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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Recaps The Preseason Debut vs. The Cowboys · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: This is not I'm not conducting a class here. Huh,
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  Speaker 1: all right, good to see everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, good workout being pads tomorrow, So looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: that and uh, keep attacking this week.
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  Speaker 1: We got a lot of room to grow, and I
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  Speaker 1: think we took a stride today, so that's good.
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  Speaker 3: Off we go practice schedule a little bit this week
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  Speaker 3: or uh.
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  Speaker 1: No, well we changed it last week. Yeah? Is that
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  Speaker 1: because we're supposed to were supposed to not practice day Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it looked like it was like a one hour walk
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  Speaker 1: through this today, So I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, we we decided to practice day tomorrow and
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  Speaker 2: slow down Wednesday rather than we just changed the order
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  Speaker 2: of the day so that but we'd planned on that price.
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  Speaker 4: We'll go. We're seeing some kind of ramp.
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  Speaker 2: He's just like any other return to play guys, just
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  Speaker 2: on A's on his return plan.
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  Speaker 1: Good to see him out.
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  Speaker 4: There, Mike. How reporting is it now now that you're
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  Speaker 4: in the preseason to really transition these practices to getting
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  Speaker 4: as many of the reps for the starters as you
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  Speaker 4: can or regular scene and now be able to less
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  Speaker 4: than one.
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  Speaker 1: Away you know, Uh, there's a balance.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we uh, we're allocating the reps today because
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  Speaker 2: of the workload we had a couple of days ago,
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  Speaker 2: and then you know that the the joint practice will
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  Speaker 2: have will reflect that as well. Uh yeah, it's a
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  Speaker 2: little more targeted, a little more targeted.
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  Speaker 1: But we're still we're still I think we're still trying
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  Speaker 1: to get.
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  Speaker 2: These guys ready to go play great football. So it'll
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  Speaker 2: it'll really shift once we finish the Chiefs game. I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just mirroring what it actually you know, we're
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  Speaker 2: not gonna get into what actually looks like right now,
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  Speaker 2: but ones will get some more work.
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  Speaker 1: I guess that's a good point.
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  Speaker 4: Get your thoughts on the game immediately afterwork, When you
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  Speaker 4: went back and looked at it, what confirmed that what you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, same same feeling.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, there's there's there's a great opportunity for us to
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  Speaker 2: uh to understand what Seahawk Football has, what isn't and
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  Speaker 2: what it's going to take that to play for us.
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  Speaker 2: So we had we had some great meetings this morning.
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  Speaker 2: I think, uh, it's good for our team. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we need we need to see those things and and uh,
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  Speaker 2: I think we're gonna grow from it. But I think
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  Speaker 2: it's it's a lot of the things we said right
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  Speaker 2: after the game, A lot of good There's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of good stuff too, you know, a lot of a
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  Speaker 2: lot of great individual play, but not not enough great
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  Speaker 2: individual play to kind of earn a better result.
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  Speaker 3: What what did the film show Drew and Jalen and
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  Speaker 3: what you kind of thought of healthy?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I you know, I think.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's there's a room to grow, but I
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  Speaker 2: think both had solid performances. Frankly, I mean, it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: much for for for Jalen to make to come to life.
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  Speaker 2: There's some better decisions you can make feet more decisive
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  Speaker 2: in a couple of situations, but I mean that's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be every quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: I was. I was pleased with their performances. I felt
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  Speaker 1: like it was a good start.
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  Speaker 3: What did you hear from Brian Fleurry about his first
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  Speaker 3: experience calm plays?
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  Speaker 2: It was like it wasn't in practice, it wasn't really
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  Speaker 2: we're not We're not. We're not doing a lot schematically
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  Speaker 2: right now. So it's pretty far for the course front.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, we talked about operational stuff not being there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we can be, but we can be we
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  Speaker 1: can be a little bit better.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's truly everybody starts with me, goes to
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  Speaker 2: the coordinators down to the guys with the green dot
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  Speaker 2: to how the information kind of trickles down, how we
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  Speaker 2: sub you know, all of our coaches on the sideline.
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  Speaker 2: It's just it was a good, good wake up call
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  Speaker 2: that we gotta we gotta get better.
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  Speaker 1: And went back and watching.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like I actually watched the game. It's
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  Speaker 2: funny when you're not calling the plays, you'd probably see
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  Speaker 2: more things. Yeah, he's he uh, very similar to what
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  Speaker 2: we saw right after the game. Played played really well,
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  Speaker 2: played a really great did a really great job. I
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  Speaker 2: think you had like tackle every two blazers in there
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  Speaker 2: or something pretty crazy.
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  Speaker 4: He talked after the game about playing some off the edge,
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  Speaker 4: and he did that quite a bit of you tab.
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  Speaker 1: Is that something that you envisioned trying to see I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what you're talking about. When there's something you
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  Speaker 1: envision potentially him maybe being able to at least in
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  Speaker 1: passing downs to be a way to get him on
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  Speaker 1: the field.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was to say, he's he's It's a good
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  Speaker 2: problem to have from a coach perspective of trying to
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  Speaker 2: figure out a way to get him out there and
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  Speaker 2: what's the best for the team.
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  Speaker 1: So I think we're working through that right now.
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  Speaker 3: Does your game day change when you are not calling place?
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  Speaker 2: I'm a lot nicer, Uh, We're talkative with my wife
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  Speaker 2: for sure. It's it's a pretty drastic change, and like
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  Speaker 2: your mind is. But I mean, if if I wasn't
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  Speaker 2: calling plays, I'd be in a real and like a
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  Speaker 2: regular choosing and I'd be really I'd still be like
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  Speaker 2: really involved with what we're doing. So i'd imagine probably
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  Speaker 2: feel the same.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really don't know what. I don't really don't
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  Speaker 1: know what. It feels like.
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  Speaker 3: They might go him back to today's practice. We talked
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  Speaker 3: about Saturday's.
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  Speaker 1: Operational things at meetings this morning. What did you like
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  Speaker 1: about today's practice? Are intent? Are intent?
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't wasn't a crazy, crazy long practice or intense practice, but.
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  Speaker 1: The ones workload was heavier, which is good get their
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  Speaker 1: wind up.
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  Speaker 2: But anytime we challenge our guys to do anything, their
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  Speaker 2: their intent has been fantastic and we did it again today,
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  Speaker 2: So I'm you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, we trust our guys.
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  Speaker 2: You know this is this is like our first kind
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  Speaker 2: of first opportunity to work through a not perfect situation.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't call it adverse, but it.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you maybe you do call it adverse situation where
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  Speaker 2: it's just say things didn't go your way. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we said we're going to operate a certain way, and
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  Speaker 2: so now let's go, uh, let's go do act and
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  Speaker 2: do an act as we said we were going to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and then try to solve this problem together.
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  Speaker 4: So important for them to understand that because of the season.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the way it works. It's way it works.
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  Speaker 2: There's something every week you're always trying to you know,
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  Speaker 2: solve challenges and solve problems. And and it's again, it's
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  Speaker 2: not just me in a closet figuring it out. It's
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  Speaker 2: it's all of us kind of having those conversations and
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  Speaker 2: understand how we see things and how we want to
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  Speaker 2: how we want to be, and.
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  Speaker 1: All of us coming to you know, solutions. That's so
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  Speaker 1: we did today talking about the joint practices.
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  Speaker 3: How much more can you do or show black better
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  Speaker 3: term when it's a practice and it's not broadcasting a
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  Speaker 3: little country kind of TV preseason game, is there.
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  Speaker 2: Any Yeah, it's a little maybe it's a little it's uh,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you're gonna practice the stuff you've been practicing
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  Speaker 2: in camp.
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  Speaker 1: There might be some things you hold back, but it's
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  Speaker 1: different than a game.
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  Speaker 2: You're not you're not game planning the team, so you're
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  Speaker 2: just kind of running, running the greatest hits, so to speak.
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  Speaker 2: And but there's also times where you know, we need
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  Speaker 2: to see guys in certain matchups and guys in certain positions,
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  Speaker 2: and you know you're you're trying to compete and do
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  Speaker 2: very well, but not at the expense of you know,
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  Speaker 2: evaluating your team the best you possibly can and put
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  Speaker 2: them in those situations. So I think it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: a combo for combo pladder for all those things.
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  Speaker 3: Have more clarity on when Julian and You'll be able
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  Speaker 3: to get out there hard team.
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  Speaker 1: He's working back, is working his way back now. But
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  Speaker 1: no new timetable or anything.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have any more firm timetable for Terry.
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  Speaker 1: On and when Hill report? Yeah, no update on his front.
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  Speaker 4: Gray Flurr are gonna call plays your sideline all year?
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  Speaker 2: I think there, I think you might call this one
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  Speaker 2: from the booth. You will quote me on that, but
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  Speaker 2: don't quote me on that. Well, I'll i'll we'll kind
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  Speaker 2: of confirm. I think that's the plan right now, but
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  Speaker 2: we haven't like stamped it yet, but we'll let you know.
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  Speaker 4: What are the pros and cons of upstairs downstairs?
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  Speaker 1: What you like going I'm not really sure.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a personal preference on how well you
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  Speaker 2: can see it versus how you can communicate where the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the staff is like their roles. Some guys,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, they kind of like just being away
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  Speaker 2: from things so they can Some guys like being in it.
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  Speaker 2: I prefer to be in it, you know, be in
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  Speaker 2: the fight. And I'm you're kind of used to seeing
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  Speaker 2: it from a certain angle. So never really called offensive
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  Speaker 2: plays before unless you count like jv Ster shoals, is
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  Speaker 2: it easier for.
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  Speaker 4: You to reach out to touch offensive play card on
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  Speaker 4: the sidewine and stay downside?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, I just I'm on their frequency and just
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  Speaker 2: it's just as easy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You see, Sam looked pretty sharp out there today. What
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  Speaker 4: would you kind of think of I guess the practice today,
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  Speaker 4: but then all overall where he's kind of had in camp.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Sam's had a great camp. I think feel like
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  Speaker 1: we got a.
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  Speaker 2: It's becoming chrisp like becoming clearer plan on how we
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  Speaker 2: want to operate from now to go play the game
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  Speaker 2: the first game, and he's been right there every step
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  Speaker 2: of the way he's been.
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  Speaker 1: He's been tremendous.
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  Speaker 3: Nick Cammin worry is anything an update on next Sorry?
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  Speaker 3: A couple of guys we didn't see ot there, Tory
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  Speaker 3: Hortone Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Tory's working through some things.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, not a lot of updates on the injury front
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  Speaker 2: right now, but they alwayed a couple of guys down
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  Speaker 2: to day.
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  Speaker 4: Seemed like Jared and Ivy was extremely disruptive in the
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  Speaker 4: game on Saturday night, and we didn't see much early
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  Speaker 4: in camp, But how have you seen him take some
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  Speaker 4: step forward here?
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, I did some good things on the edge,
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  Speaker 2: great competition there, but he definitely had some really good play.
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  Speaker 1: So that was that was positive. That was good. Jalen
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  Speaker 1: gains into the same thing. What do you think? What
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  Speaker 1: do you thought of his camp so far?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jaln's had a good camp, he said. Head again,
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  Speaker 2: he's had some splash plays. I think, uh, I think
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  Speaker 2: his like Jalen just he cares so much, like it
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  Speaker 2: just matters so much to him, and so sometimes like
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  Speaker 2: sometimes we just want him to let it go. Rip man,
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  Speaker 2: because he's a talented guy. He's strong, you play the edge,
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  Speaker 2: you can rush, you know, he plays a lot of energy.
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  Speaker 2: And when he does that, when he does.
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  Speaker 1: That, he's he's a dang good football player.
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  Speaker 2: When he kind of, you know, thinks about too much
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  Speaker 2: or whatever, that might slow his game down a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: but he's doing a really good job else.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, thank you