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Press Pass | Mitch Morse on Offensive Line Coming Together and Attacking the Run Game · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Over the last maybe two out of the last three games,
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  Speaker 1: Trevor hasn't really gotten touched very much. What do you
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  Speaker 1: attribute that to and how would you say the offensive
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  Speaker 1: lines chemistry has grown over the last you know, seven
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  Speaker 1: games of the season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a work in progress for sure,
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  Speaker 2: and I think every offensive line is going to say
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  Speaker 2: that throughout the league as the season progresses, and every
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  Speaker 2: team is right like you know, I think when we're
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  Speaker 2: all on the same page, we're all seeing the same thing,
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  Speaker 2: it helps.
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  Speaker 3: And then.
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  Speaker 2: Besides that, it's also schematics help a ton to getting
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  Speaker 2: the ball out of his hands or helping out with
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  Speaker 2: play actions. So there's a lot of factors that play
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  Speaker 2: into it that I think are giving us an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to keep Trevor at least somewhat under dura, like not
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  Speaker 2: as much under dress.
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  Speaker 1: And what have you seen from from Walker little? I
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  Speaker 1: know you haven't played with him a ton in terms
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  Speaker 1: of the game, Eames, but just what have you seen
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  Speaker 1: from him since you got here to now? And then
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  Speaker 1: maybe maybe talk about his performance just this past week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I really like the way Walker attacks the week
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  Speaker 2: as a professional, and I think when we found out
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  Speaker 2: that Cam was going down that series of you know,
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  Speaker 2: Walker had to come in just as poise and the
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  Speaker 2: way he carried himself was pretty impressive, and I thought
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  Speaker 2: that resonated with the rest of the guys when you
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  Speaker 2: see a guy come in that you know has confidence
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  Speaker 2: in himself and as well as a game plan and
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  Speaker 2: working with each other, like that's one last thing you.
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  Speaker 3: Have to worry about.
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  Speaker 2: And he's a smart football player, he's tough, and I
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  Speaker 2: thought he played very, very well and helped us kind
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  Speaker 2: of progress as the game went on.
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  Speaker 4: Appreciate it, John Shipley, followed by JP.
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  Speaker 3: Bitch, thanks for doing this.
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  Speaker 4: What kind of feeling does it give, you know, an
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  Speaker 4: offense offensive line general, when quarterback is kind of in
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  Speaker 4: one of those spands that Trevor's in around now where
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  Speaker 4: it just seems like every play call, you know, there's
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  Speaker 4: kind of something going on. Just what kind of confidence
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  Speaker 4: does that get the offense?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think more than anything, what helps an offense
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  Speaker 2: gain confidence or helps the team in general is.
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  Speaker 3: Being able to.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of keep time with possession in your corner right
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  Speaker 2: like it's it's matriculate in the ball down the field.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, you want big shots and those are huge
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  Speaker 2: you want to score points, however, you once you can,
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  Speaker 2: John Rightley, so to kind of get in that rhythm,
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  Speaker 2: stay ahead of the chains, you know as the verbiage
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  Speaker 2: you use, right And then yeah, I think Trevor's playing
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  Speaker 2: pretty inspired football right now. And it's a quarterback driven league, right,
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  Speaker 2: And whether he's hand the ball off, making checks or
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  Speaker 2: put it down the field, like, if you have a
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  Speaker 2: guy who's as poised and confident as Trevor can be
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  Speaker 2: and in all the right ways, it helps everyone along, dude.
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  Speaker 4: And then eighteen I think it was straight runs on
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  Speaker 4: Sunday even it seemed like when New England knew and
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  Speaker 4: run was coming, you guys are still finding some success.
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  Speaker 3: What does that?
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  Speaker 4: Do you know? Just for an offensive line psyche when
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  Speaker 4: the coach is more or less like we're just gonna
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  Speaker 4: run down efforts.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there's there's something too when the coaches
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  Speaker 2: and the staff put the game plan in your hands, right,
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  Speaker 2: And that's not something you go into the game saying
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  Speaker 2: we're going to run so many runs in a row, right, Like,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's attestament to them seeing how the game
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  Speaker 2: was playing out, making game plan adjustments. And then I
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  Speaker 2: think tank you know, he was being decisive and that's huge.
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  Speaker 2: And when you're a decisive runner, and sometimes it's it's
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  Speaker 2: Muggy in there, it's Munkey in there, and we're you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're just as long as you put hat on a
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  Speaker 2: hat and you have a guy like Tank or whoever
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  Speaker 2: Dearnest or you know, Travis. Those guys make your life
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  Speaker 2: a lot easier. So, uh, tam A long wind away
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  Speaker 2: of answering your question, was it felt very good? And
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  Speaker 2: you know not every game is going to play out
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  Speaker 2: that way, but when it does, uh, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: wake up a little.
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  Speaker 3: Sore in the morning, but you're happy for it. What
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  Speaker 3: was that the most runs you've had NFL game had
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  Speaker 3: to be I mean, that's the remarkable amount.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You don't realize how tired you are to get on
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  Speaker 2: the sideline and you know people are offering you oxygen
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  Speaker 2: and it was really it was a very unique experience
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  Speaker 2: and we were very appreciative of its much.
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  Speaker 3: These will be our last two JP followed by Mark excuse.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, mittch just looking back a little bit too after
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  Speaker 6: that Bears game and then the week coming out of
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  Speaker 6: that at the Grove, I mean, how difficult was that
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  Speaker 6: week for the team coming off that game. We heard
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  Speaker 6: a lot of comments out of the locker room and
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  Speaker 6: you know, kind of big things, big themes. But how
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  Speaker 6: did the team come together in that week to get
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  Speaker 6: things back on track?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a that's a good question. It was tough, right, Like,
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  Speaker 2: first of all, that game was on all fasts. Saw
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  Speaker 2: three phases, not what you're looking for in a football game,
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  Speaker 2: and we all knew it and come to that locker room.
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  Speaker 2: It's very spirited and not not a detrimental way. But
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  Speaker 2: you know what you saw was how much this game
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  Speaker 2: means to guys and how much to see It was
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  Speaker 2: all good things. You saw the passion, right, But then
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  Speaker 2: it was how do we apply that to fixing mistakes
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  Speaker 2: and stuff? Because we work hard as a football team.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I've been around some football teams and this one,
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  Speaker 2: you know, throughout the week works just as hard as anyone.
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  Speaker 2: So it's applying that work and then making Sunday a
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  Speaker 2: celebration of that work rather than shooting yourself in the foot.
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  Speaker 2: So I think we you know, it's kind of a
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  Speaker 2: weird mid season not training camp in regards to workload.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, some teams go away for training camp
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  Speaker 2: and you have this weird renaissance as a team in
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  Speaker 2: regards to you're you're in tight quorders, you're forced to hang.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's no place to escape, right, So if
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  Speaker 2: there was any time for that to happen, I think
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  Speaker 2: it was the best time to do it, and it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was difficult because we didn't like the results but
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  Speaker 2: of the week prior. But I thought we came out
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  Speaker 2: and just had a great week of practice, really loved
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  Speaker 2: up on each other, and then we came out with energy.
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  Speaker 2: I think that was the biggest thing was we found
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of energy that now we have to
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  Speaker 2: make it a snowball effect, right, like we we know
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  Speaker 2: what works. We know now we just have to apply
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  Speaker 2: it weekly and that's it's easier said than done.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll have to figure that out.
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  Speaker 5: And then one more for me. When it was ten
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  Speaker 5: to nothing in the game against the Patriots. In the past,
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  Speaker 5: we've seen, okay, this be a problem, things kind of
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  Speaker 5: slipped down the slope.
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  Speaker 6: Why didn't that happen this time?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was. It's a great question. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you can't get ten points back all at once, So
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  Speaker 2: we just focused on and this is gonna be a
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  Speaker 2: cliche as hell, right, Like you just focused on, like
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  Speaker 2: we can this play dictate. Oh that was a great play.
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  Speaker 2: Let's let that snowball. Now we have good field position.
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  Speaker 2: Let's end up with three points. Now we're close to
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  Speaker 2: the goal line, let's end up with seven or whatnot,
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  Speaker 2: Like just stuff like that. So staying ahead of the
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  Speaker 2: chains helped. And then when we got some points on
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  Speaker 2: the board and then the defense had a few big
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  Speaker 2: stops and then we had that, it was just the
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  Speaker 2: team was feeding each other. You know, there was energy
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  Speaker 2: on the sidelines. Like it felt good. It felt like
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  Speaker 2: a like a like a winning football team should feel
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  Speaker 2: like a everyone And not to say it wasn't there before,
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  Speaker 2: but it was just exacerbated and I thought that was
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  Speaker 2: really cool. Last mark long.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, Mitch, do you feel like this could be you guys'
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  Speaker 7: offensive identity moving forward? Just this smash mouth you know,
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  Speaker 7: run first play action, deep ball to Brian Thomas kind
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  Speaker 7: of offense.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's easier.
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  Speaker 2: It's you'd like to say that after that game, But
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  Speaker 2: every game and dictates a new game plan, right, and sometimes,
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  Speaker 2: like I was talking about earlier, end game dictates certain
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  Speaker 2: things right, Like it turned into staying ahead of the chains.
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  Speaker 2: They're running the ball. That's just what happened, and then
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  Speaker 2: taking shots. And that's a great question. I don't totally know.
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  Speaker 3: We'll find out.
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  Speaker 2: It'd be easier to tell you in January, in February
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  Speaker 2: how this is gonna play out. But we're just trying
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  Speaker 2: to compound the positives from last week and running the
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  Speaker 2: ball as a positive, and you know teams are you know,
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  Speaker 2: teams find a way to eliminate things, so we'll have
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  Speaker 2: to be adaptable.
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  Speaker 7: And then Doug trying to explain maybe the offensive line
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  Speaker 7: the ability to run the ball, maybe the little cohesion there.
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  Speaker 7: He said a connuity was a big thing. But then
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  Speaker 7: he said, we've scaled back on the amount of run scheme.
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  Speaker 7: Can you just maybe break that down for us, for
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  Speaker 7: those of us who have not played offensive line for
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  Speaker 7: ten years in this league? Like, what does that mean
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  Speaker 7: to scale back the amount of scheme?
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  Speaker 3: Thank you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great question. You know, you go into
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  Speaker 2: a work week like this week and we're going to
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  Speaker 2: have a certain amount of runs in the game plan,
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  Speaker 2: and those runs each have a personnel package, right, Like
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be a big personnel or will personnel,
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  Speaker 2: and then what can you expect from those personnels, like
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  Speaker 2: we expect this personnel package to bring out base defense
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  Speaker 2: or this to bring out Nike, like just off of
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  Speaker 2: ten to seas. From the defense, the Patriots are a
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  Speaker 2: very multiple defensive front. That's what they've done for years
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  Speaker 2: and they're very good at it. So for us, it
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  Speaker 2: was for that game plan, you know, let's just try
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  Speaker 2: to have a little bit fewer. It wasn't like a
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  Speaker 2: crazy scale back, but it was a scale back and
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  Speaker 2: then go through every single situation that might come about,
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  Speaker 2: and so that when we get to that play call,
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  Speaker 2: we know that we've seen and repped and throughout the
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  Speaker 2: week as many as we can assume we're going to
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  Speaker 2: come out like that defensive front. So it just gives
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  Speaker 2: you more of an opportunity to go through more scenarios
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  Speaker 2: from less runs, you know what I mean. That's hard
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  Speaker 2: to explain. Hopefully that was well house a run