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Mike Macdonald Recaps The Week 15 Win vs. The Colts, Gives Updates On Injured Players · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, good to see your buddy. We're moving and
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  Speaker 1: shaking today, so we'll get right to it.
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  Speaker 2: You can get on the field at all.
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  Speaker 1: Today we do like basically just I'll walk through on
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  Speaker 1: each side special.
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  Speaker 3: Teams, and then what about what is tomorrow?
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  Speaker 4: Opick Tomorrow we'll be a little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like today's like a like a Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday combo platter or Monday combo platter.
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  Speaker 4: Tomorrow's a.
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday Thursday combo platter. Wednesday's a Friday Saturday combo.
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  Speaker 4: You guys have going.
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  Speaker 5: Into yesterday's game, you were last in the NFL and
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  Speaker 5: fourth down attempts but toward the top and fourth down conversions,
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  Speaker 5: and I'm curious what's led to that?
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  Speaker 1: Dispairity means we're converting on fourth down. That's pretty cool, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I mean we're just doing we need to do to
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  Speaker 1: try to win the game. It's not I mean nowadays
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  Speaker 1: like day there, every fourth down is a net positive
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  Speaker 1: in terms of expected values, But like, at what point
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  Speaker 1: is its strongest? At what point do you feel like
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  Speaker 1: that's the way you need to do to win the game?
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  Speaker 4: You know? I mean we have like.
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  Speaker 1: I mean every drive there is a there's we're probably
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  Speaker 1: gonna go at a certain yardage and day near every
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  Speaker 1: drive at a certain point, you know, obviously not gonna
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  Speaker 1: do it in minus territory.
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  Speaker 4: We just haven't really gotten in those situations that much.
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  Speaker 5: You Deasin only had one game in the first I
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  Speaker 5: think ten maybe where you didn't have any turnovers, and
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  Speaker 5: I think two of the last four you've had no turnovers.
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  Speaker 5: It's also been a little bit rocky at times. How
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  Speaker 5: much of an emphasis is it to, you know, reduce
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  Speaker 5: turnovers but also maintain some of the explosiveness you guys
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  Speaker 5: had earlier.
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, we we just I think it's a trip
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  Speaker 1: to our guys and trying to take care of the balls.
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  Speaker 1: I think Sam's making really really smart decisions. I thought
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  Speaker 1: he played really good game yesterday. Our Runners have taken
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  Speaker 1: care of the football, which has been great, and.
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  Speaker 4: This is something we want to attack. Eaday.
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  Speaker 1: I think the guys realize that when we do take
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  Speaker 1: care of the football, how good of a football.
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  Speaker 4: Team we are and what our record is. So it's
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  Speaker 4: kind of everything involved, you know. Just I got constant
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  Speaker 4: evolution as well. I'd say, without a first.
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  Speaker 6: Half touchdown, how do you kind of manage that and
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  Speaker 6: see those scores without.
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  Speaker 5: Forcing the issue too much.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think this is one of those
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  Speaker 1: like results versus process thing. Yeah, we're not getting the
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  Speaker 1: results we want, you know, Okay, I can't just say
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  Speaker 1: let's start better, you know, like, let's let's go back
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  Speaker 1: to see you know, how we're doing our openers, how
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  Speaker 1: much we're carrying we feel like the guys can execute
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  Speaker 1: at a high level. How do we diagnose what their
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  Speaker 1: game plan is as soon as we possibly can. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of things going on there, and that's
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  Speaker 1: on the table right now. We're working through it, just
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  Speaker 1: like any other thing that's happened that is kind of
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  Speaker 1: falling short to the standard that we want to achieve,
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  Speaker 1: and and we're we're working through it. So but I
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  Speaker 1: think I think there's some some things on the process
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  Speaker 1: end that will yield better.
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  Speaker 4: Results scripting, few more players on.
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  Speaker 1: The table, just how much we're carrying, you know, what
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  Speaker 1: we're asking the guys to do. How clear can we
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  Speaker 1: be on the front end of what we're going to
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  Speaker 1: be doing early in games? You know, I think I
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  Speaker 1: think Clint's done a tremendous job scripting throughout the year.
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  Speaker 1: We just we've run a little bit of a funk
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  Speaker 1: right now, and and let's let's keep attacking it so
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  Speaker 1: we can get out of it.
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  Speaker 5: Between the improv of the game versus the script at
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  Speaker 5: the start, do you lean heavily on the script and you.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think there's a steadfast philosophy. I think I
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  Speaker 1: think you just got to feel it. Like, hey, I
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  Speaker 1: think you know, maybe we're doing some things that haven't
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  Speaker 1: really fallen our way, and so it's stick to it.
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  Speaker 1: Or hey, you know, like things, maybe some things that
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  Speaker 1: we assume going to the game aren't necessarily true, so
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  Speaker 1: maybe we do a little bit more of a shift.
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  Speaker 1: That happens as a as like as a whole team.
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  Speaker 1: It happens on each side of the ball. That's that's
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  Speaker 1: happened in kind of every game, and it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: evolves through each game. Honestly, you have time to with
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  Speaker 1: your staff to decide that in the midstream like that,
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  Speaker 1: or do you.
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  Speaker 4: Just decide uh? Both? Yeah? Both.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, if I feel a certain way, I'll
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  Speaker 1: let the guys know if sometimes as you're asking them
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  Speaker 1: questions on how they feel, or ah, sometimes it just
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  Speaker 1: happens naturally too, Like I think everybody kind of feels
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  Speaker 1: it sometimes, Like defensive we all kind of felt, you know,
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  Speaker 1: how we had to shift our game plan and and
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  Speaker 1: guys are trying to come up with solutions and things
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  Speaker 1: like that.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds like it's pretty fluid, but typically how much of
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  Speaker 3: a like will you go into a game scripting?
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  Speaker 2: How much of it?
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  Speaker 3: How much of the start of the game on offense?
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  Speaker 1: I mean there's a signific get amount of openers, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and you don't You don't always get to them. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you get to him later. You know, everybody's different. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Clinton has what he prefers, and I like the way
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  Speaker 1: we do it. Honestly, I really do.
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  Speaker 5: Fifteen about fifteen maybe state secret?
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  Speaker 2: How many is it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a certain amount of plays that we want
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  Speaker 1: to get to to start the game.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, what did you see out of the writing game yesterday?
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  Speaker 1: When at that, Yeah, I think, like, look, we're it's
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  Speaker 1: not that we didn't run out the way we wanted to.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of a little bit of everything right now.
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  Speaker 1: So a little bit late in the year right now
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  Speaker 1: to be saying that. So I think we've got to
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  Speaker 1: pick it up really really on on all fronts.
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  Speaker 4: So you've got a.
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  Speaker 2: Chance to watch the tape, what were your thoughts on
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  Speaker 2: the way that the past protection looked, particularly the first
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  Speaker 2: half when you guys are having issues.
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  Speaker 1: As a little bit of a leading question, I mean, like, look,
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  Speaker 1: they had some pressures that they they hit. They had
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  Speaker 1: some pressures that they did. Some of them are good
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  Speaker 1: scheme by them. Some of our us is bad execution
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  Speaker 1: by us. You gotta go play ball, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta call what's run. You gotta you gotta execute our system.
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  Speaker 1: Part of what's great about our system is we're not
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  Speaker 1: just you know, we're not spending eight thousand years trying
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  Speaker 1: to you know, solve every protection riddle non de mankind.
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  Speaker 4: So our guys can go play fast. And I love
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  Speaker 4: that about us.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we change our protections and they have different
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  Speaker 1: stress points and things and sometimes cost doing businesses. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to throw hot and that happens, and sometimes
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  Speaker 1: we pick it up and we gash people.
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  Speaker 4: You know. So it's really a function of how well
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  Speaker 4: we can execute our stuff. And so people you played
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  Speaker 4: in this first game back, Yeah, good good job coming back.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look, we we gotta we just got to
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  Speaker 1: play a little bit better on offense, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: just kind of everybody involved, and same thing on defense.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's plenty of stuff that we're going to
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  Speaker 1: try to fix in a short amount of time.
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  Speaker 4: You can't got you gotta think.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to pick your spots in all phases, Like offensively,
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  Speaker 1: let's let's pick the things that we want to we
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  Speaker 1: want to nail this week, and uh, you know, do
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  Speaker 1: that with the limited amount of reps we have and
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  Speaker 1: we'll be just fine.
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  Speaker 4: We just got to stick to our process. It's just
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  Speaker 4: it's just is what it is.
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  Speaker 5: Barton back this season.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, we'll see about Toy, We'll see about Tori. We're
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  Speaker 1: just he's kind of just taking it as he improves
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  Speaker 1: right now. So he's got some hurdles he's got to
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  Speaker 1: get over and we'll wait to see him get over
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  Speaker 1: those hurdles. But if he gets over him, then we
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  Speaker 1: could get him back progress.
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  Speaker 3: As far as from what you can tell so far.
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  Speaker 4: He's got to get over the hurdles he's got to
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  Speaker 4: get over.
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  Speaker 5: Do you know anywhere about Charles Cross at all?
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  Speaker 1: Or Yeah, I was kind of playing it like it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of a little cheeky this morning, but to hamstring
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  Speaker 1: We're just trying to get the info right now, kind
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  Speaker 1: of exhausting all options to to see how fast we
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  Speaker 1: can get him back.
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  Speaker 2: This will be the fourth Thursday night game that you've
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  Speaker 2: had to prepare for since he became a head coach.
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  Speaker 2: Y have has that process evolved some for you now
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  Speaker 2: that you've had several of these and being yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We kind of whittled away at our schedule and get
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  Speaker 1: feedback every time and make some adjustments. Billionaires has been
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  Speaker 1: awesome in that front. Leslie has been helpful. Leadership squad
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  Speaker 1: has been really helpful. It's also I think it depends
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  Speaker 1: on kind of where you're at in the season, on
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  Speaker 1: how much you're gonna do. Like later in the season,
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  Speaker 1: it's probably harder to get reved up a little bit
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  Speaker 1: early in the season. You might you might try to
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  Speaker 1: get a couple, you know, full speed reps. So the
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  Speaker 1: plan this week is to walk through the whole week
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  Speaker 1: and kind of leave some some leave some wiggle room
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday in case we want to get some timing
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  Speaker 1: timing done. Especially in the past game, I'd say it's possible.
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  Speaker 6: Like you you shout out Brian Ayers after the game,
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  Speaker 6: he's the guy who's here before you got here and
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  Speaker 6: presumab lead and having a relationship with for a job
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  Speaker 6: like that that requires a lot of relationship and trust
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  Speaker 6: between you two. Like how quickly did you recognize, Hey,
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  Speaker 6: there is a guy I want to have here and
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  Speaker 6: it could be really important to me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I mean he came very well, very highly
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  Speaker 1: recommended by John and everybody else in the building, so.
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  Speaker 4: You know that obviously carries a lot of weight. And
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  Speaker 4: then as you get to know them, and just.
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  Speaker 1: Like I'd say, like I said to the team yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: is like talking about chasing edges? Is it really that
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  Speaker 1: mentality that you have to have in that position? And
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  Speaker 1: it's just really clear really early that that was his
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  Speaker 1: mentality about how he wanted to approach these things. It's
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  Speaker 1: a job that he hasn't initially had like the full
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  Speaker 1: scope of that responsibility before, and he just really attacked it.
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  Speaker 1: And like from it from my perspective, that's all when
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  Speaker 1: you when you when you try to when you know,
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  Speaker 1: give people responsibility. That's what I'm looking for, is you know,
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  Speaker 1: what's the attitude like are we really are we really
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  Speaker 1: just diving deep and trying to make it come to life.
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  Speaker 1: The best we can to help the team in any aspect,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you name the job. That's what we're looking for.
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  Speaker 1: And Brian's been a great example of of of how
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  Speaker 1: to attack it and make it his own at his personality,
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  Speaker 1: to his own flavor, and and he's and he's just
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  Speaker 1: done a great.
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  Speaker 5: Job on that note. Second to last possession for you guys,
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  Speaker 5: when you're trailing I think thirteen twelve and you had
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  Speaker 5: the long drive uh huh eighty two yards whatever it was,
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  Speaker 5: it seemed like you guys were were not you know,
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  Speaker 5: in quick, quick pace. It seems like you're kind of
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  Speaker 5: like making that maybe a final drive kind of thing.
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  Speaker 5: What was the if that's the case, what.
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  Speaker 1: Was kind of the Yeah, we we just felt we
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  Speaker 1: felt at that point our normal operation was our best
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  Speaker 1: chance to move the ball and ultimately trying we're trying
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  Speaker 1: to score a touchdown obviously, you know, and that's that's
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  Speaker 1: why we did it. You know what, like now is
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  Speaker 1: there is there an outcome where maybe you get you
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  Speaker 1: get a first down right there and I think the ball,
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  Speaker 1: I think the I think the first down line was
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  Speaker 1: it like the four maybe? And you know, now you're
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  Speaker 1: now you're almost like in four minute and trying to
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  Speaker 1: score a touchdown.
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  Speaker 4: Like that was part of our calculus. But we're really just.
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  Speaker 1: Trying to do what we could to score a touchdown
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  Speaker 1: the best give us the best chance to do it, Like.
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  Speaker 5: What's up chemistry between machine and sam.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a function of reps. Just a function of reps.
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  Speaker 1: Is out of every day, get the reps. Make sure
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  Speaker 1: every rep is meaningful.
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  Speaker 4: Now you know.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's you know, this time of year, it's you
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  Speaker 1: don't get a ton of full speed reps. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta manage our our practice output and
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  Speaker 1: things like that. So you's got to make the most
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  Speaker 1: what you get. It's gonna take time. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that's what you're saying.
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  Speaker 5: Part of that kickoff return is how he just ran
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  Speaker 5: straight up the sideline both for time and straight line distance.
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  Speaker 4: Is that the call that was?
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  Speaker 1: That was part of the call, And I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was a good decision by him, So kind of all
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  Speaker 1: all the above on that one.
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  Speaker 5: You guys had a pretty good statistically up third down
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  Speaker 5: the last three or four games before yesterday, and then
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  Speaker 5: yesterday I think or whatever, is there a right of
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  Speaker 5: reason for that or when you kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Went back and looked at the third down.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. It's funny, like we get questions about like where
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  Speaker 4: we fall short. It's like, look, if I knew that
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  Speaker 4: it was gonna be a problem, we wouldn't we wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: do it, you know, we would do the opposite.
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  Speaker 1: So we thought we had a good plan and we
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  Speaker 1: didn't get it done. So like, can we game plan
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  Speaker 1: it better?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? Maybe maybe we can we call it better? Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: maybe in some spots, can we execute better?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, other rookie defensive linemen that have not necessarily got
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  Speaker 5: that many reps on the field. And then Ryan Mills
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  Speaker 5: comes back and gets in there in the first game.
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  Speaker 5: What is it about him that that made him You
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  Speaker 5: guys want to get him.
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  Speaker 4: Out there quickly?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean we're coming down stretch and we were
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  Speaker 1: we really want him to be part of the equation
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  Speaker 1: here coming down the into the in the last quarter
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  Speaker 1: of the season, and uh, he showed him practice that
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  Speaker 1: like we felt like he was executing a high level.
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  Speaker 1: So we felt like it was warning for him to
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  Speaker 1: get the reps and felt and it's been all clear
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  Speaker 1: and healthy, you know, physically, so there's really nothing holding
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  Speaker 1: him back going to.
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  Speaker 4: The game, and I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Glad we did it, you know, I'm glad we like
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  Speaker 1: you know, now now he's got some some reps under
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  Speaker 1: his belt going into this game and you know, going
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  Speaker 1: into the next couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: What's the biggest challenge trying to especially with a rookie,
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  Speaker 2: trying to get him to speed when you only have
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  Speaker 2: a few games left, particularly in the trenches. What's the
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  Speaker 2: biggest challenge trying to get him acclimated.
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  Speaker 4: So that he can produce. It's not it's not what
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  Speaker 4: to do with Riley.
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  Speaker 1: It's just block recognition and getting used to the speed
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  Speaker 1: of the game.
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  Speaker 4: Same thing like with she.
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  Speaker 1: He's just you know, just on a different different like levels,
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  Speaker 1: is it.
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  Speaker 4: It's just it's gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Take reps and making sure we're taking make taking advantage
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  Speaker 1: of all those things, you know, so he can go
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  Speaker 1: play the way he knows how position and wise a
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  Speaker 1: is okay to my knowledge, I'm sorry, just.
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  Speaker 3: What mills with his position and his role? What do
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  Speaker 3: you see him doing? Is there some carryover with what
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  Speaker 3: you have let him do?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 1: We feel like he can play the A gap too,
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  Speaker 1: probably more than we're putting Leo, you know, in the
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  Speaker 1: A gap so, but he's gotta keep on coming on.
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  Speaker 1: You know at the appeal, he's been playing well. I mean, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know now that.
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  Speaker 4: We have j Reed back, Jed can play both.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean, if we can, if we can get
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  Speaker 1: him roll and we got a we got a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good front that we can put out there. Right, do
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  Speaker 1: you do any uh?
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  Speaker 4: He did a little bit, but it was yeah, you're right.
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  Speaker 1: He was mostly like a it's like a like three
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  Speaker 1: to four I. I mean, the guy's three hundred pounds
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  Speaker 1: as strong as an ox. Like, there's no reason you
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't be able to do it.
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  Speaker 3: Did you throughout this whole process, have the caretive keep working.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to put you in the season.
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  Speaker 6: Isn't a season?
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  Speaker 4: Or you just played that well?
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  Speaker 1: That that's that's a that's tribute to our to our docks,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just being with a diagnose that you know,
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  Speaker 1: and then John making the decision to bring him in
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  Speaker 1: in the office, you know, during the draft process.
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  Speaker 4: To really figure out what was going on.
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  Speaker 1: And and they nailed it, you know they I thought
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  Speaker 1: they nailed the timeline and and then you know, our
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  Speaker 1: our trainers and Riley making it come to life too.
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  Speaker 1: It's easy to slap a timeline on it, as we know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and then you know, but hit the timeline
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  Speaker 1: is a is a.
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  Speaker 4: Is a whole nother animal.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: So but that was the idea the whole time, was that, Hey,
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: let's let's try to get him back at the down
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: the stretch the.
• 14:53
  Speaker 6: Play nick hat on the screen or he gets off
• 14:55
  Speaker 6: blocking tremendous play. I guess it seems like every game
• 14:58
  Speaker 6: always happened a few of these splash plays.
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: Like how are you?
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm glad you brought that up because it's
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: kind of like a big play that's not like a
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: splash play, but I mean it's like the old school,
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: like Oklahoma drill. You got like two blockers in front
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: of you, gotta beat those guys. Get the guy with
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: the ball, I mean some high powered stuff. Man, he's
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: that was a great, great, great play.
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: Is what is it about him that who's playing? What
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: he's playing?
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: What position?
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: That's I mean, yeah, you said it. I think that's
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: just his mentality.
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: Like just I really want you really want our team
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: to I mean that I want our team to have
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: that mentality, Like you've heard it from me every week.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: Just can we how can we go play our best
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: ball all the time, regardless of the circumstances.
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: What we're shooting for.
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: Any favorite plays for you. I'm look back at the game.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: It's kind of weird because I haven't thought about it
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: here in like two hours, which feels like an eternity.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: I thought the play we made on the third down
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: in the last drive was a really tremendous play. The
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: player Ernest made on the running back screen a few
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: plays earlier was a tremendous play. Definitely didn't account for
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: them running the ball in that situation. I think they
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: checked to it and we weren't in a great defense
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: to run the to stop the run. And our guys
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: really really really made it, made it come to life there.
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: That was awesome.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: Would you think of the pass rush, I mean, he's
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: throwing it in zero point three seconds. I thought the
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: guys played hard, did a good job. Probably needed to
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: force more. Like it's easy to say we got to
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: rush the passer, but like how many times are going
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: to drop back? You know, like they're gonna go run, run,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: and it's hard to get negative plays in that run scheme.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, Like Byron Murphy, this isn't your question.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: But Byron Murphy played a tremendous football game. He was
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: absolutely dominant, dominant, probably single handedly won us the football
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: game on defense. I mean he he absolutely played lights out.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: I know they didn't answer your question, but it's worth mentioning.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: After the Rams game, you said that you wanted I
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: can't remember how you wereded, but you said you wanted
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: Sam to keep ripping it. And it sounded like you
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: you were saying you didn't want him.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: To not be aggressive.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: What have you thought of just the way that he's approached,
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: you know, the last month.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: Or so in that regard, Well, I would just say
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: it just like you want.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: I want Sam to play like I want our football
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: team to play is decisive, shocking, and relentless. So have
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: it be really clear on what you want to do
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: in the game, in that play, so go rip it.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Shocking is like, hey, it's it's the execution, it's the
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: beauty and the details, it's all the preparation that feeds
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: into those basic fundamentals that make it come to life.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: And then just stick at it. You know, we're not
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: We're just not going to stop. And Sam, Sam's demonstrated
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: those things.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: He said that Byron was lights out yesterday. What were
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: the things that maybe we wouldn't see that he did
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: to fulfill his job.
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: I mean, this guy's taken on.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Multiple blockers and making plays and being stout and making relentless,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: like like like effort plays.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: It's remarkable what he's able to do. It really is.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: He's just.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: It's just remarkable. He's just playing really great football.
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: Did you appreciate appreciate uh nick showing some restraint on.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: His mid Yeah, yeah, that was great.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Another great play and just just I mean it's really
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: indicative of his growth.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Just look, I mean it wasn't quite cost doing business
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: on jefft like could have definitely made a smart decision
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: that moment.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: But I mean, when you're gonna live on the.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Edge like that, like, I don't think it was like
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: a he's not making like it wasn't like a selfish
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: decision or I'm trying to like hurry him. It was
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: he's just he's on the edge, you know, And that's
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: how we want to play on defense, and you got
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: to sometimes you have to learn kind of how to
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: handle that, you know, when you want to play right there.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: And and that.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Was a great, that's just a great example of how
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: we want to play, Hey, right up to the edge.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the next play alright, all right,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: thanks