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Sam Darnold: "It's All About The Details Right Now" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Jeff said, I could put this up here, So I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna put it up here. Brand marketing awareness. No, I thought,
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  Speaker 1: you know, looking at it, you know, the thoughts thoughts
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  Speaker 1: that I had post game were pretty pretty you know,
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  Speaker 1: spot on in terms of, you know, what I thought happened.
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  Speaker 1: And then you know, other than that, I think moving
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  Speaker 1: on this week. Yesterday, we had a really good, you
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  Speaker 1: know day of practice on Wednesday. Just got to continue
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  Speaker 1: to you know, as you guys know, got to continue
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  Speaker 1: to work the details and you know, continue to communicate
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  Speaker 1: with each other what what we feel like is working,
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  Speaker 1: what what isn't and just iron out some of the
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  Speaker 1: details there. Today obviously, just had a great walkthrough. So
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  Speaker 1: I feel like all the guys are just feeling really confident,
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  Speaker 1: really good about you know, despite the the result on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like all the guys are, you know, in
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  Speaker 1: a really good place. We feel like we have a
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  Speaker 1: good football team and we're ready to go. We'll be
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  Speaker 1: ready to go by by this upcoming Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Does it feel like the offense needs to take a
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  Speaker 2: jump or find tun the details?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we just need to find tune the details. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: it can be better in some spots, I can be
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  Speaker 1: a lot better, you know on third down, just you know,
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  Speaker 1: being able to find some completions, you know, let the
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  Speaker 1: guys be able to run with the football, uh, and
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  Speaker 1: just be better in that area.
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  Speaker 2: Only one play action attempt in this game. Why Why
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  Speaker 2: do you think it worked.
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  Speaker 1: Out that way? You know, I just I think that's
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  Speaker 1: just how it worked out. I don't know. It's uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, trying to get the run game going and
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  Speaker 1: you know all those things. The you know, we got
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  Speaker 1: to convert more on third downs. We got to have
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  Speaker 1: you know, more efficient plays on first and second down
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  Speaker 1: and being being a good position to where we can
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  Speaker 1: run more plays. You know. I think that's it, and
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  Speaker 1: we know that as an offense, and we just got
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  Speaker 1: to do our job every single play, execute better, and
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we'll be in a position to to
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  Speaker 1: to you know, put our foot on the gas a
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  Speaker 1: little bit on first and second down.
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  Speaker 2: Sam, When you say you have to find more completions
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  Speaker 2: on third down, what does that mean and how how
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  Speaker 2: does the defense also dictate what it is what your
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  Speaker 2: choices are.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think first of all, it's just you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of like we talked about, you know, in the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: just you know, figuring out the details, understanding kind of
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  Speaker 1: what what led to some of those incompletions, how I
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  Speaker 1: can get on the same page with the guys, which
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  Speaker 1: we've already ironed out. We Aron, you know, iron that
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  Speaker 1: out on Monday, and we already worked on a ton
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  Speaker 1: of stuff yesterday and will continue to work today and
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow on just some route concepts and different things that
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  Speaker 1: we like. But I think it's all about the details
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  Speaker 1: right now, and we're just going to continue to you know,
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  Speaker 1: put our best foot forward in terms of just finding
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  Speaker 1: rhythm and being able to you know, play with rhythm
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  Speaker 1: and and find those completions when they're there.
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  Speaker 2: I think Jackson had almost like the targets or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: I guess what's the choice to kind of getting more
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  Speaker 2: guys involved from the receiving standpoint.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think at the end of the day, like
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  Speaker 1: it just happened. Happened to be that way. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going through my progressions, going through my reads,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, fifty eight percent of the time it told
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  Speaker 1: me to go to Jack's and that's just kind of
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  Speaker 1: how it worked out. A lot of games are are different.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes they're going to do things to you know, take jacks,
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  Speaker 1: take coop, take some other guys away from us, and
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  Speaker 1: so you know, other guys got to be on there.
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  Speaker 1: Uh p's and q's in terms of you know, being
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  Speaker 1: able to you know, beat one on one coverage. And
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  Speaker 1: you know that's that's kind of what we're looking at
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  Speaker 1: this week, and it's going to be uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be a fun challenge for us.
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  Speaker 2: You guys use a lot of quick game in this
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  Speaker 2: this it's pretty niners and curious like when that works,
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  Speaker 2: what are the good elements of a quick game? Like,
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  Speaker 2: what are the things that make a quick game work?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you know, continuing to get up on
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  Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and you know, uh, pressing the
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  Speaker 1: issue even if we're not going on the you know,
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  Speaker 1: using the quick game and doing those things, being able
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  Speaker 1: to you know, make it look like that. Because that's
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  Speaker 1: the beautiful thing about this system is I feel like
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  Speaker 1: everything mirrors, you know, everything can mirror one another. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the run game, the pass game, play action game, it
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  Speaker 1: can all kind of go together. And that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: what we're continuing to build here and we're going to
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  Speaker 1: continue to harp on.
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  Speaker 2: That when you look at Pittsburgh, they their defense gave
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  Speaker 2: up a lot of yards last week, But where do
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  Speaker 2: you find them to be most opportunistic?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, looking at this defense, looking at this team,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously coach Tomlin does a great job of
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  Speaker 1: getting his guys ready, and we know that coming in.
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  Speaker 1: They have a lot of a lot of great players
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  Speaker 1: on that defense, you know, on the you know, on
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  Speaker 1: the front, the defensive line obviously they're great players. Linebackers
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  Speaker 1: are are really good, and then in the secondary obviously
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  Speaker 1: they got some great players back there as well. So
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  Speaker 1: we're really excited about the challenge just all the different
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  Speaker 1: looks that they can bring, coverages, pressures tied to those coverages. So, uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a really fun challenge for us
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  Speaker 1: this week, and you know, I'm really looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 2: What did you see out of your guys up front?
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  Speaker 2: Obviously the game ended on a tough play, but overall
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  Speaker 2: of the protection numbers looked really good, which.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought the pro is awesome all day. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, obviously that last play, I feel like I
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  Speaker 1: could have got the ball out a little bit quicker,
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  Speaker 1: to be honest with you, and you know, we checked
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  Speaker 1: that ball down. Who knows what happens, but uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I felt like, you know, the protection was great all
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  Speaker 1: day and we'll just continue to to uh to grow
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  Speaker 1: from that.
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  Speaker 2: When you look at the third down numbers from last week,
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  Speaker 2: what stands out to you about those situations? And know
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  Speaker 2: there was a few yard long yard which ones in
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  Speaker 2: there too, but kind of what what kind of sticks
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  Speaker 2: in your mind about the third down chances? Yeah, last week?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think the biggest thing is being
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  Speaker 1: efficient on first and second down, specifically first down, being
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  Speaker 1: able to get those yards, being able to put the
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  Speaker 1: defense in a tough position on second down, keep them,
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  Speaker 1: you know, on their toes a little bit, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: go from there. Yesterday, Leo talked about the period of
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  Speaker 1: practice where they do blitz, bluff and.
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  Speaker 2: Bandit in what way I mean you know that that's
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  Speaker 2: for them to disguise, right in what way does that make.
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  Speaker 1: The offense better? Yeah? It's incredible, you know, to be
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  Speaker 1: able to go up against our defense and see all
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  Speaker 1: the different types of looks that you know, Coach McDonald
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  Speaker 1: and the guys you know draw it's uh, it's always
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  Speaker 1: tough to go against very challenging, but you know, it
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  Speaker 1: makes it it makes it fun, makes practice a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more fun. You know, you see all these looks
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  Speaker 1: we're going up against Pittsburgh, than all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: we're in a period where we're going up against our
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  Speaker 1: defense and we're running you know, the plays that we're
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  Speaker 1: running against Pittsburgh, and uh so it's fun. It's fun
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  Speaker 1: to you know, challenge myself and see how I can
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  Speaker 1: find completions in those periods and you know, whether I'm
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  Speaker 1: throwing hot or they're bluffing out of there, and it's
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  Speaker 1: a it's a fun period for for all of us.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure sometimes it doesn't necessarily feel as fun as
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  Speaker 1: I'm describing it right now, but it's definitely a great
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  Speaker 1: period to learn from and continue to grow our offense from.
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  Speaker 2: Have you noticed in the places you've been that certain
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  Speaker 2: scout teams prepare you better for the week than others?
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  Speaker 2: And if so, like the how.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great question. I think, you know, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like most scout teams that I've you know, first of all,
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  Speaker 1: I was running a scout team in San Francisco not
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  Speaker 1: too long ago, a couple of years ago, and even
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  Speaker 1: in Carolina, my last year there. But I feel like
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  Speaker 1: everybody in the NFL is such a professional and they
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  Speaker 1: they take their craft so seriously, and I feel like,
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  Speaker 1: for the most part, a lot of guys are very
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  Speaker 1: tuned into what their defense runs. And if their defense
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  Speaker 1: runs a different version of Cover three than our defense,
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  Speaker 1: you know, our scout team guys on defense are going
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  Speaker 1: to do a great job of trying to mirror what
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh does. And I think that's what kind of separates
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  Speaker 1: a great scout team. And I feel like a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the places that I've been do a great job
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  Speaker 1: of doing that.
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  Speaker 2: You like, splitting out wide right for a party.
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  Speaker 1: To the Yeah, that was great. I had you know,
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  Speaker 1: I had some fun over there with Demo with Number
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  Speaker 1: two over there, and uh, you know, I was just
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  Speaker 1: making sure he was guarding me because you know, if
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  Speaker 1: he turns his back to me again, who knows, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in that last game. So no, that'll be uh, that'll
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  Speaker 1: be a fun one to you know. Uh. I wish
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  Speaker 1: I would have miked up for that, to be honest,
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  Speaker 1: because that was a fun little interaction there. But uh,
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  Speaker 1: Demo is always a He's a fun competitor and someone
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  Speaker 1: that I like to like to talk to every now
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  Speaker 1: and then he just smiled at me, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: to you know, I was I was more chirping at him,
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  Speaker 1: just because that's a fun opportunity for a quarterback to
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  Speaker 1: go out there out wide and we don't I've never
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  Speaker 1: done that in a game, and I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: a great opportunity just to say something to him. So,
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  Speaker 1: how are your hands? Hands are great? I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you guys have seen me out in
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  Speaker 1: practice or anything, but you guys haven't put together a
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  Speaker 1: highlight reel or anything. I'm pretty surprised you haven't. But
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  Speaker 1: uh no, my hands, My hands are okay. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like quarterbacks love to say that their hands are great,
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  Speaker 1: and then they would probably get in a game and
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  Speaker 1: you know, hear footsteps, and you know, things change a
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  Speaker 1: little bit once you get out there and and the
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  Speaker 1: you know, live bolts are actually flying. So when you're
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  Speaker 1: out there just messing around catching a football, you can
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  Speaker 1: do all sorts of things.
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  Speaker 2: So past years, you know, some people have said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: Sam holt onto the ball too long, and then this
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  Speaker 2: game you get rid of all really quickly. How do
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  Speaker 2: you kind of strike the balance of you know, when
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  Speaker 2: to when to keep it let a play develop, and
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  Speaker 2: when to get rid of it more quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's just situational awareness and understanding where
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  Speaker 1: where checkdowns are. I think that's the biggest thing. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, pressure as well. If I feel like the
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know, whether they brought a five man
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  Speaker 1: four or five man rush. Normally a five man rush,
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  Speaker 1: like I'd love to get the ball out because there
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  Speaker 1: there's more space on the field, But if it's a
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  Speaker 1: four man three man rush especially, you know, I understand that.
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  Speaker 1: I can, you know, if if nothing's open right away
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  Speaker 1: in my progression, I can maybe you know, extend the
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  Speaker 1: play a little bit. So every situation is a little
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  Speaker 1: bit different. But at the end of the day, I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to get the ball out in a timely fashion.
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  Speaker 1: But if it calls for a scramble drill, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's what I'm gonna do. I'm assuming that going
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  Speaker 1: out there in a preseason drive is good for them
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  Speaker 1: putting something on tape. You guys learn how you play
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  Speaker 1: together and correct stuff.
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  Speaker 2: How much more can you be better at that part
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  Speaker 2: with the whole.
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  Speaker 1: Game tea, Yeah, yeah, for sure, I think you know,
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  Speaker 1: just to be able to have that tape, to be
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  Speaker 1: able to coach, you know, the coaches coach us, you know,
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  Speaker 1: us as players, to be able to look at ourselves
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  Speaker 1: and see how we can get better, how this offense
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  Speaker 1: can grow and get better from it. I mean there's
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  Speaker 1: you know, we've we've looked at it on Monday, and
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we've grown a ton from that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just going to continue to be that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: ever evolving, you know, offense of how we do things,
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  Speaker 1: and we're just going to continue to get better this
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  Speaker 1: season and and grow as an offense. You're close with
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen, right, Yeah, a good question on behalf of
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  Speaker 1: our reporter who covers the Bills. How have you seen
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  Speaker 1: Josh evolve in his off the field approach over the
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  Speaker 1: years and did you notice anything different particularly this offseason.
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  Speaker 1: He's playing a little bit more golf nowadays, So now, no,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's always trying to get better in the off season.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's he's working out, he's doing his thing,
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  Speaker 1: he is playing a lot of golf. Got married, so
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  Speaker 1: you know, his life is pretty hectic at times, and
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  Speaker 1: so I think the most more important thing for him
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  Speaker 1: is just to relax and be with his family and
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  Speaker 1: friends as much as he can be. When you guys
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  Speaker 1: play golf, we won't talk about that, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: won't talk about that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this is your first first start in Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have any things that you do when you're
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  Speaker 2: entered in a stadium for the first time or getting
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  Speaker 2: acclimated to a new new.
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  Speaker 1: Place to play. No, I just I go out there
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  Speaker 1: and I warm up, and I do my thing and
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  Speaker 1: get ready to play the game. You know. No, no
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  Speaker 1: superstitions or anything for me, so I appreciate it.