have handled that, the penalties you have taken
19:30
Speaker 2: where where it kind of sits for you guys.
19:31
Speaker 1: Well, we generally like to lead in all categories, you know,
19:35
Speaker 1: but this isn't one of them. That were Yeah, we
19:37
Speaker 1: continue to uh to find our way to six seven,
19:41
Speaker 1: eight penalties a game, you know, and and we gotta
19:43
Speaker 1: get out of it. We gotta catch up. And the
19:45
Speaker 1: most crucial ones when as you were saying, taken, I
19:48
Speaker 1: think you met we were getting called. Yeah, the we
19:53
Speaker 1: the crucial situations are the third downs. You know, you
19:56
Speaker 1: saw the big fourth down. One call is a huge penalty,
19:59
Speaker 1: se huge penalty and because we're off the field and
20:03
Speaker 1: all that, that's those are the kinds of things we
20:06
Speaker 1: have to avoid, you know. We had we just had
20:09
Speaker 1: some crucial ones in tough situations. And when you extend
20:12
Speaker 1: the drives almost like it's a turnover for them, you know.
20:14
Speaker 1: And certainly we are in control of how we place
20:18
Speaker 1: our hands, so we have to do a better job
20:20
Speaker 1: of it. It's a I'm just trying to get out
20:22
Speaker 1: of the cellar on this thing. I'm not trying to
20:24
Speaker 1: be the best in the league, right now I just
20:25
Speaker 1: like to kind of creep out of the cellar, you know.
20:27
Speaker 1: I think we're like twenty eighth or something right now,
20:30
Speaker 1: and so we're shooting for, you know, get out of
20:32
Speaker 1: the twenties. Right now, there's small increments of improvement.
20:38
Speaker 4: Anything else.
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Speaker 2: Thank you,