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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he can be a good zone runner. Um.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's uh powerful, powerfully built guy, so we think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and experiencing the zone system obviously planning for
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  Speaker 1: the rams um something we like to do. Now we've
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  Speaker 1: we've got a little bit more of the gas schemes
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  Speaker 1: and some of the toss crack game going. But um,
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  Speaker 1: just overall just excited to continue to work with him,
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  Speaker 1: evaluate him, uh and see where he fits with the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the room and uh think he might be active.
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  Speaker 1: We'll still see, you know, We've got plenty of time
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  Speaker 1: to kind of see where he is in terms of
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  Speaker 1: the process, how much of the game plan he understands
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  Speaker 1: has down, um, and then just where he fits with
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  Speaker 1: you know, Travis's health, Jamichael Snoop coming along all that,
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  Speaker 1: and where the numbers fall. What's the challenge without knowing
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  Speaker 1: exactly if Travis isn't gonna player or not in terms
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  Speaker 1: of the game plan. He certainly insists he's playing, So
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  Speaker 1: h we'll see. You know, we're gonna trust ferging the
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  Speaker 1: medical staff in that department. But um, that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: something we've gone through. It feels like a couple of
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  Speaker 1: times this season where guys kind of day to day decision,
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  Speaker 1: and we continue to build the plan um and hopes
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  Speaker 1: that that guy is there, but obviously the contingencies that
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  Speaker 1: that guy is not gonna make it, and then we'll
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  Speaker 1: kind of go back and forth on a Friday evening
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  Speaker 1: Saturday night of Okay, if he does make it, who
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  Speaker 1: goes where? What do we take it? Takes a there's
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more of a process in terms of
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  Speaker 1: who's gonna be on certain personnels for plays, but that's
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  Speaker 1: something that we've kind of always done every single week
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  Speaker 1: with different people. What sort of players eight and Hudgenson
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  Speaker 1: been for the Lions this year. He's really kind of
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  Speaker 1: got rolling. You know. He's got a couple of interceptions
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  Speaker 1: that we were watching some ball security stuff today that
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  Speaker 1: you happen to notice. So he's coming along as a playmaker,
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  Speaker 1: continuing to put pressure on the edge. Um. They've done
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  Speaker 1: a good job just trying to find different ways to
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  Speaker 1: use them, whether it's put them on one certain side,
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  Speaker 1: let him get comfortable, or within the scheme, letting him
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  Speaker 1: try to get after the quarterback and pass us. They
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  Speaker 1: always should do some different stuff, but they'll drop him
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  Speaker 1: out and he's made some plays in those situations. Um,
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  Speaker 1: really kind of against the Giants and the Packers, he
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  Speaker 1: had to uh interception in those two games. So he's
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  Speaker 1: done a good job You've seen from Trevor Lawrence to date. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if I'd go through and
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  Speaker 1: compare every single game and how he's played. There's been
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  Speaker 1: spurts here and there are different things. Certainly the fourth
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  Speaker 1: quarter really that that last drive, he just got hot
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  Speaker 1: and you could kind of see in the way he
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  Speaker 1: threw the ball, the conviction he had his backfoot, let
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  Speaker 1: the ball rip, put it to a spot where really
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  Speaker 1: it was his guys or nobody. And there were a
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  Speaker 1: lot of those throws that were seemed like long handoffs
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  Speaker 1: where he just kind of you saw that confidence just
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  Speaker 1: pouring out in the way he played and the way
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  Speaker 1: he let the ball rip, and the belief and what
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  Speaker 1: he was doing at the line consistently last I believe,
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, and part of that is is just conviction.
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  Speaker 1: He knows what he wants, he knows what he's looking
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  Speaker 1: at from the defense, he knows where his guys are
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  Speaker 1: gonna be. Just that chemistry built up over time with
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  Speaker 1: his guys. Um, whether it be is a Christian, Morvin Evan,
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  Speaker 1: the backs. You know all that agnew stepping in there
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  Speaker 1: making some plays. Um, yeah, you see that from Christian,
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  Speaker 1: from from Trevor, But that's kind of what you expect
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  Speaker 1: going on to the going into the season and continuing
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  Speaker 1: to work together and spend time together different players. But
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  Speaker 1: Jamachael and just a speed and explosion is abody to
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  Speaker 1: do some of the same things you would do Travis. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's certainly elements to his game that that Mary some
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  Speaker 1: of the things that we have built in for Travis.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, Jamichael had a big third down conversion
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  Speaker 1: where they busted a coverage, but that was something Travis
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  Speaker 1: had really been the one that repped all week, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, you don't have much hesitation throwing him out there,
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  Speaker 1: putting him in a situation where he's round that route.
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  Speaker 1: He's done it at certain times. Now, was he featured
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  Speaker 1: on it during the week. Probably not. We try to
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  Speaker 1: sneak and walk through reps so those guys all know
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  Speaker 1: if somebody goes down, they know the assignment, they know
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  Speaker 1: what to do. Um, We'll sneak off those types of
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  Speaker 1: throws to the side with Trevor just in case something
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  Speaker 1: like that were to come up, and so as a coach,
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  Speaker 1: it makes you feel good when that comes up and
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  Speaker 1: that guy is ready to roll. That guy executes at
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  Speaker 1: a high level. Trevor doesn't blink that all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden there's a new guy standing next to him on
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  Speaker 1: the primary route and the third down concept because he's
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of trust built in Jamachael just through
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  Speaker 1: you know, Jamaicael was the guy that joined us late
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  Speaker 1: and right at the start of the season, and so
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  Speaker 1: now we've had thirteen fourteen weeks to spend time with
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  Speaker 1: them and try to get on the same page. We're
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  Speaker 1: talking all these running backs. We're snoop bad stoops on
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  Speaker 1: a good job development. I thought he did a good
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  Speaker 1: job when he came in there and hit a couple
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  Speaker 1: of tight zone runs. Um, you know, did a good
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  Speaker 1: job getting downhill and trying to kind of bring a
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  Speaker 1: physical presence there that we felt like we needed at
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  Speaker 1: the third quarter in the game when he got those carries.
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  Speaker 1: Just enough from him in practice yet uh yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: just continuing to try to utilize everybody's skill set. So
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  Speaker 1: obviously we had Travis and Jamachael rolland they've been playing well. Um,
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  Speaker 1: so you you try to sprinkle Snoop here and there
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  Speaker 1: and things that you feel like feature his skill set
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  Speaker 1: best without taking away from getting Travis going or Jamachael
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  Speaker 1: going in the game. Um, but you know, obviously the
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  Speaker 1: situation with Travis during the game, Snoop was stepped up
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  Speaker 1: and ready to roll and we got him couple carries,
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  Speaker 1: and so just continuing to build that trust with him him.
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  Speaker 1: Um see the speed of the game in real time,
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  Speaker 1: I guess execution on that two point play is it
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  Speaker 1: just kind of good? He's showing you who he is
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  Speaker 1: at this point. Yes, certainly, And and part of that
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  Speaker 1: was he was just the hot hand at the time.
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  Speaker 1: That's a route, you know, honestly that kind of came
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  Speaker 1: to life practicing with Atlanta. We went down to Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: we were in a tight red zone period. He ran
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  Speaker 1: that play to the right and the route looked a
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  Speaker 1: little different then we'd originally done it or had kind
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  Speaker 1: of been taught way back and way back when, but
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  Speaker 1: everybody really liked it. He got open really well. So
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of just been a play we've carried every
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  Speaker 1: single week because we've all said, whether it's man or zone,
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  Speaker 1: they're far enough out there, they end up in a
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  Speaker 1: one on one situation. We all like the ways they
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  Speaker 1: runs it. We just showed a clip to our guys
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  Speaker 1: today two weeks ago. Usually on a Thursday practice, we
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  Speaker 1: take three plays and we compete ones on ones in
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  Speaker 1: the red zone. There's a winner, there's a loser. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: gets fired up just running our plays against our defense.
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  Speaker 1: It done matchup game plan wise, necessarily. And we showed
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  Speaker 1: him that clip because we ran that play with z
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  Speaker 1: a kind of for the third play of a of
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  Speaker 1: a competition. Zay beat the corner, Trevor made a great throw,
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  Speaker 1: We scored our guests, So we're just kind of showing
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  Speaker 1: him that. Three weeks later, you know, this showed up
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  Speaker 1: and I've gotta have it. Game winner situation and those
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  Speaker 1: two just executed just like they didn't practice three weeks earlier,
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  Speaker 1: just the same idea. We've seen that over and over
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  Speaker 1: from day A play like that. You know when you
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  Speaker 1: got on that fine drive, Doug and all the players
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  Speaker 1: have mentioned that they knew when you guys scored, you'd
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  Speaker 1: be going for two. When do you know if that's
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  Speaker 1: the play you want to go with? You right when
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  Speaker 1: you start to drive, which you says you've seen as
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  Speaker 1: a d Yeah, there there were. So there was a
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  Speaker 1: couple of things going on are two point menu. We
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  Speaker 1: had another play listed on there that Travis was a
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  Speaker 1: part of that we were kind of we kind of
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  Speaker 1: scratched off the list just he'd spent the most time
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  Speaker 1: on task with it. Now I talked about trusting Jamachael
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  Speaker 1: on some of those things. That was a little unique,
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  Speaker 1: so we weren't going there. And then as the as
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  Speaker 1: the drive just kind of goes on, we'd run the
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  Speaker 1: Agnew play that Agnew scored on was another possible two
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  Speaker 1: point play. Kind of scratched that. That's pretty specific. So
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  Speaker 1: we're going through and we kind of had three plays
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  Speaker 1: we really liked, and so as we're kind of just
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  Speaker 1: talking really before the drive going into the drive, and
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  Speaker 1: then when we had time reviewing Marvin's play, it was
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  Speaker 1: more of a conversation of all right, which three of
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  Speaker 1: do you guys like, And you know, Trevor kind of
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  Speaker 1: picked that one out and said, kind of been rolling.
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  Speaker 1: And then as we went into we just kind of
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  Speaker 1: you're able to pick a hash on the two point play,
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  Speaker 1: so pick a direction with it, and we decided to
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  Speaker 1: go left with it and the rest is history. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: else went for two in a situation like at the
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  Speaker 1: end of regulation, right, I'm wondering, is it is that
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  Speaker 1: decision of product of you've got this momentum and you
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  Speaker 1: feel like that momentiment emotion is going to sustain itself
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  Speaker 1: on a two point play, or do you coach just
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  Speaker 1: kind of not trust that over time process forever time,
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  Speaker 1: and that you might go for the top and you
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  Speaker 1: might lose that momentum and lose the toss in every
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  Speaker 1: time and not get the ball back. Yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: that's where I'd say it's kind of case by kids
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  Speaker 1: used to be the old school. You're on the road,
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  Speaker 1: you go for two, you go for the win, all
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  Speaker 1: that type of thing. Well, I think it's really kind
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  Speaker 1: of just case by case. If we didn't have a
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  Speaker 1: play we loved, or we've been struggling an offense to
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  Speaker 1: get down there and whatever it may be, maybe we
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  Speaker 1: don't do it. But you know, specifically that play train
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  Speaker 1: and Trevor and Zay had been kind of hot at
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  Speaker 1: that point. We felt like we had a good match up.
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  Speaker 1: We felt like we'd run something we had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of confidence in. So that's a big part of it,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, coaching, everybody's mentioned it. Coach said it
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  Speaker 1: a couple times and not drive or just the fourth
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  Speaker 1: quarter loone think players not plays. Zay was the hot
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  Speaker 1: guy at the time Trevor had been dealing, So we
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  Speaker 1: were very comfortable with that kind of all right, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna live or die with this call right here,
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  Speaker 1: these two guys and matchup. We liked it. Seems like
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  Speaker 1: Jeffa Couta might play this week. Just what have you
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  Speaker 1: seen from him? Are on taping? How big but challenge
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  Speaker 1: is he gonna be for your receivers? Yeah, he looks
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  Speaker 1: like he's playing very confidently. He's a big, long guy. Um,
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  Speaker 1: he does a good job when he gets hands on you.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's he plays physical. Um, yeah, it certainly
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  Speaker 1: seems like he's gonna play. I think he was in
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  Speaker 1: the concussion protocol. And it's a Thursday night game, which
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  Speaker 1: is pretty typical. If you get dinged up on a Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: you probably don't play that Thursday. But so we're certainly
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  Speaker 1: anticipating and playing. Um, they've kind of moved him around,
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  Speaker 1: He's played different sides of the field, but he does
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  Speaker 1: a good job. Looks like he's playing with a lot
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  Speaker 1: of confidence. You're putting together a game playing for a
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  Speaker 1: giving weed now compared to maybe weed won. How much
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  Speaker 1: more come for you going through it? I know with
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  Speaker 1: these guys and lighting, I know what gat you? Well? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: how much is that healthy? As a sam? Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: that's a big part of it. You know, this far along,
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  Speaker 1: we've got a lot of time on task with certain places.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a ou of plays that like even the
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  Speaker 1: play that we scored, the two point play like we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about, we've carried that almost every single week. And
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  Speaker 1: it's more it comes down to we have a good
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  Speaker 1: feel for how they is gonna run it. We throw it,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's in a walk through or practice. We get
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  Speaker 1: that throw every single week. Um, but that's a big
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  Speaker 1: part of it. You certainly you get a better feel
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  Speaker 1: for guy's skill sets, and not just guy's skill sets,
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  Speaker 1: but what Trevor prefers, how Trevor likes throwing, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: to the left to the right. There's certain plays that
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  Speaker 1: we carry it on our call sheet that's is the
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  Speaker 1: left hash specific because the throw goes to the right
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  Speaker 1: because this guy runs the route better. Breaking out to
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  Speaker 1: his right or breaking off his right foot to the left,
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  Speaker 1: whatever that may be. Where we have enough plays we
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  Speaker 1: can get specific at certain times with things like that.
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  Speaker 1: There it allows you to rep it even more where
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  Speaker 1: Trevor's throwing to this guy to the right from the left,
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  Speaker 1: hash whatever that may be. UM, So that that's certainly
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  Speaker 1: something that as you go on this thing and you
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  Speaker 1: build all these reps into your your your bank, basically
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  Speaker 1: you kind of pull those out when those matter. Guys
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  Speaker 1: are comfortable with it, We've tweaked through how we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: run it. They discovers us that coverage, versus this player,
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  Speaker 1: versus that player, whatever that may be. So you just
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  Speaker 1: you have a lot more trust, a lot more confidence
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  Speaker 1: in it. Do you ever do the two point play?
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  Speaker 1: Do you want to run something that sheet is your
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  Speaker 1: two point sheet different from your game plan sheet? In
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  Speaker 1: other words, do you want to run something that's a
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  Speaker 1: two point play that the defense has a seen another
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  Speaker 1: place from skirmish? I mean, it kind of depends on
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  Speaker 1: the situation. There's some places that depending on the defense
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  Speaker 1: you play, we'll call things that we call the tight
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  Speaker 1: red the five and end, but we wouldn't call it
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  Speaker 1: inside the three. You know, there's just their coverage is
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  Speaker 1: chained in certain times, or they'll play certain coverages. Um,
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  Speaker 1: if it's first and goal at the two as opposed
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  Speaker 1: to a third down, or I gotta have at two
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  Speaker 1: point play. So sometimes it can get specific in there
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  Speaker 1: where this is a two point only. Uh. Typically those
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  Speaker 1: are carried somewhere in the first and second down tight
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  Speaker 1: red zone area. But it becomes specific to we like
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  Speaker 1: this most in a two point play, So maybe we'll
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  Speaker 1: stay away from it. The first two times were down
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  Speaker 1: in there because it's specific something we really think we'll
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  Speaker 1: feature in a third down or a two point play.
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  Speaker 1: There Sometimes you like guess on the defensive side of
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  Speaker 1: the wall, they're talking about simplifying things, but on the
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  Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball, As you get more time
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  Speaker 1: with these guys, does that even maybe open the playbook
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  Speaker 1: up a little bit for you guys more, just because
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  Speaker 1: Trevor is more comfortable, receivers are comfortable with Trevor, you're
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  Speaker 1: comfortable with what the receivers and running backs can do,
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  Speaker 1: does that open things up for you or a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more? Is that the kind of opposite Um? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and though yes, and the fact that you know we
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  Speaker 1: want to. We want to hone in on really what
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  Speaker 1: we do well, going back to your question earlier of
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  Speaker 1: just what we know out of the guys, what we
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  Speaker 1: can feature with their skill sets, what's Trevor and is
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  Speaker 1: comfortable within that? And then maybe we do carry a
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  Speaker 1: few more plays because again we've been ripping these things
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  Speaker 1: for six weeks, So maybe we're more willing to carry
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  Speaker 1: um six plays in this third down section because we've
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  Speaker 1: been wrapping that for five weeks. We don't have to
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: spend a lot of time in the install because the
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: guys know, well, maybe it's just a walk through rep
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  Speaker 1: and they can get to throw on the side. We
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  Speaker 1: don't have to spend a practice rep. Everything really comes
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  Speaker 1: down to practice reps. Can we get this to where
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  Speaker 1: we feel confident that we've wrapped at full speed, We've
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  Speaker 1: seen him executed, we have confidence in the play when
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  Speaker 1: it matters most uh So we kind of always start
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  Speaker 1: that way. And then what are the plays we don't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily need a full speed rep of because we've got
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  Speaker 1: this time on task built into this thing. And then
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  Speaker 1: I guess Dougs talked about like a quarterback second year
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  Speaker 1: in the system, does it help when you have like
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: Christian kirkle be in a second year, or when you
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  Speaker 1: have pieces that have been in the offense, then can
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  Speaker 1: you carry maybe six go to eight kind of thing
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  Speaker 1: because you've got all the guys have been together for
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  Speaker 1: a little while. Does that make a difference, Yeah, that
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  Speaker 1: certainly does. Uh. And then you just have more a
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  Speaker 1: library of things you can show. So now we already
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  Speaker 1: go back and we show clips of Za running that
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  Speaker 1: play two weeks ago versus back in Atlanta, all that
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  Speaker 1: type of stuff. We have more to draw on for
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  Speaker 1: the guys. We can maybe hone in our teaching a
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  Speaker 1: little more because we've run this route sixty five times
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  Speaker 1: against all these coverages going back to Spring, so we
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  Speaker 1: build that. It's easier for guys to see themselves do it.
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  Speaker 1: Trevor can speak on it a little more because he's
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  Speaker 1: thrown at a hundred times now. Um, So it just
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  Speaker 1: helps us kind of fine tune things and then maybe
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  Speaker 1: we are willing to carry more. Thanks cool, Thanks guys,