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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Previews The Upcoming Week 11 Matchup at L.A. Rams · Seahawks Press Pass

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Speaker 1: All right, appreciate everybody's patience. Uh, similar, similar schedule today
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Speaker 1: as last week. Just felt like that was the best
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Speaker 1: thing for the guys. So, uh yeah, the guys are excited.
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Speaker 1: Had a great couple of meetings this morning, and we're.
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Speaker 2: Back at it. So what do you got?
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Speaker 3: He was a defensive coach.
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Speaker 4: What do you like about the chess match of going
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Speaker 4: against an elite offensive play caller designer?
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't say you're doing you're doing your My job
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Speaker 1: is to help design a plan and coach the heck
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Speaker 1: out of it with our guys and organize it.
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Speaker 2: With our staff, and.
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Speaker 1: So they can go play great football and keep it
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Speaker 1: simple and keeping our keeping our wheelhouse and against anybody
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Speaker 1: we play. Sean's a tremendous play caller. He's a great
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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. They got they got a great they have
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Speaker 1: a great offense, but they approaches the same every week, he.
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Speaker 4: Said, Sam dar or sorry, Stafford, the street he's on
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Speaker 4: right now. Just the touchdowns officially, what have you seen
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Speaker 4: out of him?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's obviously a great player. He's been only gone
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Speaker 1: against him a few times in my career, but uh,
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Speaker 1: this is probably the best I've seen him. He's he's
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Speaker 1: playing great football. Decisive, They're putting them in great situations,
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Speaker 1: diagnosing defense at a really high level, handling the protections
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Speaker 1: at a high level. They're really explosive right now in
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Speaker 1: their past game. And then and then they're converting in
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Speaker 1: some of those and a lot of those conversion downs
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Speaker 1: to which keeps drives extended.
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Speaker 2: So, yeah, he's playing great football.
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Speaker 4: Rams have forced a bunch of fumbles, Nate lamb and
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Speaker 4: in particular, and you guys had only one game that
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Speaker 4: had no turnovers.
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Speaker 5: How do you change that.
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Speaker 2: Starting this week?
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Speaker 1: Well, I can tell you you know how we approach
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Speaker 1: what we do, and we're going to keep training the
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Speaker 1: heck out of it and talkking about it and showing
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Speaker 1: it and showing examples and trying to find opportunities to
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Speaker 1: do it. Train it today, tomorrow and Friday, and offensively
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Speaker 1: are gonna do the same thing. We're gonna we're gonna
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Speaker 1: work our ball security drills. We're gonna make sound decisions
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Speaker 1: and you have to have an awareness of of when
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Speaker 1: they're taking shots and who are the guys. But uh,
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Speaker 1: you got to make sure that you're on point with
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Speaker 1: with what you're doing same schedule.
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Speaker 5: You mean just act today. Yeah, what benefit do you
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Speaker 5: think the schedule from last week had, if.
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Speaker 1: Any high Well, I think last week was really driven
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Speaker 1: by coming back from the East Coast. This week, I
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Speaker 1: felt like some of our skill guys with there, with
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Speaker 1: like the you know, the the workload that.
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Speaker 2: They've had, needed to slow it down a little bit.
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Speaker 1: And uh, offensive line probably needed you know, they had it.
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Speaker 1: They had a pretty big output on on Sunday, so
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Speaker 1: that'll help them as well. A lot of new players
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Speaker 1: the last couple of years. Well there, Shoot, they do.
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Speaker 1: They do a lot of great things. The front's playing
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Speaker 1: really well. I think the best thing I can say
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Speaker 1: is they're playing really complimentary defense or attacking the football
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Speaker 1: when it's you know, when it's past time and it's
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Speaker 1: converging down time and in the red zone. They're executing
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Speaker 1: at a high level, and they work together a lot
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Speaker 1: of those principles. You know, we're chasing as well on defense,
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Speaker 1: so you see some of the philosophical like similarities as well.
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Speaker 1: But they execute the play hard. The front rushes well together,
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Speaker 1: and they have a really good Bootz package and to
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Speaker 1: play a lot of dime relative to the rest of
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Speaker 1: the league, and they're defending the run pretty well out
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Speaker 1: of that.
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Speaker 2: How how you seen them able to do that? Well?
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Speaker 2: They fit it well.
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Speaker 1: I mean if if the front isn't playing at a
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Speaker 1: high level, then you know, the ball gets on you
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Speaker 1: quicker in the second level.
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Speaker 2: So that's two of them. And then obviously playing with.
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Speaker 1: Leeds help you know that that discourages running the ball.
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Speaker 5: Ernest Tory and and or Josh gonna practice today or
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Speaker 5: be on the.
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Speaker 2: Field for ACTA.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so we're we're still We're still going to work
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Speaker 1: through those guys right now. I don't have an update
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Speaker 1: on on those guys looking positive.
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Speaker 2: You know, we're optimistic, but.
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Speaker 1: They'll be working in some capacity today.
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Speaker 2: But it's kind of.
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Speaker 1: Vary between like a true walk through an ACT practice,
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Speaker 1: which is like kicked up a little bit.
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Speaker 3: When it comes to DeMarcus Laurence, so many people have
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Speaker 3: said great things.
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Speaker 5: In what ways is he as you expected?
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Speaker 3: And in what ways is he maybe even more or
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Speaker 3: better than you expect?
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Speaker 1: Well, the football player, you know, the traits of how
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Speaker 1: he plays is what we expected coming in, being a rugged,
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Speaker 1: kind of dominant, disruptive player on early downs, and then
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Speaker 1: how we rushed the passer in terms of setting other
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Speaker 1: people up in past rush games. Things like that, that
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Speaker 1: that's consistent, which is great.
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Speaker 2: Those are all great things.
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Speaker 1: How he gets it done, you know, you just you
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Speaker 1: didn't know what his day to day approach was and
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Speaker 1: the mentality that he had. So I think I think
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Speaker 1: that's really helped and it's been a wouldn't say it's surprised.
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Speaker 1: Is just you just don't know, you know, you just
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Speaker 1: don't not familiar with the person. Does just really appreciate
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Speaker 1: the person that he is every day in the competitor
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Speaker 1: he is in the workout.
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Speaker 3: Do you think that's what's allowed him to have this
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Speaker 3: much success at this stage of his career after.
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Speaker 2: All those years with Dallas. Uh.
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Speaker 1: If you were to you know, slice a pie, I'd
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Speaker 1: say that's a big part of the pie. As part
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Speaker 1: of the message to the guys today and the team
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Speaker 1: meeting is is you know, you got to have an
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Speaker 1: elite process. Those the great ones do, the great teams do,
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Speaker 1: and you're always attacking how you can make that process
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Speaker 1: just a little bit better all the time.
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Speaker 2: You don't have to reinvent anything.
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Speaker 1: You don't have to Okay, today, I try hard tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's just like every day is just the
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Speaker 1: same mental approach, and that's what the law does.
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Speaker 2: It's a great example for the guys along those same lines.
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Speaker 4: Cooper Cups, the guy that obviously came in with a
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Speaker 4: really impressive resume in addition to what we see on Sundays, Well,
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Speaker 4: what's he.
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Speaker 2: Brought to this sort of Yeah, it's great.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's the It's another example that you
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Speaker 1: can show to like, look, this is how you do it,
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Speaker 1: you know, as a team, as a player, as a person.
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Speaker 1: I can't, I can't. I can't say enough great things
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Speaker 1: about Coop. I just we love him. So I'm so
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Speaker 1: happy he's here. I'm happy as a seahawk. He's he's
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Speaker 1: a forced multiplier. I think he's made a hug tremendous
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Speaker 1: impact on his receiving room, the offense, and the team
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Speaker 1: in general, and just terms of our attitude and how
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Speaker 1: you just approach.
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Speaker 2: You know, our business every day.
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Speaker 1: You know, just think back, like I'm thinking to him,
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking of phase two, the intent that we want.
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Speaker 2: To be able to operate with.
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Speaker 1: We're like, look, we're trying to we're trying to have
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Speaker 1: great days back in the spring and like stack great days,
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Speaker 1: but also have a good time doing it. You know,
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Speaker 1: where you're enjoying being with your teammates. And you finish
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Speaker 1: the day and you say, shoot, that was a heck
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Speaker 1: of a day.
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Speaker 2: You know, we got better.
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Speaker 1: You know, I got closer to my teammates, We had
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Speaker 1: some fun, I had a great, great workout, and now
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Speaker 1: let's go do it again.
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Speaker 2: The next day.
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Speaker 1: And he's he's he's one of the top guys driving
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Speaker 1: that whole bus.
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Speaker 4: How much can you learn from him? A guy who's
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Speaker 4: played in the offenses he has and played so much
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Speaker 4: football and you just sit down talk football.
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Speaker 2: Then well, I mean, I don't really, it's hard.
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Speaker 1: I don't really have a ton of conversations about how
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Speaker 1: he sees routes and like leverages and things like that.
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Speaker 1: Those those are happening with other people. But I think
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Speaker 1: the biggest asset that he's been for me is just really.
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Speaker 2: With the program.
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Speaker 1: And you know how we designed the daylight today. You
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Speaker 1: know it's coming, that's coming a lot from Coop uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, travels commandity.
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Speaker 2: It's like he's got a lot of great.
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Speaker 1: Ideas and he's you know, he's seen a lot of
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Speaker 1: great things and he's a sharp guy and he understands
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Speaker 1: like how that affects the players on.
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Speaker 2: A daily basis.
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Speaker 1: So I don't know, I just feel like you should
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Speaker 1: be tapping into that knowledge. Anybody with that type of wisdom,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna you want to tap into and should make
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Speaker 1: us better using a lot of three.
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Speaker 4: Tight ends lately, and curious how that affects the ability
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Speaker 4: to kind of decode protection schemes when you got extra tight.
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Speaker 3: Ends out there.
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Speaker 2: Well, I wouldn't say as much as protection, but.
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Speaker 1: They they've been able to really manipulate front structures and
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Speaker 1: cover structures with those guys out there. So it's a
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Speaker 1: credit to their tight end. Shout out the huff is
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Speaker 1: tight end coach. They're doing a great job with those guys.
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Speaker 1: They're they're all playing in multiple spots, which is not
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Speaker 1: easy to do, you know, when you have multiple guys
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Speaker 1: on the field and they're actual.
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Speaker 2: Geting at a high level.
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Speaker 1: So but they haven't had to pass it that much
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Speaker 1: at at a thirteen.
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Speaker 5: So to that To that point, greg Olsen actually was
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Speaker 5: saying that if he was a defensive coordinator, he would
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Speaker 5: start matching down in distance rather than personnel.
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Speaker 2: To your point about kind of dictating and manipulating.
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Speaker 5: How do you balance that their personnel versus their tendencies
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Speaker 5: on any given down and distance.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes I agree with them to a certain extent.
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Speaker 1: To a large extent, I would say there's always nuanced
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Speaker 1: these things. And I'm sure, like you know, Eat Greg,
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Speaker 1: you knows that it's just he's But there's sometimes there's
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Speaker 1: opportunities to overmatch. Sometimes there's opportunities to undermatch. Sometimes you
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Speaker 1: want to just match because you just you feel like
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Speaker 1: that's the best thing for you for that particular situation.
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Speaker 1: I don't know this is it's kind of like a
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Speaker 1: kind of like a bigger, longer discussion for you know,
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Speaker 1: where you could sit down and really go over it.
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Speaker 1: But I think I think there's kind of a time
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Speaker 1: and a place for everything. The driving force to me
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Speaker 1: is just what gives you the best chance in that scenario,
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Speaker 1: to you know, to be able to defend and attack
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Speaker 1: what they do with that given people in the field
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Speaker 1: and that given situation. So sometimes that is going lighter
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Speaker 1: and feeling like you can be able to hold it
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Speaker 1: up against the run. Sometimes you feel like you can
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Speaker 1: go heavier and you know, take your chances against the past.
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Speaker 1: If if it's if that's indeed how they operate, you know, so,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, those are the things you're thinking about.
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Speaker 4: What kind of asset is Nick when you're facing team
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Speaker 4: that wants to do multiple things, different personnel that just
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Speaker 4: kind of the combination skill sets he has.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we're trying to we're trying to
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Speaker 1: develop them more as a as a like an inbox
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Speaker 1: run defender where I think he can make some decisions
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Speaker 1: a little bit quicker. But you know, when he's when
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Speaker 1: he's playing his best ball, he's really heavy handed, it's
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Speaker 1: a tough guy to move, and he can also play
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Speaker 1: great in space, so he gives you that flexibility to
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Speaker 1: to possibly. I mean, you guys know we stick with
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Speaker 1: you know, he's on the field a lot when it's
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Speaker 1: since he's been healthy, and it's been an asset for us,
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Speaker 1: and those are decisions we have to make every week
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Speaker 1: on on how we want to deploy him.
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Speaker 3: Do you remember when you guys first came up with
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Speaker 3: you said a J.
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Speaker 4: Barner as in kind of that twist push roll.
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Speaker 2: Do I remember how it started? Was it just a
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Speaker 2: day of practice.
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Speaker 1: I don't ask for much, but that was something I
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Speaker 1: asked for from our offense.
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Speaker 4: Specify why he's big make it overlook, but how important
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Speaker 4: is the work he has to do on the side
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Speaker 4: to get I mean that snap is.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, like this decision we made in the spring, and.
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Speaker 1: Uh, it's credit to everybody involved, Like you gotta you
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Speaker 1: gotta hands. There's a ball handling involved, you know, and
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Speaker 1: there's the ball is really important, so you want to
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Speaker 1: make sure you take care of that first and foremost.
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Speaker 1: So they've taken a lot of snaps over the course
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Speaker 1: of the off season, and you know he's willing to
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Speaker 1: put in that extra work, which has been an ass
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Speaker 1: you know, credit to him.
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Speaker 3: What was the idea sparked by is are there other
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Speaker 3: teams that used their tight end in that role?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Are you expecting to Are you expecting Christian Hande.
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Speaker 2: To be activated this week? It's possibility. Possibility, Mike.
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Speaker 3: When you look at the way your one game performed
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Speaker 3: on Sunday, do you what did you like about it
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Speaker 3: when you went back and looked at it and do
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Speaker 3: you feel like there was like a step that you
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Speaker 3: kind of made on that front?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, it's a great point.
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Speaker 1: This is a you know, We've been saying it here
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Speaker 1: for weeks, but it's the process that we're trying to
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Speaker 1: stick with in our run game. A lot of great stuff.
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Speaker 1: I'm probably most proud with how they finished the game.
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Speaker 2: Uh, the guys.
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Speaker 1: Were determined and you know, they're like we talked about
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Speaker 1: there in the third quarter, like we had to be
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Speaker 1: able to start getting drives going and keeping the ball
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Speaker 1: and moving the ball like in the fourth quarter while
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Speaker 1: eliminating clock and got to be able to run the
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Speaker 1: ball in those moments. But when you watch them, when
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Speaker 1: you watch our guys finish the plays, that was that
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Speaker 1: was our style of football, and that's a that's a
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Speaker 1: great sign for things to build off moving forward.
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Speaker 3: Running game on the rams side of things, I think
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Speaker 3: it was about two yards downfield on Sunday before they
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Speaker 3: met any sort of resistance or contact with defenders.
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Speaker 1: How much of an advantage is that and what coaching
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Speaker 1: point would.
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Speaker 3: That be this week for your defense?
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Speaker 1: Well, man, that speaks to how well they're executing and
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Speaker 1: how well they build their plays.
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Speaker 2: The combinations are sound.
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Speaker 1: There's they really don't allow a lot of people into
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Speaker 1: the backfield, so and their receivers do a great job
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Speaker 1: in the run game as well. Uh, it takes takes
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Speaker 1: a lot of work for them to be able to
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Speaker 1: identify who they need to be able to block on
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Speaker 1: a given down. You have to operate cadence wise, so
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Speaker 1: people don't just run scott free in your backfield. Me
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that are that are happening
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Speaker 1: on their end. Attribute to them that. But that means
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Speaker 1: that they're executing at a high level, and so that that's
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Speaker 1: a good indicator of how well they're playing. Yeah, they
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Speaker 1: just but that's their style. They don't They don't run
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Speaker 1: every run in the history of football. They run a
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Speaker 1: handful of plays really really well, and they building different
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Speaker 1: ways every week.
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Speaker 3: Mike, you got a bunch of twenty something guys who
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Speaker 3: are really into social media.
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Speaker 2: Do you, as a staff, do you advise them on
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Speaker 2: maybe cool it a little bitter?
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Speaker 4: You live them to do that responsibility themselves.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: I haven't told. We haven't really talked about it officially.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they're big boys, they can handle it. I
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Speaker 1: think the challenge for us now is just it's all
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Speaker 1: just noise. It's just noise. You know. We got to
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Speaker 1: keep keep an eye on the process and focus on
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Speaker 1: our I mean, I say it every week, but it's
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Speaker 1: just focus on us and focus on us being the
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Speaker 1: best football team we possibly can be every time we
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Speaker 1: walk out on the field. So I think our guys have.
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Speaker 2: Been doing that.
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Speaker 1: Now when we smell that the intent isn't right, then
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Speaker 1: you know, then we gotta we got to make.
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Speaker 2: It right and we got to fix it.
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Speaker 1: But those episodes are happening further and farther between, which
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Speaker 1: is a sign of growth from our guys, and you
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Speaker 1: know you're.
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Speaker 2: Proud of that. You know you're proud of their approach
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Speaker 2: every day. So that's good.
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Speaker 1: But I mean, you know, just noise, Just just noise
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Speaker 1: either way. You know, we can, we're playing we're playing
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Speaker 1: well right now, you know we can at some point
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Speaker 1: We're not gonna play well at some point in the
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Speaker 1: future and it's gonna be noise the other way.
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Speaker 2: So it's just noise.
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Speaker 5: You guys are were in dime quite a bit in
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Speaker 5: that game, even though you were missing one of your
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Speaker 5: top cornerbacks.
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Speaker 1: What went into that, Uh, just how you how you
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Speaker 1: want to match it for that given week and like
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Speaker 1: what we feel like Nick can do well. And you know,
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Speaker 1: we were in the lead, so we were playing some
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Speaker 1: coverages that Nick can do well, and we felt like
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Speaker 1: me and I could go out there and execute a
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Speaker 1: high level. We felt like his matchup was was good.
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Speaker 3: You mentioned even worry more, what is it about him
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Speaker 3: now at this point to see is it because he's
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Speaker 3: now back from injured?
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Speaker 2: He says Stacks And yeah, yeah, it's part of the process.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: You don't even though he's healthy, you can't just all right, hey,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna do all these things. It's okay, Let's let's
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Speaker 1: pick a handful of things that we feel like you're
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Speaker 1: you're confident in doing, and as you show that you
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Speaker 1: can execute those.
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Speaker 2: Things and.
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Speaker 1: Handle it, there's there's natural progressions on things that you
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Speaker 1: can do where you know, might look like he's doing
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Speaker 1: something different, but it's really just maybe just a little
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Speaker 1: bit of a change, little deviation from what he's been doing.
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Speaker 1: And uh, we think like that's the way you know,
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Speaker 1: maintain that type of execution.
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Speaker 3: Is even halfway to what you are going to give.
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Speaker 2: Him at some point. I'm not sure. I'm not sure.
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Speaker 2: I think I haven't really thought about it.
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Speaker 1: I haven't I really thought about right, I'm really just
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Speaker 1: thinking about how how well we can get our guys
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Speaker 1: play right now.
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Speaker 2: I know it sounds crazy. It's just like you don't
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Speaker 2: have a lot.
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Speaker 1: Of time to think about other than what it's going
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Speaker 1: to take for our guys to go play well and
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Speaker 1: how we can go help them.
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Speaker 2: And that's really what we're thinking about.
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Speaker 3: A guy that you're just gonna say, let's try this.
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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean so we have we have several
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Speaker 1: guys like that where you're you sit down at the
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Speaker 1: in game plan meetings and you're thinking, Okay, how can
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Speaker 1: we use so and so's abilities this game because we're
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Speaker 1: trying to do X or we're trying to do HY.
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Speaker 1: And then you say, okay, well can he do it? Okay, yes, okay,
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Speaker 1: Well is it worth it? You know, is it worth?
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Speaker 1: Is the juice worth the squeeze? You're only gonna get
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Speaker 1: so many reps, you know how many times we're actually
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Speaker 1: gonna call this? You know, what kind of return are
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Speaker 1: we getting on our investment? So, but those are those
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Speaker 1: are all part of the conversations. He's definitely one of
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Speaker 1: those guys that we're we're talking.
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Speaker 2: About all the time.
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Speaker 1: But I you know, you know, the usual suspects you're
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Speaker 1: thinking about all those guys every week on how well
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Speaker 1: we can on how we can un deploy them.
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Speaker 2: I earned the reps you're giving him.
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Speaker 3: I know you're gonna say he can't consistent in practice,
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Speaker 3: he hasn't changed.
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Speaker 1: That's exactly what I'm gonna say. Take if anything, that's it,
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Speaker 1: I mean, well, you know, you produce, you know, I
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Speaker 1: think that's that's going to create it. It's like use
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Speaker 1: the analogy before, but if you're a baseball player and
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Speaker 1: you go up there and you get hits, you get
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Speaker 1: on base like, you're gonna be in the lineup. You know,
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Speaker 1: you go out there and you play good football and
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Speaker 1: you do what you're supposed to do, then you're gonna
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Speaker 1: be in the lineup. It's just that's how it works.
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Speaker 3: What did you think of how Brandon Peely and Mike
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Speaker 3: Morris and the kind of group up there kind of
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Speaker 3: covered the loss of Jared.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I appreciate that, the mentality, the approach. There's
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Speaker 1: some good plays. I want us to finish the game better.
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Speaker 1: You know, we got no business giving up that they're
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Speaker 1: that short yardage run. Good play by them, played it
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Speaker 1: better than us, But that's not our standard. Those guys
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Speaker 1: happen to be out there during that play.
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Speaker 2: How's Jake Bobo.
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Speaker 1: Jake's good, He'll be uh, he'll be out there in
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Speaker 1: some capacity today and.
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Speaker 5: With with just how good the Rims are and what
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Speaker 5: you guys want to be this season? Is this a
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Speaker 5: good test to see where you guys are.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna say yes, But I'm gonna.
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Speaker 1: Say if you would ask me that last week, I
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Speaker 1: would say yes. You know, it's just every time we
18:05
Speaker 1: go out there, it's going to be a test of
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Speaker 1: what kind of team we can become. This is a
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Speaker 1: different scenario that we haven't necessarily been in yet. But
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Speaker 1: you know, last week is a scenario we haven't been in.
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Speaker 1: We haven't we haven't been in a situation where we're
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Speaker 1: coming off a decisive victory and coming back home. So
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Speaker 1: that was kind of an you know, that was last week.
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Speaker 1: This week's you know, now we're going to play the
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Speaker 1: Rams on the road for the first time this season.
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Speaker 1: So it's just every week's a new challenge and the
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Speaker 1: guys have been up for for up form anything else.
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Speaker 2: All right, thank you,