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Press Pass | Liam Coen Recaps Resounding Preseason Week 3 Win Over Buccaneers · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Brian Thomas, Jr., tonight and just over the course of
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  Speaker 1: the preseason, I mean, what kind of impression has he
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  Speaker 1: made on you and your defensive staff so far? You know,
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  Speaker 1: his play style is the right way. It fits a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the things that we preach and that we're
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  Speaker 1: about as a team. You know, when you have a
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  Speaker 1: gift of rushing the passer, man, it's something that you
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  Speaker 1: can't ignore. And I thought he did some nice things
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  Speaker 1: against the run as well tonight. I thought the defense
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  Speaker 1: as a whole, obviously, with the shutout was huge. being
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  Speaker 1: led by Brian. And, you know, he's making it really difficult,
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  Speaker 1: which is a good thing. It's just what we're hunting up. But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's had that skill set. That was something
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  Speaker 1: we really appreciated about his game. And he's just continued
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  Speaker 1: to do it on this stage.
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  Speaker 2: Liam, looking at the big picture, in what ways do
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  Speaker 2: you think you guys have grown the most as a
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  Speaker 2: team over these last four weeks?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you look at the physicality of, like,
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  Speaker 1: just truly understanding how we have to play, right? And
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  Speaker 1: any time that that became a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: calling card and MO of our team last season. But
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  Speaker 1: then you have to reintegrate.
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  Speaker 2: That, right?
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  Speaker 1: You have all these new players, all these rookies, all
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  Speaker 1: these young guys that are playing the majority of the
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  Speaker 1: snaps in these games. And I think our team did
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  Speaker 1: a nice job of truly putting that together from, all right,
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans joint wasn't perfect, right? The game got better, right?
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  Speaker 1: Those guys kind of took it up a notch. go
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  Speaker 1: to Carolina, have a successful joint. And the young guys
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  Speaker 1: got to see the older guys do it and do
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  Speaker 1: it in those settings. And so I think to cap
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  Speaker 1: off the preseason this way with a physical outing and
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  Speaker 1: the guys playing their tails off, I think is exactly,
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  Speaker 1: just continues to reinforce the message to the team that
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  Speaker 1: that is our style of play, that is our brand
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  Speaker 1: of football. And for us to have success, we have
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  Speaker 1: to play that way. I know you'll have to watch film,
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  Speaker 1: but what did you think of Carter's performance tonight.
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  Speaker 2: And then also Joey?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think both of them were efficient. I think
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  Speaker 1: there was a few things both of them would like
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  Speaker 1: to have back. I thought Carter did a nice job
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  Speaker 1: leading the touchdown drive. Could have had another one to
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  Speaker 1: trammel there that I think we might have missed, would
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  Speaker 1: like to have back. Did a great job on the
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  Speaker 1: two-point play, making a guy miss. I thought Joey came
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  Speaker 1: in and You know, obviously was a little bit later
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  Speaker 1: and not being asked to truly push the ball down
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  Speaker 1: the field too much. But he has a presence about him.
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  Speaker 1: The offense kind of rolls with him in there at times.
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  Speaker 1: And he's crafty with some of the zone read stuff
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  Speaker 1: where we're able to kind of spit the ball on
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  Speaker 1: the perimeter and be able to get the ball in space.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought they operate a little bit better than
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  Speaker 1: we had maybe seen.
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  Speaker 2: How hard is it to avoid putting too much emphasis
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  Speaker 2: on the last impression you have of guys walking off
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  Speaker 2: the field?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's exactly what Tony and James and I were
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  Speaker 1: literally just talking about was, hey, it's exciting, it's great
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  Speaker 1: to see, and there's some juice out there that is
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  Speaker 1: something that you're excited about, but you have to continue
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  Speaker 1: to put the entire body of work into play, and
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  Speaker 1: when making these decisions, as maybe more difficult as they
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  Speaker 1: got tonight in some ways in some positions for some
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  Speaker 1: players um but the reality is when you do put
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  Speaker 1: it on tape in a game it does matter it
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  Speaker 1: does take a little bit um you know hold some
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  Speaker 1: juice hold some weight and you have to appreciate that
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  Speaker 1: and take it into consideration but you can't over compensate
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  Speaker 1: or over rotate on maybe one game or one outing
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  Speaker 1: although you know some impressive.
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  Speaker 2: Things Coach, you just mentioned Brian Thomas a minute ago.
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  Speaker 2: Michael Wortham is going to make SportsCenter tonight, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 2: You and James Gladstone talked about raising the floor when
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  Speaker 2: you got here last year. The fact that you're going
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  Speaker 2: to have a pretty miserable 43 and a half hours here,
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  Speaker 2: does that indicate that you guys kind of mission accomplished
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  Speaker 2: on that front?
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  Speaker 1: I would say. I thought Michael started to show up
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more in my eyes in the Carolina
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  Speaker 1: joint where he had to get some meaningful reps with
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  Speaker 1: the second offense and he had taken a bubble in
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  Speaker 1: practice down the sidelines and you saw some of what
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  Speaker 1: we saw here tonight on that play. He's got a
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  Speaker 1: phenomenal forward lean about the way that he runs. He's
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  Speaker 1: a football player at heart. And he's kind of built
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, I don't want to say like Parker,
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  Speaker 1: but in some ways there's some similar play styles there. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he definitely made it challenging tonight. And that's
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  Speaker 1: overall what we were hunting up, right? I mean, You're
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  Speaker 1: continuing to try to raise the level of competition in
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  Speaker 1: the building. You're trying to make these decisions hard on us.
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  Speaker 1: That's the goal when hopefully you've improved as a team
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  Speaker 1: and you can continue to build the roster and raise
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  Speaker 1: the floor, as you mentioned. So, yeah, I think in
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  Speaker 1: some ways mission accomplished for sure. In some other positions,
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  Speaker 1: we need to continue that and continue to find and
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  Speaker 1: elevate the level of performance.
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  Speaker 2: Liam, Kaiser and Macari obviously have not practiced. Does that
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  Speaker 2: complicate things this weekend to.
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  Speaker 1: Get to 53? Not too bad, to be honest. Especially,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it necessarily hurts us too much. I
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  Speaker 1: think we have a pretty good idea right now on
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  Speaker 1: the 53. It's more so just trying to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that we're doing the right things in the short term
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  Speaker 1: to get those guys obviously into a place where they
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  Speaker 1: can play again. And I think it's more, some of
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  Speaker 1: the more difficult conversations we're about to probably have are
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  Speaker 1: about the P squad. Like when you have 16, you
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  Speaker 1: get the one exemption. Those are going to be some
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  Speaker 1: more challenging conversations. I think that we're about to have
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  Speaker 1: in the next two days. And so hopefully that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: impact us too much.
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  Speaker 2: Great. Thank you guys.