Latest / Seahawks Press Pass / Mike Macdonald: "Geno Smith Feels Good"
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- 0:00Speaker 1: All right, everybody ready, just a little all right, good
- 0:07Speaker 1: to see everybody.
- 0:11Speaker 2: Whatever percentage of Wednesday, we're through. We've had a great
- 0:14Speaker 2: version of that percentage and take the field here in
- 0:17Speaker 2: about an hour or so and go get after it.
- 0:20Speaker 1: Man. So guys are in good spirits.
- 0:22Speaker 2: Had a great walk through, ready to rock and roll
- 0:25Speaker 2: and put a great weekuld prep ahead of us.
- 0:28Speaker 1: So we're excited.
- 0:31Speaker 2: Do you have an update on Gino Smith and kind
- 0:33Speaker 2: of where he is?
- 0:34Speaker 1: Yeah, so.
- 0:36Speaker 2: You know, Gino feels good. Did walk through today. We'll
- 0:40Speaker 2: see how many reps. We got a plan for practice.
- 0:44Speaker 2: We'll see how it kind of alters his practice charts
- 0:45Speaker 2: is declaire, but he'll be out there for a significant
- 0:49Speaker 2: capacity today.
- 0:50Speaker 1: We'll see see how many reps he's he takes.
- 0:53Speaker 3: How about Ken Walker?
- 0:55Speaker 1: Ken? Same same plan, same plan with Ken Ken.
- 1:00Speaker 2: Let me walk back that little bit. We're optimistic. We'll
- 1:03Speaker 2: see about how many reps today. But did walk through,
- 1:07Speaker 2: Probably ramp it up the more tomorrow. Sorry and OLU
- 1:13Speaker 2: might not see him today full capacity, but should be
- 1:16Speaker 2: out there tomorrow rock and roll.
- 1:20Speaker 4: Lots of folks talk about offensive coaches scheming open receivers.
- 1:24Speaker 4: You and Brian Flores are two of the best scheming
- 1:26Speaker 4: open unblocked rushers. What goes into getting a rusher unblocked.
- 1:32Speaker 2: Well, the easiest ways bring more than they can block.
- 1:35Speaker 2: That's the easiest one. But the magic is probably when
- 1:37Speaker 2: you're you know, trying to get the trying to get
- 1:40Speaker 2: the most bang for your buck in terms of rushes.
- 1:42Speaker 2: Sometimes that comes with max splitz. Sometimes it comes with
- 1:45Speaker 2: simulated game. I think you got to be able to
- 1:49Speaker 2: do everything otherwise they pin you for something and then
- 1:52Speaker 2: offenses are too good with too good of plans and.
- 1:56Speaker 1: You know that make you pay for that.
- 1:57Speaker 2: So does a great job with with how he organizes
- 2:02Speaker 2: everything and how he builds it and how his players
- 2:05Speaker 2: handled on the field is as good as anybody.
- 2:09Speaker 4: Vikings look like.
- 2:09Speaker 3: They do a pretty good job of playing.
- 2:11Speaker 4: On the other side.
- 2:12Speaker 3: Defense does a good job a plane on the other
- 2:13Speaker 3: side of the line of scriviage, especially with running backs.
- 2:16Speaker 3: What is it that's allowed them to be that aggressive against.
- 2:19Speaker 2: The one, Well, I mean it's yeah, they have really
- 2:21Speaker 2: good players, really good scheme, they're well coached. They have
- 2:26Speaker 2: flexibility within their players too, where they can change up
- 2:29Speaker 2: looks on you with the same people on the field.
- 2:31Speaker 2: So that's something you have to account for and different
- 2:33Speaker 2: personnel groups. So I think, you know, it's probably a
- 2:36Speaker 2: compliment to their whole team that they utilize their personnel
- 2:39Speaker 2: well and uh put those guys in positions to play
- 2:42Speaker 2: good football.
- 2:44Speaker 4: When you're scouting and opposing offense, what are characteristics that
- 2:48Speaker 4: leads you to like respect and think this is a
- 2:50Speaker 4: pretty good offense and a well coached offense.
- 2:55Speaker 2: I think I think you're you're always marrying what you
- 2:57Speaker 2: see on tape with numbers and you know, stats and
- 3:00Speaker 2: things like that. So whyse you're getting prepped into it?
- 3:03Speaker 2: But you know, if they have answers, if if the
- 3:06Speaker 2: quarterback plays fast, you feel like they're like they accentuate
- 3:10Speaker 2: what their their players do. Well, that's normally a staple
- 3:14Speaker 2: of a pretty solid operation.
- 3:16Speaker 3: Sam Darnold seems to fit really well into this system.
- 3:18Speaker 3: But what else have you seen in his skill set
- 3:22Speaker 3: in what he's done this year?
- 3:25Speaker 2: Uh, well, I've only gone against Sam and since he
- 3:29Speaker 2: in like in backup duty where he hasn't been the
- 3:31Speaker 2: main the main starter, just he just feels like he's
- 3:33Speaker 2: playing really really decisive, really confident. Uh, you can see
- 3:37Speaker 2: all the talent coming to life. So I think he's
- 3:42Speaker 2: I think he's doing a heck of a job. I mean,
- 3:43Speaker 2: their their offense is playing a high level and.
- 3:47Speaker 1: The arm talent is there.
- 3:48Speaker 2: Being able to hit all the you know, all all
- 3:50Speaker 2: the all the throws in all the areas of the field.
- 3:52Speaker 2: Seems like he can get it there pretty seamlessly and
- 3:56Speaker 2: it's on time. And then you know, one thing about
- 3:58Speaker 2: his game that uh that were this is the ability
- 4:01Speaker 2: to extend the play said something we're gonna have to
- 4:02Speaker 2: account for as well, Mike.
- 4:04Speaker 1: What do you need to see from your defense to
- 4:06Speaker 1: win the early downs because obviously.
- 4:08Speaker 2: That's key game like this, Well, yeah, you need to
- 4:11Speaker 2: marry the run in the pass and be able to
- 4:13Speaker 2: stop the actions and having you know, people attached to
- 4:16Speaker 2: people twenty thirty yards down the field, but also handle
- 4:19Speaker 2: checkdowns in the play action game. And then okay, if
- 4:22Speaker 2: you're going to live in one structure, how do you
- 4:23Speaker 2: stop the run? And uh and how you and how
- 4:26Speaker 2: you kind of build the plan. So that's that's a
- 4:28Speaker 2: lot what's going on today. Guys had a great first
- 4:31Speaker 2: start of it, but we're walking through. So let's go
- 4:32Speaker 2: do it full speed and evaluate it and chip away
- 4:35Speaker 2: at it.
- 4:35Speaker 1: For the rest of the week.
- 4:37Speaker 4: Jalen Sundell has.
- 4:38Speaker 3: Kind of played everywhere for you guys, with him going
- 4:40Speaker 3: into the center in game like that. How much does
- 4:42Speaker 3: that help him when he's got to kind of communicate
- 4:44Speaker 3: with everybody do all the stuff that he.
- 4:46Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think yeah, it's kind of like a yeah,
- 4:49Speaker 2: it's it's a great point. Just kind of having new
- 4:51Speaker 2: perspective from all from all areas of what needs to happen.
- 4:53Speaker 2: I think that probably helped expedite, you.
- 4:56Speaker 1: Know, his learning curve. But uh, that's a great point.
- 5:00Speaker 2: It looks like there are a few plays where not
- 5:02Speaker 2: every not everybody fired off the ball at the snap.
- 5:05Speaker 1: Was there some communication issues going on defensively or offensively
- 5:09Speaker 1: offensively after Sundel came in.
- 5:12Speaker 2: Uh, there was one play where we we miss idd
- 5:14Speaker 2: it was which was early and then from then on
- 5:17Speaker 2: I thought, I thought they played clean.
- 5:18Speaker 1: We just needed to execute little bit better.
- 5:21Speaker 3: The challenge that Jordan Addison and Justin Jefferson.
- 5:24Speaker 2: Say, that's a good question. We're working on those answers
- 5:29Speaker 2: right now, both both. I mean, the whole receiving core
- 5:33Speaker 2: tight ends Batman's. It's it's the the hole is greater
- 5:38Speaker 2: than some of the parts type of thing on how
- 5:39Speaker 2: it all works together. But uh, those guys, they play
- 5:43Speaker 2: all the positions, so you've got to account for him
- 5:45Speaker 2: and all the spots.
- 5:46Speaker 1: Uh.
- 5:47Speaker 2: Probably the most diverse route tree that we're going to
- 5:49Speaker 2: get from, uh from a from a duo yet this year.
- 5:53Speaker 2: And they deserve a lot of credit for that because
- 5:55Speaker 2: that's not easy to learn all the spots, learn all
- 5:57Speaker 2: the routes, and then having the timing with the quarterback
- 5:59Speaker 2: so you can still play on time. So easier said
- 6:02Speaker 2: than done. Yeah, just two really dynamic players that we're
- 6:07Speaker 2: gonna have to count for. You can't double everybody all
- 6:10Speaker 2: the time, so we're gonna have singles and our guys
- 6:12Speaker 2: will be matched up and let's go to work.
- 6:15Speaker 1: Obviously, it'd be.
- 6:15Speaker 4: Hard to judge interior defensive line based on statistics at times.
- 6:19Speaker 2: I'm just wondering, Byron Murphy, how would you kind of
- 6:22Speaker 2: evaluate his season to this point in the development and.
- 6:25Speaker 4: What the next step might be for him.
- 6:27Speaker 1: I think I think Murph's playing really good football right now.
- 6:31Speaker 2: I think I think we're narrowing down kind of where
- 6:34Speaker 2: his sweet spot is in terms of what we're asking
- 6:35Speaker 2: to do on a week to week basis, but Sky
- 6:38Speaker 2: prepares really hard, not like a rookie, it's kind of
- 6:42Speaker 2: like a vet. He's been doing that since he walked
- 6:44Speaker 2: in the door, and he's playing really physical, decisive technics,
- 6:47Speaker 2: you know. But to take this game to the next level,
- 6:51Speaker 2: we'd like to get him some more pass rush opportunities.
- 6:53Speaker 2: It's easier said than done because those are going to
- 6:55Speaker 2: come from guys that are that are also playing well too.
- 6:58Speaker 2: So when those things come, take advantage of him just
- 7:00Speaker 2: like he is. But I think he's pushing the pocket
- 7:03Speaker 2: really well. Maybe a couple more clean wins when he
- 7:05Speaker 2: has the two way go on guys, but he'll get there.
- 7:08Speaker 2: I mean, those are on tape system matter to getting
- 7:10Speaker 2: more reps.
- 7:11Speaker 4: What's unique about Flores is how you at tax offenses?
- 7:14Speaker 2: How are you using this? Well, he kind of think
- 7:17Speaker 2: it's just I think they're they're roster is designed where
- 7:21Speaker 2: guys can do multiple things getting out of different fronts
- 7:23Speaker 2: and structures without having to declare their personnel. So that
- 7:26Speaker 2: helps the stats and like the pressures and the zeros.
- 7:33Speaker 2: That's that's evolved and it kind of it's a week
- 7:36Speaker 2: to week type deal, but you kind of know what
- 7:37Speaker 2: they can get to at any given point and not
- 7:40Speaker 2: afraid to come after you at any given point in
- 7:42Speaker 2: the game, you know, which is not as common as
- 7:45Speaker 2: you might think.
- 7:47Speaker 4: Mike, what have you learned about Darren Hall in the
- 7:49Speaker 4: time that he's been here just working as your third quarterback?
- 7:53Speaker 1: I love the guy.
- 7:53Speaker 2: We're always sitting back there with, you know, during practice
- 7:57Speaker 2: and hear him what he what he sees and scalt team,
- 8:00Speaker 2: you know, like the things that we're working out throughout
- 8:02Speaker 2: each week, how he sees it. And he does a
- 8:04Speaker 2: pretty good job of kind of diagnosing what's sound in
- 8:07Speaker 2: our game plan and what makes it hard on offenses.
- 8:09Speaker 2: And then this guy's just really smart. And then we'd
- 8:12Speaker 2: get some some reps with the backups, like later on
- 8:15Speaker 2: in practice.
- 8:15Speaker 1: He's a great competitor and.
- 8:17Speaker 2: Does a great job when he's given the opportunity with
- 8:19Speaker 2: the guys out there.
- 8:20Speaker 3: With this time in Minnesota. Can you clue in with
- 8:23Speaker 3: anything for him this week going against those guys from
- 8:25Speaker 3: last year?
- 8:25Speaker 4: Uh?
- 8:25Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we can. We'll talk a little bit
- 8:27Speaker 2: just about it. But I mean, this this is a again,
- 8:29Speaker 2: this is a version. This is their what they've taken
- 8:33Speaker 2: through their coach's history of their staff's history, and they've
- 8:36Speaker 2: built it, you know, into their vikings offense, and they've
- 8:40Speaker 2: done a great job at doing that. Numbers back it up,
- 8:42Speaker 2: tape backs it up, So I think that stuff gets
- 8:45Speaker 2: kind of overrated a little bit. So yeah, of course
- 8:47Speaker 2: you're going to pick his brain on a few things,
- 8:49Speaker 2: but nothing, nothing that like totally counters what you're saying
- 8:53Speaker 2: on tape.
- 8:54Speaker 4: I feel like we're.
- 8:54Speaker 3: Asking about it, Arns. John's a really pretty much playing
- 8:57Speaker 3: so well just obviously you get a value it the
- 8:59Speaker 3: tape and see what kind of player are getting from
- 9:01Speaker 3: the trade, But what have you learned about him?
- 9:02Speaker 1: Just you know, whether it's a person or a leader
- 9:04Speaker 1: or since.
- 9:05Speaker 2: You've been here, well, we both got babies at home
- 9:08Speaker 2: that are giving us a great time. Yeah, he's like
- 9:13Speaker 2: five months ahead of me, So I'm like, this is
- 9:15Speaker 2: all previews for what's coming down the road.
- 9:16Speaker 1: But I just I do not love the guy.
- 9:20Speaker 2: Just anytime you're bringing someone to your team, you know
- 9:23Speaker 2: you're looking forward to build a relationship with him.
- 9:25Speaker 1: But he doesn't mind me talking in his helmet a lot.
- 9:30Speaker 2: So that's nice. I can't control myself on that, but
- 9:33Speaker 2: uh yeah, I just I just love the person, love
- 9:37Speaker 2: the person, love the competitor, toughest crap, loves ball.
- 9:41Speaker 1: I mean those I love guys like that.
- 9:44Speaker 3: Are you ever surprised, like when you talk to him
- 9:46Speaker 3: and see how he carries himself that he's still only
- 9:48Speaker 3: twenty four, twenty five years old?
- 9:50Speaker 1: Every time?
- 9:51Speaker 2: Yeah, mind blown mentioned one more clarity and of those
- 9:56Speaker 2: underthrown d balls end up being a depis and sid
- 9:59Speaker 2: scotten any clarity on that?
- 10:01Speaker 1: Yeah, we got, we got.
- 10:02Speaker 2: Yeah, it's what we thought. I mean, it's just like
- 10:06Speaker 2: their penalties in the moment, they're just tough players to defend.
- 10:09Speaker 2: So it's something we have to practice and keep working.
- 10:12Speaker 2: But uh, those are those are tough situations.
- 10:15Speaker 3: It's been about a month that Tyrese since he stepped
- 10:18Speaker 3: into the starting line playing next to Earnest.
- 10:20Speaker 1: What what have you thought of his sort of.
- 10:22Speaker 3: Evolution during that that month And what do you hope
- 10:25Speaker 3: he takes away from this last Sunday, which might have
- 10:27Speaker 3: been a.
- 10:27Speaker 1: Little bit of a tough game for him.
- 10:29Speaker 2: Well, I think I think it's uh reflective of our
- 10:32Speaker 2: rest of our football team. Just keep growing, man, keep
- 10:34Speaker 2: keep plugging away, keep battling every day, keep keep.
- 10:37Speaker 1: Figuring out new stuff.
- 10:38Speaker 2: To to grow and get better from find new stuff
- 10:41Speaker 2: to screw up, you know. But he's doing a great
- 10:44Speaker 2: job preparing. We've got a lot of faith in him.
- 10:47Speaker 2: But this is this, this is just the beginning for
- 10:50Speaker 2: Tyree Knight. So, I mean there's things in his game
- 10:53Speaker 2: that he knows that we want to work on from
- 10:56Speaker 2: play to play, and uh, I know we got I
- 10:59Speaker 2: mean he's gonna he's gonn to get those things fixed
- 11:00Speaker 2: and grow from it. But yeah, it's been quite a
- 11:04Speaker 2: journey for him since he walked in the door. From
- 11:06Speaker 2: when we couldn't find him we're drafting him. That was crazy,
- 11:09Speaker 2: literally went from couldn't find the guy and now he's
- 11:11Speaker 2: starting linebacker for us.
- 11:13Speaker 1: Pretty cool.
- 11:14Speaker 3: SATST doesn't mind you being in a year A lot
- 11:16Speaker 3: of you have had a linebacker.
- 11:17Speaker 2: Tuma and like a couple of guys of the Green
- 11:20Speaker 2: Dots like dude, just give me the call and shut up.
- 11:25Speaker 4: So you know on defense that big picture wise, you
- 11:31Speaker 4: might wait a little bit more about assignment correctness and
- 11:33Speaker 4: consistency of play over athleticism and other positions where athleticism
- 11:37Speaker 4: is you know, absolutely required, like elite athleticism is the
- 11:41Speaker 4: most important.
- 11:43Speaker 1: How's a doozy.
- 11:45Speaker 2: I'm not sure what the question was, honest, like, what
- 11:47Speaker 2: what positions require football savvy?
- 11:50Speaker 4: Over there? There's some elite athletes that aren't always as
- 11:54Speaker 4: consistent with their play down and down out. There's others
- 11:56Speaker 4: that might be a little bit more limited athletically, but
- 11:58Speaker 4: you really know what you're going to get every single play.
- 12:00Speaker 4: Are there positions where one's more important than the other?
- 12:04Speaker 2: Well, I mean there's a there's always a size f
- 12:08Speaker 2: leticism criteria that you want to meet, and then there's
- 12:10Speaker 2: always exceptions. Now if you have a you can't have
- 12:13Speaker 2: a full a team full of exceptions on some of
- 12:15Speaker 2: that front end criteria, otherwise you kind of go in
- 12:19Speaker 2: the wrong direction.
- 12:20Speaker 1: But yeah, but then part of like the makeup and.
- 12:23Speaker 2: The person and the football player, that's that's going to
- 12:25Speaker 2: be the driving force on who we want on our
- 12:29Speaker 2: team at all times. I wouldn't say it's position specific.
- 12:33Speaker 2: I mean it probably waits more than others. And if
- 12:36Speaker 2: you brought up a specific position we could talk talk
- 12:38Speaker 2: it through probably better.
- 12:40Speaker 1: But that's that's really the mentality.
- 12:43Speaker 3: In any given game, how many adjustments could possibly be
- 12:46Speaker 3: made in game, Like we talk about in game adjustments
- 12:49Speaker 3: or halftime adjustments.
- 12:50Speaker 1: How much could actually.
- 12:51Speaker 2: Change, Well, you're you're always you're always evaluating what you're
- 12:56Speaker 2: doing and how you're how you're moving forward, whether it's
- 12:58Speaker 2: something from how you're calling it to techniques you're asking personnel.
- 13:03Speaker 2: There's just there's a lot going on. So I'd say
- 13:06Speaker 2: the short answer is a lot can change because there's
- 13:09Speaker 2: so many variables that are happening to even point. But
- 13:13Speaker 2: in the same breath, it's also a little overrated. There's
- 13:15Speaker 2: only so many things that you can change within each
- 13:17Speaker 2: kind of.
- 13:19Speaker 1: Area. So that's just my experience, you know.
- 13:23Speaker 2: I think if you're doing wholesale changes throughout a game,
- 13:26Speaker 2: that's probably not good business. You always want to keep
- 13:30Speaker 2: it within the in the scope of what you guys
- 13:31Speaker 2: do well and what you feel like your guys play
- 13:33Speaker 2: the best.
- 13:35Speaker 3: What is a coaching point you're talking was requoling about.
- 13:39Speaker 2: I think this is a it's a it's a play
- 13:41Speaker 2: to play mentality, and when he's locked in, I think
- 13:45Speaker 2: he's as good as it gets. And then when he's
- 13:49Speaker 2: not as locked in, then that's when some technique here
- 13:52Speaker 2: show up. But it has nothing to do with his ability.
- 13:54Speaker 2: It's all about just the approach pre snap.
- 13:56Speaker 4: How do you emphasize locking you at this time of
- 13:59Speaker 4: the year.
- 14:00Speaker 2: Well, we've been doing it with him and the rest
- 14:01Speaker 2: of the team every day. You know, we have to
- 14:04Speaker 2: take the field with the right intent, whether it's a
- 14:06Speaker 2: fastball start period or a walkthrough.
- 14:09Speaker 1: That's that's how we do business. And it's it's not
- 14:11Speaker 1: it's not an uptight thing.
- 14:12Speaker 2: It's just a hey, you know, we're going to operate
- 14:15Speaker 2: a certain way and have a certain standard when we
- 14:17Speaker 2: when we take the field or when we're in meetings
- 14:19Speaker 2: and everyone's we've all decided we're going to operate like that,
- 14:22Speaker 2: and it's our job as coaches to hold guys accountable
- 14:25Speaker 2: when when we fall short.
- 14:26Speaker 1: And it's not a it's.
- 14:28Speaker 2: A tell them the truth to them, would love type
- 14:29Speaker 2: of approach rather than anything else.
- 14:31Speaker 1: Just trying to be the best you can be at
- 14:32Speaker 1: all times. I know you want to run the ball
- 14:35Speaker 1: in the red zone. Just looking specifically at your passing
- 14:37Speaker 1: offense down there.
- 14:38Speaker 4: What are you see?
- 14:41Speaker 1: Well there, I mean there's a lot of good stuff.
- 14:42Speaker 2: I mean, we we've we've we've converted touchdowns in the
- 14:45Speaker 2: passing game in critical situations down there, and that stuff
- 14:50Speaker 2: that you can build off of when you watch us practice,
- 14:53Speaker 2: it's not like they're just layups all the time. We're
- 14:55Speaker 2: getting great looks. In the defense. I think Gino's playing.
- 14:57Speaker 2: I mean there're again we turn it over too many
- 15:00Speaker 2: times and everybody knows that. But like I think he's
- 15:02Speaker 2: he's playing decisive for the most part. But we just
- 15:04Speaker 2: got to keep putting it all together, keep attacking it.
- 15:09Speaker 2: I think we've had great plans. We just got to
- 15:11Speaker 2: keep going, going to do it, keep keep hammering away.
- 15:13Speaker 2: So but I will say there are there are some
- 15:16Speaker 2: really some really great stuff in the past game down there,
- 15:19Speaker 2: but the field is limited and it's it's just tougher sledding,
- 15:22Speaker 2: you know, it's just less space.
- 15:23Speaker 1: So yeah, good stuff.
- 15:28Speaker 4: Have you seen Abe Lucas kind of handle coming back
- 15:30Speaker 4: and playing a lot.
- 15:31Speaker 1: These last couple of weeks. I think Gabe's doing a
- 15:34Speaker 1: great job.
- 15:34Speaker 2: I know he's probably not one hundred percent nobody is
- 15:37Speaker 2: at this time of year, But to put himself in
- 15:39Speaker 2: this position that he's been able to do over the
- 15:42Speaker 2: last you know, three years, and now playing good football
- 15:45Speaker 2: for us and trying and put in his position to
- 15:47Speaker 2: win games, man, I mean, what can you say? What
- 15:50Speaker 2: else can you say about the guy.
- 15:52Speaker 1: So he looks great. Another player every turn question and
- 15:57Speaker 1: you will too.
- 15:58Speaker 4: What have you seen since his reason?
- 15:59Speaker 1: What is he brought to the defense since he's been back.
- 16:02Speaker 2: Well, there's always a little bit of a dynamic when
- 16:05Speaker 2: you're not playing, but you're still around the guy. So,
- 16:06Speaker 2: I mean he's been with us the whole time and
- 16:08Speaker 2: and leading through his own way. But now that he's
- 16:10Speaker 2: out on the field and doing the things that he
- 16:12Speaker 2: does and growing back into you know, a full time
- 16:14Speaker 2: type of type of role, you can feel, you can
- 16:17Speaker 2: feel his personality a little bit more. So, just encourage
- 16:20Speaker 2: him to keep in him man keeping the guy. We
- 16:22Speaker 2: love when you get out there, go, you know, go
- 16:24Speaker 2: play a thousand miles an hour and we'll follow you
- 16:27Speaker 2: he does.
- 16:28Speaker 3: What are the conversations like with you and growth in
- 16:30Speaker 3: terms of DK, you know, the times when they try
- 16:32Speaker 3: to get him involved, but also accepting that you know
- 16:34Speaker 3: he is.
- 16:34Speaker 2: Going to be doubled. Well, yeah, that's something that we're
- 16:37Speaker 2: we're always working through that. I think I think our
- 16:40Speaker 2: process throughout the week is pretty cool and saying hey,
- 16:45Speaker 2: this is this is that's how how it's designed to
- 16:47Speaker 2: try to get you the rock and sometimes it works
- 16:49Speaker 2: out that way, sometimes sometimes it doesn't, and just kind
- 16:52Speaker 2: of move and shift.
- 16:53Speaker 1: But this guy, obviously you want to get him involved
- 16:55Speaker 1: as early.
- 16:55Speaker 2: And often as possible, and uh, we'll just keep trying
- 16:59Speaker 2: to figure out ways to you know, make him come
- 17:00Speaker 2: alive and let him do the stuff he does does
- 17:02Speaker 2: the best.
- 17:03Speaker 3: And on their final touchdown on Sunday night, was that
- 17:05Speaker 3: a coverage breakdown?
- 17:07Speaker 2: No, it's just just a great throw and catch by them. Actually,
- 17:11Speaker 2: I thought the guys played that played the heck out
- 17:13Speaker 2: of that play. Talking about the one in the back line, Yeah,
- 17:19Speaker 2: where did you get the freeze?
- 17:24Speaker 1: Just kind of just came up with it.
- 17:31Speaker 2: It's it's a it's a mentality of like the the
- 17:33Speaker 2: the margin victory in our league is so is so tight,
- 17:36Speaker 2: and just little things here or there. Really I believe
- 17:41Speaker 2: those are the things that are going to put you
- 17:42Speaker 2: over the top.
- 17:43Speaker 1: So much. Rather have that mentality than chase anybody else. Okay,
- 17:49Speaker 1: thanks guys,