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  Speaker 1: Uh, he's a good young player. You know, he's got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of length. He kind of looks like the
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  Speaker 1: old like the old Seattle corners, the Richard Sherman. The
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  Speaker 1: guys are just long and lanky and able to make
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  Speaker 1: plays on the ball, playing with a ton of confidence.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think last week you they didn't really
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  Speaker 1: go after him much at all, didn't really test him, um,
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  Speaker 1: which I understand, like you can see that Washington tape. Um.
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  Speaker 1: He's really made an impact early on in his career there.
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  Speaker 1: So he's a good player. You can normally kind of
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  Speaker 1: target a rookie corner, but he's not exactly your average
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  Speaker 1: rookie corner ban Yeah. Yeah, I mean obviously he was
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  Speaker 1: drafted high. There was a lot of high opinions of
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  Speaker 1: him coming in, and he's lived up to that expectation
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  Speaker 1: in my opinion. What about DJ on the other side
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  Speaker 1: of him? What what kind of horrorback is here? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's played really well. They're built very different, but he's
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  Speaker 1: done a great job. He's really feisty. Um. You know, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: with teams getting more and more attention to Sauce Gardner
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  Speaker 1: that it feels like teams a go after him a
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  Speaker 1: little more, but he's risen to the challenge. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they're playing really, really well. It's a really good past defense.
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  Speaker 1: I think the stats would tell you that as well. Um,
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  Speaker 1: they played with high effort and that kid has done
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  Speaker 1: a great job over there on on his side as
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  Speaker 1: well Philly earlier in the year. You learn anything from that, probably, yeah, No,
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  Speaker 1: not necessarily. I mean we're aware of it. We understand that,
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  Speaker 1: we understand we we kind of had our own self
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  Speaker 1: inflicted issues in Philly in terms of our ball security.
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  Speaker 1: So that's just something we've been aware of. We've tried
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  Speaker 1: to emphasize that every single week going and we've played
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  Speaker 1: in games that there's expected rain, whether that was home
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  Speaker 1: games or on the road. Um, so that's certainly something
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  Speaker 1: we're aware of. We understand we have to do a
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  Speaker 1: better job than we did when we saw that three
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  Speaker 1: months ago. I want the rain is expected when you rather,
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  Speaker 1: you want to join the snow, so it is, it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be nice. I got good food. Um, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that that's a that's a fair question. Maybe,
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  Speaker 1: I mean anything falling, snow falling, rainfalling, that's not ideal.
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  Speaker 1: If it's you know, if it's just snow on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: That's different than you'd probably prefer. That depends on how much,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean, each game, the conditions are what they are,
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  Speaker 1: and you kind of just deal with at least both
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  Speaker 1: teams are, and that's the biggest thing. So um, I'd
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  Speaker 1: love it to be perfectly nice and sonny and warm,
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  Speaker 1: no breeze, all that type of thing, but that's just
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  Speaker 1: not the way we play football. And when you play
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  Speaker 1: in these outdoor environments, you gotta deal with it. So
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  Speaker 1: when you have a situation where different guys each week
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  Speaker 1: are stepping up and being able to make plays, it
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  Speaker 1: was Evan, it was a this week. Is that more
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  Speaker 1: on Trevor and just his chemistry with each guy or
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  Speaker 1: is that come down a game planning and attacking a
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  Speaker 1: defense based off what they're giving you. Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's all the above. I mean, it's kind of we
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  Speaker 1: build a game plan and really everybody has their place.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, everybody would kind of go home at night
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  Speaker 1: and say, I hope they call these three four three
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  Speaker 1: these three four plays is gonna hit and then it's
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  Speaker 1: just a matter of how it works in the game.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you call it, they probably break the huddle thinking
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get this ball. Defense plays a certain way,
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  Speaker 1: and it goes another place where something happens. Um. So,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I think it's more just the byproduct
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  Speaker 1: of the offense and Trevor operating it at you know,
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  Speaker 1: very efficiently, at least where the ball just kind of
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  Speaker 1: goes where it's supposed to go if it looks right,
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  Speaker 1: if it looks not right, get a completion, keep the
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  Speaker 1: play moving or keep the series moving, and will come
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  Speaker 1: back to certain things. So I think it just kind
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  Speaker 1: of played out that way where a couple of weeks ago,
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  Speaker 1: things just found Evan, Uh. Last week things found Zay.
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  Speaker 1: But I think it was kind of spread pretty evenly,
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  Speaker 1: which we like to see where that you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: a couple of guys that get six seven targets, a
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  Speaker 1: couple of guys around yards, somebody makes a big play
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  Speaker 1: and kind of blows up their numbers a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: That's just kind of the way it works sometimes. At
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  Speaker 1: what kind of confidence is there for him? And left
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  Speaker 1: tackle have tons of confidence with with Walker. He stepped
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  Speaker 1: into a good job, he's got playing experience from last year.
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  Speaker 1: Even to draw on Um. You know, there's a there's
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  Speaker 1: a legitimate battle through the off season through training camp
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  Speaker 1: at the tackle position, and that's because Walker put himself
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  Speaker 1: in that position to make that a real competition. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we were fortunate that Cam and JT have played so
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  Speaker 1: well and it stayed healthy to this point. Um, but
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  Speaker 1: there's tons of confidence in Walker that Walker is going
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  Speaker 1: to step in and do his job. Uh, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think he'll play well performing next to Tyler Shatley
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  Speaker 1: as well. Tyler has done a great job communicating with
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  Speaker 1: the tackles next to him, so you know, it's next
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  Speaker 1: man up. He's got a job to doing. We expect
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  Speaker 1: him to do it at a high level. Tackles are
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  Speaker 1: expected play buff ops and right. How hard is that
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  Speaker 1: for a guy to go in there and play, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like thirty snaps were at tackle and tackle. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I assume it's really hard. I've never done to myself,
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  Speaker 1: but I can imagine where it would be hard of
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  Speaker 1: you know, changing your stance, changing your dominant hand, um,
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  Speaker 1: and especially with the pass rushers we're going against last week.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you you all of a sudden, you're cool
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  Speaker 1: on the sideline. You step in the game and you're
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  Speaker 1: facing Michael Parsons on one side, you move over the
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  Speaker 1: other side. Maybe you're still facing him because they flipped him,
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  Speaker 1: or you're facing to Marcus Lawrence. But I thought Walker
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  Speaker 1: handled the challenge really well. What kind of job was
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  Speaker 1: still roush you're done with this group. I mean no
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  Speaker 1: disrespect Shatie at all, but he was a second team
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  Speaker 1: guy right playing with the tackle. That's a scring. Guys,
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  Speaker 1: second team got to get a rookie at center and
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  Speaker 1: you help him to one sack and they've given up
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  Speaker 1: one in the last three games. Yeah, Phil has done
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  Speaker 1: a phenomenal job of having all those guys ready and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of it is kind of
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  Speaker 1: the room that's built, the type of character that we
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  Speaker 1: have in that room. Um, you know, we lose Ben Bartch,
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  Speaker 1: Shatlee steps in. Shatlee's played great so far. They've done
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  Speaker 1: a good job keeping Trevor clean um and being able
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  Speaker 1: to keep us in situations where we can we can
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  Speaker 1: kind of dictate the terms of the game. If you
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  Speaker 1: get in third and eleven, you're not gonna make a
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  Speaker 1: living in third and eleven against Dallas Cowboys in that
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  Speaker 1: pass rush. So being able to maintain that, but then
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  Speaker 1: like you said Walker stepping in and just being ready
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  Speaker 1: to play whatever side he's needed on all those guys
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  Speaker 1: expecting that the next man up is going to do
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  Speaker 1: their job. Luke running the show and communicating has been
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  Speaker 1: really really good so far at this point in his
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  Speaker 1: rookie year. Now we've got to continue. Just as an offense,
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  Speaker 1: we have one good game, it doesn't do anything for
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  Speaker 1: us on Thursday night. We have to continue to come
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  Speaker 1: out and execute at a high level at all in
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  Speaker 1: your playbook without Cam out, there no nothing to change.
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  Speaker 1: We'll continue to operate as this talked openly about the
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  Speaker 1: Denver game in London being a low point for him,
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  Speaker 1: And did you get that sense at a time or
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  Speaker 1: on the flight back that this was he was going
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  Speaker 1: to be different. He valed to be different. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean you saw kind of the dejection in him. He
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  Speaker 1: came up. I remember coming up and sitting next to
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  Speaker 1: me on the plane for a long time. We just
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  Speaker 1: had a long conversation about where we were and all that.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean I wouldn't have said he was down
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  Speaker 1: on the dumpster, and he just doesn't seem to have
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  Speaker 1: that personality. You know, you felt like he would respond
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  Speaker 1: and so you know, just to watch him work and
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  Speaker 1: kind of the way pulled himself out of that moment.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it was just that moment. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think things linger with him very long, good or bad.
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  Speaker 1: I think he just continues to play and move on. Um,
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  Speaker 1: So you felt confident that that was gonna happen, and
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  Speaker 1: then you know you need to see it. And it's
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  Speaker 1: every single week. Like we said, you know, just because
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  Speaker 1: he's had success in consecutive weeks doesn't do anything for
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  Speaker 1: Thursday night. You've got to go out and play. Well.
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  Speaker 1: That's what the great players in this league do, regardless
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  Speaker 1: of position. The great players show up every single week
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  Speaker 1: and they're consistently great. How difficult is the Jets defense
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  Speaker 1: in general? We talked about Sauce already obviously, but just
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  Speaker 1: what they've been able to do, What sort of challenges
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  Speaker 1: do they pose. It feels like there's just a wave
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  Speaker 1: of defensive lineman coming in and out, so there's it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't feel like there's a major drop off on the
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  Speaker 1: backup d line comes in, which is not always common
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  Speaker 1: across the board with defenses you face. So they just
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  Speaker 1: it feels like they just keep throwing pass rushers out there.
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  Speaker 1: They're playing with their hair on fire. They're flying up
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  Speaker 1: the field at the quarterback. They've done a good job.
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  Speaker 1: I think their top ten the league in sacks. They've
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  Speaker 1: done a great job in pressures. They fly around in
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  Speaker 1: the back end. You can tell the command and that C. J.
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  Speaker 1: Mosley has in this defense of just kind of running
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  Speaker 1: the show, getting everything directed. When they're checking, they all
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  Speaker 1: get on the same page pretty quickly. I think the
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  Speaker 1: safeties have played really well, even with Joyner out the
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  Speaker 1: other day. Uh you know they will Park stepped in.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he played well and then the white head
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  Speaker 1: number three, he's played really well this season. He shows up.
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  Speaker 1: Our receivers are very aware that if you have to
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  Speaker 1: block him in the run game, he's gonna show up
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  Speaker 1: quickly with a bad attitude. So I know, Quinny Williams
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  Speaker 1: is kind of questionable to play, But but if he does,
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  Speaker 1: what sort of threat is he? And you know how
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  Speaker 1: big of a challenge is that going to be for
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  Speaker 1: the interior up your offense. Blow. Yeah, he is a
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  Speaker 1: great player, cause a lot of disruption in there, and
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  Speaker 1: it's tough when it's inside because it's not like you
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  Speaker 1: can put a tight end on the edge and try
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  Speaker 1: to help. It's you know, when you can, you try
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  Speaker 1: to make sure you send a double team to him.
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  Speaker 1: But that's that kind of the versatility of being able
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  Speaker 1: to move around inside. They present issues where there's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be one on one situations and he's a very good
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  Speaker 1: player that can cause a lot of problems in there.
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  Speaker 1: Good thanks guys,