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Mike Macdonald: "Geno Smith Played A Dynamite Game" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, we get everybody. Man, it was a what
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  Speaker 1: a heck of a football game. Just I mean, we
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  Speaker 1: knew the game was gonna come down to the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: didn't expect to come down to the fifth quarter, but uh,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it takes. Just prou I mean again, just the same,
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  Speaker 1: and it just proud of the fight, the resiliency. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: just like the confidence, the support, the togetherness of our
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  Speaker 1: football team. So that's a good that's a good, really
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  Speaker 1: good football team. We just played tough. Obviously, they ran
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  Speaker 1: the ball really well, they stopped the run. Uh, but
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  Speaker 1: our guys came through in the end. And then just
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  Speaker 1: proud of our guys. You know, we need to make
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  Speaker 1: it play. It seems like on all three phases the
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  Speaker 1: guys made plays without you know, you know, inventing techniques
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  Speaker 1: or whatever, just kind of played through, played through the scheme,
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  Speaker 1: played through their fundamentals, and and we closed that out
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  Speaker 1: at the end. So just a just a great, great
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  Speaker 1: football game. And excited to get back home get a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of drom the run game. But today, man, I thought,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I thought, you know, played a night of
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  Speaker 1: my game. I thought, uh, he was decisive, the ball
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  Speaker 1: was out fast. I thought we had a great plan. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we had a couple of drops, but we'll clean those up.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not sure what the numbers are, but
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  Speaker 1: they're probably pretty dang good. He had a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: game when he drives last season, sounds like that's who
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  Speaker 1: he is. So you know, let the tapes speak for itself,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, I'm glad it's on our side. What did
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  Speaker 1: you Julian's blackfield goal was just something he was able
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  Speaker 1: to figure out there. No, they don't just like invent Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that was the that was the play, that's
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  Speaker 1: the that's the the field goal rush at that time,
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  Speaker 1: without getting into like the strategy involved. But he made
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  Speaker 1: a heck of a play. I mean just heck of
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  Speaker 1: a play. But it's something you practice all the time
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  Speaker 1: and finally when you have the opportunity, you know, he
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  Speaker 1: goes and executes it. So I was, Yeah, that was
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  Speaker 1: a big time. That was part of the go ahead
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  Speaker 1: last week and then this week. Oh yeah, he played
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  Speaker 1: a dynamite game. He played a great he did a
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  Speaker 1: great job. He told you had confidence in him, and
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  Speaker 1: he had such he said, such a great offseason. But
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  Speaker 1: we had a big return in the first half. Caught
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  Speaker 1: the ball there. Well, I don't know who got blocked
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  Speaker 1: into him, but uh but that I mean, he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to make those players moving forward. But he's the
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  Speaker 1: man for the job. He look good today, Greg, all right,
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  Speaker 1: he just has a it's just that's him. And I
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  Speaker 1: mean you knew it coming in. You knew his reputation,
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  Speaker 1: learning who he is as a person who we absolutely
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  Speaker 1: absolutely love, but that there's something special about him where
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  Speaker 1: he comes alive in those clutch moments. Man, it's again,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's just I just uh, we love him,
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  Speaker 1: but means just a great job by Tyler Well. I
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  Speaker 1: felt the rush. I didn't know who it was at
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  Speaker 1: the time. I think Derek Hall had a dine a
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  Speaker 1: really good rush and you know they they they did
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  Speaker 1: some good things on offense in the first half on
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  Speaker 1: third down, so we had to make a couple of adjustments.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they're hitting the tight ends, so we had
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  Speaker 1: to adjust a little bit of our rush playing. But this,
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  Speaker 1: this is what happens in the NFL. Like teams are
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  Speaker 1: gonna have good plans, You're gonna have to kind of
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  Speaker 1: understand how they're attacking you and then kind of moving
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  Speaker 1: shake from there. So the guys did a great job
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  Speaker 1: of kind of going to the next things and playing
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  Speaker 1: some of the plays that they were they were running
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  Speaker 1: against us, and I thought our rush stard to come
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  Speaker 1: alive in the second half would have been great to
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  Speaker 1: get him on the ground more. But you know, Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: he's a really good player too. You know, he understands
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  Speaker 1: that I told you he was elusive and he got
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  Speaker 1: rid of the ball in some of those critical situations. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, uh, on our end, I don't know, but
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  Speaker 1: I have to look at the tape and see what's
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  Speaker 1: happened on some of the blocks. But you know, if
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  Speaker 1: it's not there and you're able to throw the ball,
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  Speaker 1: then you know, whatever it takes to win the game.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought we did that, But we'll go back
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  Speaker 1: to the tape and figured out. But you know, they
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  Speaker 1: have a really good front and they do a good
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  Speaker 1: job in the run game numbers back it up before
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  Speaker 1: before you take the field goal to tie it up,
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  Speaker 1: when you had had the fourth and one there about
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  Speaker 1: going forward there the one where we took the delay,
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  Speaker 1: Uh well, I mean, yeah, we we wanted to take
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  Speaker 1: a peek and see if we had if we if
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  Speaker 1: there was an opportunity to go for it and didn't
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  Speaker 1: have it. Didn't weren't confident enough in the situation at
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  Speaker 1: that point. So we felt like take the five and
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  Speaker 1: still a pretty good, pretty good manageable field goal to
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  Speaker 1: go tie it up with getting Jackson. That all kind
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  Speaker 1: of part of the running game, kind of replacing them. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's a good point. I wouldn't say surprise was disappointed.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we look, we can't be given up one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and eighty yards rushing, so there's plenty on tape
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  Speaker 1: that we We've kind of had a pictures on the
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  Speaker 1: first half, losing some beverages, not playing some runs the
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  Speaker 1: right way. So I mean, we got our work to
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  Speaker 1: do on that front. We've got a good, good team
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  Speaker 1: coming to town that can run the ball, so we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to be better moving forward in the run game.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of work to be done on that front.
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  Speaker 1: Guys know that. But you know, in the last two drives,
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  Speaker 1: it felt like we saw some of the some of
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  Speaker 1: the plays they had gone to order in the game,
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  Speaker 1: and the guys knocked them out. So that's the and
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  Speaker 1: that's what you're gonna have to do, you know, to win.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you just keep banging your head against
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  Speaker 1: the ball, then uh, they're gonna be it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: tough sledding out there. While ago that you really wanted,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to be the voice of boys, I think
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  Speaker 1: your word and like chaotic everse situations, you've had a
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  Speaker 1: few of those. So far, he's been he's been incredit
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's been the guy that he's been since
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  Speaker 1: since we got here in February. I mean, he's just
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  Speaker 1: like there's some points where you know, I'm where we
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  Speaker 1: communicate one way or another and he's right there and lockstep.
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  Speaker 1: This is a great example of this game, like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: when the offense needs to pick the defense up, they
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  Speaker 1: did it. When you know, when defense could help the
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  Speaker 1: offense by getting a critical stop because we weren't able
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  Speaker 1: to get the ball out of negative territory, we got
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  Speaker 1: to stop, you know. So that's what you have to
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  Speaker 1: play complimentary football. You had it, and and you need
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  Speaker 1: your leaders to show up in those in those critical
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  Speaker 1: moments and and uh and he did that. And I
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  Speaker 1: thought defensively, the guys did the same thing as well.
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  Speaker 1: How you feel about the Rookiesron Murphy and Christians uh, Christian,
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  Speaker 1: I know we got in there the third series. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know much more he played after that. Uh so
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  Speaker 1: we'll see. We ended up going with AB for the
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  Speaker 1: majority of the game. It's good to get it, good
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  Speaker 1: to get Christian in there. A guy, we have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of confidence in it. But in order to develop guys,
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  Speaker 1: you need to get reps. So sometimes if it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: go your way, man, it's okay. Like you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: a guy that has been worked really hard. He deserves
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to go earn his reps, so expect that
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  Speaker 1: to keep going. Uh. Byron, not sure. I've felt our
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  Speaker 1: run game it's times is really good. At times I
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  Speaker 1: thought we weren't so good. So I'm gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: get back to on the tape Tyree Knight again as
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  Speaker 1: a rookie's getting his first time in there. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure how many plays he made. There's a couple a
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  Speaker 1: couple of ones that are on the top of my
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  Speaker 1: head that you know, we want to play a little
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  Speaker 1: bit better. But again, a guy you have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of confidence in, he's playing a lot of He's got
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  Speaker 1: a ton of reps under his belt, so I thought
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  Speaker 1: this is a solid start for him. I'm sure you'll
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  Speaker 1: go back watch the tape, easy fixes, you know, as things,
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  Speaker 1: the game will start to slow down for him as
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  Speaker 1: he gets more experience out there, you know when in
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  Speaker 1: the regular season. Really, I really felt like the only
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  Speaker 1: issue was not that as an issue, but the only
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  Speaker 1: true back up we went to was was tyresee with
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  Speaker 1: Bake not being able to finish the game. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think I think he's gonna be all right. Boy. The
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  Speaker 1: same thing he's got like a a knee contusion. I
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  Speaker 1: think he's got banged in the knee. Uh. I think
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  Speaker 1: it was at the last might have been the last
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  Speaker 1: drive before overtime or the overtime drive, last drive for overtime.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see you with all that stuff. We'll see
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  Speaker 1: what shakes out. I didn't realize those career high it's
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  Speaker 1: pretty awesome. Yeah, I mean, uh, he's a great player.
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  Speaker 1: He's got incredible hands, all the underneath stuff. I think
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  Speaker 1: he you know, underratedly deep threat. There's a play I
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  Speaker 1: think it was an overtime where he held onto that ball.
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  Speaker 1: The guy had a pretty good hand on it and
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  Speaker 1: ball and transition to be able to secure that ball
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  Speaker 1: in a critical moments the one that stuck out with me.
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  Speaker 1: So he's gonna he's a guy that we're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: relying on moving forward. And yeah, he's a great player. Efficient. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: grad you bought that up. That that's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: teamwork going into that drive. Getting the stop on defense,
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  Speaker 1: you know, coming back offense, kind of understanding like saving
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  Speaker 1: your timeouts operationally so you can use all of them
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  Speaker 1: and you can use the whole field. And then the
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  Speaker 1: field goal operation a you know, a point of emphasis
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  Speaker 1: this week. So I'm eager to watch the tape and
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  Speaker 1: see how we blocked him on field goal. But the
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  Speaker 1: operation was great, Jane, I hit a great ball and
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  Speaker 1: probably a game, you know, game changing type series after
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  Speaker 1: that first stop that defense, he kind of in those
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  Speaker 1: situations you kind of asked yourself, Hey, which side why
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  Speaker 1: I want to be on. I felt like it was
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  Speaker 1: the right move to to kind of make them go
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  Speaker 1: conservative and then whatever time remaining we could kind of
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  Speaker 1: do our thing on defense or on offense. D K
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  Speaker 1: had a couple of drops, but it was a key
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  Speaker 1: part of the rest of the game, especially the time
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  Speaker 1: drive you talked about. Yeah, it's a great point. I mean, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he started the game off with us, you know,
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  Speaker 1: on the on the on the deep pass down there
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  Speaker 1: when they're in zero, and uh, kind of got us
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  Speaker 1: off and running on offense. I know he had a
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  Speaker 1: couple of drops, but coming back making some critical plays
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  Speaker 1: where he leaped over the guy was incredible, and then
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  Speaker 1: having a couple of big time catches over there in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter and overtime. So I'm not sure where
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  Speaker 1: his numbers were, but it sounded I mean, it felt
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  Speaker 1: like he had a great game. Anything else, Thanks, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: thanks guys,