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DK Metcalf: "Geno Smith Has Done A Great Job This Season" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What's up break after a long stretch of games right there?
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  Speaker 2: What did the extra couple of days allow you to do?
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  Speaker 2: I think it allowed everybody just to reflect back on
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  Speaker 2: you know, the season so far. Uh six games and
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  Speaker 2: still got a long way to go. But things just
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  Speaker 2: gave everybody like a step back of uh fresh air,
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  Speaker 2: let us reset, just to come back and you know,
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  Speaker 2: get ready to finish the season. Would you tell the
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  Speaker 2: conversations were different when you guys got back in the
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  Speaker 2: building on Monday. Uh, different from like everybody taking the
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  Speaker 2: a breath right and and taking a step back. So
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  Speaker 2: we're conversations about this week different, what needs to happen
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  Speaker 2: in position.
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  Speaker 1: Groups anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: Nah, nothing's different. Uh still you know, normal operating procedures,
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  Speaker 2: just uh you know, a different tone of uh you
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  Speaker 2: know how we talk and uh communicate and how we
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  Speaker 2: address the game, uh would probably be the only difference, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and how we approached it. Uh this week?
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean? Uh? By how can I best say? This?
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  Speaker 2: Monday was a a very much needed uh team meeting
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  Speaker 2: to where you know, Mike just told us the truth
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  Speaker 2: of you know, it's not anything the other teams are doing.
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  Speaker 2: We're just hurting ourselves penalties, Uh, you know, giving the
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  Speaker 2: ball away, uh, not getting the ball on defense. So uh,
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  Speaker 2: he just basically told us the truth, you know of
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  Speaker 2: what we need to clean up. Uh, you know moving forward,
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  Speaker 2: and you know we all took it, Uh you know
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  Speaker 2: the right way and we're ready to finish the season.
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  Speaker 1: Said you get, gave you a chance to reflect on things.
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  Speaker 1: Just where do you feel like you're at as an
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  Speaker 1: offense in terms of what you've done so far?
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  Speaker 2: One needs to Uh, we definitely just need to get
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  Speaker 2: the run game going. I think that will open up
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  Speaker 2: uh you know other avenues in our offense. We still
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  Speaker 2: have the number one passing offense uh in the league.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, you know fixing, you know our run blocking
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  Speaker 2: and run assignments, will you know help us, uh score
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  Speaker 2: more points and move the ball and keep the defense
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  Speaker 2: off the field and rested. We think we have we
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  Speaker 2: have a doctor for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Your production has been very high in terms of yards
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  Speaker 1: per game and all that. Others did a couple of
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  Speaker 1: turnovers as well as what are what do you how
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  Speaker 1: do you evaluate your season so far?
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  Speaker 2: You played? I think the biggest thing for me is
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  Speaker 2: we gotta win games. Uh, That's why I'm here. That's
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  Speaker 2: why you know I like playing football is uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to win football games and try to do whatever it
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  Speaker 2: takes to put myself and you know everybody else in
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  Speaker 2: the best position, uh to do that. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: evaluate my season. I think I've done a pretty good job,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, not giving the ball away. I've been
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  Speaker 2: at the scene of three turnovers this year, so eliminating
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  Speaker 2: those and just taking care of football and just continue
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  Speaker 2: to do my job when.
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  Speaker 1: Things start going in the losing direction for a few games. Curious,
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  Speaker 1: like in the past, what's what's been meaningful for you
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  Speaker 1: that other people have done? From a leadership perspective, what
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  Speaker 1: do you respond to and what do you think other
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  Speaker 1: people need to see from you? What do you try
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  Speaker 1: to model in that situation.
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  Speaker 2: Just continue to be myself, continue to show up the work.
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  Speaker 2: Not letting a loss not so much hinder me, you know,
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  Speaker 2: trying to change of anything that I do personality wise
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  Speaker 2: or routine wise. Just continue to stay consistent throughout the
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  Speaker 2: whole season. But in the past, I don't like to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, compare things to the past or to Pete
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  Speaker 2: or you know, compare Pete to Mike. But I think
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  Speaker 2: they both have a great approach to, you know, bringing
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  Speaker 2: everybody back together, bringing everybody you know back in, and
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  Speaker 2: just making sure we're staying connected throughout the whole season
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  Speaker 2: to where you know, the team aspect isn't being lost
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  Speaker 2: throughout these Uh, you know, this this tough stretch that
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  Speaker 2: we're going through, and I think they've done a pretty
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  Speaker 2: good job of it. We just have to stick together
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  Speaker 2: and you know, hear what they're saying and take the
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  Speaker 2: coaching and you know, not not getting our feelings about
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  Speaker 2: it or take it personal. But like Mike said Monday,
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  Speaker 2: we're all after the same goal and it's still a
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  Speaker 2: very attainable goal.
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  Speaker 1: You called that a much needed beating. Was it just
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  Speaker 1: kind of him pointing out kind of the way that
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  Speaker 1: a lot of this stuff is self.
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  Speaker 2: Correctable or correct Yes, sir, uh, like you said, man
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  Speaker 2: self inflicted wounds. But also, uh, the three days just
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  Speaker 2: helped everybody just calm down, you know, get away from
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  Speaker 2: football for a little bit and come back with a
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  Speaker 2: clear mind to where nothing's personal. He's not pointing the
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  Speaker 2: fingers at anybody, but you know, we all just gotta
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  Speaker 2: look in the mirror. Like I said, I gotta take
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  Speaker 2: care of the ball. We gotta score points on offense
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  Speaker 2: and the defense has to take the ball away.
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  Speaker 1: Are you including the intercepts the Niners and your so
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  Speaker 1: something different on that foot?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Uh, that was definitely my fault. Uh. I was
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  Speaker 2: drifting off fields, saw open space, trying to do too
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  Speaker 2: much and let the dB undercut uh the route when
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  Speaker 2: I STI should have been uh staying flat. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: After the game, Tyler said that you guys played better
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  Speaker 1: from behind. Is that more of a mentality thing or
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  Speaker 1: do you think that the play calling is actually better
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  Speaker 1: when you guys are behind.
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  Speaker 2: No, Uh, nothing's wrong with the play calling. Uh, Like
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  Speaker 2: I said, man, there's a lot of penalties with hidden
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  Speaker 2: yardage during the game. But I think, uh our sense
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  Speaker 2: of urgency and the defense is just uh you know,
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  Speaker 2: trying to keep everything in front of them, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: we get a lot of underneath throws when uh you
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  Speaker 2: know they're they're in the lead, and uh we're trying
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  Speaker 2: to uh play from behind and catch up. When you
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  Speaker 2: look at this planet of defense, they seem to be
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  Speaker 2: the gonna be a bed.
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  Speaker 1: But goillpot w Where do you see some opportunities and.
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  Speaker 2: How have you seen them respond this year. Like you said, man,
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  Speaker 2: they've they've been in a lot of games. They play
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  Speaker 2: very complimentary football on offense, defense and special teams. But
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  Speaker 2: we just gotta, you know, keep our foot on their
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  Speaker 2: necks and not let them breathe. And you know, when
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity, you know, presents itself. With the ball in
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  Speaker 2: the air, we're in the open field, we got to
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  Speaker 2: punch the ball in the end zone, and even in
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  Speaker 2: the red zone, we gotta finish better than we've been doing.
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  Speaker 2: So just a great opportunity on the road against a
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  Speaker 2: very good NFC team, you know, who's who's got some
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  Speaker 2: quality wins. So just another opportunity for us to go
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  Speaker 2: back out there and get back on track.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned the play in the for Niners game where
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  Speaker 1: you drifted a little bit. You're obviously making a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of decisions in the split second and you're working with Gino.
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  Speaker 1: How do you guys come together after situations like that
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  Speaker 1: and figure out, you know, through practice, how to you know,
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  Speaker 1: avoid those as much as possible.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's really not much coming together. We
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  Speaker 2: we talked on the phone Monday or Sunday and I
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  Speaker 2: told him, you know, that was my fault about drifting
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  Speaker 2: and just goes back to practice habits like you gotta practice,
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  Speaker 2: like you know every day is the last play, every
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  Speaker 2: every uh play is you know you're down seven, or
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  Speaker 2: you know it's the fourth quarter, you gotta make the catch. So, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just me getting into that mentality during practice.
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  Speaker 2: So when I get in the game, you know, it's nothing,
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  Speaker 2: no second thought about it. I know what to do.
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  Speaker 2: I've ran around a thousand times, but you know, and
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  Speaker 2: that just that moment, just trying to do too much,
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  Speaker 2: is trying to, uh, you know, go eighty yards in
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  Speaker 2: one play when you know I shouldn't have to. We
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't have to.
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  Speaker 1: The the the the play before the end zone where
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  Speaker 1: you almost got both feet in do you look at
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  Speaker 1: did when you look at the review that was there
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  Speaker 1: anything else you felt you could have done differently to
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  Speaker 1: get both feet in there.
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  Speaker 2: Or anything or No. I mean I could have looked
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  Speaker 2: down and uh, you know, placed my feet better in
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  Speaker 2: the end zone. It's probably the only thing I could have,
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  Speaker 2: uh could have done better.
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  Speaker 1: And there was a I don't remember.
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  Speaker 2: Because the Giants game of the Niners game, but there
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  Speaker 2: was a show on the rock click on the broadcast.
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  Speaker 1: That you in a headset really upset.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a Niners game. What was what were
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  Speaker 2: you upset? I mean we're losing. Uh, we're getting three
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  Speaker 2: and outs. If anybody isn't upset about that, then you
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  Speaker 2: know you're playing the wrong sport. I'm a very competitive
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  Speaker 2: person and I like winning, and you know that just
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  Speaker 2: goes into it. Uh me telling Grub. It was Grub
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  Speaker 2: who I was talking to on the headset, just telling
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  Speaker 2: him what I see. We got to run by run
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  Speaker 2: by defenders, That's what what I was telling him.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned that you haven't got the run and as
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  Speaker 1: much you want you want to do that, given that,
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  Speaker 1: how well has you.
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  Speaker 2: Been playing just so much on him? Yes, sir, I
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  Speaker 2: mean he's done a great job of being not only
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  Speaker 2: a quarterback you know, making the right reads, but a
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  Speaker 2: good leader, you know, a good voice that you know, uh,
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  Speaker 2: for Grub and for Mike to ping ideas off of
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  Speaker 2: and for the offense to go to. And he's a
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  Speaker 2: great spokesperson for this offense. You know, he's got the
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  Speaker 2: weight of the world on his shoulders, but he leans
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  Speaker 2: on all of us, uh, you know at times for
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  Speaker 2: comfort and uh to ping ideas off of but uh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean he's done a great job this year.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are leading the NFL in passing. Do you
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  Speaker 1: feel like you're our ant al cylinders yet?
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  Speaker 2: No, we're thirty first in Russian or twenty ninth and
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  Speaker 2: Russians something like that. So now we we really have
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  Speaker 2: to get the run in go and get Ken and
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  Speaker 2: Sharpen a uh feature to where you know, they can
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  Speaker 2: really you know, show the world and show their rest
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  Speaker 2: in the NFL, uh who they are as players and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just gonna open up the offense even more
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  Speaker 2: than you