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Mike Macdonald: "We're Really Excited About What's To Come" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, all right, good to see everybody. We have
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  Speaker 1: an opening statement or anything, but let's get right to it.
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  Speaker 2: Just now that you've had a couple of days to
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  Speaker 2: sort of take a step back, I would just sort
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  Speaker 2: of evaluate how your first seaton went.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we've had a great I mean, obviously what happened
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  Speaker 1: yesterday with moving on from Ryan took the better part
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  Speaker 1: of the morning. But you know, we've had since the
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  Speaker 1: team meeting, having a lot of opportunities to talk to
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  Speaker 1: our coaches and our players, and it's been really great,
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  Speaker 1: just really optimistic, fired up for what's ahead of us,
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  Speaker 1: where the direction of our team's going. I think, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: obviously we want to be, you know, fighting it out
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs, and felt like we had a good
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  Speaker 1: enough team to do some damage, but we didn't earn
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  Speaker 1: the right to do that. So we're moving on. But
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  Speaker 1: we're really man just excited about what's to come and
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  Speaker 1: working through like what the off season is going to
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  Speaker 1: look like, making some tweaks, how do we evolve all
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  Speaker 1: those things that all that stuff's ahead of us, how
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  Speaker 1: we build our roster, all those types of decisions, finding
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  Speaker 1: a new offensive coordinator, I mean, all those things. So
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  Speaker 1: it's an exciting time, excited about the foundation that we
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  Speaker 1: that we've been able to to lay and.
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  Speaker 3: Ready to get back to work.
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  Speaker 4: And your comments yesterday, you kind of mentioned the visions
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  Speaker 4: that you have for the offense and maybe that didn't
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  Speaker 4: align with Ryan.
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  Speaker 5: What what is your vision for the offense?
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  Speaker 4: What would you kind of see is that going forward
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  Speaker 4: that you want to get out of this new hire.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I just you know, I think just look, it's
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  Speaker 1: not like we weren't together on this thing the all
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  Speaker 1: right of the way.
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  Speaker 3: We just decided it was the right decision to make.
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  Speaker 1: And there's some specifics that will lead that to Ryan
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  Speaker 1: and ives conversations today and throughout the season.
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  Speaker 3: But we want, we.
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  Speaker 1: Want to mirror our football team all the things we've
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  Speaker 1: been talking about. Isn't that we felt it's just we
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that we weren't doing these things on offense throughout
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  Speaker 1: the year. We've done a lot of great things, but
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  Speaker 1: we want our offense to be a physical unit and
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  Speaker 1: dig take terms of the defense and play compimentary football
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  Speaker 1: and get the ball to our playmakers frequently in space
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  Speaker 1: and let our quarterback play fast. So we were doing
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  Speaker 1: a lot of those things offensively, just decided to decide
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  Speaker 1: to go in a different direction.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of people look at the.
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  Speaker 6: Run pass numbers and they assume that that's the reason
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  Speaker 6: that Mike Daldi just wants to run more. Are they oversimplifying?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We can get into all the specifics and all the
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  Speaker 1: numbers and the ratios, and there's whether or not we
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  Speaker 1: we kind of ran it back again this year or not.
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  Speaker 1: There's definitely things that we want to improve on in
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  Speaker 1: all three phases. Be happy to answer those questions offensively
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  Speaker 1: on specifics, but it really just was just an alignment
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  Speaker 1: thing and a vision thing, and that's why we made
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  Speaker 1: the decision something.
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  Speaker 7: You guys were aligned one hundred percent in vision and
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  Speaker 7: alignment in February.
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  Speaker 5: What changed between then.
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  Speaker 1: And now, Well, I wouldn't I mean, I wouldn't say that.
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  Speaker 1: It just didn't manifest itself the way that we expected.
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  Speaker 1: And I think I think we kind of grew the
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  Speaker 1: way the way the offense the direction that was going.
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  Speaker 1: It just wasn't the way that I wanted it to go.
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  Speaker 5: The Arizona game, the second one a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 4: How close to like an ideal offensive performance was that
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  Speaker 4: for you guys?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think that game was we played complimentary football. Defensively,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't start out the right way. Offense came back
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  Speaker 1: and kind of and kind of answered the bell. We
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  Speaker 1: were able to take the ball away defensively, special teams.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was one of our best games of
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  Speaker 1: the year. So that's what we're shooting for as a
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  Speaker 1: football team is just played better, better, complimentary ball in
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  Speaker 1: all three phases.
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  Speaker 3: Offensively was great.
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  Speaker 1: We ran for a bunch of yards and I felt
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  Speaker 1: like we took care of the line of scrimmage and thought,
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  Speaker 1: you know, played fast. But these things can make like
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  Speaker 1: kind of take different shapes and of how you wanted
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  Speaker 1: to play out. So you know, as we look forward,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure you want to ask on what we're
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  Speaker 1: looking for the new coordinator and all that, it's not
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  Speaker 1: less specific. It's not like these just like, hey, I
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  Speaker 1: have to have a B and C. We want to
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  Speaker 1: have an open mind. We want to try to find
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  Speaker 1: the best bit for our football team and the guys
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  Speaker 1: we have on on offense.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, this was your.
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  Speaker 5: First season obviously overseeing an entire staff.
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  Speaker 8: Do you feel like your idea of the vision that
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  Speaker 8: you have on offense now has maybe a little bit
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  Speaker 8: more clarity after being able to go through this season
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  Speaker 8: and and now being able to go into another highering.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that I think that's that's probably fair,
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  Speaker 1: But I think that that transcends our entire football team,
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  Speaker 1: the direction we want to go.
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  Speaker 3: Things.
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  Speaker 1: We want to emphasize more how we build the off season.
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  Speaker 1: But kind of every decision you're making, having done it
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  Speaker 1: for a year and understanding that people we have in
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  Speaker 1: the building and our coaches and players and how everything operates.
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  Speaker 1: Just having a base layer foundation of understanding, is it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be really helpful?
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  Speaker 5: Any other will go ahead? Do you anticipate any other
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  Speaker 5: changes with their coaching staff?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's tricky, you know when you when you decide
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  Speaker 1: to bring in a new coordinator, there's there's probably gonna
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  Speaker 1: be some movement with it because those guys are gonna
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  Speaker 1: want we want the we want. Our new coordinators feel
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  Speaker 1: like they have a lot of influence in their staff.
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  Speaker 1: So we might have some movement when that happens, and
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  Speaker 1: we might not. So we'll kind of go through the
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  Speaker 1: process and figured it out as we go.
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  Speaker 6: What do you think makes this a CE role attracted
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  Speaker 6: relative to others in the.
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  Speaker 3: League, man.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's a heck of a job.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it starts at the organization. I mean, all
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  Speaker 1: all the things that all the reasons why I felt
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  Speaker 1: like this is such a great place to be has
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  Speaker 1: been backed up, you know, tenfold, So that starts there,
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  Speaker 1: and then our players are really the next best. I mean, shoot,
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  Speaker 1: we got great players, man, I mean we've got a
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  Speaker 1: great young core, and I think I mean, shoot, I
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  Speaker 1: think it's a heck of a job. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: the best job out there.
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  Speaker 9: Like the physicality you wanted on offense and didn't get,
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  Speaker 9: did you have the personnel to do it? And it
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  Speaker 9: just didn't happen with the with the play calling or
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  Speaker 9: do ye?
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  Speaker 1: I think I think as a football team in all
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  Speaker 1: three phases, we can do a better job. And I
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  Speaker 1: think we have a really talented roster that we can
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  Speaker 1: grow from, especially especially a young, really talented core that
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  Speaker 1: is going to.
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  Speaker 3: Grow and develop and hopefully we.
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  Speaker 1: Were together for a long time that I really believe
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  Speaker 1: in this in this young crew is what.
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  Speaker 9: The newc need to have hit NFL play calling experience.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't I wouldn't say that's a prequisite.
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  Speaker 4: What did Genosmith's season from start to finish, how do.
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  Speaker 5: You kind of assess that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean a reference yesterday and how we played off it.
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  Speaker 1: We did a lot of We did a lot of
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  Speaker 1: really good things, and one of that was one of
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  Speaker 1: those things is Gino's productivity. And this is something that
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to building off. If I thought he
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  Speaker 1: had I thought he had a really good year.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure like when you when we had a conversation yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: but the feeling you get was he's proud of the
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  Speaker 1: things we did, but felt like, you know, we could
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  Speaker 1: have done a better job as an offense and as
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  Speaker 1: a team, and could have put ourselves in a position
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  Speaker 1: going to the tournament to go go make a run
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  Speaker 1: of this thing.
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  Speaker 8: In the last five games, gus average and was five
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  Speaker 8: yards per carry over that time. How do you feel
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  Speaker 8: about the progress of your offensive line with all the
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  Speaker 8: up people that you had early in the season and
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  Speaker 8: getting some young guys.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean that's that's a great point, and
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  Speaker 1: I think that kind of alludes to the growth that
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  Speaker 1: we had and the people that we have, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the players in the offensive line getting consistency. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you look at the guys who were playing towards the
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  Speaker 1: end of the season, Abe coming off the injury, Olu
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  Speaker 1: really taking the center spot. Jalen Sundale had some good
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  Speaker 1: reps Atawa. He played some really good football for us,
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  Speaker 1: so he's got a great future. So building on those things.
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  Speaker 1: The tight end position, I think, I think we got
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  Speaker 1: some great players at tight end, and then our running backs,
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  Speaker 1: mean the emergence of Kenny McIntosh, you know, when Canine
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  Speaker 1: you know, wasn't able to finish the season. So I
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  Speaker 1: think there's a lot of a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 1: of bright spots moving forward upfront.
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  Speaker 8: Coming back to how you build your roster, what kind
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  Speaker 8: of traits are you looking for in a player?
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  Speaker 1: Just general the turns of well, these are things that
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  Speaker 1: John and I had conversations with since we walked in
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  Speaker 1: the door. Me personally, the first thing I told them
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  Speaker 1: was they gotta love football. I mean there's a certain
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  Speaker 1: mental makeup and character to you when you love You
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  Speaker 1: love the game by playing the game and not what
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  Speaker 1: the game does for you. And uh, I think if
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  Speaker 1: you have that type of mentality, you're gonna love the
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  Speaker 1: process that we have implemented.
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  Speaker 3: Here in this building. And we believe.
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  Speaker 1: That if you do that and you do the right things,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to develop and and you take your game
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  Speaker 1: to the next level.
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  Speaker 3: That's the first thing.
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  Speaker 1: But of course, I mean, this is a this is
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  Speaker 1: a violent game. You gotta be a physical football player,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta be smart, you got to be dependable, so
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  Speaker 1: your teammates understand you're gonna be in the right spot.
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  Speaker 3: All those things are really important.
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  Speaker 6: One of the youngest in the league, how do you
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  Speaker 6: decide on improvement where you're going to bet on development
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  Speaker 6: versus experience and knowing what you're gonna.
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  Speaker 5: Get from somebody.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a I don't think I
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  Speaker 1: don't think that's specific to just the offensive line.
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  Speaker 3: It's an interesting question. I probably it's probably a case
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  Speaker 3: by case basis.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably depends a lot on the confidence you have
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  Speaker 1: in the person you're willing to develop. And there's some
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  Speaker 1: positions where you feel like, hey, like let's just we're
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  Speaker 1: always going to add at that position no matter what,
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  Speaker 1: just because the depth you need officsive line is probably
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  Speaker 1: one of those positions where you're always gonna want them
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  Speaker 1: into being a kind of continuously build mode.
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  Speaker 3: So John and I haven't talked about.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're still working through the beginning part of
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  Speaker 1: the strategy here and working through the coordinator search, but
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  Speaker 1: those will the conversations will be having throughout the throughout
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  Speaker 1: the spring.
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  Speaker 5: Last year, you.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't even get here until you know, the beginning of February,
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  Speaker 2: I think, and then you're building coaching staff.
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  Speaker 5: How much you're looking forward to a full off season?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, tremendously.
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  Speaker 1: I Mean the silver lining of being in the situation
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  Speaker 1: is and the opportunity that you're presented is you do
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  Speaker 1: have a head start on the rest of the league
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  Speaker 1: to a certain extent. So this is something we really
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  Speaker 1: have to make sure we take advantage of. This is
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  Speaker 1: a position we don't want to be in ever again.
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  Speaker 1: So hopefully, you know, you make the most of it.
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  Speaker 1: And now we're kind of springboarding and into creating those opportunities.
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  Speaker 9: Related to that. Mike, how much more involved are you
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  Speaker 9: going to be in picking this oc than in the
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  Speaker 9: last week?
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  Speaker 1: How much more I was one hundred percent involved last time.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be one hundred percent involved this time.
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  Speaker 5: What is it is there?
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  Speaker 4: Is there one or two things that you really kind
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  Speaker 4: of learned that maybe going in before becoming a head
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  Speaker 4: coach that you kind of know now that you didn't
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  Speaker 4: know then being a head coach having got.
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  Speaker 1: Through it for a year, well, I think, I think
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  Speaker 1: you know, you come in with a lot of ideas,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, what you find is you really need more
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  Speaker 1: double down on the basic principles that you wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be the team to be founded upon. You realize that
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  Speaker 1: pretty early understanding this is it's way clear on understanding
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  Speaker 1: what we need to do day in day out, what
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  Speaker 1: it feels like, what it looks like as a team,
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  Speaker 1: what it's going to take to be a championship football team.
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  Speaker 1: The easiest way is it's kind of theory going in
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  Speaker 1: of your prior experience is before you're kind of running
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  Speaker 1: the show, and now you are, and now it's now
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  Speaker 1: it's in practice. So I think as a as a
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  Speaker 1: as a team and players conversations we had coaches like
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  Speaker 1: just the shared understanding of having gone through the experience
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  Speaker 1: and understanding what we're trying to we're trying to create
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  Speaker 1: is a lot clearer now.
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  Speaker 6: Jim Marbo said that the O line is the one
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  Speaker 6: position group that depends on no other position group to
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  Speaker 6: be good, and every other position group depends on them
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  Speaker 6: to be good. How closely does that align with your
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  Speaker 6: perspective on the offensive line.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, you know how I feel about Jim,
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  Speaker 3: and I mean.
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty wise statement, is what he said. So it's
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  Speaker 1: that a hard time disagreeing with that.
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  Speaker 2: When you look at DK season, what do you see
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  Speaker 2: with the ups and down statistically but obviously.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean yeah, I mean I felt like we
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  Speaker 1: felt DK's presence consistently consistently throughout the year, and there
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  Speaker 1: were some explosives that he really tilted the game in
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  Speaker 1: our favor, and that that's really the vision we have
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  Speaker 1: for him is we just wish we could have done
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  Speaker 1: it more consistently early in the season. I mean, if
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  Speaker 1: you're going into the Atlanta game before he hit his
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  Speaker 1: before he got his knee banged up, you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: tops in the league probably dang near every category, and
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  Speaker 1: we wish we could have kept that going since when
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  Speaker 1: he got back. So and those are the things we're
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  Speaker 1: looking to build off with DK. And he's such a
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  Speaker 1: force out there.
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  Speaker 3: It's not just.
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  Speaker 1: Good enough to get the coverage tilted him. We got
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  Speaker 1: to figure out more ways to give him the ball consistently.
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  Speaker 1: And let of impact the game with the ball in
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  Speaker 1: his hands rather than just moving covers.
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  Speaker 2: That way, you obviously are going to have a lot
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  Speaker 2: more time to look at the film on your rookie class.
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  Speaker 7: But how'd you feel about the way that that group
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  Speaker 7: played this year as a whole?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I thought, I mean I thought, I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: thought that the guys did a great job. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you kind of go through the list. Christian Haynes, I
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  Speaker 1: think he's got a great future. And Byron Murphy. I
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  Speaker 1: mean I was probably to mention Byron first, but I
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  Speaker 1: mean Byron is going to be a great player in
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  Speaker 1: this league. He already is a great player in this
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  Speaker 1: League's gonna have a great career. He's in a tremendous
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  Speaker 1: he's in. He's in a great room. So like his
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  Speaker 1: his his role can can skyrocket and and'll and and
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  Speaker 1: it is it'll be what he makes of it and
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  Speaker 1: he'll create that. But this guy's a three down player.
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  Speaker 1: It's done a great job.
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  Speaker 3: We go through it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean Tyree Knight coming in and playing really significant
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  Speaker 1: Nasmora is playing winning football. I think the overall development
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  Speaker 1: of the of the of the class is what I'm
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  Speaker 1: most excited about and then you know a lot of
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  Speaker 1: them were forced into meaningful reps. But that's that's gonna
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  Speaker 1: pay dividends for us in the future.
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  Speaker 5: Speaking of Christian, what do you make of his first year?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, there was potentially a.
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  Speaker 9: Chance to grab and starting job and run with it
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  Speaker 9: there And what was tw and said, what do you
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  Speaker 9: kind of see of his year and where he can
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  Speaker 9: make a stride for you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he's got a bright future. I really do.
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  Speaker 1: And it was when we were making that decision when
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  Speaker 1: we decided to go to Stawa. It wasn't that Christian
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  Speaker 1: hadn't done enough to earn an opportunity. We just felt
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  Speaker 1: like Stawa did more. So, but Christian's gotten all the reps.
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  Speaker 1: He's gotten a ton of He still had meaningful reps
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  Speaker 1: early the season.
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  Speaker 3: I thought.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he played well earlier in the season, good
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  Speaker 1: enough to win. But we want more. We want more
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  Speaker 1: from our entire offense. We want more from our offerensive line.
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  Speaker 1: Guys know that. But I believe in the guy that's
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  Speaker 1: guys that we have and uh, any opportunity were going
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  Speaker 1: to chance to develop those guys and make our team better,
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  Speaker 1: We're going to do it.
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  Speaker 5: Check on this first year.
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  Speaker 8: How much did you grow as a head coach and
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  Speaker 8: what is the one thing you're as proud of with
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  Speaker 8: this team the way they kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of came together.
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  Speaker 1: What I'm most proud of from your personally or what
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  Speaker 1: have I learned the most?
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  Speaker 3: I think I talked about it earlier.
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  Speaker 1: It is just just it's just this a clearer picture
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: of what we need to do on a day and
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: day out basis. You're you're kind of applying principles and
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: from your share earlier experiences and leading in on conversations
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: and people throughout the building of kind of figuring out
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: how out it all works. And the first time you
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: do anything is the first time you do anything. So
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: you're just you're working through all those things. But you
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: you have to be in constant learn mode otherwise you're
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: you're not going to evolve. So it's been an awesome year, man,
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, like just it's been and there's a lot
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: of things that have happened that you have to navigate
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: through and gotta you gotta trust your instincts and your
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: values and philosophy to kind of push you through those things.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: So and then with the team, I think, you know,
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: we were, we were at a we were at a
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: tough spot in the middle of the season.
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: You know, it could have gone either way.
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: And uh, I think the way that our guys had
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: an approach of kind of staying steadfast and what we're
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: trying to do, the faith they had and and me
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: and the rest of the coaches, and the message that
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: we were trying to create, and then hearing from the
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: guys after the season about their feedback, I just think
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: I feel really strongly that we got the right guys
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: and they're really they're really convicted and and motivated.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: To, you know, make this team a champion. I'm I'm
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: right there with them.
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: Iron How do you evaluate what you got from him?
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: And why do you think the more production wasn't there?
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, we're we talked with We're evaluating everything
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: all the time.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: So I'm watching this guy do.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: What he does at practice every day, every pass, rush,
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: rep ad. Those guys are doing the same thing, and
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: he does every He does this stuff at a high level.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: He plays really hard. He's a great technician for being
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: how young he is. Just tough as nails, going out
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: there and playing the last game not one hundred percent
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: and working through it, uh, production wise, Like I know,
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: the sacks aren't there and the pass rush reps, but
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: like every every time this guy's taking a three technique
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: pass rush rep, that means Leonard Williams isn't on the field.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: And right now, I think Leonard's probably the best you know,
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: interior D lineman in the game.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: So it's like.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: What do you know, what do you want to do?
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: So we have to be more creative to get him
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: on the field. But he's he'll earn those opportunities and
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: and the production will be there in the long run.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: I'm convinced of that this guy's this guy's a really
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: good player on.
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: The road this year.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: What do you think can helped you guys be a
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: good road team? And I guess maybe how valuable is
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: that skill set for a.
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: Franchise loving four that you know you can travel?
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the first thing that happens is like
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: I think the way we travel and how it's set up.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: I thought our operations, folks like Jeremy and John, the
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: way they set everything up, Andrew with the food, Like
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: it's just it's really seamless. When we travel, guys can
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: really just focus on football. So I think we do
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: it at a first class level. And just the focus
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: and keeping the team together. We don't want it to
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: it's like the business trip. We don't really use that
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: that language. It's really just say, let's stay loose, stay focused.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: It's kind of keep the task at hand and go
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: try to win a football game.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: So trying to keep it simple.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: But yeah, this is the mentality of the guys operation wise, offensively,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: you know, operating on silent cadence. Defensively, it's a little
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: more quiet, so it's easier to communicate. And then, honestly, John,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: listen to your question. The first thing to come in
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: to mind is we got to play better at home.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: You know, it's great to be seven to one on
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: the road, but we got to we got to make
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: this place a nightmare for teams to come in and
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: play us, and and utilize our fans in the crowd
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: and the twelves and kind of the whole twelve is
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: one mantra. We really got to make that come to
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: life when we're at Lumen. So that's going to be
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: a major focus for us this offseason.
• 18:01
  Speaker 9: What's the most direct change you can make to make
• 18:03
  Speaker 9: your offense as physical as you want it to be.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of things you can do. I got
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: I need to be better with those guys. I can
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: how we how we message things, how we build it. Uh,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: that'll be a big part of you know, how we
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: how we build our offensive staff and how we build
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: you know, the system in the off season. And then
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: obviously who's who's gonna take the field for us is
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: always going to help that too.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: Is any in house promotions in their consideration right now?
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: No?
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: Is there? What if there's one aspect of your team
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: that you can change in order to win more games
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: next year?
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: What would it be?
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: One more aspect to the.
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: Way your team plays to win more games? Uh?
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Play more complimentary football?
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: As indicated that he'd like raised this offseason and plays
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: on going to contract negotiations. How involved are you plan
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: to be at that all and making sure Geno's here
• 18:54
  Speaker 7: or just with the quarterback of the future in general?
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I want Gino to be here. I
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: think he's a heck of a player.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: He do like what's the first thing always comes back
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: for like for what's best for the team. I feel
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: like Gino is the best for the team right now.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: And so I'll be involved with it. Ultimately, it's not
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: my decision. It's a Seahawks decision. So but Gina knows
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: how we feel about him, and uh, we love him
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: as our starting quarterback for sure.
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: Obviously had a lot on his plate this season.
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: But what do you make of just the interception total
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: and how much of that do you think was you know,
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: decisions he made, bad decisions he made versus a product
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: of things going wrong around.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: He Yeah, I think just as like as it came
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: out throughout the season, I really feel the same way
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: that I did.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: Want to answer those questions.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: But it's it's everybody right, It's it's putting ourselves in
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: those situations. It's clarity on the reads, it's Gino making
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: the correct decisions in real time, the guys being the
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: right spots. It's overall, how much how much kind of
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: are we putting on his plate on a on a
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: play and playout basis. I think all that stuff goes
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: into it, and and we're going to look to, you know,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: build on those situations because some of those came in
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: the red zone and you know, those are those are
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: critical interceptions that that we're gonna want back.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: You mentioned you talked to you, you know, yesterday. Did
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: he have a reaction to, you know, the changing offensive coordinator?
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: What he feels about that?
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, all to say we had a great count.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: We always, I mean, we've been in constant communication since
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: we got the job, and just that was our next conversation.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: I'll keep our conversation private, but it's a great, great talk.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Does that impact just conversations with an offensive.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Coordinator when you're looking to hire when you know maybe
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: he wants to raise but he's technically still under contract
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: for earlier year.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's you're always anytime you're bringing anybody in coaching wise,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: you want it to be you want to understand what
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: their vision is based off the players that we have
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: and how they would kind of deploy everything.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: That's going to be, uh, definitely a topic of conversation.
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: Your special teams this year just kind of all their
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: kicking coverage return. Yeah.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I thought we grew throughout the season, especially taking care
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: of the ball. I thought Jay, I mean, I think
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I think Jay Harbor was a tremendous football coach. Got
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: a ton of respect for him. I think our guys
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: played really hard. When you watch our tape and you
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: see how hard our guys play. That's something that's proud,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: That's that's Seahawk football.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: I thought our coverage units started out really strong, especially
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: on a kickoff. At the end of the year, let
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: too many coverage, you know, too many returns get out
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: on us. So we'll look to improve on that. Our
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: our punt coverage union, I thought was pretty good. We
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: need more explosive returns, and I think our specialists played
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: dynamite this season. I mean, Jason Myers bailed us out
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: a lot of situations. I think I can't imagine anybody
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: else in the world right now better than Michael Dixon
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: and to shaming to get the Pro Bowl.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: A little off topic, but given the timing Hall of Fame.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Votes coming up, Mike Homer as a finalists, I know
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: he's been around the building some.
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: I'm curious how much you've interacted with him, and then
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: as a football coach, like what does he meant to the.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Game and as an offensive coach man personally, the first
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: time I remember meeting coach home bring, he's kind of
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: like larger than life, you know, walk through the hall
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: and then you're in his office and it's it's kind
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: of a twilight Zone moment. But he's a legend of
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: our game. I mean, you think about not only is
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: he probably one of the top offensive minds, play callers,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: head coaches, culture builders this game seen, the first thing
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: comes to mind is his coaching trigue and the people
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: that he's been able to affect and how that affects
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: the game. We we love him has done so well
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: since then with the coaches and scheme and all types
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: of stuff. So I can't imagine better Hall of Fame
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Canathan than Mike Hombren.
• 22:36
  Speaker 9: Of course you're the head coach, Mike, But would you
• 22:40
  Speaker 9: prefer an offensive coach who you could give the trust,
• 22:43
  Speaker 9: to give autonomy to to run your vision or do
• 22:45
  Speaker 9: you want to be involved in that game type of thing.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: I think the answer to that is both. I think
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: it's both.
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: Media station you said, I mean radio show. How you
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: do anything is how you do everything? Did you expand
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: a little bit on that, how that relates to your philosophy?
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're we use the term we do go through,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: not around. We're not going to take shortcuts on stuff,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: and so all the details, all the all the things,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: how we do research, how we do breakdowns, all that
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: stuff matters, and if you really believe in doing it
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: the right way, you're gonna build it. And there's all
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: these little edges that you're trying to chase every day
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: and if you keep if you keep stacking those, at
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: some point that's gonna be good enough to win a game.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: That's gonna make a difference in the long run. So
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: you want to build it the right way.
• 23:33
  Speaker 8: How do you think that played out on your team
• 23:35
  Speaker 8: when you went on a four game losing street that
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: help you get.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: Out of that?
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think you're looking at process over
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: results in that time. I mean, man, it's kind of
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: hard to like put myself in what I was thinking
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: in that in that exact moment. But what you're proud
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: of in that moment is guys sticking together and you're
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: trying to find solutions. You know, we're not we weren't.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: We weren't in the blame game. We're not pointing fingers.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: It's this that's just not how that's not how we roll.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: We're just trying to figure out a way to get better.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: And yeah, you don't want.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: To go on a four game losing streak, but we're
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: able to dig ourselves out just by sticking together and
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: fighting through it.
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: How does this season went compared to what your expectations were.
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: For a year one?
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Well, I want I want to win the I want
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: to win the super Bowl. In order to do that,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: you know, you gotta make you gotta, you gotta win games.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Then you got to make the dance. You want to
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: win your division, you gotta win your conference, and then
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: you want to win the super Bowl. So we did
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: a lot of the first goal. We won ten of
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: our ten of our games. We didn't achieve any of
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: the other goals, so ultimately we fell short. But uh,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: you do look and that there are other things that
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: we felt like we did well where we're building in
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: a position to go attack this thing moving forward.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: Would you think of.
• 24:53
  Speaker 9: Rig Wollen season and what do you feel like is
• 24:55
  Speaker 9: the next step for him?
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: I thought we had a good season.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: I thought he's really grown as a person and a player,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: and he knows this. But to take his game to
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: his next next level is just consistency doing it in,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: day in, day out, down in, down out. But I
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: think he's a heck of a player, excited about his future.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: He's a fun guy to work with just a great
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: energy in the building, great energy for our football team.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Kind of like a unicorn with a skill set. So
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: he's he's he's a fun guy to work with and
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: we're excited about him moving forward.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: The defense obviously went through some pretty significant changes from
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: game one to game seventeen. How close is it now
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: sort of to the vision that you have or what
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: this the defense can be?
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Well, I just think everybody understand what it takes to
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: be good, myself, coaches, players, So I think we have
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: an alignment going into the off season about what it's
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: going to take. And to answer the previous questions, like,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: there's no shortcuts. It's not like you can just roll
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: about there in September and be a good defense. You
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: got to go all the way back through the process.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: You got to do this self scout. You've got to
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: examine your system. You got to kind of rebuild it
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: from the ground up, all your teaching progressions. How are
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: you going to I mean, how you lay out the
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: off season, What do you need to install, what do
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: you need to add?
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: Who else are you going to all those things need
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: to happen.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: How we practice every day, how we just again, how
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: you do anything is hyder.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: I think you've got to go through the process the
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: right way.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: But I think we understand what those check marks are,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: what it's going to take, and I'm excited about that.
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: Do you plan to call plays again next season or
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: adding his back? Would you hand those duties.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Over to him right now? I'm planning on still calling it.
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: As an example, is something you're itching to do this
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: off season that you just can't do during the regular season.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: H Okay, this is weird, but like just taking a
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: walk with my wife and my kid when the sun's out.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: I literally haven't seen my son when the light's been
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: when the sun's been out since he's been born.
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: You have, whether it's free agency stuff like Ernest or
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: some of the other guys, or your twenty twenty two
• 26:55
  Speaker 7: class that's all extension eligible, how involved you play on
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: being and maybe stand on the table for guys that
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: you want back.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: We talk with John and his step Yeah, like just
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: to understand, like John, John and I are we're working
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: together on this thing all the time, so it's a
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: it's a partnership. John's ultimately making the final decision. We
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: understand that, but we're not going to do anything that
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: we're not lock step in and I really believe that
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: that's the way it's been since we walked in the door,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: and uh, it's been an awesome partnership.
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: You mentioned DK's injury. Will he have to have any
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: work done or anything in the off season or is that.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Not to my knowledge?
• 27:31
  Speaker 9: You know, when would you like to prefer to have
• 27:34
  Speaker 9: the new offensive coordinator?
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Well, there's a balance. You want to you want to
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: kind of be efficient and be fast. You can kind
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: of get ahead, but you want to make sure you're
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: making the right decision too. So there's a balance there
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: of being like being quick, but you want to you
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: want to be thorough as well.
• 27:52
  Speaker 9: Are you prepared if you have to to wait through
• 27:54
  Speaker 9: the super Bowl and the the restrictions you have.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: For interviewing the common right now? I just I don't
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: think it's I don't, I don't. I can't give it
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: yesterday on that one.
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: Do you lined up at the moment?
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: We've put in a couple of slips right now. We'll
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: kind of let that play out.
• 28:13
  Speaker 9: Anything else is what have you learned that you will
• 28:16
  Speaker 9: change next year? How you coached, how you led, how
• 28:19
  Speaker 9: you practice trained, any of.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: That, I think there's I think there's a lot more
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: opportunities to get our coaches in front of the players more.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: And uh, there's a way that I can allocate my
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: time through all three phases. Where you know, when you're
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: building a defense with a staff that you haven't worked
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: with on ninety percent of those people, that takes a
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: lot of time. And ultimately, I want to coach the
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: whole football team, so my time will be allocated more
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: throughout each other phase. Which is great, It's that's all
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: good stuff, but uh, empowering our coaches and how I
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: allocate my time to improve.
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: The offensive line next year? How much of it do
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: you think is just about betting on the guys that
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: God versus adding more to that room.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I'm got me give you like a percentage slices of
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: the pie.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: It's both, it's it's it's both.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, we believe in the guys we got I
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: think they I mean, and and players are allowed to
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: get better, you know, so our guys are gonna get better,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: They're going to develop.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: I think we got the right type of guys.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: And and of course at every like you could ask
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: me in any position, are you guys going to look
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: to try to find other players that yes, yes, we are, Yeah,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: of course we're gonna we're gonnadd And there's different there's
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: all these different ways that you can do that and timing,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: whether it's you know, right now we're looking at free agency,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: then we go to I mean, you know that, you
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: know the cadence of it.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: But that's the mentality of, hey, we're going to.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Develop the heck out of our guys, but we're never
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: gonna take ourselves out of the running of possibly adding
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: a great player that that fits us.
• 29:51
  Speaker 9: Is Christian Haynes's viable option at the center.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Potentially, we'll see, we'll see. Right now, I'm thinking more
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: guard but.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: That that's that's uh, that's a conversation that can be had.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Alright, thank you, all right, thank you, thank