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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Recaps The Bye Week, Looks Ahead To Divisional Round · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: It's like seeing misspellings on a slide and pretty good
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  Speaker 1: at that. Yeah, it's a hidden talent. We wait to
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  Speaker 1: start out the press conference, good to see everybody how
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  Speaker 1: we do.
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  Speaker 2: Great.
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  Speaker 3: We know that there's an advantage when you have familiarity
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  Speaker 3: with an upon.
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  Speaker 4: What was the challenge in facing the same team.
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  Speaker 5: Back to back games.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's what you make it classic Seahawk fashion.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we probably overthink some things, try not to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but I think you know, it's uh, maybe like an
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  Speaker 1: accelerated time time frame than you normally would from a
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  Speaker 1: from another you know, divisional.
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  Speaker 2: Game that you played twice.
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  Speaker 1: With not quite enough sample in between to see like
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  Speaker 1: where they're going. So you're really just going off of
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  Speaker 1: how you felt like you played the game, things you
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  Speaker 1: did well, maybe where you think they might take things.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's probably about it. What was the weekend?
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  Speaker 3: Like, did you guys get together as coaches to watch
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  Speaker 3: the games?
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  Speaker 1: A couple of us, Yeah, just kind of like one
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  Speaker 1: off type things to watch them, just to just to
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  Speaker 1: hang out. But it wasn't anything like super organized. But
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  Speaker 1: I told the team today like it's it's weird watching
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  Speaker 1: like full games all the way through. You know, like
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  Speaker 1: you find yourself like rooting for teams and you're like,
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  Speaker 1: why am I rooting for this team? Like this is
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  Speaker 1: the dumbest thing ever? And and then you're five seconds
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  Speaker 1: later rooting for the other team. It's like, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad it's over. It's just I'm glad we're back to
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  Speaker 1: you know, regular schedule programming here.
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  Speaker 2: So, given what.
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  Speaker 4: You've experienced throughout the year playing the Rams and forty
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  Speaker 4: nine ers, is it any surprise at three of the
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  Speaker 4: last eighteen standing come.
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  Speaker 1: From the NFC West.
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  Speaker 2: No, Yeah, it's a great point. Uh, we gotta, we gotta.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a great division, you know, those guys, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: they've earned I think all three of us, we've earned
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  Speaker 1: the you know, to be in this position.
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  Speaker 2: So I think it's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 4: Actually, is it a natural inclination?
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  Speaker 5: If you play a team this quick back to back,
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  Speaker 5: you're going to change, no matter what, You're going to
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  Speaker 5: change for the stake of changing.
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  Speaker 2: So nothing's the same. I wouldn't say we're going to
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  Speaker 2: change for the sake of changing.
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  Speaker 5: Is that general? It's not going to look the same schematically.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's there's things in the game plan that
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  Speaker 1: we didn't get to. I'm sure there's things in their
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  Speaker 1: game plan they didn't get to.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, to.
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  Speaker 1: Use the old the game declaring itself type thing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you don't know how these games are going
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  Speaker 2: to go, and so.
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  Speaker 1: This game is going to play out, it's about a
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine point nine chance is going to play out
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  Speaker 1: way different than the last one, and you got to
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  Speaker 1: do a great job of recognizing it and making the
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  Speaker 1: adjustments and doing all that type of stuff.
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  Speaker 6: You guys obviously played really well on defense last time.
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  Speaker 6: Both games against Port and Age, you guys scored thirteen points.
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  Speaker 6: What do you guys have to do to up the
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  Speaker 6: point total?
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  Speaker 1: I think I think the games against the forty nine
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  Speaker 1: ers are really in all three phases, like the things
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  Speaker 1: that determined games in our league.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of magnified in these games.
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  Speaker 1: So you're talking about situational football, how you take care
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  Speaker 1: of the ball, how you finish in the red zone.
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  Speaker 1: Third down is a big time. You know, two minute
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  Speaker 1: it's a cliche answer, but really, I mean when the
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  Speaker 1: team the teams that have kind of won those situations,
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  Speaker 1: I felt like is really really had the nod in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the outcome of the game. So but like
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  Speaker 1: I get told again, I told the team today, it's like,
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  Speaker 1: these are the things that we've been working on for
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  Speaker 1: all of our opponents, So really nothing changes in terms
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  Speaker 1: of our process and the things that we're trying to do.
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  Speaker 4: You kind of went through this at twenty two with
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  Speaker 4: the Ravens.
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  Speaker 3: Is that right?
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  Speaker 1: You get played the Yeah, yeah, they played. We played
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals. It was a little different because the week
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  Speaker 1: whatever the last week number was, h there wasn't really
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  Speaker 1: much at stake in that game. I think I think
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  Speaker 1: both teams were in the playoffs at that point, and
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  Speaker 1: I think the seatings a bunch of stuff had to
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  Speaker 1: happen for the seatings to not be the same going
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  Speaker 1: into the next week.
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  Speaker 2: So it was a little bit different. But yeah, played
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  Speaker 2: them back to back.
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  Speaker 6: You mentioned that you've talked to some other coaches that
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  Speaker 6: had experiences with by weeks and stuff like that. To
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  Speaker 6: get back curious who's on that that call list and
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  Speaker 6: is Mike Homegren ever someone that you check in with.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll kind of leave those guys anonymous, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: just because just to respect you know, their positions, But
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  Speaker 1: people that have done at a really high level, and
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  Speaker 1: I'll say, you know, we kind of the same spirit
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  Speaker 1: of understanding what's out there, understanding what the options are,
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  Speaker 1: and then ultimately we made a decision that we felt
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  Speaker 1: like was best for us.
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  Speaker 2: And coach Hombrean and I we talk.
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  Speaker 1: Regularly and not maybe not regularly, but often, and he's
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  Speaker 1: been a great, great resource. But he's just been very, very,
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  Speaker 1: very supportive throughout the whole thing. And it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: a pinch yourself type thing that you had a relationship
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  Speaker 1: with Mike home Brand's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't talk to you at the end of last week.
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  Speaker 4: How do you feel like practice went and what were
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  Speaker 4: you hoping to accomplish with those two practices.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I really just wanted us to go out and
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  Speaker 1: play great football, and so, you know, we had different
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  Speaker 1: periods that meant different things and all that, but I
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  Speaker 1: was just really happy with our guys intent, you know,
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  Speaker 1: throughout those two days, and we got our game, we
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  Speaker 1: got our play speeds up. You know, we got some
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  Speaker 1: good competitive work and that's about it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you can you know, when I was.
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  Speaker 1: In Baltimore, we practiced for like four days. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we kept it like we almost did like a simulated week.
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  Speaker 1: There's there's different ways to do it, and I just
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  Speaker 1: felt like that was best for us and the guys
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  Speaker 1: can go get fresh and be ready to go today.
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  Speaker 2: Look, Elijah's looking good. He's possibility about coming back for
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  Speaker 2: this game.
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  Speaker 4: When you look at the actual schedule, it feels like
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  Speaker 4: you've got a lot of experience and that's shortly condensing
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  Speaker 4: your schedules.
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  Speaker 1: Does that come into play.
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  Speaker 4: I realized you're coming off the PI, but when you
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  Speaker 4: squeeze those days.
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  Speaker 1: Together, yeah, Well, the way we're treating it is just
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  Speaker 1: like Tomorrow's Again, I'm gonna be talking about this all week,
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  Speaker 1: but today's me is a Tuesday. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: day it is, but to me, it's Tuesday because tomorrow's Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: In the game Sunday, and that's how we treat it.
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  Speaker 1: So it's really not a shortened schedule for us. It's
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  Speaker 1: really a full, full week's worth of work for us.
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  Speaker 4: We've been asking about your run defense all year, but
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  Speaker 4: what can you say about the guys up from particular
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  Speaker 4: over the course of seventeen games to do what they did?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then just how that opens up everything behind it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, the guys at front have been playing tremendous football,
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  Speaker 1: and to play the way that we play, you can't
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  Speaker 1: just go one for one all the time. You have
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  Speaker 1: to take care of your responsibility and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: get to the ball. You know that that creates where
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  Speaker 1: you can actually cover all gaps and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: So they've done that, But I will say it's really
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  Speaker 1: it's really the team defense that makes it come to life.
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  Speaker 1: You know, how we play at the second level, how
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  Speaker 1: we kind of fit runs at the third level. I
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  Speaker 1: thought it has been tremendous as well. So we wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be here if it wasn't for how our d line
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  Speaker 1: has played. But it's also we wouldn't be here if
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  Speaker 1: the whole team hasn't played that way on defense in
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  Speaker 1: terms of stopping on the run. I'll go out, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm done.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry with a dirty Having interviews for head coaching jobs
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  Speaker 3: over the week. It has that worked logistically with do
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  Speaker 3: they have just they had to finish their game planning
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  Speaker 3: responsibilities first before it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's there's a there's stuff that you need
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  Speaker 1: to do. It's not not a work intensive week coaching wise,
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  Speaker 1: because you're really trying to get ahead on all these things.
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  Speaker 1: We ended up doing a lot of work on the
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  Speaker 1: packers and looked like that that didn't get us anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: So it's you know, so that's that's really were working
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  Speaker 1: out the beginning of last week, some self scout stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and then I think it worked out well that you
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  Speaker 1: had the two days off and they could kind of
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  Speaker 1: shift their focus and then once it's over, then you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's over, you know, and so we're able to move forward.
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  Speaker 1: So really fortunate that we had to buy you know,
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  Speaker 1: the teams that were going into it this week with interviews.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's significantly tougher that you have to kind
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  Speaker 1: of shift your your brain in the latter part of
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  Speaker 1: the week and then you know, still being in tune
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  Speaker 1: with what you're doing game plan wise to.
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  Speaker 2: The road defense.
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  Speaker 4: And the twelve is one the snows like everyone doing
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  Speaker 4: that one point nine?
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  Speaker 5: Where'd that come from? Is that something you came up
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  Speaker 5: with or someone you probably.
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  Speaker 1: Get from there?
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  Speaker 2: That was from? I mean that was my idea.
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  Speaker 1: I mean like it really felt like, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: used toss around the term like fourteen or fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: Guys, but uh, you know, you know that twelve.
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  Speaker 1: The number twelve is the sacred number around here, and
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  Speaker 1: it felt like that was a great fit. And then
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  Speaker 1: just to try to paint a picture with the guys
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  Speaker 1: as nerdy as possible. You know, that's where the one
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  Speaker 1: point on nine came from. And guys liked it, so
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  Speaker 1: we stuck stuck with it. Jones, just as you as
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  Speaker 1: you say, Ball finds energy, just his energy and then
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  Speaker 1: also his instinct. Can you talk to them, Ernest, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: is a great feel for the pace of the play
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  Speaker 1: and the runs and so like he's never really out
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  Speaker 1: of whack, you can stay square. He's got so much
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  Speaker 1: power where like you know, when they when he does
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  Speaker 1: make contact, like Ball Harris go backward, and uh, it's
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  Speaker 1: a way easier said than done, you know, to really
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  Speaker 1: man the middle of a defense, and especially as much
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  Speaker 1: what safety as we play, that's uh, that's a that's
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  Speaker 1: a that's a tall task.
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  Speaker 2: But he's he's nailed it. He's been great.
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  Speaker 3: He's got a hundred tackles, five interceptions.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well he's made some tremendous plays to create interceptions,
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  Speaker 1: but there's some of them in tips. You know. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's a Ball finds energy type of thing. So to me,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, I'm I'm psyched. He has five picks, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm more excited about what he does every day to
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  Speaker 1: get ready to play and how he kind of plays
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  Speaker 1: every play being a positioned to let our defense be
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  Speaker 1: productive on that play. And then you know, if if
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  Speaker 1: everybody else is doing what we're supposed to be doing,
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  Speaker 1: then that's when the ball comes to life. And that's
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  Speaker 1: when it went when it finds you, well, I think
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  Speaker 1: just watch alive. It was just an incredibly resilient win.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, team has a lot of character. They're really tough,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but it's really it's not it's nothing new
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  Speaker 1: with these guys. It's it's what you know. But it's
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  Speaker 1: a heck of a win. It's a tough place to
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  Speaker 1: go and play and get a get a win.
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  Speaker 6: What's your philosophy on striking the balance between taking advantage
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  Speaker 6: of the rest with the bye week, but also trying
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  Speaker 6: to stay sharp and not.
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  Speaker 3: Lose the edge.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a kind of the million dollar question, right
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  Speaker 1: is how much you do how much do you rest?
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  Speaker 1: I thought we felt like, you know, we tried to
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  Speaker 1: keep it on cadence as much as possible in terms
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  Speaker 1: of what they're like, body rhythm would be, and then
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  Speaker 1: just trust the guys that they were still going to
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  Speaker 1: take care of their bodies and get the proper amount
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  Speaker 1: of rest over those over those three days. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we've had some longer weeks throughout the year where we've
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  Speaker 1: been pretty work intensive, and I felt like it was
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  Speaker 1: just kind of like mentally draining for us. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we've I think we've we've we've proved ourselves we can
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  Speaker 1: in a week's time, we can put together a great
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  Speaker 1: plan and get ready to play a game, and so
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  Speaker 1: we wanted to keep that cadence is as close as possible.
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  Speaker 5: Saw a number of players across the league kind of
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  Speaker 5: go down this weekend when you look to the fact
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  Speaker 5: that you guys just didn't have to play. How beneficial
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  Speaker 5: does that end up being. When you see Kittle, when
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  Speaker 5: you see Ikwanu, all these different pieces kind of go down.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's unfortunately the injury thing is really just a
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  Speaker 1: really just distincts. I mean, there's no other way to
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  Speaker 1: put it. So, uh, you feel for those guys. I
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  Speaker 1: look at it through the terms of like we had
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  Speaker 1: we we we had we won the we won a
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  Speaker 1: wild card game, you know, by what we earned in
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  Speaker 1: the in the regular.
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  Speaker 2: Season, So.
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  Speaker 1: That's what gets you excited that we've you know, the
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  Speaker 1: position that we put ourselves in, but now it's now
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  Speaker 1: we're on level footing with everybody else.
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  Speaker 2: We gotta go play.
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  Speaker 3: A few weeks ago, when you asked about Sam's throw
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  Speaker 3: a cup in overtime, you had said, if you just
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  Speaker 3: tell him that not turn the ball over, he doesn't
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  Speaker 3: make throws like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like you've made similar sentiments, mostly about young guys,
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  Speaker 3: about like coaching them to the effect of not to
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  Speaker 3: just go out there and not make mistakes, right, If
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  Speaker 3: that makes sense? Is that something you developed over time philosophy.
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  Speaker 2: Of coach guys. Yeah, I think that really, I think
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  Speaker 2: that really came.
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  Speaker 1: Became really clear this offseason as we're really you know,
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  Speaker 1: honing the what we want our team to be like
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  Speaker 1: and how how do we message it? And what does
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  Speaker 1: everything mean? You know what what like what is it
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  Speaker 1: like to what does it mean to go practice every
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  Speaker 1: day as a Seahawk? You know, like what we want
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  Speaker 1: that to look like? I mean, those those are questions
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  Speaker 1: you have to answer, and you want if I'm if
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  Speaker 1: I'm you know, Joe the rookie, I want to know
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  Speaker 1: what the team expected me on a daily basis, So
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  Speaker 1: I think that really helped.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it applies it now.
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  Speaker 1: It's like you know, it's yeah, we're in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: but can't be saying like players plays matter more. Now
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to play that way. You know, it
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  Speaker 1: plays matter the same. Still still a football game at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day, and we want our guys
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  Speaker 1: to to play the same way that they played all
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  Speaker 1: year and and then go trust the result.
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  Speaker 3: Sam and how often he just touched the ball at
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  Speaker 3: every snap? Have you seen that maybe beneficial for him,
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  Speaker 3: just like telling him to just go rip it as.
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  Speaker 2: Opposed to like not, Does that make sense? Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I mean that that's why that's why we coach him
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  Speaker 2: that way.
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  Speaker 1: It's because he does have the ball all the time,
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  Speaker 1: and that's where the style is gonna come to life.
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  Speaker 1: And that's when that's that's when Sam's aid his best too,
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  Speaker 1: I think at any quarterback for that matter, but especially Sam.
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  Speaker 1: And he's played great football when he's played like that.
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  Speaker 1: So that's why we that's why we coached him that way.
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  Speaker 4: You coached against Devin Wispoon and I've seen him a
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  Speaker 4: lot stuff like that before where he became coach with
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  Speaker 4: Is there anything that you had an impression of him then?
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  Speaker 4: And does anything really changed kind of coaching with him
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  Speaker 4: these last couple of years just being around him every.
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  Speaker 1: Single night, Well, I'd say the biggest experience I had
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  Speaker 1: with him was when he came on a visit h
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  Speaker 1: during the draft process, and the energy stood out, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like the excitement. Sometimes it's hard to tell like if
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  Speaker 1: it's if it's like, hey, is this a thing that
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  Speaker 1: like that you're just doing or is this like a
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  Speaker 1: thing thing that like this is who you are? And
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  Speaker 1: so you know, in the visit, in the time you
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  Speaker 1: had him, of course, yeah, you're excited and you see
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  Speaker 1: the player on tape.
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  Speaker 2: And college.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I didn't have a lot of exposure to
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  Speaker 1: him throughout the year because you're not really watching other
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  Speaker 1: teams defenses. But so that's what, you know, getting to
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  Speaker 1: know who he is as a person, and that's just
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  Speaker 1: him all the time. His passion for the game, passion
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  Speaker 1: for his teammates, his team, the process, uh eager to learn, grow,
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  Speaker 1: he wants to be great. I mean all those things are.
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  Speaker 2: True.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, which which which would make him so special?
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  Speaker 4: He's kind of getting some awards he didn't obviously missed
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  Speaker 4: five or six games or whatever. But what is that?
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  Speaker 4: What does that say I guess about his impact?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I haven't thought of it through that
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  Speaker 1: lens about the time that he's missed, but I think
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: shout out to the people that are making the votes.
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's as many times as you're upset about
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: guys that probably earned that recognition. I think they nailed
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: it here with Spoon about just what type of player is.
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: It's every down, every down thing, you know that you
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: have to account for this guy. He's he's a I mean,
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: it's on record how we feel about him. But I'm
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: glad that the people notice it.
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Toush Push, You guys are nine of ten.
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: I think you got four first downs with the hard count.
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: What have you thought of just how effective that play
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: has been for you guys this year?
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: It's been great. It's been great. I mean it's gonna
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: be something that we're gonna need probably in this game
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: and moving forward. So we got to stay sharp with
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: it and keep doing the things that we're doing. And
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: I'm sure there's some wrinkles off it that we can
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: build off, as you know as well. So, but it's
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: a it's an important part of our short yards package.
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: We've evolved it all from the yard just a yard.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, do you really want me to answer that
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: right now?
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: But how has that play evolved? The hard count is
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: one way, but how has that played different than maybe
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: when you first installed it?
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean you just people.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: I mean the play has been around for a minute,
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: and you know, you can look around the league and
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: you understand what teams do.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you're gonna pack everybody.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: In, you know in tight, you know you have the
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: option to go around or I mean, there's there's things
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: that you can build off.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: It doesn't you doesn't have to be a sneak the
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: whole time. Yeah, have a game and it's still the
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: football game.
• 16:01
  Speaker 6: Obviously, the things around the football game do change as
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: the playoffs go on. You bring in it, other people in.
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: Players are folks to talk to the team about.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: Like the distractions outside.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: I think you know, we talked about it today, but
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: the distractions really are leading up to the game in
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: my opinion, and so our focus is about all the
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: things that we can do throughout the week to keep
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: our process.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: The same that it's what it's been the whole year.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: And so if I'm a young player, just having a plan,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: understand how I want to attack the week, and you know,
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: making sure I'm doing the things that I can control
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: every day so that we can go play football when
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: the balls kicked off. I mean, it's really tally that simple.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: But these are the things we've talked about throughout the season.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Is at some point we're going to in our program,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: we're gonna end up in a place where we want
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: to be and it's going to be a first for us.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: And why would you make it any different than than
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: what God has got you to this point.
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: A lot of teams that were very aggressive on fourth
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: down throughout the playoffs this weekend and you guys, for
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: variety reasons, end up last in the NFL and fourth
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: down attempts. I'm just curious, like your perspective on fourth downs,
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: how that's evolved.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: And what you thought about some of those decisions.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: What's what's the what's the decision you can make in
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: that independent time that's gonna give you the best chance
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: to win the game, and that that's that's how we
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: look at it. We have a we have a model,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: we have a plan going into games, and then every
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: time there's a decision to be made, then we make
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: that decision.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: But it's not like it's not like we're just apt,
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: like we don't go for fourth downs.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: It's just we're not in the situation where we feel
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: like it's worth it in some of those situations.
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: You're gonna bring anybody else back off injured reserve this
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: week from practice, Georgia or anybody is an.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: There's some guys that are that are eligible to do that.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that are possibilities and everybody but the guys that
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: we set are out for the remainder of this season.
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: Just kind of your thoughts on that give you this
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: season and everything.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's great again. Same thing with Spoons, like I
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: mean you can, I mean, the stats back it up,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: the tape backs it up. This year with Jack's he
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: earned it. I'm really happy for him. I'm sure if
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: you ask him right now, he said he's excited. But
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: we got work to do and we can celebrate later.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: With the toach push.
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: The teams that run that play, generally, do they all
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: block it the same?
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Upfront?
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: There's a couple of various I mean that the there's
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: not much variation on the front, but like where they're
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: like aiming points and things like that.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: It's changes on some of the teams and what they're
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: shooting for you.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: And then with Sam, what's the idea I believe Sam
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: has been in on all of those plays, if I'm
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: not mistaken.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: What's the idea behind keeping him in there?
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Well, we could use him, It's like, okay, yeah, I mean,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: we don't have to be in that formation neither, and
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: we can. It's a personal group we use all the time,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: so we could we run other plays out of that
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: personal group too. He's good, he's on like all all
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: all the guys except for the two are eligible to
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: come back this week and should be practicing.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: All right, okay, all right, thank you,