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Press Pass | Liam Coen Talks Key Contributors & Game Plan in Week 4 Win · Press Pass

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Speaker 1: What of coach Well, Scott Man, Uh, have you had
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Speaker 1: many games in your career where you got a little
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Speaker 1: bit of bulletin board material from the other coach and
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Speaker 1: staff like that?
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Speaker 2: You know, I don't know, I'm trying to think of
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Speaker 2: anything in particular.
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Speaker 3: I think maybe it showed up a little in the.
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Speaker 2: Sec at times in college, you know, And uh, I
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Speaker 2: can't think of anything specific, but look, it's it's one
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Speaker 2: of those things that ultimately you're always looking for an edge, right,
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Speaker 2: You're always looking for an edge as a player, as
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Speaker 2: a coach. You know, you always you go back and
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Speaker 2: look at the Michael Jordan making up things of what players,
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Speaker 2: you know, people say about.
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Speaker 3: Them to get them juiced up for a game.
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Speaker 2: And it's just it's part of the competitiveness within our profession,
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Speaker 2: the way this thing goes. And you know, I thought
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Speaker 2: everybody kind of worked off that a little bit.
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Speaker 1: And we saw the video of you down on the
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Speaker 1: field was coach after the coach saw after the game
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Speaker 1: a lot of the players to the guys say they
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Speaker 1: kind of like seeing that firiness from you, that that
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Speaker 1: you kind of take it real personal. Is that something
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Speaker 1: that like you know that the guys are gonna they
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Speaker 1: want to see that side of you sometimes that that
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Speaker 1: helps show the locker room.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I think we're all competitive, right, Like, we're
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Speaker 2: all competitive in this. You know, we're playing a competitive
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Speaker 2: sport for our jobs, and you know, we're all in
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Speaker 2: it together. And I appreciate everybody obviously playing the way
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Speaker 2: that they played, the physicality, the chip on their shoulder
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Speaker 2: right now that we're playing with And as much as
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Speaker 2: our locker room can continue to buy into that edge
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Speaker 2: and playing with an edge and competing with an edge
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Speaker 2: and preparing with an edge, I only think it's gonna
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Speaker 2: help us as we move forward as a team.
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Speaker 4: Thanks coach, Thank you, Gary, followed by Mia.
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Speaker 3: Thank you coach. Uh, We're Robert. A little bit earlier today, Haines.
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Speaker 5: And he said that one of the reasons the offensive
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Speaker 5: line is playing well is that the scheme allows them
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Speaker 5: to play well and because there's a little bit more
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Speaker 5: balance and the other team is always guessing. And I'm
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Speaker 5: just wondering, how do you react to that and then
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Speaker 5: your general action to the way the offensive line is playing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's that's kind of what the offense
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Speaker 2: would like it to be built upon. His balance is
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Speaker 2: not just saying okay, yeah, we want to be fifty
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Speaker 2: to fifty run pass right. It's more just within the scheme,
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Speaker 2: having plays off of plays and so that maybe it's
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Speaker 2: less thinking for those guys up front. It's more of
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Speaker 2: the same, but maybe different presentations while also saying, okay,
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Speaker 2: we want to be able to run inside or mid
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Speaker 2: zone with a little bit more. You know, the first
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Speaker 2: touchdown of the game was wide zone. That we've actually
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Speaker 2: gotten better and better at a couple of transportation type plays.
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Speaker 2: So it's just different ways of keeping your run game
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Speaker 2: diverse so that they don't get a b on just
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Speaker 2: you're trying to run inside every time or doubtside every time.
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Speaker 2: A mix of zoning gap helps those guys so that
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Speaker 2: when they're hitting blocks, the defense isn't sure if it's
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Speaker 2: going to be zone or gap to them or away
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Speaker 2: from them. That's kind of what we've always tried to do.
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Speaker 2: Is when you go into a game plan each week,
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Speaker 2: the two units on the offensive side of the ball
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Speaker 2: that you're trying to make the game easier for to
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Speaker 2: find edges is with the offensive line and the quarterback.
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Speaker 2: Those are the two most difficult positions to play in
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Speaker 2: my opinion, and the more we can continue to help
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Speaker 2: those guys up front, but they are playing at a
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Speaker 2: high level right now. I mean, to not have a
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Speaker 2: quarterback hit for the first time I think for San
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Speaker 2: Francisco since twenty fifteen is pretty impressive that have seven
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Speaker 2: guys be a part of that up front and be
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Speaker 2: able to go in and not miss a beat and
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Speaker 2: just go play the game physically and violently. And you know,
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Speaker 2: there's a lot of things we can continue to correct,
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Speaker 2: but it starts up front and right now. When we
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Speaker 2: play well up front, usually good things happen for us.
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Speaker 3: Thanks coach, Thank you.
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Speaker 4: Mia, followed by Ryan O'Halloran.
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Speaker 6: Hi, Liam, Now that you've watched the tape back, how
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Speaker 6: would you evaluate, especially going off of all those wonderful
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Speaker 6: stats about the offensive line, how would you evaluate Trevor's
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Speaker 6: play on Sunday?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought if you look at the first half,
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Speaker 2: man he was dialing. I mean, I thought he was
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Speaker 2: getting the ball out accurate, much improved on the outbreakers
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Speaker 2: on really both to his left and to his right.
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Speaker 2: We did miss a few ops in the first half
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Speaker 2: on a couple down the field shots, and then in
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Speaker 2: the second half it just kind of started slow, right,
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Speaker 2: we did, we missed the throat of Travis on the
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Speaker 2: left side. Then the penalties started to tick up, the
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Speaker 2: uptick excuse me and palties, and so then the operation
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Speaker 2: gets a little bit jacked up, and you just saw
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Speaker 2: maybe some of the some just misses.
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Speaker 3: Right, he'll say it.
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Speaker 2: And we've got to continue to all right, what exactly
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Speaker 2: conceptually be able to continue to find completions, but to
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Speaker 2: not turn it over and to continue to put us
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Speaker 2: in the right position in terms of running the football.
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Speaker 2: He's been phenomenal with the protections, the schemes getting us
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Speaker 2: in the right protections, you know, but I think it
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Speaker 2: was a step in the right direction a lot of ways,
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Speaker 2: and he can clean up some of the things from
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Speaker 2: the second half. It's very correctible. And then you know,
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Speaker 2: making a play at the end of the game obviously
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Speaker 2: wanted to get out of bounds, but then makes the
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Speaker 2: play the hunter long, big time moment.
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Speaker 3: So a lot to build off of.
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Speaker 6: And then just since you brought up the outbreakers, BT's
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Speaker 6: performance and the effort to perhaps put him in more
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Speaker 6: situations if at all that he's more familiar with or
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Speaker 6: at least that we're part of his bread and butter
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Speaker 6: perhaps last year or how would you evaluate that?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was more just that was something that they
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Speaker 2: were showing to give on tape, was some of those
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Speaker 2: intermediate outbreakers, you know, the five yard out, the ten
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Speaker 2: yard out, the comeback. You know, we didn't get him
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Speaker 2: on the on the vertical. That has obviously been frustrating,
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Speaker 2: but very pleased with with BT's play yesterday. He was
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Speaker 2: very good on the sidelines communicating what he was seeing,
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Speaker 2: letting us know, hey, I got the I got the out,
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Speaker 2: Like keep throwing it, it's there, and you know, made
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Speaker 2: some made some big catches for us. He's playing faster
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Speaker 2: and just looked more confident just overall. So really good
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Speaker 2: one for us to continue to build on.
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Speaker 4: The signs were there. Thank you sure, oh holleran followed
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Speaker 4: by d Rock Williamn't got two for you first time.
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Speaker 3: Do you have an update on Trayvon Walker?
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Speaker 2: Yes, So, Trayvon hurt his wrist during the game. He
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Speaker 2: is going to see a specialist today. We're in the
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Speaker 2: information gathering process with that and we'll know more after
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Speaker 2: he has that appointment to be able to see what
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Speaker 2: his status will be moving forward.
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Speaker 3: Thanks.
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Speaker 7: And then secondly, I haven't been around Josh Heinzellen now
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Speaker 7: every day for several months.
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Speaker 4: What sticks out about his process behind the scenes that
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Speaker 4: impresses you.
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Speaker 2: Josh is one of the first guys in our building
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Speaker 2: every single day, and literally I would say he's probably
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Speaker 2: the first, if not one of the first top three.
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Speaker 2: And the way that Josh is so diligent and organized
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Speaker 2: and scheduled and routined about his process every day of
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Speaker 2: his body first and foremost.
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Speaker 3: But then when it comes to his preparation.
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Speaker 2: Of studying the tackles and studying how much he can
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Speaker 2: attack or what he needs to use as his primary
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Speaker 2: the secondary moves and the mindset right like, this guy
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Speaker 2: is playing right now. I think at a very high level.
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Speaker 2: He is affecting the game in both the run and
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Speaker 2: the pass. He's playing with an edge. I'm just very
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Speaker 2: happy with Josh right now, and it's only going this
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Speaker 2: way in my opinion.
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Speaker 3: So he went up against one.
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Speaker 2: Of the best tackles in the National Football League for
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Speaker 2: a long time and probably played the best of many
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Speaker 2: of the rushers that he has seen over the last
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Speaker 2: four weeks, and he's impacting the game in a really
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Speaker 2: positive way.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you, d.
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Speaker 4: Rock, followed by Mark Long.
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Speaker 8: Hey, Liam, I know everyone probably rather win fifty to zero,
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Speaker 8: but when you're trying to kind of establish something here,
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Speaker 8: is it almost is winning ugly almost better in a way,
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Speaker 8: if that makes sense.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's one of those things where I don't
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Speaker 2: know if it's ugly, because it's hard to win in
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Speaker 2: this league regardless. I was probably like, yeah, because we
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Speaker 2: didn't really relinquish a lead in the last two games
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Speaker 2: after the first second quarter, so you know, we're kind
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Speaker 2: of controlling the game. Although I agree with you de
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Speaker 2: Rock in terms of, all right, with those turnovers with
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Speaker 2: a punter return and a kick return like that, that
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Speaker 2: should have been a forty point out put for us offensively.
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Speaker 2: So yes, frustrating. September thirtieth got time to at least
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Speaker 2: address I would feel a lot worse here if we were,
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Speaker 2: you know, doing what we were doing and then man,
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Speaker 2: we're just we're we're having to come from behind in
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Speaker 2: the fourth quarter, and then we're just making a player
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Speaker 2: two and woof, man, thank god, you know, we're controlling
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Speaker 2: these games through the entire game, and just we've got
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Speaker 2: to go figure out and go find that next level
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Speaker 2: of execution. To maybe make those games not close, right that.
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Speaker 2: I think that's really what the message is for us is, guys,
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Speaker 2: we are controlling these last two games.
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Speaker 3: It's not as if we're just throwing up a.
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Speaker 2: Prayer and man, somebody that just made a great play,
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Speaker 2: and holy smokes, we are controlling these games.
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Speaker 3: We've got to go figure out and find the.
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Speaker 2: Consistency within the execution to go and make these games
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Speaker 2: that are closed but maybe shouldn't be or don't need
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Speaker 2: to be based on how we'd execute. So I think
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Speaker 2: that's important to be able to do, especially early on.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, close better instead of ugly.
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Speaker 2: I think, you know, I mean, there's still a lot
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Speaker 2: of good football going on out there, and you know,
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Speaker 2: it's like our highs specifically on offense, are very very
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Speaker 2: good football, and then the low just gets is who
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Speaker 2: it goes down. So it's like, Okay, we've got to
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Speaker 2: find that balance of it's very unrealistic to say maybe
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Speaker 2: we're gonna.
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Speaker 3: Secub perfect perfect for sixty minutes, right, it's when we
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Speaker 3: have a.
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Speaker 2: Dip or maybe a not so good play, it can't
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Speaker 2: be catching like, oh my god, that was a really
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Speaker 2: bad play. Right where we're third and twenty now again
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Speaker 2: and that level of focus and execution, and but it's
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Speaker 2: it's better to be able to do after you've you've
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Speaker 2: won some of these games.
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Speaker 3: Pravas.
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Speaker 9: Hunter said after the game in the locker room that
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Speaker 9: that that third and fifteen throw that he caught for
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Speaker 9: the first down, that you guys don't really hit that
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Speaker 9: very often in practice. It was it was that the
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Speaker 9: first option on that play.
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Speaker 2: It's what we call an alert. So basically he's on
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Speaker 2: a streak. He's running right down the middle of the
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Speaker 2: field essentially to his near high safety and cover two
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Speaker 2: or cover four it's going to be his near high
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Speaker 2: safety and cover three. It's the post middle safety is
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Speaker 2: really it's a clear out with a dagger right behind it.
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Speaker 2: And we've always talked about forever in a day cover
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Speaker 2: two or cover four, if the safety stay wide, it's
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Speaker 2: a big time alert, right, So an alert is always
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Speaker 2: kind of it goes alert one two three, Alert one
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Speaker 2: two three, and those alerts are if it pops, we
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Speaker 2: can take it. And in a huge moment climbing the ladder,
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Speaker 2: unbelievable contested catch, great throw because he had to layer
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Speaker 2: it over Bobby, excuse me, what then? Warner, Fred Warren.
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Speaker 2: I always think because those two guys being in Seattle,
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Speaker 2: Fred because of how Fred plays dagger better than anybody
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Speaker 2: in this game.
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Speaker 3: Really he always has.
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Speaker 2: He knows how to get depth underneath and then he
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Speaker 2: can go rally to the under underneath coverage and man
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Speaker 2: he is.
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Speaker 3: That was a big time moment. Thank you, appreciating.
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Speaker 4: You, Mark Long, followed by John Shipley Tyling.
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Speaker 7: A follow up on Hunter is Montera's return cutting into
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Speaker 7: his defensive snaps.
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Speaker 3: No, I don't think so.
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Speaker 2: I think we probably got a little not I don't
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Speaker 2: want to say impatient, but he had the one thing.
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Speaker 2: You know, he's still been going through the process of it.
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Speaker 2: I mean, we're gonna get him right back into it
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Speaker 2: this week. And it's great to have monterk back. So
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Speaker 2: that's just part of kind of figuring out getting guys in.
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Speaker 2: We really wanted to get Buster in the game, right,
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Speaker 2: that was going to happen regardless, and so we have
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Speaker 2: all the confidence in the world and really Travis and
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Speaker 2: Buster coming back and Jarring giving us good reps. So
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Speaker 2: it's great to have those guys all be able to
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Speaker 2: go play.
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Speaker 7: And then are you are you least curious to see
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Speaker 7: what it would look like if you don't have three turnovers.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, we've talked about at what point
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Speaker 2: of he's gonna you know, not maybe come in bunches
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Speaker 2: like this and so defensively, although you know, there's so
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Speaker 2: many good things going on, there's still a lot of
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Speaker 2: things to clean up that. Okay, you don't get those turnovers, well,
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Speaker 2: what is the execution and the situational football and all
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Speaker 2: that stuff looking like? And then offensively, well we're not
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Speaker 2: getting all these we may not get all these different
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Speaker 2: ops and field position like that is truly the process
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Speaker 2: over results and the process that drives results. But it
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Speaker 2: is what it is right now, you know, Like we've
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Speaker 2: got to continue to Like the good thing is guys
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Speaker 2: like the players know, I mean being on the plane
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Speaker 2: with these guys for five hours, like they know this.
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Speaker 2: They understand that this is unique and what's happening right
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Speaker 2: now from a turnover situation, and we have got to
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Speaker 2: execute much better in order for us to go play
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Speaker 2: a game that maybe these turnovers don't exactly happen.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Mark, John Shipley.
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Speaker 10: Hey Liam, you know yesterday between Jack Kaiser and Lane
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Speaker 10: and then Chuma and Cole van Land and you got.
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Speaker 10: You guys had a lot of people come off the
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Speaker 10: sideline play significant snaps. How hard is it to do
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Speaker 10: that as a player, And what does it say that
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Speaker 10: you guys didn't really see.
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Speaker 3: A drop off on both sides? Huge?
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Speaker 2: I mean, really credit obviously those those guys to come
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Speaker 2: in Tuma and and Cole to come in and play
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Speaker 2: with no drop off and actually continue to move this
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Speaker 2: this thing forward. And then you look defensively with Kuyser
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Speaker 2: getting in there, bj Green got some snaps, Round Lane
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Speaker 2: comes in with obviously Eric and and Antonio popping out.
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Speaker 2: So credit to those guys for for being in their books,
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Speaker 2: studying the game plan, being intentional when their reps at practice,
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Speaker 2: But also really credit their coaches man like Perk, Milo,
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Speaker 2: Tim can't.
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Speaker 3: Be campy, did a great job when.
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Speaker 2: Rayon was, you know, in there, just making sure that
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Speaker 2: we're calling stuff that he was comfortable with that wouldn't
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Speaker 2: put us in a dangerous position, you know, Sean, Serett,
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Speaker 2: Klee and Trevor on the offensive line. I mean, getting
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Speaker 2: those guys ready to play to get five is hard, right,
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Speaker 2: and to get seven guys to go in and operate
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Speaker 2: that the way that they have, it's definitely a testament
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Speaker 2: to the way that they're preparing, the way that they're
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Speaker 2: coaching it, the way those guys are learning it and
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Speaker 2: studying to make sure that when they go in we're
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Speaker 2: not having this huge drop off.
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Speaker 3: So that was a big time Thanks. I appreciate it.
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Speaker 3: Thank you.
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Speaker 4: We have time for two more, if we can keep
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Speaker 4: it to just one question apiece, We'll go to Tony
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Speaker 4: Wiggins and then to Travis Holmes.
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Speaker 9: Thanks.
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Speaker 3: Hey, Lim.
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Speaker 11: With Cam Little with the seventy yard field goal, there
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Speaker 11: are a lot of people that got really spoiled thinking
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Speaker 11: that as soon as we crossed midfield that was an
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Speaker 11: option and has kind of played out that way. And
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Speaker 11: then he's had a couple of misses. How is your
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Speaker 11: confidence level with him? And have has anything occurred to
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Speaker 11: make you change what point that green line.
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Speaker 3: Shows up on the TV screen.
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Speaker 2: No, I still have a ton of confidence in Cam.
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Speaker 2: You know, he hit that one on the screws yesterday.
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Speaker 2: He was anticipating I mean it was yesterday and he
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Speaker 2: was anticipating it to move more from right to left,
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Speaker 2: and he hit it on the screws and just played
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Speaker 2: it a little bit too far outside. I mean, it
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Speaker 2: wasn't as if he mishit it or I was low,
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Speaker 2: or I mean he hit it on the screws. It
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Speaker 2: just didn't move for him. So I've lost absolutely zero
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Speaker 2: confidence in Cam. Neither has our team. He knows we've
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Speaker 2: got to make that kick and same thing. It's just
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Speaker 2: last week. I mean, same thing, same same.
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Speaker 3: Hash, that's his hash. Not concerned about him at all.
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Speaker 2: I thought our operation was better from the snap to
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Speaker 2: the hole to the whole to blocking. We've lost no
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Speaker 2: confidence in him at all. He'll continue to get better
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Speaker 2: at it throughout the week. He wants to be great.
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Speaker 2: He tries his tail off, and sometimes it's almost like him,
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Speaker 2: just dude, who cares?
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Speaker 3: Man?
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Speaker 2: Let just go let a rip, Go be you your special,
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Speaker 2: you're different, and go make it happen.
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Speaker 3: He'll be all right. So I still got a ton
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Speaker 3: of confidence in Cam. Appreciate it.
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Speaker 4: Last one Travis Holmes.
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Speaker 3: Eating the coach.
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Speaker 12: You previously touched on the communication issues that you guys
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Speaker 12: originally had when you have the game in Cincinnati, and
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Speaker 12: I was just kind of wondering whether any communication.
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Speaker 3: Breakdowns or any of those road issues just.
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Speaker 12: Involving those delay of game penalties or you know, the
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Speaker 12: play crop and operation and all of that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, one time my trior didn't hear the mic cut
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Speaker 2: out and he didn't hear the play.
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Speaker 3: Call that I said. He tried to just get us
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Speaker 3: on the ball. We did have.
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Speaker 2: A personnel issue coming from the sideline one time in
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Speaker 2: the huddle. I do think we have a solid plan
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Speaker 2: moving forward to be able to kind of clean some
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Speaker 2: of that stuff up. But you know, when you've got
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Speaker 2: some moving pieces. With Damie out this week and Parker
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Speaker 2: playing Z, Tim was backing up ax san Z. You know,
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Speaker 2: Parker's been playing f with Travis and now he had
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Speaker 2: to go play Z in an entire game plan.
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Speaker 3: You know, it's a lot, it's a lot of moving pieces.
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Speaker 2: This is not obviously the most simplistic thing in the
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Speaker 2: world at times the way we want to try to operate,
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Speaker 2: and we have got to look at that as coaches
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Speaker 2: to say, man, what is like if we can cut
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Speaker 2: out the operation issues, what could this look like?
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Speaker 3: And that is on us.
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Speaker 2: That's on me, and yeah, like they all have a
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Speaker 2: hand in it, but at the end of the day,
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Speaker 2: I'll take it. And it's got to be on me
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Speaker 2: and on us as an offensive staff to put these
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Speaker 2: guys in a position to just go play and take
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Speaker 2: some of the thinking out of it.
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Speaker 3: Ye understand, Thank you, thank you.