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Head Coach Mike Macdonald: "I'm Proud Of Our Style Of Play" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right. Good to see everybody. Back at it today,
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  Speaker 1: and then guys will be off tomorrow. We'll use our
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  Speaker 1: extra day on Wednesday, and then Thursday will be Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: So what happens Wednesday?
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  Speaker 1: We're working through the final details, but it'll be more
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  Speaker 1: of a recovery day, more football. We won't be on
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  Speaker 1: the field, but the guys will be in some capacity.
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  Speaker 3: Coach, in the last 30 years, the Seahawks haven't had
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  Speaker 3: a four-game stretch that was as negative offensively as the
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  Speaker 3: previous four games that then turned into as positive as
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  Speaker 3: the one you... So this is the only second time
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  Speaker 3: in the last 30 years that's happened.
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  Speaker 1: That they were playing bad and then they played good?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was actually the Beastquake game.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not easy to turn around an offense that's
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  Speaker 3: not doing that well. What do you think was the
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  Speaker 3: key factor for you guys in being able to get
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  Speaker 3: things squared away?
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  Speaker 1: I just think, um, I think you just have to
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  Speaker 1: look at it through the lens of we're on a,
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  Speaker 1: this year's, this team's version of our journey. And so,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what are, what are we doing to find
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  Speaker 1: solutions to where we want to go? Um, I thought
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  Speaker 1: we've done some really good things at the first quarter
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  Speaker 1: of the season. Uh, Obviously the takeaways leave something to
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  Speaker 1: be desired, but I think also like a function, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you're going from a Sunday night to a Thursday night.
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  Speaker 1: It's a quick turnaround. Didn't necessarily get the returns we wanted.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't necessarily have the ample opportunity to really dive in.
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  Speaker 1: And so trying to make the best of the extra time.
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  Speaker 1: It's also like, look, we're trying to, I mean, we're
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  Speaker 1: doing the same thing on defense. Maybe not to the
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  Speaker 1: same degree because we have such familiarity with our staff
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  Speaker 1: and our players, but you're always honing in on what
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  Speaker 1: you do, how you do it throughout the year on
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  Speaker 1: really what your team's calling card and identity is going
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  Speaker 1: to be. And so I think that's the process we're
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  Speaker 1: going through.
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  Speaker 5: There were a lot of impressive numbers though on offense.
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  Speaker 4: What are the one or.
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  Speaker 5: Two that you want to see just kind of continue
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  Speaker 5: to carry on in the coming weeks?
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm proud of our style of play. Watching
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  Speaker 1: us just play the game Felt like our, looked like us.
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  Speaker 1: And there's some things operationally that we're still chasing that
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  Speaker 1: got us behind the sticks. Red zone, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: weren't able to finish those drives off, which that's going
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  Speaker 1: to be, that's definitely a point of emphasis. But I
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  Speaker 1: think where we focused our attention, that's what came to life. Operation,
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  Speaker 1: style of play, run game, third down. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm not a big stack guy. I did
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  Speaker 1: some going off of what we saw on tape. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that was, it felt like, it felt more
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  Speaker 1: our style of ball.
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  Speaker 4: What stood out to you most about the defensive effort
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  Speaker 4: when you went back and looked at it?
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  Speaker 1: I think the same thing. In order to... We felt
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  Speaker 1: like at our best, we're waves of defense. There's going
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  Speaker 1: to be mistakes. That's football. It's never going to be perfect,
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  Speaker 1: but how we play on a... Talking about playing off
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  Speaker 1: one another, having each other's back. 12 was one. I
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  Speaker 1: thought that was impressive, man. The guys play extremely hard. Lately, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: when Your team's.
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  Speaker 5: Had extra time.
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  Speaker 4: We had the bye week, the mini bye. You've performed
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  Speaker 4: really well. The team's performed really well.
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  Speaker 6: What have you learned in maybe the three years as
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  Speaker 6: a head coach how to utilize extra days?
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  Speaker 4: Like, do you have one extra day this week? What
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  Speaker 4: do you guys focus most on?
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  Speaker 1: Funny you say that. I immediately thought of the Tampa
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  Speaker 1: game last year. I think that was coming off a
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  Speaker 1: Thursday game.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks.
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  Speaker 1: It only takes X amount of time to get ready
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  Speaker 1: for a game. So how you allocate the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the time is important. But like when we've, when we've over,
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  Speaker 1: when we've overdone it, we've probably gotten mentally taxed and the,
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  Speaker 1: and the week is drained. And that was, that's really
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  Speaker 1: just the solution for us. So that's, that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: the philosophy that we've been going off of. So is
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  Speaker 1: it off a self scout? Is it for recovery? Is
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  Speaker 1: it skill development? Do we need to get away from
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  Speaker 1: each other? You know, I just, Trying to make the
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  Speaker 1: best decision for our team on how to use that
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  Speaker 1: time the best.
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  Speaker 6: Do you insulate the players from the extra time prep
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  Speaker 6: that maybe coaches are doing and then present them a normal.
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  Speaker 4: Week after that? Or do you involve them in the
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  Speaker 4: extra day work stuff?
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  Speaker 1: I think it changes based on what season of the
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  Speaker 1: season you're in. Normally that is kind of the rule
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  Speaker 1: of thumb. Like I said, we've learned that if we
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  Speaker 1: have a great Wednesday, great Thursday, Friday, Saturday. We can
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  Speaker 1: put a great plan together and play great football. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it takes more than that, but I felt like we've
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  Speaker 1: fallen short more often than not if we've tried to
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  Speaker 1: overdo it.
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  Speaker 7: Nick, can you talk about his maturation off the field?
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  Speaker 6: You've talked about what he's doing on the field. What
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  Speaker 6: I mean by that is as a young man, as
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  Speaker 6: a professional, what are you seeing in terms.
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  Speaker 1: Of his I think Nick's been remarkably consistent with, with,
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  Speaker 1: with his approach. Um, what we're asking him to do
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  Speaker 1: and how, and how, how we're asking him to go
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  Speaker 1: about his business is, um, a little bit different. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's kind of, you know, CP is kind of his
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  Speaker 1: point of contact, but he's also bounced around with position
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  Speaker 1: groups and things like that. And so amount of time
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  Speaker 1: and investment it takes to, to do that. And also, um,
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  Speaker 1: you're not going to be right all the time. So
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  Speaker 1: to be able to take the coaching and stay kind
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  Speaker 1: of steadfast in what we're asking them to do and
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  Speaker 1: determine where you can get frustrated. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: things going on. There's a lot of things we're asking
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  Speaker 1: them to do, but kind of work through that process
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  Speaker 1: every week without getting frustrated I think has been pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 6: Is intrinsic motivation so important as opposed to intrinsic as
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  Speaker 6: opposed to extrinsic motivation?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think it's about us, right? Again, everybody says
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  Speaker 1: that's a cliche. It's a cliche. It's about us as well.
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  Speaker 1: you know, we actually try to make it about us.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes we make it about the other team, and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of times, you know, after we do that, we
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  Speaker 1: feel like we missed the target.
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  Speaker 2: Is Nick spending more time in the, like, outside linebacker
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  Speaker 2: meeting rooms?
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  Speaker 4: You said Chris Partridge is his point of contact. Is
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  Speaker 4: he spending more time?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, he spends the majority of time in the
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  Speaker 1: DB room, and then kind of all the extra time
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  Speaker 1: is with CP or... shoot sometimes he's been in zack's
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  Speaker 1: room he's kind of just bouncing around because he's.
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  Speaker 7: So physically gifted maybe people overlook that side of the
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  Speaker 7: work i mean what what about him allows him to
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  Speaker 7: be you know you know in multiple position groups having
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  Speaker 7: to learn different roles and then put it out there
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  Speaker 7: on sunday well.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a responsibility that comes with that i
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  Speaker 1: mean if you're gonna you can't just willy-nilly do like
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  Speaker 1: multiple things you got to for us to be responsible
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  Speaker 1: and for us to want to do that as a
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  Speaker 1: coaching staff and feel like the team is in a
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  Speaker 1: better position for having to ask him to do multiple things,
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  Speaker 1: we feel like the execution has to be at a
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  Speaker 1: certain level. So there's a responsibility that goes with that.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of times it's extra time. It's always
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  Speaker 1: extra time, frankly. But we've expected that. And to Nick's credit,
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  Speaker 1: he wants to do it. He wants to invest into
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  Speaker 1: his career in which You've got no choice but to
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  Speaker 1: tip your cap to him.
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  Speaker 4: What's the latest on Charles Cross?
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  Speaker 1: Charles has an ankle, and we'll see how long it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be.
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  Speaker 4: Are you looking at IR at all?
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  Speaker 1: We haven't had that conversation yet.
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  Speaker 4: Is it a high ankle sprain?
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  Speaker 1: It's an ankle right now.
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  Speaker 4: There was a report you might miss a couple games.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw the report. That didn't come from me
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  Speaker 1: or our trainer.
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  Speaker 4: How about Rasheed Sheet?
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  Speaker 1: No update on Rashid from this morning. Again, early returns positive.
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  Speaker 1: How long that means, not sure.
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  Speaker 6: Are you proceeding as if Cross isn't going to play
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  Speaker 6: Monday night?
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  Speaker 1: We're really not proceeding with anything right now. It's Monday.
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  Speaker 1: He's got an ankle, and we're going to take it
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  Speaker 1: day by day from there.
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  Speaker 3: It's the third year in a row you've had a
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  Speaker 3: new OC to work with, and being a defensive coach,
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  Speaker 3: it might not be the last time you're breaking in
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  Speaker 3: a new OC. Have you learned anything from that experience
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  Speaker 3: that you might want to take to how to speed
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  Speaker 3: it up in the future?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Learning every day. I mean, it's a partnership, right?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's like any other partnership we have in our building
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  Speaker 1: between John and I working together or Jay and I
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  Speaker 1: working together, AD. It just takes communication.
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  Speaker 3: What does the regular season do to help kind of
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  Speaker 3: focus that development that maybe you can't get until the
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  Speaker 3: regular season starts?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's tough to gauge your effectiveness in certain
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  Speaker 1: situations in the offseason. you can see what you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: You can feel the spirit of the team. You can
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  Speaker 1: feel who's, who's performing at a high level, but it just,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't, you know, it's hard, it's hard to simulate
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  Speaker 1: what the situations, how those play out, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: that's where you end up being targeted and how you
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  Speaker 1: want to improve based on results and like what goes
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  Speaker 1: on in games and how it comes to life. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: in the offseason you're installing dang near every day in
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  Speaker 1: some capacity but it's not like a target you're not
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  Speaker 1: game but you're not game planning and so you're not
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  Speaker 1: going through that process of saying hey we're only going
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  Speaker 1: to get X amount of swings today you know what
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  Speaker 1: do we want that process to look like how do
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  Speaker 1: we want to get there who's going here you're really
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  Speaker 1: just trying to expose the guys to the, like the
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  Speaker 1: things that they need to be able to do to
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  Speaker 1: perform and then, um, to try to create that menu.
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  Speaker 1: So then you can whittle it down once it comes
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  Speaker 1: to game time.
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  Speaker 7: Mike last night, you acknowledge like with losing three or
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  Speaker 7: four before this, there's more noise around than guys have
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  Speaker 7: heard in a while and how that wasn't a factor
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  Speaker 7: for them.
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  Speaker 1: Like, what is it about this group.
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  Speaker 4: That kept that from, from being an issue?
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the result of the investment that they
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  Speaker 1: made into one another. Uh, we put up, we, we
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  Speaker 1: invest a lot in like the 12 was one and
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  Speaker 1: the connection to the team, tough and connected mob type.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, all, all the, all the words you hear,
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  Speaker 1: but those aren't just like words that are just in
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  Speaker 1: thin air. It's just, that's how we've, we've chosen to
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  Speaker 1: really try to make, you know, create our way of
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  Speaker 1: life around here. And, you know, we fall short sometimes
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  Speaker 1: and it's never perfect, but it's, I think it's an
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  Speaker 1: honest process of what we're trying to create. And I
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  Speaker 1: think the guys feel that. And it's not going to
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  Speaker 1: be the last time that we're in a, we're in a,
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  Speaker 1: we're in a tough spot, you know? It's going to
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  Speaker 1: happen plenty. And it's how we kind of circle the
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  Speaker 1: wagons and stick together and keep moving forward that's going
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  Speaker 1: to help us get out of those things.
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  Speaker 5: So you mentioned earlier it's red zone for the offense,
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  Speaker 5: but previously it's been penalties or it's been attacking at
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  Speaker 5: point of contact. How do you maintain multiple points of emphasis,
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  Speaker 5: or do you just trust that it gets taken care
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  Speaker 5: of once and you don't have to address it again?
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  Speaker 1: It's a good question. You know, it's never like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: let's get better at this. All right, see you guys tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's always, what's our plan? First of all,
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  Speaker 1: do we like what we're doing in terms of the inputs?
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  Speaker 1: If yes, let's focus on executing better. How can we
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  Speaker 1: tweak it? And then you say, oh, well, there's some
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  Speaker 1: things on defense we were just having a conversation with,
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  Speaker 1: like how we're doing some of our walkthroughs and what
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  Speaker 1: we're exposing our guys throughout the week that we're going
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  Speaker 1: to tweak. You know, it's like, like I said, it's
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  Speaker 1: like my dad's golf swing. You know, you got to
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  Speaker 1: keep tweaking it and until you start hitting the ball
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  Speaker 1: in the fairway.
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  Speaker 6: With Tyrese Knight, it seems like just about every time
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  Speaker 6: he plays for you, he plays at a really high level. Obviously,
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  Speaker 6: you've chosen to go with Drake as a starter for
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  Speaker 6: your reasons, but what has it been like for you
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  Speaker 6: guys to have conversations with him, keep him in it
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  Speaker 6: when he's been in the reserve role, and then to
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  Speaker 6: see him step into these roles and shine the way
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  Speaker 6: he has when he's gotten the opportunity to do so?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's special conversations. I think Tyrese knows.
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  Speaker 1: What his role is. It'd be great if you could
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  Speaker 1: start more than 11 guys. I think we have multiple
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  Speaker 1: players on our defense that deserve to play more, but
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  Speaker 1: it's a great problem to have, you know, but Tina,
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  Speaker 1: I know like, look, if you're not, if you're not
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  Speaker 1: playing right now, you're a play away from being a starter.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the way he prepares. Zach does a great
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  Speaker 1: job with them. The guys love them. He's been in
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  Speaker 1: there and he's been really productive and, You know, from
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  Speaker 1: my perspective, you know, okay, T-Knight's playing, okay, I expect
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  Speaker 1: high-level play from our linebacker core, no matter who's playing.
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  Speaker 1: And because he's earned those expectations, you know, so keep
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  Speaker 1: it rolling.
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  Speaker 3: How did you assess the offensive line play on second watch?
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  Speaker 1: Guys did a really great job.
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  Speaker 5: They did.
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  Speaker 1: I felt us running off the ball. I felt us
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  Speaker 1: taking the line of scrimmage. I guess I felt the
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  Speaker 1: guys trying to finish blocks. I think are some really
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  Speaker 1: great stuff in pass protection. They gave us some tough
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  Speaker 1: pressures to be able to pick up, and some of them,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to have a rusher that's uncounted for, and
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  Speaker 1: they've been able to handle those looks. So I think
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  Speaker 1: George Helani did a great job, too, on third down
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  Speaker 1: pass protection. But the guys deserve a shout-out. They played
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  Speaker 1: really well.
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  Speaker 4: Bayless Jones, I don't think we asked you about him
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  Speaker 4: after the game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he has a hamstring. We're not sure of the severity.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see with Bayless.
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  Speaker 4: Do you know Ben Johnson at all, or have you
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  Speaker 4: gotten to know him at all?
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  Speaker 1: No, I've met him at owners' meetings, and I think
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  Speaker 1: that's the only time we've ever met.
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  Speaker 2: A few weeks ago, you said that Byron Murphy was
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  Speaker 2: playing some dominant football.
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  Speaker 3: I'm curious just what kind of impact that has trickled
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  Speaker 3: down on the rest of the defense when he's playing
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  Speaker 3: at that level.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it starts with him. You know, you get moved
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  Speaker 1: in the A-gap, you can do a lot of things
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  Speaker 1: behind it, but it's not going to be very effective.
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  Speaker 1: So it starts with Murph. I think the cool thing is, like,
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  Speaker 1: the guys know it, too. Like, they know that.
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  Speaker 1: They could see how well he's playing. I hope everybody
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  Speaker 1: else sees it as well. And I think he's winning
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  Speaker 1: a lot of rushes. I don't know what his sack
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  Speaker 1: production is right now, but he's earned the right to
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  Speaker 1: be out there and done a great job. He's done
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  Speaker 1: a great job. He's affected the quarterback. He's won on one-on-ones.
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  Speaker 1: He's played off of guys, so Murph's playing at a
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  Speaker 1: really high level still.
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  Speaker 2: Big picture with Shahid, what have you felt like, the
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  Speaker 2: way you guys have used him this season on offense
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  Speaker 2: so far and what.
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  Speaker 4: You've got out of that.
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  Speaker 1: Um, I think, I think there's, there's more there. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's not for a lack of effort or a lack
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  Speaker 1: of trying or not doing, or, you know, it's just,
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  Speaker 1: I think we're just, I think that's part of our
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  Speaker 1: process of keeping the ball distributed and, and finding better
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  Speaker 1: ways to get in the ball. You know, that's might
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  Speaker 1: be more in a sweet spot, but, um, so yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: like in the return game, it's right there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like our, our, our, our kickoff return and punt return
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  Speaker 1: units are playing some really good football and giving them
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  Speaker 1: some opportunities to really make a difference in the game
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  Speaker 1: as well. So I think, you know, plan is for
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  Speaker 1: his role to continually improve or continually expand. But I
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  Speaker 1: think there, I think there's more there.
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  Speaker 6: Was it on the interception that he got nicked up?
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  Speaker 4: Was that?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the exact play was. Cause to
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  Speaker 1: my understanding, he came back after it, after he, I
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  Speaker 1: could be wrong on this, but I think he came
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  Speaker 1: back into the game. So I'm not, I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned that Jadon Price will practice this week.
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  Speaker 4: That's the expectation. Zach started practicing. It was multiple weeks.
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  Speaker 4: He still hasn't played.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think that that's going to be similar with Price,
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: or is there a chance he could play in this game?
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: This situation's a little different, obviously, for the length of
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: the injuries. Could both play? Yes. Could either play? Yes.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Could either one play? Yes.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: How does that work when you've got coaches involved front
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: office agents medical staff like how do those conversations.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Work yeah they're all they're all different uh i just
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: i look at it what's the best for the player
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: and the team and when those marry up like we're
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: rolling when they don't then you then you want to
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: work work through things you know uh so it's kind
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: of like the question i had earlier it's like what
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: works you know communication just figuring it out and then
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: going from there so.
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: What ultimately is the last benchmark, I guess, that you
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: need to see from Zach to know that he's ready
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: to play, we can do this?
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: I think I'm going to pass on that answer.
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: Going back to Nick, last season you talked about not
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: giving him too much to overwhelm him. Do you feel
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: like you found more of a balance this year in
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: the things that you're giving him?
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: You said with Nick?
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: I think... I think it's a process. Also, I think
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: you've got to let the game plan speak to you.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: As a coaching staff, starting with me on how we
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: deploy our people, I think we can be a little
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: bit clearer. So I can do a better job of
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: helping him out and helping really the rest. Frankly, it's
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: not just Nick. It's the position group that he's affecting
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: by where we're moving him based on the play. So
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: I can help out there and make him even more effective.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: With the way that.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: You use him, is it ever a challenge, like with
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: everything that he can do to say, man, he would
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: be really great in this role, like covering this guy
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: and this player, he'd be really great rushing?
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: You can bet on who lobbies for what based off
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: of what position they coach.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: Anything else?
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Why is it always your dad's golf swing and not yours?
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: I got a great swing.