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Head Coach Mike Macdonald On The Overtime-Victory vs. The Rams In Week 16 · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Holy smokes, what a great football game.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, first of all, an incredibly electric abbas. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: just an all time great atmosphere showing by our twelves.
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  Speaker 2: I mean shout out to all our people, and you
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  Speaker 2: know for the Seahawks too. I mean all the lights
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  Speaker 2: and the all that. Man, it's just an electric atmosphere.
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  Speaker 2: And then you know, with all the adversity we're dealing
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  Speaker 2: with throughout the game, they didn't leave us. Not a seat,
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  Speaker 2: you know, not a seat was empty, you know, given
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  Speaker 2: all the circumstance, and they stuck with us, and our
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  Speaker 2: team could feel it, and it was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what is it?
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  Speaker 2: And just talking about our football team and just I'm
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  Speaker 2: just so proud of our group. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 2: who we are, you know. It was just we set
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  Speaker 2: out to just show that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, to prove to ourselves who we were as
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  Speaker 1: a team.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, there's a lot that did not go our way today,
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  Speaker 2: both good job by the Rams, some of the stuff
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  Speaker 2: that we got to obviously clean up on our end.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's the list goes on and on. But
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, like the resiliency is the relentlessness,
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  Speaker 2: is there the character of this team is there and
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  Speaker 2: they have each other's backs all three phases. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's all all that stuff we've been talking about since
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  Speaker 2: we walked in the door is real and they've earned that.
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  Speaker 2: So just really really really proud of our group, really
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  Speaker 2: really proud of our group.
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  Speaker 1: Just just really really proud.
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  Speaker 2: So we're gonna enjoy the heck out of this one
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  Speaker 2: and get some rest this weekend and get back at it.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, just really proud of our group.
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  Speaker 2: You tell me about the decision to go through it
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  Speaker 2: over time.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it was something we had talked about.
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  Speaker 2: Really throughout the season and then really particularly for this
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  Speaker 2: game because of the playoff situation. You know, you play
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  Speaker 2: for the tie and you know, make the.
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  Speaker 1: Lock up of playoffs. See.
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  Speaker 2: But I just felt like I just felt great about
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  Speaker 2: our play and I trusted our guys, and to Clint
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  Speaker 2: credit to he was really confident and and then the
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  Speaker 2: players ultimately make it happen. So once we got that
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  Speaker 2: drive going, it was pretty clear on what we're gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: Some thought, given the circumstances that they in that situation,
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  Speaker 1: you would just kick that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was an option, but it was like
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  Speaker 2: starting that drive thinking about how we're gonna handle that
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  Speaker 2: I made up.
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  Speaker 1: That is art decision. How we're gonna handle it. Ask
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  Speaker 1: to pitpoint something. Can you say, why is there a
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  Speaker 1: common wise to how you came back in sixteen down
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  Speaker 1: with seven minutes? That is there a fact that you
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  Speaker 1: mentioned the resiliency.
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  Speaker 2: Those guys in there, that they decided that they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: play a certain way and be the team that they
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  Speaker 2: talk about, and they back it up every day, every day,
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  Speaker 2: no matter the circumstance they do it. I mean, defensively,
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  Speaker 2: we're down, guys. You know, they're moving the ball up
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  Speaker 2: and down the field, and you know we're coming up
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  Speaker 2: red zone stops and making adjustments and fighting our tails off.
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  Speaker 2: And then punt our power turn team makes a huge
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  Speaker 2: play offense picks starts picking me.
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  Speaker 1: It's just that's who they are. It's the players. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's not a guy that gets the ball up, but
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  Speaker 1: I know he's a lot of steamer that moment at
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  Speaker 1: the end.
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  Speaker 2: Well he's I think I quote me on this, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure he's like fourth in the progression on
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  Speaker 2: that play.
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  Speaker 1: And so our offensive line does.
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  Speaker 2: Man, that's a that's a tough front to block, and
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  Speaker 2: Sam being able to extend the play and and and
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  Speaker 2: trust his reads and trust his progressions and just just
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  Speaker 2: a phenomenal play man. It's a pretty pretty good feeling when.
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  Speaker 1: He caught it.
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  Speaker 2: Incredible pick up every loose ball, just simple anything quite
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  Speaker 2: like that, I have not the ball's going backwards.
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  Speaker 1: What was the process on that for deciding to actually
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  Speaker 1: have the replay?
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  Speaker 2: We're asking for the replay and then realizing that maybe.
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  Speaker 1: It was a lateral.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's just to my knowledge, everything's reviewable on a
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  Speaker 2: two points.
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  Speaker 1: So at what point did you realize that your staff
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  Speaker 1: realized that was that was in play because you got.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, honestly, they just they said that they were looking
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  Speaker 2: at it. And then so then we started to look
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  Speaker 2: at whether it was a backward or not.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't. We didn't notice it in real time Walker's
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  Speaker 1: play when he ran down the interception. Yet, how many
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  Speaker 1: times do you run that? How many times do you
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  Speaker 1: go on film? Oh? Yeah, it's uh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, talk about like favorite plays of just who Ken
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  Speaker 2: Walker is?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's an.
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  Speaker 2: That's Seahawk football, that's that's that's us right there, and
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  Speaker 2: that's Ken you know, so we love him. That's a phenomenal,
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  Speaker 2: phenomenal play helped us win the game.
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  Speaker 1: Gerald's resiliency had a knight, but then came back from
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  Speaker 1: it over time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean our story has stayed the same since
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  Speaker 2: day one with Sam. You know, everybody else has different stories,
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  Speaker 2: but this is the guy that we watch every day.
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  Speaker 2: It's the same guy every day, no matter the circumstance.
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  Speaker 2: He's an ultimate competitor. He's a phenomenal leader and just
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  Speaker 2: keeps fighting, just keeps plugging away. I wasn't worried about
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  Speaker 2: We weren't worried about one bit.
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  Speaker 1: So that's Sam. What is to save the ball up and.
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  Speaker 2: Down the field with those big plays in the passing
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  Speaker 2: all day, but getting them three for six in the
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  Speaker 2: red zone, like how crucials especially early on when you
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  Speaker 2: guys were.
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  Speaker 1: Really get a couple of the stops.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we're coming out of the game and it's funny.
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  Speaker 2: We're just told the team, you know what the score was,
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  Speaker 2: and they said, it doesn't matter it just so what
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  Speaker 2: matters is we won the football game now that we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna learn from how to improve on these things.
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  Speaker 1: And in the first in the first half was a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the early.
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  Speaker 2: Down stuff that that was getting us. And then so
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  Speaker 2: we made some adjustments in the second half, we're able
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  Speaker 2: to get them too some third downs, and then we
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  Speaker 2: botched them third downs. So uh, that's really my responsibility
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  Speaker 2: to make sure we're cleaner in those situations. And uh,
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  Speaker 2: and they made a great play there at the end,
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  Speaker 2: you know, on that on that end cut to Puka
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  Speaker 2: and you know, we gotta we gotta play it better
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  Speaker 2: as a heck of a football play. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're inches away from celebrating because j is a pick coman,
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  Speaker 2: So you know, that's.
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  Speaker 1: What we're dealing with.
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  Speaker 2: So you just you can't worry about the stats in
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  Speaker 2: real time what's going here, just trying to kind of
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  Speaker 2: fix it and move forward and keep playing the next
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  Speaker 2: play and try the messages of guys. That's what they
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  Speaker 2: did and we got you know, obviously you can't be
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  Speaker 2: get I don't know what the stats are, but we
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  Speaker 2: gave up a ton of yards and a ton.
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  Speaker 1: Of points and and uh, we got to be better.
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  Speaker 2: But the fight was there, you know, and we figured
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  Speaker 2: out a way to win.
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  Speaker 1: Just like you said last week, it's a completely different game.
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  Speaker 1: Last week. Great teams figure out a way to win
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  Speaker 1: this week. It was completely different and we still figured
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  Speaker 1: it out.
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  Speaker 2: What was it say about the Seattle Seahawks overcoming university
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  Speaker 2: and persevering it?
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  Speaker 1: They got that's who we are, That's what we do.
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  Speaker 2: It's just you know, you believe on who you are
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  Speaker 2: and then and then you keep doing it and you
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  Speaker 2: keep proving it really to yourself, you know, to our
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  Speaker 2: guys that they understand who they are, and and then
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  Speaker 2: when it's time to you know, put it on the line,
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  Speaker 2: they're they're ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned book twelve or two twenty five for him tonight.
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  Speaker 2: What what did you kind of see that gave him
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  Speaker 2: getting you guys fits with what he was doing tonight. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 2: you know they did a great look, they had a
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  Speaker 2: great game plan. So they they they they you know,
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  Speaker 2: there are league coaches over there.
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  Speaker 1: They do a great job.
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  Speaker 2: And they executed at a high level, and they got great
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  Speaker 2: players and we got to play better, and we got
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  Speaker 2: a game playing better. I called at mean, look, I
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  Speaker 2: mean it wasn't good enough on the defensive front.
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  Speaker 1: We know that Puka is a great player.
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  Speaker 2: He made some great contested catches that you know, you
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  Speaker 2: got to kind of chalk that up to him being
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  Speaker 2: a great player, and they're gonna win some of those,
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  Speaker 2: and there's somewhere we got to play tremendously better as well.
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  Speaker 2: So I'd say it's a combination, but obviously can't be
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  Speaker 2: given up two hundred yard games to anybody Kobe, and
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  Speaker 2: Kobe's got a knee. It doesn't look like it's I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I'm not going to put a time frame
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  Speaker 2: on it. Just it's not like it's not automatically season
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  Speaker 2: ending right now, I guess is the point.
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  Speaker 1: And Nick was able to come.
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  Speaker 2: Back if we were going to go back onto the field. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: also a knee, I think to some extent, not sure
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  Speaker 2: how serious it is clear to my understanding, Yes, like
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  Speaker 2: you guys clutched.
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  Speaker 1: Your playoff with the way in your first as head coach,
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  Speaker 1: is that I mean man to enjoy, to just focus
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  Speaker 1: on what's still have you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is a little bit of a preview, but
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  Speaker 2: you know, up until this point, our mission has been
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  Speaker 2: to win the next game, and then you know, our
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  Speaker 2: next goal is to make the playoffs, and so we've
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  Speaker 2: we've kind of achieved our next goal. So we'll learn
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  Speaker 2: that on Monday, and then our next goal is to
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  Speaker 2: is to win the division. So now you can't do
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  Speaker 2: that unless you win the next one. So it's the
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  Speaker 2: same message. But we're obviously really excited to be in
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  Speaker 2: the dance. Anything can happen once you get in. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, we got we've got a division title on
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  Speaker 2: the line that that we need to go capture, and
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  Speaker 2: that starts by by winning in Carolina. Teams could be
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  Speaker 2: such an equalizer in a game like this, and for
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  Speaker 2: Heat now to have a kick return in a plumb
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  Speaker 2: return in a few weeks, for him to get the
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  Speaker 2: crowd reignited there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was great.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, our special teams unit has just been a
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  Speaker 2: massive catalyst for us. And even when Torri was was
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  Speaker 2: pretty turning ponds, he was doing a great job, but
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  Speaker 2: having having Chid do it being decisive getting downhill our
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  Speaker 2: punt return team blocking their tails off. Yeah, you're right,
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  Speaker 2: I mean that was that was definitely that definitely kind
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  Speaker 2: of ignited part of the comeback. For sure, get one
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  Speaker 2: hit on Stafford through three quarters, but it seemed like
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  Speaker 2: he started to find a little bit more pressure on
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  Speaker 2: it and playing.
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  Speaker 1: How critical was that to get in some of those
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  Speaker 1: punts late getting them off the field.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, I mean, like you can't try to rush
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  Speaker 2: the past around second one. Man, we had a lot
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  Speaker 2: of second ones and they're running it and they're running effectively,
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  Speaker 2: and we were trying to figure out solutions. And the
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  Speaker 2: second half we figured out some of solutions. I thought
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  Speaker 2: we our coaches did a great job of finding some
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  Speaker 2: adjustments and can't be taken to the second half.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we got to be a little bit faster
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  Speaker 1: on that front.
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  Speaker 2: But when you're getting into more pass situations now you
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  Speaker 2: can now you can do what we do, give animity
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  Speaker 2: that happened to stay?
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  Speaker 1: What can you talk about it? What you always say
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  Speaker 1: that process over resources just that could be admit at
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  Speaker 1: the end, Uh, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what we're gonna do is we're gonna go
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  Speaker 2: back and we're gonna look at the game and we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna assess how we game plan, what we called, when
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  Speaker 2: who's doing what, and say, Okay, how can we how
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  Speaker 2: can we make it better on the front end, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and and then go from there. That's what we're gonna do,
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  Speaker 2: you know. So we're very excited with the result. Obviously
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  Speaker 2: we love the result. I'm very very happy with how
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  Speaker 2: we played in terms of our mentality and our physicality
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  Speaker 2: and our and our resiliency, you know, but we're a
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  Speaker 2: play away from We're gonna be really disappointed right now.
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  Speaker 2: So it's the same same message we had after San Francisco.
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  Speaker 2: We're a play away from from winning that game, and
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  Speaker 2: that the met the approach has to stay consistent and
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  Speaker 2: that and it will, you know, and it will and
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  Speaker 2: our guys will be great as we come back and
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  Speaker 2: get ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: Residency is one thing.
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  Speaker 2: But Sam's composure to throw two picks against the defensi
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  Speaker 2: this this year and last year they made those four
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  Speaker 2: throws in a row, bang.
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  Speaker 1: On the Yeah, we just said it.
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  Speaker 2: That's again there's like it's it's everybody else's job to
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  Speaker 2: put meaning and all the stuff attached to what happens
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  Speaker 2: out there.
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  Speaker 1: But it's it's our job to go be us and
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  Speaker 1: be resilient.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what Sam does is he's he's him, he's
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  Speaker 2: he's uh, he's a competitor. He does the same thing
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  Speaker 2: every day and uh we do, you know, and we
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  Speaker 2: have his back and he knows that. So just keep going,
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  Speaker 2: going do your thing and let's go figure out a
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  Speaker 2: way to win a game. Competitors will kind of close
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  Speaker 2: up the fall apart. I'm just speaking for Sam, and yes,
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  Speaker 2: that's who Sam is. He doesn't do that. And the
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  Speaker 2: team deserves credit too, because he feels the support of
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  Speaker 2: the guys that we have his back.
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  Speaker 1: And that's real. Got this time played the game incredible.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, probably shouldn't have we're going we're gonna go fast,
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  Speaker 2: but it became pretty clear that he made the catch.
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  Speaker 2: I probably could have got and huddled right there. But
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  Speaker 2: that's coop. I mean, just dragging the toe. Great play
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  Speaker 2: a few games is here's kind of buying the first
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  Speaker 2: half and no catches today and as ninety seven, I
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  Speaker 2: think in the second half and over time, just what's
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  Speaker 2: that take off him when you can stay in game. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's like to me, it's like a non issue. It's
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  Speaker 2: just like, let's keep figuring out way to move the ball.
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  Speaker 2: And turns out Jacks is a great way to move
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  Speaker 2: the ball, so let's get him. Let's get him the
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  Speaker 2: ball as much as we can if we can't give
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  Speaker 2: it to somebody else, and keep plugging away and keep
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  Speaker 2: figuring out.
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  Speaker 1: Ways to go score touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: And you do that, and you have a play by
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  Speaker 2: and you just keep attacking, it's gonna come to life.
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  Speaker 1: It might and it might not even be that game.
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  Speaker 1: It could be the next week.
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  Speaker 2: You know. It's just but that's who he is, and
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  Speaker 2: it's just like for us, it's just we're just trying
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  Speaker 2: to go win. Last in the two games you played
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  Speaker 2: the ram which didn't sack and after you stop at
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  Speaker 2: the points, is there something that they can turn in
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  Speaker 2: those games.
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  Speaker 1: To throwing it before we get them? All right?
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  Speaker 2: Thanks?
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  Speaker 1: Something else?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you,