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  Speaker 1: What's going on too much. What's the easiest way to
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  Speaker 1: jump start this offense and find some consistency. Yeah, nothing's easy.
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  Speaker 1: The best way that I mean, I don't know. It's
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  Speaker 1: just being able to piece some of the things that
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  Speaker 1: we some of the consistency that we've lacked. Obviously, there's
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  Speaker 1: times where you know, we we like what we have
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  Speaker 1: early on and it doesn't work out for one reason
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  Speaker 1: or another early on to sustained drives, its converting that
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  Speaker 1: first third down, staying on the field early because you know,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's the first drive, second drive, being able to
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  Speaker 1: get it going at some point. But obviously it comes
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  Speaker 1: down to more often than not being able to get
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  Speaker 1: the drive started on first down, but converting that first
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  Speaker 1: third down. A lot of times that's just you know,
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  Speaker 1: being able to really hone in on the details but
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  Speaker 1: make that play early on. Is it frustrating that you
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  Speaker 1: just can't get going in that first quarter? Like what
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  Speaker 1: do you try differently? Have you tried different things going? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we've tried a number of different things, just in terms
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  Speaker 1: of you know, how we're approaching whether that opening script
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  Speaker 1: or the first third down or the ranking of things
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  Speaker 1: early on. In certain situations, that come up to the
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  Speaker 1: you know, the way we do Saturday night walk through
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  Speaker 1: to make sure we're prepped on everything that could possibly
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  Speaker 1: come up. What we're showing, things like that. So we're
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  Speaker 1: continuing to search. How much did you learn maybe about
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  Speaker 1: Mac and how he played last week and how you
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  Speaker 1: guys can use him sort of moving forward. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think you learn a lot from being in the fire
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  Speaker 1: with somebody. You know, we've seen Mac in preseason games
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  Speaker 1: in camp and practice and all that, and I mean,
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  Speaker 1: nothing can replicate a game, so there was a lot
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  Speaker 1: of good that you want to continue to build upon
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  Speaker 1: and things like that that you know, you recognize Max
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  Speaker 1: really comfortable with or Max SE's really well throughout the
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  Speaker 1: course of the game. But every game, every week is
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  Speaker 1: so different. You know, the opponent you're playing, who's available
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  Speaker 1: to you on offense, and how you try to create
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  Speaker 1: the matchups or the looks you try to create. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's about putting everybody in the best possible position.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a lot that Mac is very capable of
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  Speaker 1: that our offense as a hole is very capable that
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  Speaker 1: we're trying to continue to find a way to get
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  Speaker 1: the best out of I keep his confidence out for Rest,
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  Speaker 1: and I know he's a confident kid, right, It's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a little bit shaken this week for yeah. I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's like anything I think in this business, you
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  Speaker 1: just keep going forward. So you have to. There's there's
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  Speaker 1: a game on the schedule. We play Sunday, so you
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  Speaker 1: kind of you know it's it's how do you approach
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  Speaker 1: or how do you handle postgame? What that looks like?
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  Speaker 1: How long does it take you to get back? We
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  Speaker 1: tell everybody by the time you walk in Wednesday, it's over. Players,
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  Speaker 1: especially like good, bad, and different. Whatever it is, Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: is the start of a new week, no matter what
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  Speaker 1: happened the week before. So I think our guys do
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  Speaker 1: a good job of keeping that that kind of tunnel
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  Speaker 1: vision where you can sulk, you can celebrate, you can
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  Speaker 1: do whatever happened, whatever happened on Sunday. Yet Monday, that
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  Speaker 1: typically happens usually to Tuesday, most guys are moved on.
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  Speaker 1: But by Wednesday, there's no excuses. We are rolling forward.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that's just the professional aspect of the
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  Speaker 1: guys we have around. They do a good job of
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  Speaker 1: being able to keep their head down and keep moving.
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  Speaker 1: One things Detroit's defense, you know, stand out honestly as
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  Speaker 1: a whole. They're they're just really good together and they've
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  Speaker 1: lost a lot of defensive line and they continue to
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  Speaker 1: thrive just in the situations that they put their guys in.
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  Speaker 1: They're very instinctive. There's a lot of really versatile guys.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they play a lot of base to eleven personnel,
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  Speaker 1: which is unique to a lot of people. But they
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  Speaker 1: are obviously very confident their linebackers and the way they
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  Speaker 1: can play and the way they move. I think the
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  Speaker 1: safety is are as versatile as any two safeties we've seen,
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  Speaker 1: just in terms of being able to cover and man
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  Speaker 1: play in the post, play in the box, tackle, make
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  Speaker 1: plays on the ball. The corners are playing very confidently,
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  Speaker 1: and then they have a lot of bodies through the
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  Speaker 1: defensive line. Obviously it starts inside with McNeil and DJ
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  Speaker 1: Reader and they cause a lot of problems for a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people. Both run in pass. So I think,
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  Speaker 1: just as a whole, and you get the consistency of
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  Speaker 1: being there four years together running the same defense from
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  Speaker 1: coach Glenn, you kind of see it year to year
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  Speaker 1: evolve and what it's grown into. And then the way
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  Speaker 1: they play, the confidence they play with, the aggression they
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  Speaker 1: play with, the speed they play with. They're doing a
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  Speaker 1: really really good job. Well, I think four catches the
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  Speaker 1: last two weeks or Brian Thomas. So how do you
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  Speaker 1: guard against not going overboard trying to force feed him,
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  Speaker 1: but obviously you want to get him involved. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean we need to do something. So I think the
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  Speaker 1: biggest thing is giving him those continuing to try to
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  Speaker 1: give him those opportunities. There's times where you call things
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  Speaker 1: where you really think he's going to get the ball
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  Speaker 1: right here, and something happens to take the play away,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's a pressure, whether it's the ball just didn't
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  Speaker 1: get thrown for whatever we're calling screens the other day,
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  Speaker 1: it didn't even get thrown out to him. At times,
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  Speaker 1: there's opportunities and we got to continue to find those.
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  Speaker 1: We got to continue to give him opportunities because, like
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  Speaker 1: we say every week, he is dynamic for us, and
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  Speaker 1: so he needs opportunities to get the Football's frustrating for
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  Speaker 1: him or does he show with you? He doesn't. He
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  Speaker 1: is a just cool customer, no highs, no lows with him.
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  Speaker 1: He's a competitor. He wants to win, and I think anybody.
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  Speaker 1: I tell those guys all the time, if you got
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  Speaker 1: something to say after a game, I'm all if we
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  Speaker 1: didn't win, I'm all ears like, I'll take whatever they
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  Speaker 1: have to say. And those guys are great. They handle
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  Speaker 1: it really well. He never shows emotion one way or
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  Speaker 1: the other in terms of he's frustrated, he's excited, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: He just comes to work every single day and that's
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  Speaker 1: been that's been the really cool thing about watching him
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  Speaker 1: grow and what getting to know him really of just
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  Speaker 1: the professional approach from such a young player to keep
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  Speaker 1: thriving and keep moving forward. At this point in the season,
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  Speaker 1: Ron Branch is obviously a really young guy, but as
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  Speaker 1: you're already kind of come one of those guys, you
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  Speaker 1: have to know where he is on the field. You know,
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  Speaker 1: basically every good play. Yeah, he's been a playmaker for
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  Speaker 1: those guys and Kirby Josephs the same way. Those guys
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  Speaker 1: are doing a great job. Like I mentioned that, you
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  Speaker 1: get into some of these defenses where that guy's the
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  Speaker 1: post guy, this guy's down, if this guy's down at
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  Speaker 1: the zone, if this guy's down. They don't really seem
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  Speaker 1: to care. I mean, they'll play them on receivers. They'll
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  Speaker 1: play them on tight ends, they'll play them both in
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  Speaker 1: the post, and they both do it really well. So
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  Speaker 1: it's not like one of them's out of position just
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  Speaker 1: to be versatile. They're both playing really well. Brian branch
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  Speaker 1: is a playmaker. They got a lot of guys. They
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  Speaker 1: got great ball skills in the back end. That's why
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  Speaker 1: they have I think their second league interceptions. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they've done a great job just being disruptive, making plays
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  Speaker 1: on the ball, I know, down on the other side
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  Speaker 1: of the ball, but gives him a gut money. Seems
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  Speaker 1: like they've kind of come to post a child for
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  Speaker 1: like a running back tandem. You think, just with their
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  Speaker 1: skill sets and Travis, as they continue to grow, kind
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  Speaker 1: of grow into kind of want you a punch kind
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  Speaker 1: of like that. Yeah, that's yeah, certainly you want anytime
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  Speaker 1: you have two backs that their skill set seems to
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  Speaker 1: compliment each other, well, you want to be able to
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  Speaker 1: use them to play off one another. So that's certainly
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  Speaker 1: the goal. Yes, How do you feel about how where
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  Speaker 1: Travis is now? I mean, obviously he's still sort of
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  Speaker 1: coming back from that hamstring injury. How do you feel
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  Speaker 1: about him now and how important is it to get
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  Speaker 1: him involved a little bit more heavily this week? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think like anything, especially whether it's a starter, backup
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  Speaker 1: playing quarterback, you want to be able to lean on
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  Speaker 1: that run game a little bit, and we want to
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  Speaker 1: be obviously more efficient than we've been so we can
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  Speaker 1: stay I mean you not everybody's excited to run the
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  Speaker 1: ball in second ten, second eleven, things like that. So
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  Speaker 1: having that first down success to start drives particularly gives
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  Speaker 1: you the able to lean in the run game a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more. And you go back to the New
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  Speaker 1: England game, we had so many runs. It's because first
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  Speaker 1: down run for five, you're second five, you're in control
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  Speaker 1: of the game situations, so you're able to lean into
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  Speaker 1: that a little more. But Travis is just another like Brian,
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  Speaker 1: He's another one of our playmakers. So we want to
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  Speaker 1: give our playmakers as many opportunities in the right situation
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  Speaker 1: to be able to make plays. It's not just hammering
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  Speaker 1: the ball into heavy boxes and doing certain things like that,
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  Speaker 1: but giving them opportunities in situations that we think he
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  Speaker 1: thrives in already. I got one question, how is max
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  Speaker 1: personality kind of fitted practice on the sideline? You're there
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  Speaker 1: on the sideline with them in the huddle, so a
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  Speaker 1: little he's different than Trevor's not the same. How the
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  Speaker 1: fellow teammates felt that, I think guys respond to leadership,
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  Speaker 1: and leadership looks different any way, shape or for him.
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  Speaker 1: And I think nobody questions Max preparation. So Max probably
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  Speaker 1: has a different intensity in the huddle than Trevor does.
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  Speaker 1: Trevor kind of has that cool, calm demeanor. Max is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be there's gonna be a certain intensity and focus
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  Speaker 1: with Mac And so I think as long as you're
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  Speaker 1: true to who you are and you're the same guy
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  Speaker 1: every day and guys know what they're getting with you
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  Speaker 1: and the way you handle you know the competitive situations,
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  Speaker 1: I think guys respond to that. So, yes, they're very
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  Speaker 1: different personality wise, so they're gonna be different in huddle.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna play the game a little bit differently. But
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  Speaker 1: as long as there are authentic to who they are,
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  Speaker 1: which I believe both those guys are, guys thrive off
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  Speaker 1: that guys respond to that.