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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Recaps The NFC Championship Win, Talks Super Bowl Prep · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, don't really have anything for you, So go
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  Speaker 1: ahead like it's another victory Monday.
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  Speaker 2: You have said the process stays the same, does anything
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  Speaker 2: about this victory Monday field or the differenttory.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think that's part of the message this week
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  Speaker 1: with the guys is there's gonna be a lot that's
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  Speaker 1: under our control that we can keep it within our process.
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  Speaker 1: But there's gonna be some things that are gonna be different,
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  Speaker 1: and that's okay. But the things that is going to
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  Speaker 1: stay the same as like our approach to every day
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  Speaker 1: and like what the intent of the day or the
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  Speaker 1: walkthrough or whatever we're trying to achieve that day is.
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  Speaker 1: So today's kind of one of those things. Like we
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  Speaker 1: got to go over some some logistics, which is some
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  Speaker 1: exciting stuff, but it's also something that we want to
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  Speaker 1: get out ahead of so when it's time for football
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  Speaker 1: we can be focused on football. What does this week
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  Speaker 1: look like for you guys? Schedule us, the guys are
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  Speaker 1: gonna be off. Well, they're in today for some logistics stuff.
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  Speaker 1: We just kind of put last night's game to bed,
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  Speaker 1: got the food trucks out there. It's exciting off for
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  Speaker 1: a couple of days and then and we'll start like
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  Speaker 1: a normal week, cadence on Thursday. I believe we're traveling
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: So it seems like with.
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl persons, there are different schools have found about
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  Speaker 1: like how much do you can you thanking? Whatever? Game? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: The first week? Yeah, take off? What's your we're working
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  Speaker 1: through that. We're working through that. Uh, definitely different schools
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  Speaker 1: thought to your point, and talking to some folks today
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  Speaker 1: talking to our coordinators on how we want to operate,
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  Speaker 1: We're still working through how exactly going to do it.
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  Speaker 1: And frankly, I think it's gonna be something that we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna navigate as the as these two weeks kind of
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  Speaker 1: present itself to so, but you know, the bulk of
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  Speaker 1: the work will be happened this week and then we'll
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  Speaker 1: go from there.
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  Speaker 2: You go song with John Harbaugh and how he did
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowls.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't talked to John yet, but at some point
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  Speaker 1: I probably will.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what kind of when you went back and watch
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  Speaker 2: the tape of it, what's something that kind of caught
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  Speaker 2: your eye? I mean kind of when you saw it
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  Speaker 2: from above? Kind of they just stand out to you.
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  Speaker 1: I just think out the way our guys play is
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  Speaker 1: just just proud of our effort and how we play.
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  Speaker 1: You know, just really you can kind of go through
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  Speaker 1: each position, group each guy and and point to plays
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  Speaker 1: where you know it's maybe as as insignificant as it
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  Speaker 1: seemed in that moment, how it played into the bigger picture.
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  Speaker 1: And that's really cool. You know, it just shows you
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  Speaker 1: the power of like the collective effort that the guys had,
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  Speaker 1: so really proud of the effort.
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  Speaker 2: Have you had a fourth down play for a bit?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was electric and and uh even even
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  Speaker 1: in like even after during the celebration, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: anybody left. You know, the whole stay was still packed,
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  Speaker 1: just cheering, cheering from everybody. It was just just a
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  Speaker 1: just an incredible, incredible showing by the twelves.
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  Speaker 3: You have to look at New England or anything like that, or.
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  Speaker 1: I think I've watched like five plays. You said it's
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  Speaker 1: been had been asserver, Right, you come across that, We
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  Speaker 1: were like you just.
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  Speaker 2: End up with the toil the end and you get
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  Speaker 2: out to sea.
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  Speaker 1: Well, no, because normally you know the way that the
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  Speaker 1: schedule is at some point you know that everyone's kind
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  Speaker 1: of mixing match that you know, the same way where
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  Speaker 1: you ended up playing like common opponents throughout the year.
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  Speaker 1: So and even in the playoffs, it might happen to
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  Speaker 1: you when you're playing another division that you weren't like
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  Speaker 1: matched with. So this one, this is this is kind
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  Speaker 1: of unique from from my experience at least. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're only talking about ten to twelve years here said
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  Speaker 1: I think.
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  Speaker 3: Last week that you guys wouldn't be here if you
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  Speaker 3: didn't have the participation during OTAs in any camp.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you did. Why do you think you had that
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  Speaker 1: kind of participation. Well, I think it's a tribute to
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  Speaker 1: our guys. I mean it was something that like at
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  Speaker 1: this point last year, as we were finishing up the season,
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  Speaker 1: I think I think the buy in of like understanding
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  Speaker 1: of what we were trying to achieve was there, and
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  Speaker 1: the guys were guys were excited about it. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I felt like maybe towards the last part of the
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  Speaker 1: season they start to feel like maybe what we could
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  Speaker 1: build and the possibility of doing it, and so maybe
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  Speaker 1: like the initial intention was there, and then really it's
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  Speaker 1: a team effort. Coaches included, you know, strength, staff included.
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  Speaker 1: Once once they're in the building, create an environment where
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  Speaker 1: they feel like they can really, you know, take it
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  Speaker 1: to the next level. And I mean I think offensively
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  Speaker 1: we might have been one hundred percent dang near every day,
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  Speaker 1: which is which is awesome, especially with the new staff.
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  Speaker 1: So it's really incredible.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of game us but particular some of the
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  Speaker 2: throwsers making under the pressure. That's talk creates pressure in
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  Speaker 2: past game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, those touchdowns do. Yeah, that was a great place,
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  Speaker 1: all time, great place standing in there and trusting the
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  Speaker 1: timing of the play and letting it rip. So it's
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  Speaker 1: pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think, Kenneth Walker?
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  Speaker 2: Like, the numbers don't look in uppressive, so yeah, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of good runs.
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  Speaker 1: He had a lot of great runs, he really did,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of hidden ard like talk about hidden
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  Speaker 1: yardage within that game, and uh his response, well, for
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  Speaker 1: for a lot of those hidden yards So I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to block a little bit better at points,
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  Speaker 1: but when you have a guy like Canine, he can
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  Speaker 1: he can make right for you. So that was that
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  Speaker 1: was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: He can occasionally have a run go backward because it
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  Speaker 2: test to make a little bit goal with when he's
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  Speaker 2: able to turn that playing into a touchdown where he's
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  Speaker 2: able to get the space smits in the middle of
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  Speaker 2: the field.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I think it's a similar it's a similar
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  Speaker 1: message that we have with the restaurant players. I'm thinking
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  Speaker 1: like with Sam as well, it's just hey, like, go
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  Speaker 1: be decisive, you know, and then let's go fix it
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  Speaker 1: from there. And I think I think you've seen Ken's
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  Speaker 1: game go to the next level throughout the course of
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  Speaker 1: the season. And again if you if you change up
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  Speaker 1: your message, you them and you say, hey, like you
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  Speaker 1: have to run it like this all the time, but
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  Speaker 1: you don't get some of those runs that that his
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  Speaker 1: natural ability takes over. So there's a balance there, and
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of like the secret sweet spot that you're
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  Speaker 1: that you're searching for a guy like him. What do
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  Speaker 1: we get hit that George is the backup and it
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  Speaker 1: can kind of be behind it.
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  Speaker 2: What did you think of that?
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  Speaker 1: It was remarkable? I mean, isn't played in how many weeks?
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  Speaker 2: Then?
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  Speaker 1: Only normally when you guys come up off of ir
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  Speaker 1: they need some time to get ready to go. But
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  Speaker 1: attribute to him and our training staff for having him
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  Speaker 1: in shape and and it just shows you just gotta
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  Speaker 1: stay ready. Men, All seventy guys need everybody never know
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  Speaker 1: what's going to happen, and you know, when the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: presents his off and you're ready, it's something great can happen.
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  Speaker 3: What are some of the unique logistical challenges of moving
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  Speaker 3: your whole operation to practice somewhere else. Is it similar
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  Speaker 3: to the joint practices that give you a little.
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  Speaker 1: Bit of an idea a little bit right now? Is
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  Speaker 1: kind of just looking at it big pictures feels like
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  Speaker 1: it's more what it would feel like when we go
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  Speaker 1: when we play like overseas. You know, you're taking servers
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  Speaker 1: and there's a lot of video. You know, there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of it's a lot of logistical stuff that's going
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  Speaker 1: technical stuff that a lot of people have to put
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  Speaker 1: in a lot of work to make it happen. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, we trust everything. What's awesome is like we
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  Speaker 1: don't have to worry. I mean, just kind of show
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  Speaker 1: up and do our job. Everybody else does a great job,
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  Speaker 1: but kind of seting the table for us.
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  Speaker 2: What do you see a big challenge for your for
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  Speaker 2: your player?
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  Speaker 1: You think and quiet, I think I think it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's easy to say process, but the days are going
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  Speaker 1: to look a little bit different. So it's really the
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  Speaker 1: intent behind what we're trying to do every day and
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  Speaker 1: just stay and focused on the things that we can
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  Speaker 1: control because there is so much extra, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: that comes to the territory. So it's exciting. It's an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to kind of make it known, to get it right.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, I trust our guys are gonna be great,
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  Speaker 1: you know. There, they know that we've got one goal
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  Speaker 1: of mine. Let's go, let's go make it happen. Like
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  Speaker 1: Gividy really.
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  Speaker 2: Said, it's on whether Sam's will be able to do
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  Speaker 2: more and practice the next step.
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  Speaker 1: I honestly yeah, I honestly don't. I don't. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what the trajectory is with how much, how many
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  Speaker 1: reps he's gonna need or how much he's gonna want
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  Speaker 1: to take, So I don't know that yet. How did Charleston?
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  Speaker 1: How did the game? So my knowledge is good, it's
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  Speaker 1: just still sores. Oh it's this game break here. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what the stats were, but he just effect
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  Speaker 1: felt like, effected the game dang near every play so tremendous,
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  Speaker 1: tremendous all three levels, you know. Sparking the offense at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the half was huge. Obviously going up
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  Speaker 1: big in the red zone. Yeah, a great game, Greedy
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  Speaker 1: Russell many it's work he's got He's got a hand
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  Speaker 1: right now. So we'll just kind of work through it
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  Speaker 1: on what the timing is and what we need to do.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think Robbie has a chance to make it
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  Speaker 1: back to we hope? So yeah, just you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's gotta calm down so we can have a better
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  Speaker 1: feel for how it's gonna how it's gonna look. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure what his practice status is going to
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  Speaker 1: be this week.
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  Speaker 2: Not sure speak when he had to adapt about him
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  Speaker 2: in the line up there, had you feel like you
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  Speaker 2: kind of worked around.
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  Speaker 1: That absence and some of the things you did. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I thought our tight ends played really well. Eric Saber
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  Speaker 1: had a great game. A J. Barner Nic Color up
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  Speaker 1: some good plays. So we're able to work around it.
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  Speaker 1: It's the benefit of having those type of you know,
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  Speaker 1: bodies that can play and play on special teams. And
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  Speaker 1: Brady was able to fill a role as well at fullback.
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  Speaker 1: So uh, just something you have to have to work through.
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  Speaker 1: Good Again, don't know the extent of practice availability and
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  Speaker 1: all that, but it's just a a shoulder right now.
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  Speaker 1: What is it. Well, that's I think that's one of
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  Speaker 1: the reason we made a captain last week is just
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  Speaker 1: this guy is he's kind of like the heartbeat our
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  Speaker 1: team to a certain extent, especially on defense. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: just a definitely an emotional leader sets the tone every
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  Speaker 1: day when you have a guy that's been around for
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  Speaker 1: that long and he operates the way he does and
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  Speaker 1: just sets a great example for the rest of the team,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So I'm really happy for him for what,
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  Speaker 1: you know what he's been able to put our team
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  Speaker 1: in the position it's kind of like set your intention, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what, what are we trying to what are
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  Speaker 1: we trying to do? It's kind of like what Ernest
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  Speaker 1: does you know. It's just there's a certain at tension
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  Speaker 1: in detailed physicality, the method about how we want to operate.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: He brings that every day. And when you have a
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  Speaker 1: guy with his his stature that has that, it's, uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's contagious.
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  Speaker 2: Break last time would you get any game.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm a broken record, But I thought Nick had
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  Speaker 1: a great game. I think that the difference between this
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  Speaker 1: game and San Francisco is I think he like he
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  Speaker 1: handled his kind of emotional sweet spot better. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's in more of like an operative mode and just
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  Speaker 1: played great football, you know, and really affected the game.
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  Speaker 1: And if we don't have those pass breaks, breakups, I
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  Speaker 1: think there's a different outcome to the game.
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  Speaker 3: Clarity.
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  Speaker 1: You've got a lot of your.
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  Speaker 2: LaMarcus Sam, You've never been into this just as opposed
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  Speaker 2: to see.
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  Speaker 1: All these guys have. Yeah, well it's great, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: and it's it's awesome, and but it also means that
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  Speaker 1: we got work to do, you know. And I think
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  Speaker 1: one of the differences about how we've ran our program
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  Speaker 1: this year and the last two years is like, we
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  Speaker 1: don't have a Hey, this is the Super Bowl hymnbook.
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  Speaker 1: This is not the this is how you handle all
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  Speaker 1: the things. It's our mentality is is, hey, look, we're
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  Speaker 1: all in this together and going into this experience, and
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  Speaker 1: this is how we want to you know, take it
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  Speaker 1: day by day and kind of get through all these hurdles,
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  Speaker 1: so to speak. And those guys will be right along
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  Speaker 1: there for the ride and lead and leading the charge.
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  Speaker 1: So that's how we're gonna handle it.
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  Speaker 2: It was kind of a rough team of moments for
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  Speaker 2: all three of your cornerbacks last night, for them to
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  Speaker 2: ultimately come back on our final tack and cover up
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  Speaker 2: on those last two players and putting the breakups back then,
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  Speaker 2: and how obviously how critical was that for you guys
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  Speaker 2: for them to still work on that game.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just that that's the byproduct of the
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  Speaker 1: inputs you put in. You know, you face some adversity
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  Speaker 1: earlier in the game, and but you just stick to it,
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  Speaker 1: and you just you trust that if you just keep
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  Speaker 1: stacking plays over and over again, you know you'll give
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  Speaker 1: yourself a chance. So the plays by Spoon in the
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  Speaker 1: red zone were just, you know, some of the big
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  Speaker 1: best plays and you know our team history probably I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's just including the circumstances. So it's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: You have more parity on your assistant coaches and their
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  Speaker 3: job prospects master this.
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  Speaker 1: Uh no, no, I don't. A couple couple couple of ones,
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  Speaker 1: A couple like opportunities have been filled to my knowledge,
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  Speaker 1: but nothing like finalized.
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  Speaker 2: About and take take ready important for this team. How
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  Speaker 2: did that show up like after week ruling and into
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  Speaker 2: players talk and then they refocus and get down.
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  Speaker 1: In the game. Yeah, yeah, how were we define tegors
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  Speaker 1: Is doing the things that you say you're going to
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  Speaker 1: do and do that consistently, so and don't let those
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  Speaker 1: man if you don't let the outcome affect how you're
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  Speaker 1: going to operate, you can operate that way. And so
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  Speaker 1: when you do work through those things in adverse times,
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  Speaker 1: I think that really shows you know what you're made of,
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  Speaker 1: and our guys prove that time and time again.
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  Speaker 2: Steadfast is another word you've been using.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, how does that show up?
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  Speaker 3: And why is that important in your program?
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  Speaker 1: You can say like relentless, right, just that's that's part
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  Speaker 1: of our what we want to be, our play style.
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  Speaker 1: And how can you not you know, how could you
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  Speaker 1: just like you're gonna turn, gonna step off the gas
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  Speaker 1: for what, Like you're gonna stop you know, chasing chasing
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  Speaker 1: a vision or how you want to play, or stop
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  Speaker 1: you know training or stop you know prep coaching your guys.
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  Speaker 1: Like that makes no sense. Why would you operate that way?
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  Speaker 2: Jake Bobo has only had a couple of catches for
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  Speaker 2: your last season, but the biggest.
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  Speaker 1: Moment there he touched up to the biggest la oh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems like he's been like kind of hard
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  Speaker 2: to beat guys, and you guys in the locker anyways
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  Speaker 2: like that. But what kind of different qussion does that
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  Speaker 2: make on you? But he's able to make that.
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  Speaker 1: Play in the moment of hang with you, I think
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  Speaker 1: you're just really happy for him. I'm not surprised. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's Jake Bobo. You know, that's the guy that we know,
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  Speaker 1: we love. To your point, I mean, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think a couple weeks ago he was a captain and
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  Speaker 1: shows you, like the respect that he cares throughout the
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  Speaker 1: team and how much we appreciate him, how much we
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  Speaker 1: respect him. So for him to make a play in
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  Speaker 1: that setting, Uh yeah, I mean you're just I think
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  Speaker 1: you're just fired up for the guy. You know, you're
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  Speaker 1: just really happy for him.
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  Speaker 2: Said watherstreams or creak ups or something. Best plays in
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  Speaker 2: the tempest?
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  Speaker 1: What you mean by the state what he did physically.
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  Speaker 2: That's who reading that.
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  Speaker 1: I think, just concerning like the situation and what got
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  Speaker 1: us to that point and what what was required, you know,
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  Speaker 1: especially the last play. I mean, the play shouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: lasting that long. And uh talking about relentlessness, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like I'm thinking, if I'm in that type of coverage,
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to you know, coverage cover for you
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  Speaker 1: know x amount of time and now all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden it extends and like there's no blink, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you just he's just competing. And he did that the
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  Speaker 1: whole game. That's that's who he is going to be.
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  Speaker 2: He said it was a seven ropper at tight end
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  Speaker 2: earlier in the same exposure. That's quickly breaking time.
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  Speaker 1: Was that is that him? Is that something you guys told, Oh, no,
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  Speaker 1: that that's that's that's him. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Question besides defensively or the RAMS games.
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  Speaker 1: Just outliers in the Rams. No, there's there's there's Look,
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  Speaker 1: it's a football game. We're gonna go work the work
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  Speaker 1: what happened. We're gonna take things out of it that
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: I thought our guys did really well that maybe we
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: can build off of. And there's gonna be some things
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: that we need to get cleaned up. So the guys
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: know that they're great and we'll work that over the
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: next few days and get back to work on Thursday.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: What was the last night? Oh was epic. It was awesome.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: That's great. Thank you everyone, all right, thank you