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Mike Macdonald: "That Was A Great Team Win" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Never never completely sure if this is on.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, just a lot of a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the same stuff we talked about yesterday. Great, great team,
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  Speaker 2: went all the way around, sixty minute game, good opponent,
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  Speaker 2: that's a good football team that we played, uh yesterday afternoon,
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  Speaker 2: and a lot you know, getting the details kind of
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  Speaker 2: sorted out after watching the tape. But again, kind of
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  Speaker 2: a foundational first game, a lot of good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, shoot, it's really hard.
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  Speaker 2: To win the NFL, man, so to come out with
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  Speaker 2: a win, especially week one at home, was big for.
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  Speaker 1: Our football team.
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  Speaker 2: And but it's just a start, you know, It's it's
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  Speaker 2: one week. A lot of emphasis, you know, here taking
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  Speaker 2: the next step as a team and excited to see
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  Speaker 2: where we're gonna where're gonna take it here over the
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  Speaker 2: next week, going to New England.
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  Speaker 1: So excited for that.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, excided the quarterback, Mike, how'd you feel about your
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  Speaker 3: run defense?
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 2: I put them in a couple a couple of bad
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  Speaker 2: spots where I could have I could have helped out there.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the perimeter game. We can be better on
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  Speaker 2: the edge. I think there was one dual play and
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  Speaker 2: split safety. We can fit better and play that better.
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  Speaker 1: But on the whole.
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  Speaker 2: I think we tackled well, do what we needed to do,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in certain situations, So overall positive.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned next steps.
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  Speaker 4: What do next steps look like after yesterday's matchup.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we go back to work, so I'm excited for
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  Speaker 2: this to be over so we can move on to
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  Speaker 2: New England and and a lot of a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the background work's gone in, and then we kind of
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  Speaker 2: come in tomorrow, debrief a little bit as a team,
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  Speaker 2: and then we move forward to New England and tomorrow's meetings.
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  Speaker 2: Get a good lift and let's rock and roll and
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  Speaker 2: have a great have a great Wednesday.
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  Speaker 4: Did you allow yourself to celebrate and enjoy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you got you have to.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we work tremendously hard, and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: family and friends were in town too, so it's cool
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  Speaker 2: to take a breath and watch the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: Sunday night game and just enjoy Jelly's company and cherish
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  Speaker 2: the victory.
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  Speaker 5: Took a really big step forward last year and then
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  Speaker 5: had a big game for yesterday watching how he played
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  Speaker 5: last year, where did you see that next big step
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  Speaker 5: being for him in year three, especially in your defense
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  Speaker 5: and war your pressures coming out of yesterday's game.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, to your point, I thought he did
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  Speaker 2: play really well last year. And I guess being more
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  Speaker 2: of all three down type of player for you, where
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  Speaker 2: he can be out there in all the different situations,
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  Speaker 2: I mean not sure they matter. I think he played
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  Speaker 2: up forwards of sixty snaps last night, so and played fast.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it didn't seem like he got tired, ran
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  Speaker 1: to the ball.
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  Speaker 2: That the play he made on the third medium there
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  Speaker 2: and I think it was the fourth quarter where next
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  Speaker 2: got out that was just an extraordinary play. So but
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  Speaker 2: saying the mentality of hey, these are the things we
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  Speaker 2: need you to do. Let's go attack him, let's get
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  Speaker 2: it done to his you know, to his credits and
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  Speaker 2: answer the bell each time. So I expect him to
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  Speaker 2: keep making, you know, those strides, and I think the
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  Speaker 2: sack numbers will start to start to show.
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  Speaker 3: Coach, like, defensive line got upfield a little bit more
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  Speaker 3: in the second half. Was that a coaching point to
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  Speaker 3: be were in the first time pass rush?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean we we we changed some of our
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  Speaker 2: pass structures, but it wasn't emphasis to get more upfield.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's tough.
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  Speaker 2: Do you want to run the games and then all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden, you know, you might might give a
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  Speaker 2: pass rush laye up, you know, and then the quarterback
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  Speaker 2: can get up or do you want to you know,
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  Speaker 2: do you want to kind of mush rush them? And
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  Speaker 2: now you're a little bit nullified with the quarterback in
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  Speaker 2: terms of getting there on time. So there's some decisions
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  Speaker 2: you have to make based on situations. But coveragers are
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  Speaker 2: in there's a lot of things that go into, you know,
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  Speaker 2: how you orchestrate those four guys.
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  Speaker 5: You talked about yesterday, but a day later after watching
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  Speaker 5: film to tell please, are you with your guys being
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  Speaker 5: able to rally the way they did, to overcome some
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  Speaker 5: of the early mistakes and win the way they did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's I think it's it's a it's
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  Speaker 2: a shout out to where our football team is and
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  Speaker 2: their mentality and so shows us that we have the
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  Speaker 2: right guy, you know, and their mentality is right where
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  Speaker 2: it needed to be. And and they also know that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we're gonna enjoy the heck out of this game,
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  Speaker 2: but we're you know, we're on Monday now and we're
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  Speaker 2: working on towards the next week. So I know we
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  Speaker 2: enjoyed it. Yet last night. But I mean we're we're
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  Speaker 2: football people, man, We're like, hey, we're on to the
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  Speaker 2: next and we have to otherwise, you know, you want
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  Speaker 2: to stay ahead of these things.
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  Speaker 7: What do you think of how the offensive line played
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  Speaker 7: when you looked at the film.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's room for improvement. I mean you can't.
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  Speaker 2: There's no one's going to turn the tape on in
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  Speaker 2: the first half and be excited about what they saw.
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  Speaker 1: But to their credit, they.
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  Speaker 2: Kept plugging away and I thought the second half the
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  Speaker 2: guys played well together. There's a couple of players you
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  Speaker 2: want back, but on the whole, I thought the second
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  Speaker 2: half was a great job with those guys responding and
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  Speaker 2: coming back and playing some good football.
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  Speaker 8: That's a lot to ask for Connor Williams and first
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  Speaker 8: came out only three weeks back on a field with you.
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  Speaker 8: I think he kind of handled everything for you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Connor did a great job.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's a there's a lot of things that
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  Speaker 2: we're asking from that position, and the way he leads
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  Speaker 2: the group, I think he does a great job. Just
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  Speaker 2: the fact that he's learned this entire new you know,
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  Speaker 2: vocabulary in such a short amount of time and is
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  Speaker 2: able to kind of direct. The show speaks volumes about him,
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  Speaker 2: and then the prep that he has in our coaches.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm just really excited for Connor. I thought it
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  Speaker 2: was a great, great first game for him.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned the team, kind of the mindset, the resilience
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  Speaker 4: to overcome that start. How big of factors Gino smith
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  Speaker 4: in that process?
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  Speaker 2: The way he is, Yeah, I mean he's people are
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  Speaker 2: gonna look to how he's handling those situations and he's
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  Speaker 2: the first guy that you stand positive and you just
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  Speaker 2: you just felt there was no panic from from Gino
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  Speaker 2: and he knew it was gonna come around and it's
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  Speaker 2: just a matter of time. So I wasn't surprised. It's
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  Speaker 2: what I expect from Gino. It's what we all expect
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  Speaker 2: from him. But that's that's type of guy that he is.
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  Speaker 6: Coach.
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  Speaker 3: He's on the radio this morning that you have codes
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  Speaker 3: for how aggressive to be and in that situation at
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  Speaker 3: the end, do you give Greub a kind of how
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  Speaker 3: aggressive to be? And then he makes his own play
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  Speaker 3: calls or are you involved play to play on offense?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not calling offensive plays, but yeah, the types
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  Speaker 2: of plays, there's there's a lot of situations that come
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  Speaker 2: up and it happens fast, so you can't you can't
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  Speaker 2: get into a uh debate on certain things.
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  Speaker 1: So you gotta you gotta be quick. So we have
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  Speaker 1: we code some.
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  Speaker 2: Certain situations out and he understands what what types of
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  Speaker 2: players we're looking for in that situation. So that was
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  Speaker 2: an example of that formaute third down was it was
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  Speaker 2: a good example of how we operate.
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  Speaker 5: Satisfaction scorting with the way that the secondary played as
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  Speaker 5: as a whole, but the safety grew first game with
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  Speaker 5: all those guys played together, the communication going against other
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  Speaker 5: opponent for a real game, How did you feel about
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  Speaker 5: the way the communications between those guys was on the
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  Speaker 5: back end of the defense they did.
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  Speaker 1: They did a tremendous job. Just very proud of those guys.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's, uh, you know, we're we're operating out
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  Speaker 2: in and out of different personnel groups. Guys are changing
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  Speaker 2: some positions and things, some different disguises. They were asking
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  Speaker 2: them to do different checks and orchestrated it beautifully.
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  Speaker 1: They did. They did a great job. They deserve a
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  Speaker 1: lot of credit and to do it.
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  Speaker 2: And in our environment that we're creating and and things
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  Speaker 2: are moving and shaking and they're running plays that you
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  Speaker 2: haven't necessarily seen, you know, over the course of preseason,
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  Speaker 2: as as an impressive, impressive, impressive start by those guys to.
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  Speaker 5: The two point decision at that point in the game.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, you know, that's something we're gonna look at.
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  Speaker 2: But the numbers at that getting times were favored slightly,
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  Speaker 2: and we figured we would go for it and try
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  Speaker 2: to try to get that try to get it to
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  Speaker 2: I forgot what the points spread was. I think they
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  Speaker 2: were up for what was the score A then you
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  Speaker 2: had to go back up three at that point.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Is that something where you you know, you're saying, Gays,
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  Speaker 5: you're going to talk about this, We're wondering about chasing
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  Speaker 5: points that early in the game.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, is that something that's that's that's been a that's
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  Speaker 2: been a discussion point.
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  Speaker 1: Over the whole offseason. We've gone back and forth on it.
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  Speaker 2: We went into this game, you know, kind of following
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  Speaker 2: the numbers straight ahead.
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  Speaker 1: But there's an argument to be made both ways. So
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  Speaker 1: I understand that.
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  Speaker 7: I think you said on the radio you you wanted
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  Speaker 7: to let the game to just a little bit before
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  Speaker 7: you watch the film. I just case you have kind
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  Speaker 7: of a regular postgame routine of how you kind of
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  Speaker 7: do that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I have a hard you know, it's taxing
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  Speaker 2: to go through it mentally, and you're kind of spent
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the game and you're just not
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  Speaker 2: you don't have a fresh like mind to take things
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  Speaker 2: in and ingest it, and you know, he can become
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  Speaker 2: emotional or maybe you're not on all.
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  Speaker 1: The details and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So get a good night's sleep, you know, have a
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  Speaker 2: fresh buying mind, body and spirit in the morning, and
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  Speaker 2: then uh, get after it. And I think that's that's
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  Speaker 2: the way we've done it for years, and I'll probably
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  Speaker 2: keep doing it that way.
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  Speaker 3: Coach, there wasn't a clean sack in the game. How'd
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  Speaker 3: you feel about the pass rush?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, we definitely want sacks and we had
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  Speaker 2: our opportunities, and so that's gonna be some of the
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  Speaker 2: messaging to the guys is, hey, you know, this is
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  Speaker 2: again it's it's a function of time, and it's a
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  Speaker 2: function of whether or not the quarterback has uh someone
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  Speaker 2: to throw the ball to, you know, and then it's
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  Speaker 2: leveraging him in the pocket. So I think there's there's
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  Speaker 2: examples of hey, this is this is kind of on
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  Speaker 2: the rush per se where this one might be more
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  Speaker 2: on the coverage where we could have matched this thing better,
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  Speaker 2: where this stunt was coming up.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a couple of things.
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  Speaker 2: Where shoot, we're a you know, boy had a great
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  Speaker 2: rush where he's right on the right on the you know,
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  Speaker 2: the back side of the rush there on on on
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  Speaker 2: bow and bo got rid of the ball on time,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, we had good coverage and it's a
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  Speaker 2: good football play and we're just a half second away
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  Speaker 2: from you know, a possible strip sack. So I mean,
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  Speaker 2: those things happen all the time. So you know, the
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  Speaker 2: guys need to see that, Hey, there's opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: To be made.
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  Speaker 2: We got to keep executing at a high level, keep
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  Speaker 2: playing really hard, and those things will start to come alive.
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  Speaker 4: Is a coach who sees the game kind of through
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  Speaker 4: a defensive lens, how much stress does a running back
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  Speaker 4: like Ken Walker put on you? When on a defensive
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  Speaker 4: coach from its like he can.
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  Speaker 1: I've lived it.
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  Speaker 2: I lived it for five touchdowns, and it's a it's
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  Speaker 2: not a fun thing to do or experience for that matter.
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  Speaker 2: You need edges and so if you're on it's hard
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  Speaker 2: to play primary secondary on Ken because if you're too early,
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  Speaker 2: he'll make you pay, and so he can also get downhill.
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  Speaker 2: So I thought he played a tremendous game. I really
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  Speaker 2: felt him out there and hopefully well continue.
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  Speaker 1: Tyler missed a bunch of time in training camp.
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  Speaker 5: Was there some like unknown as to how ready he
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  Speaker 5: would be to hit the ground running and a new
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  Speaker 5: offense and everything.
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  Speaker 2: Not with a guy like Tyler, mean, he's a savant,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's extremely bright, picks it up very fast.
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  Speaker 2: So you felt that in the springs as he started
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  Speaker 2: to pick up the system, so mentally that definitely wasn't
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  Speaker 2: a question.
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  Speaker 8: Walk through the week, I'm sorry, anything new on Kenneth Walkers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing new right now, I mean just taking it,
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  Speaker 2: taking it day by day with with K nine, we're talking.
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  Speaker 7: About Tyler's ketchesterday.
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  Speaker 5: But then we were able to go back and watch
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  Speaker 5: the end zone view on that throw that Geno made.
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  Speaker 4: The pressure being.
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  Speaker 5: Seen that end zone view, just how how difficult.
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  Speaker 7: Was that throw?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Did you did you see it? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I mean if you've seen it, you understand, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean there's no space there and then from the
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  Speaker 2: other angle bringing in with the one hand and then
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  Speaker 2: the guy's all over him. I mean, and there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things going on in that play, Like DK
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  Speaker 2: took a great angle to change the corners angle and
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  Speaker 2: chase to make him have to undercut the throw where
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  Speaker 2: he couldn't play the upfield hand, which is the hand
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  Speaker 2: that Lockett caught the ball. So you know, guys have
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  Speaker 2: to set guys up for success too. So that was
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  Speaker 2: a great play by DK. And then you know, for
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  Speaker 2: it takes time to run from this side of the
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  Speaker 2: field to that side the field, so the whole line's
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  Speaker 2: got to hold up, you know, in five man protection,
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  Speaker 2: and they did. So that's eleven guys working as one
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  Speaker 2: right there. That's big time stuff.
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  Speaker 3: You process oriented person, was any one particular process that
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  Speaker 3: you will please with yesterday?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, the wind affirms all of your process. Was
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  Speaker 5: there any one.
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  Speaker 4: Whether it's communication with the coaches or you know, with
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  Speaker 4: your players.
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  Speaker 2: That you yeah, I talked to our coaches today, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, I felt like as a as a football team,
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  Speaker 2: as an organization, our messaging, inconsistency with the guys and
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  Speaker 2: and kind of holding firm in our beliefs and what
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  Speaker 2: we're going to stand on. You know, you felt like, uh,
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  Speaker 2: there's initial we got a chance to really have some
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  Speaker 2: massive buy in on and staying together on this thing.
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  Speaker 2: And so if we had, if we did not do
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  Speaker 2: a good job of that, you know, you could feel
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  Speaker 2: it probably splintering there towards the end of the half,
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  Speaker 2: and we definitely didn't feel that.
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  Speaker 1: Like you have an update on George.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, same thing, same thing with Canine. I like, the
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  Speaker 2: best I could put it is just like day by
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  Speaker 2: day right now.
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  Speaker 7: How did you feel that Byron Murphy played?
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  Speaker 2: Murphy had some he had some really good reps in
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  Speaker 2: the run game. Ronnick probably give him some more opportunities
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  Speaker 2: in the past game. I think he only had a
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  Speaker 2: few few chances to truly rush.
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  Speaker 1: But solid first start.
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  Speaker 2: I think he had like forty plays or something, but
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  Speaker 2: he played hard ball didn't really come his way. But
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  Speaker 2: there's a couple of players I'm thinking, you know, in
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  Speaker 2: the run game wise where he's making plays that we
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  Speaker 2: saw during a training camp.
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  Speaker 4: We saw the first example that the replaces where they
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  Speaker 4: picked up the flag on Leonard. Do you like that
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  Speaker 4: they're kind of helping the fishers out on the clear
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  Speaker 4: cut stuff like that?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I like getting calls right, I like getting calls right.
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  Speaker 1: So that's all good stuff.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's all good stuff and the technologies at
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  Speaker 2: your disposal and helps you make the right decision. I'm
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  Speaker 2: of the belief why not do it when you got.
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  Speaker 3: Guys struggling like the guards were in the first half,
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  Speaker 3: what's your point of view on you know, sticking with
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  Speaker 3: them and letting work through it versus give us some
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  Speaker 3: other guys chances to work in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think you have to have a play.
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  Speaker 2: It's what's the plan going into the game. If you're
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  Speaker 2: in a rotation, Maybe give another guy a shot, give
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  Speaker 2: me breather, let them regroup. But you know, we felt like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just keep going, just keep battling, to stick
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  Speaker 2: with it. And to those guys credit man, they just
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  Speaker 2: kept battling it out, and we saw we saw the
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  Speaker 2: dividends pay off from you know, our faith in those guys.
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  Speaker 8: Given the interception, the two safeties in the first half,
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  Speaker 8: those are a situation and offense could let things fire
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  Speaker 8: on them. What did you like about the way your
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  Speaker 8: guys handled But to not let things, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 8: get a little emotional and get away from you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm being a dead horse, but it's like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I mean there's just we're just sticking, sticking to it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're positive. The guys realized it's.
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  Speaker 2: A sixty minute football game, so you know, when it's
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  Speaker 2: all going wrong like that, I mean, it can't go
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  Speaker 2: any worse.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like, you know, hey, let's just keep.
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  Speaker 2: Playing, keep battling, and uh those that's those guys' mentality,
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: and so it's really it's a credit to them, the
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  Speaker 2: credit to the coaches for you know, standpois and just
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: going to the next play and making the adjustments we
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: need and doing trying to whatever you can to just
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: itch and or call and scratch and try to you know,
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: find a way to win the game.
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  Speaker 7: I just say, there were a number of kickoffs in
• 14:20
  Speaker 7: that game. I think about half of them were touchbacks,
• 14:22
  Speaker 7: like like kicking it through and the other half we're returned.
• 14:24
  Speaker 7: I guess, did you have a general thought on what
• 14:26
  Speaker 7: kind of what you guys wanted to do there with
• 14:27
  Speaker 7: that and how it worked out?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we did a lot of good things on in
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  Speaker 2: both phases, I thought. And there's again it's like, hey,
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: there's there's opportunities there for big plays for us, and
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: so that's what we're attacking.
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: So Hey guys, this is some good stuff.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we got to make some tweaks here and
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: there on the scheme, but this is how it all
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: fits together. When we do it right, this could be
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: a big time play, game changing play for us. So
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: when those opportunities present themselves, hopefully we'll capitalize moving forward.
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: What did you see from Stone stepping in?
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: Excuse me for George Stone, I mean, solid job, and
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: we wind up winning the football game. There's a couple
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: a couple of pass rushes he gave up on the
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: edge and we'll get those cleaned up.
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  Speaker 1: But came in. I thought, we we end up winning
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  Speaker 1: the game. So winning football for us.
• 15:11
  Speaker 6: One of the benefits to hitting aversity like you did
• 15:14
  Speaker 6: in the first half of positively in week one and
• 15:16
  Speaker 6: being able to see a total turnaround in the second half,
• 15:19
  Speaker 6: like to see that adjustment early from your team to be.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: Able to handle it and go forward. Yeah, I mean,
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: I get the question, but it's like it's really I
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: don't want to overcomplicate it. It's really just it's buying
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: too how we want to operate as a football team.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: The mental toughness, you know, going through these situations without
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: trying to get around and find an easy way out.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: It's hey, we're in a we're in a dark spot here.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: There's one way through this thing. It's just by keep
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: keep hammering away, you know, and there might be a game,
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: you know, at some point where it's not enough. But
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: like the mentality has to say the same. We're not
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: pointing fingers, We're looking inwardly and try to find solutions
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: for us to be successful.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: I think just has to be. It's just that matter
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: of fact.
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  Speaker 2: I know I'm just kind of boring with this thing,
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: but it's like, that's just how we're going to operate.
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: You mentioned earlier you had family in town when you
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: said you watched the Sunday night game. Can you watch
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: a game like that just as a football fan or
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: are you being a coach and thinking about playing them
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: down the road and watching for them.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: There's some there are some coaching thoughts, but I was
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: rooting for the Lions.
• 16:23
  Speaker 8: I think Jerome Baker same kind of similar thing. Con
• 16:26
  Speaker 8: Wayne's not much preseason.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, same thing I talked about last week when you
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: guys asked about him.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: All those things that showed up. I thought he he
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: executed at a really high level.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: There's some tough plays for him out there that he
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: made tackle ball in the open field. I thought he
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: blitzed well and played you know, playing the weak side
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: of the formation in some of those routes and some
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: of those things we're asking me to do is is
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: not easy. And when that comes to life, it kind
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: of you know, creates more opportunities for us to do
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: more on the other side of the field too. So
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Jerome I thought, played a really really good game.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: Tyrelhead and all that just all the communication he has
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: to do in that noise.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, talked about it morning, but you know, it's not easy.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: It's in our the environment that we're creating, and then
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: you know, the communication that I'm talking with them and
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: moving fast and sometimes you know they're different tempos and
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: things like that, trying to orchestrate everything you.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Get to all three levels. I thought he did a
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: tremendous job.
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: What'd you know about Tyler before you got here?
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Man, that's.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Trying to take my mind back to he's a playmaker.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: He's a playmaker. You just just like an ultimate respect
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: for him as a competitor. And then his ability to
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: catch the ball in contested areas down the field is
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: you know, the normally normally shorter guys kind of get
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: smaller as they get further away from the formation.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: That's not the case with Tyler.
• 17:43
  Speaker 8: Would you learn about managing a game in game that
• 17:46
  Speaker 8: maybe you didn't experience before.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: It happens fast, you know, like you owe it, You
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: owe it to your defense to stay present, uh while
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: the defense is up because you have to. You have
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: to call a game like a defensive coordinator. But once
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: you're out of that, you got to you gotta click
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: that switch fast, and so I'll be better in some
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: of those situations moving forward, don't.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: I'm aware of it. But it happens fast.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: But again, you out to the football team to you know,
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: be able to click that switch and get back to
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: being a head coach when you're finished calling the place.
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: Is the coordinator or a position coach and you want
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: to peel off the sideline and go to the bench
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: with them between series.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I think there is some time.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: You know, we had those TV timeouts or there is
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: some ample time if you do need to. But like,
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: I got all the channels and stuff so I can
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: get to the coaches and our guys are great, They're
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: on the spot you know, nine times out of ten,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: they've seen it before I've seen it, and they already
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: know the issues, so they're attacking those things, and then
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: it's really just a matter of us getting on the
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: same page moving forward.
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: Did you get a good look at the replaying with
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: Marsarm's shoulder rub on you?
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I did see that.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So after I blacked out and then I went
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: back and watched it, I didn't know i'd actually didn't.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, that's I didn't remember that. Yeah,
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: that was funny. I mean it was I mean, it
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: was a cool moment. It was an awesome moment.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: It was really mean. It's uh, it was special.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Just like I said, marshaw AMI's he's embedded in this
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: organization and he plays the way that we want to play,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: you know, point blank. So you know how many massages
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: we'll welcome moving forward? I don't know, but hopefully it
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: means we're playing good on defense.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: I guess you remember anything more about what he said? No, No,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: He did say something about, like, you know, our defense
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: playing well or something, and then I just I think
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: I said, hey, we've got three more quarters to play.
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: Did you hear from anyone around the league, if your
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: Baltimore friends or anything.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Congratulations, No, yeah, you know, just people that I have
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: relationships with. They really appreciate everybody reaching out congratulating our win.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: And I do the same thing with people around the
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: league that that do a great job that I have
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: relationships with too.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: So you know, this this coaching thing is it's a
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: it's a funky fraternity of it's it's smaller than you
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: than you think. It's this close kiting and when you
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: work with great people, you want them to have success,
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: you know, until you play them.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: But even then it's like a it's like.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: This healthy competitive rivalry where you kind of you have
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: this mutual understanding where you're trying to you know, get
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: each other while you're playing one another. But once it's over,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: you respect the position that people are in that you know,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: it's really really responsibility to go, you know, try to
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: handle business when you're going against one another.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: But I really appreciate everybody reach it out. That was
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: really cool. Everything else, thank you, Okay, thanks guys,