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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Discusses Preparing For Week 1 vs. The 49ers · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, get everybody. Good to see everyone. Hope you
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  Speaker 1: had a good weekend. I hate to disappoint you, but
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  Speaker 1: there's no injury report today. Well we'll let you know
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  Speaker 1: accordingly on Wednesday, so I hope you respect that. But
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  Speaker 1: good work today, guys. We're back in the building, locked in.
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  Speaker 1: Really good day and day off tomorrow and we're kind
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  Speaker 1: of normal in season cadence at this point.
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  Speaker 2: Has anything change for you? With MBS going down to
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  Speaker 2: the forty nine ers, that change anything on offense for.
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  Speaker 1: You, guys? Officially it changes everything. We're gonna change all
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  Speaker 1: the calls. Yeah, yeah, I mean, look, he's a really
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  Speaker 1: smart player. He's probably gonna give him information. That stuff
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  Speaker 1: happens all the time. You just some things you can
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  Speaker 1: take into account. Some things you just gotta gotta call
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  Speaker 1: it and call it and haul it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of guys you got last week, Kendrick is
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  Speaker 2: throw what had kind of been early.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of done a great job. Got more reps today.
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  Speaker 1: Uh so picking thinking things up. It's going to take
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  Speaker 1: them a minute to to, you know, figure out all
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  Speaker 1: the small details and stuff. But the guys going out
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  Speaker 1: there competing and playing fast. Great guys, to be around,
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  Speaker 1: so happy they're here. Is Kendrick to play inside? Both? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Do you already know who your punt returner is going
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  Speaker 2: to be this weekend? Or is that something you're figuring
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  Speaker 2: out this week?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, well, we'll kind of let everybody know on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Like, there's a process driven away a coach when you
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  Speaker 2: look back where you're at now this training camp and
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  Speaker 2: how do you think.
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  Speaker 1: You where you acting process? How do you feel about
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  Speaker 1: the whole process as you get ready for a week
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  Speaker 1: and one? Yeah, it's agree, it's I think I think
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  Speaker 1: there's a there's an interesting balance of being really proud
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  Speaker 1: of the work that we've done and the growth we've
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  Speaker 1: had on our team that we felt like we had,
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  Speaker 1: and then there's a balance of a sense of urgency
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  Speaker 1: to keep going and understanding that we're not there yet.
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  Speaker 1: We'll never be there, you know if if, if we
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  Speaker 1: do it the right way. But uh, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: the guys are going to have great spirit, really proud
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  Speaker 1: of like the connection we've built within our team. But
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  Speaker 1: this it's one of those things where you're we're always
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  Speaker 1: gonna be chasing, you know. It's just it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like the joys in the process and in the journey. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the destination will take care of itself. Walker
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  Speaker 1: is pacing now practicing. Is he on track or where
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  Speaker 1: you'd like your regular season depec? Yeah, going according to
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  Speaker 1: Plant right now.
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  Speaker 2: So you said there's only so many coverages and so
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  Speaker 2: many friends the defense can play. So what separates one
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  Speaker 2: defensive play color from another?
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  Speaker 1: It's a good shouted myself, I plead the fifth. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's look, I don't I don't know. I mean I've
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  Speaker 1: I've been around great play callers on those staffs, and
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  Speaker 1: I think what's interesting is the guys have different styles. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I think as a play card, you do have to
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  Speaker 1: learn your style of like what you're trying to create,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that's really important. Obviously you're taking advantage
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  Speaker 1: of the guys like that give you a great best
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  Speaker 1: chance to make a play and let them do things
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  Speaker 1: that they do well. Again, there's a spectrum of this.
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  Speaker 1: Same You try to be in the perfect call the time,
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  Speaker 1: which is probably not the way to go. You can
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  Speaker 1: you can be in one call the whole game. That's
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  Speaker 1: probably not the way to go either. It's always going
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  Speaker 1: to be some sort of blend, And I think that's
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  Speaker 1: based off of just your personal philosophy and sticking to it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and making sure that your process kind of
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  Speaker 1: follows that so you're not all over the place. But
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  Speaker 1: it's an interesting question. I probably need to think about
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  Speaker 1: it more. Honestly. I know what works for us is
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  Speaker 1: just trying to get our guys in position to make
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  Speaker 1: to have success consistently with it. However that comes to life, like,
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  Speaker 1: you got several Rupees who are going to have prominent
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  Speaker 1: roles right off the match. How do you feel like
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  Speaker 1: Dave's approached this to get to get ready for their
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  Speaker 1: first season with guys like, well, well, they've done a
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  Speaker 1: great job so far, and I think I think the next,
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  Speaker 1: you know, challenge to them is getting in an nd
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  Speaker 1: season routine and cadence that they can grab a hold
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  Speaker 1: of and and kind of make it there is everybody's
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  Speaker 1: routine is different throughout the week. Uh, You've got to
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  Speaker 1: kind of figure out what's what works for you, and
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  Speaker 1: that's our vets have been awesome with it, our coaches
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  Speaker 1: are great helping them out as best we can. But
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  Speaker 1: ultimately they have to figure out what works for those guys.
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  Speaker 1: It's a long season and but if you take it
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  Speaker 1: day by day kind of period by period and stack
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  Speaker 1: those things. You know you'll get the week thirteen fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just an it should just be another week
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  Speaker 1: for you. What do you feel like, toriy.
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  Speaker 2: Is that physically but just mentally in terms of pointment,
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  Speaker 2: timeiness and all the repss like mentally.
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  Speaker 1: Ready the way, Yeah, to Tory's done a great job.
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  Speaker 1: He's he's on it. I feel like he's in a
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  Speaker 1: great spot mentally. You know, hasn't had a lot of
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  Speaker 1: game experience yet, so you know, my my recommendation just
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  Speaker 1: go out and do all the things that you're doing
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  Speaker 1: in practice. Uh, but he's on it, does a great
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  Speaker 1: jobs the play color. Is there something unique about the
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  Speaker 1: relationship you have to have with your green DWN guy? Yeah? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think so. I've had as as a play caller,
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  Speaker 1: I've had a guy that just wants me to tell
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  Speaker 1: him the call and shut up, and then there's been
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  Speaker 1: green dot guys that don't want me to shut up
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  Speaker 1: and just tell them all the things. So I like
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  Speaker 1: the guys that I get to talk to a lot.
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  Speaker 1: But again it's I think, yeah, I think I think
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  Speaker 1: you got to have a feel for what they can
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  Speaker 1: handle how they see the game. It's important to meet
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  Speaker 1: throughout the week and trying to get on the same page.
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  Speaker 1: Probably not the same quite the same as an offensive
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  Speaker 1: play caller or the quarterback, but uh, it's probably the
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  Speaker 1: closest equivalent that you'd get to, you know, forging that
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  Speaker 1: relationship and spending that time together the spectrum of definitely
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  Speaker 1: the more doesn't mind me talking to them. Sometimes I'll
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  Speaker 1: talk to the sideline and gives me a look to
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  Speaker 1: shut up, and that's when I shut up pretty early
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  Speaker 1: on this time here, you guys just kind of even
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  Speaker 1: clip right away. How have you seen that relationship between
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  Speaker 1: you do grows the way you see football? Well, he's
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  Speaker 1: just he's such an alpha. He's just has such poise
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  Speaker 1: about him. He's kind of unshakable. I just I just
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  Speaker 1: really I just respect the heck out of the guy.
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  Speaker 1: Just he's so tough, understands the game. To come into
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the season, I know, you know, similar
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  Speaker 1: schemes and language and things like that. So probably accelerated
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  Speaker 1: their runing curve a little bit. But that's not easier
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  Speaker 1: coming to a new building. Going across the country, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff going on and then for him
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  Speaker 1: to play as well as he did, feeling the way
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  Speaker 1: he did, meant a lot for our football team. And
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  Speaker 1: I think the guys recognize that, and I know our
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  Speaker 1: coaches and myself dude too. We had an offseason procedure
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  Speaker 1: and think on his knee, does he looks better physically
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  Speaker 1: now since then? Well? I think if you ask him,
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  Speaker 1: he's saying that this is the best he's felt. So
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  Speaker 1: that's great. It's great for us, great for him.
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  Speaker 2: You guys are currently to an half point underdogs. That's
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  Speaker 2: only the third time that's happened for a week one
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  Speaker 2: home opener at SAS last forty years. Forty Yeah, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: how do you decide when to use that information with
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  Speaker 2: the team and when did you.
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  Speaker 1: Just ignore it? I think you're just I mean, look,
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  Speaker 1: you know how we roll at this point. It's we
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  Speaker 1: got to focus on us going out and playing Seahawk
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  Speaker 1: football from the from the first nap to the last.
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  Speaker 1: That's really is our focus. If you're trying to making
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  Speaker 1: it too complicated, you get all out of whack at
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  Speaker 1: some point. Yeah, I mean, there's things to have, motivation material,
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  Speaker 1: bulletin board material, things like that. Probably keep it in house.
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  Speaker 1: When we use it, but think you can tell it's
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  Speaker 1: just it's just kind of like whatever to us right
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  Speaker 1: now with.
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  Speaker 2: A pretty Chris Hayes on by our last week, how
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  Speaker 2: do you feel about your guard depth.
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  Speaker 1: Which kind of in general, Well, I mean, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: you're we're with one less guard, so that's that's the
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  Speaker 1: way we feel. But we got some young guys ready
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  Speaker 1: to go step in if somebody couldn't find their helmet
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  Speaker 1: and uh, and then we'll go from there. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: possibly like Olu is probably the next guy in the game.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Jane would go to guard. Is the plan
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  Speaker 1: right now?
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  Speaker 2: The picture question on the conference, there's so many pieces
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  Speaker 2: and coordinator in the schemes Couch six, Big six and the.
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  Speaker 1: Starters or lessons. How do you feel like all the
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  Speaker 1: do pieces of Well, it's interesting, I know, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think that we see it as new. It's just it's
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  Speaker 1: just us since April, it's like really since we hired Clinton,
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  Speaker 1: so we've had just as much time to kind of
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  Speaker 1: get on the same page as everybody else. Everybody else
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  Speaker 1: has moving parts up to this point. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: understand that we have probably more than most, but uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean we have no other option but to be
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  Speaker 1: really good. So that's what we're going to try to do.
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  Speaker 1: And but we're I don't think we're really spending any
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  Speaker 1: time thinking, Okay, we're new, how is this thing going
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  Speaker 1: to come together? It's like we've had, you know, we've
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  Speaker 1: had all this, all these months up to this point
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  Speaker 1: to come together as a football team and as an offense.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a long season. Two, you're gonna have another
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  Speaker 1: four to five months of growing and evolving as the
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  Speaker 1: season starts to declare. So that's what we're counting on.
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  Speaker 2: What's the first thing you look at after a practice
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  Speaker 2: or after a game on jump?
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  Speaker 1: Where do you go first? Well, after a practice, I
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  Speaker 1: just we just watched it straight through and then we
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  Speaker 1: watch the one on ones all the concept stuff after me. Personally,
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking for like more than one. It's like what
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  Speaker 1: deserves a defensive meeting talking point. It's probably more than
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  Speaker 1: one position group that's affected. Normally that's some sort of
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  Speaker 1: structural thing or just making sure we're playing something the
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  Speaker 1: same way everything else. We get on the same page
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  Speaker 1: as the position coaches and they can handle it within
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  Speaker 1: their group. But that's only my rule thumb. Of whether
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  Speaker 1: or not you know it needs to be talked about
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  Speaker 1: after a game. I just I like to as a
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  Speaker 1: head coach, I like to watch it straight through, not
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  Speaker 1: like one phase at a time. It's just what I
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  Speaker 1: prefer as a game unfolds from bullet rings and now,
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  Speaker 1: what have you liked though, what you've seen from Jackson
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  Speaker 1: in this new office? Man, he's he's so decisive with
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  Speaker 1: with how he with how he operates. I mean, uh,
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  Speaker 1: he runs everything. He's he's on his stuff, great attitude,
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  Speaker 1: phenomenal attitude, great work ethic. Uh, He's just he's there
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  Speaker 1: every day, same guy, every day, and nothing more you
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  Speaker 1: can ask about him. I'm really excited for him.
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  Speaker 2: With the bullet with the bullet board material.
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  Speaker 1: How often do you go to that instead of relatively
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  Speaker 1: rare technique every every once in a while. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think, for who we are, you start just you
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  Speaker 1: start thinking about not what we need to do. It's
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  Speaker 1: just sometime again, there's times for it. But that's just
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  Speaker 1: that's our philosophy here. Not there's not right. There's not
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  Speaker 1: a right one or right way or the wrong way.
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  Speaker 1: It is this is the way that we choose to
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  Speaker 1: approach it. Thank you. Okay, all right, Thanks Shell.